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Cleanin' up the Los Angeles river
Alex Hausman and his four-year-old son, Theo, were walking across a shallow area of the Los Angeles River on Saturday morning when they spotted a child-sized mattress floating near the edge. When a few nearby volunteers saw the find, they lifted the...
Tags: Google Inc., Whole Foods Market
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Disney teams with Sensio for on-demand distribution of 3-D films
Walt Disney Studios has agreed to a content license agreement with Sensio Technologies Inc. for the distribution of 3-D films via a new video-on-demand television service, the companies announced Monday. Sensio's on-demand rental service, called 3DGo,...
Tags: Movies, Entertainment, Frankenweenie (movie)
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Technicolor to close Flower Street facility less than two years after opening it
Technicolor Inc. plans to close down its Flower Street facility in Glendale and lay off 50 employees by March 28, less than two years after opening the location, according to a recent state filing. Plans for the layoffs and closure, filed with the...Tags: Entertainment, Career and Workplace, Google Inc., DreamWorks Animation SKG Incorporated, Layoffs and Downsizing
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'Star Wars': Disney confirms stand-alone films
Last month, news that J.J. Abrams would direct “Star Wars: Episode VII” took the entertainment world by storm. Today, a new conversation begins — who’ll direct the “Star Wars” spinoff movies that Lawrence Kasdan and...
Tags: Robert A. Iger, J.J. Abrams, Lawrence Kasdan, Movies, Entertainment
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Disney earnings fall partly due to 'Millionaire' lawsuit charges
Walt Disney Co. reported a 6% drop in first-quarter earnings, compared with a year ago, in part because of charges associated with its high-profile dispute with the creator of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" and a decline in operating income at the film...
Tags: ABC (tv network), Los Angeles Times
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Former Disney executive Andy Mooney lands at Quiksilver
A little over a year after his surprise departure from Walt Disney Co. as head of consumer products, Andy Mooney has been named chief executive of sports apparel company Quiksilver. During his 11 years at Disney, Mooney was known for building the...Tags: Robert A. Iger, Pixar Animation, Ben Fritz, Quiksilver Incorporated, Los Angeles Times
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Disney controls Winnie the Pooh trademarks, court rules
Walt Disney Co. has won an appeals court ruling that protects the Burbank entertainment giant's trademarks to the valuable Winnie the Pooh characters. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington upheld a decision by the U.S. Patent...
Tags: A.A. Milne, Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, Los Angeles Times, Meg James
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Furby returns to the holiday shopping scene as Galleria prepares for Black Friday
Furby — the strange-but-cute fluffy animal with giant eyes from the 90s — is back. In 2012, it joins giant punching gloves, gangly dolls and, of course, the latest gaming stations. These were just some of the items to pop up at a retail...
Tags: Entertainment, Gaming, PlayStation 3, Toy Industry, Microsoft Corporation
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Theme park and cruises lift quarterly bottom line for Disney
Higher attendance at its overseas theme parks and cruise lines as well as growth in the rates that cable and satellite companies pay to carry ESPN helped drive growth for Walt Disney Co. last quarter. Revenue at the Burbank media giant -- which also...
Tags: Theme Park Vacations, Economy, Business and Finance, Recreational and Sporting Goods Industry, Trips and Vacations, Ben Fritz
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Whole Foods to move regional HQ from Sherman Oaks to Glendale
Whole Foods Market is moving its regional headquarters to an eight-story building in Glendale that has sat vacant since it was constructed in 2009, officials announced this week. With its regional headquarters currently in Sherman Oaks, Whole Foods has...
Tags: Public Officials, Politics, Government, New Products, Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria SA
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Disney adopts new paper policy after protest
Walt Disney Co. is implementing a new policy to use less paper from environmentally threatened areas, a year after it was targeted by environmental protesters. In May of 2011, activists from the Rainforest Action Network hung a banner outside Disney's...
Tags: Ben Fritz, Indonesia, Los Angeles Times
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Disney's 'The Lone Ranger' trailer debuts online
"The Lone Ranger" has had an arduous journey to the big screen. Between budgetary concerns that shut the production down weeks before shooting was to begin and the recent death of a crew member, the Johnny Depp-starring western has been chock-full of...
Tags: Movies, Entertainment, Armie Hammer, Tom Wilkinson, San Diego Comic-Con International
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