So very great. But I'll assign Sam Mendes, who last year, won an Oscar for Best Director to American Beauty, to direct Basic Instinct 2 for Carolco by summer 2002, and the cast would be Sharon Stone, Eric McCormack, Laura Linney and Donal Logue. In turn, I'll assign Robert Schwentke to direct Road to Perdition by next year.
As Dreamers Do Part Deux
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Even with the bad blood between CES and E3, it was always possible to show off video game consoles. At the otl 1993 show, the 3DO (otl's Hydra) was announced to the public and at the 2001 winter show, Microsoft unveiled the final design of the original xbox.
We'll this is very important. We move forward to the movies of February 2001, which are Dimension Films and Miramax Films' (OTL Warner Bros. Pictures and Village Roadshow Pictures made the film) Valentine, RKO Radio Pictures' (OTL Universal Pictures made the film) Head Over Heels, Fine Line Features' The Invisible Circus, New Line Cinema's (OTL MGM and Universal Pictures made the film) Hannibal, Warner Bros. under the Carolco label (North America) and Village Roadshow Pictures (International)'s (OTL Columbia Pictures and Village Roadshow Pictures made the film) Saving Silverman, RKO Radio Pictures and Village Roadshow's (OTL Paramount Pictures and Village Roadshow Pictures made the film) Down to Earth, Disney's Recess: School Out, Columbia Pictures' (OTL Warner Bros. Pictures and Bel-Air Entertainment made the film) Sweet November, New Line Cinema's (OTL Warner Bros., Morgan Creek and Franchise Pictures made the film) 3000 Miles to Graceland and Warner Bros.' (OTL 20th Century Fox made the film) Monkeybone.
Does @OldNavy1988 honestly let you, and only you determine which studio releases every single individual film, because it really comes across like you’re trying to usurp the author role here with every post you make.
I sure hope they do then. Because I sure do get tired of other people telling your story.
Disney's Epic Kingdom (Theme Park)
Disney's Epic Kingdom
Grand Opening held on February 8, 2001
As the multi-park model in Orlando proved successful, Disney went to work in the early 1990's on turning the original Disneyland into a resort. One major challenge though, was the limitations of the Anaheim property. In 1988, Walt Disney, Jr. acquired the Wrather Corporation, who owned the original Disneyland Hotel site. Other Wrather assets, such as the Lone Ranger and Lassie television series were sold to syndicator Worldvision Enterprises to facilitate Disney's 1989 purchase of the majority stake in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise. Worldvision itself has since become the syndication arm for The Jim Henson Company. The Queen Mary and the Spruce Goose, which Wrather also owned, were later sold to private investment firms.
After EuroDisney opened in Spain, it was decided that the original Disneyland parking lot would serve as the site of the second Anaheim gate.
The Wonderful World of Disney Special Edition: Disney's Epic Kingdom Sneak Preview
Aired on January 8, 2001 on Fox
A special edition of the anthology series which ran on Fox exactly a month before the park opened gave the TV audience a preview of things to come. Richard Kind and Barry Bostwick escape from a flat-footed security guard tasked with escorting the two men to a meeting with Junior himself.
GRAND OPENING
Held on February 8, 2001
Dedication speech given by Walt Disney, Jr. with an introduction by Roy E. Disney.
Other speeches given by Daniel Abbott (the new head of Walt Disney Classic Animation), Frank Wells (chairman of 20th Century-Fox), David Hill (head of the Fox network) and Britt Allcroft (executive producer of the Thomas the Tank Engine TV series).
Opening Day Attractions
Buena Vista Street
Pretty much similar to what replaced Sunshine Plaza at California Adventure IOTL. The icon for this section of the park is the statue of Walt, Sr. as he looked when he arrived in Los Angeles in the early 1920's. Serving as this park's equivalent of Main Street, Buena Vista street also houses the Elias & Co clothing shop, a scaled down version of the Carthay Circle Theatre where Snow White premiered and a recreation of the Terminal Station Bar from Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
Springfield
This section of the park needs little explanation.
Excelsior Square
This New York City-inspired land serves as home to the Marvel, TMNT and Dick Tracy IP's. Many of this land's attractions are cloned from the Disney-Fox Studios, albeit in condensed versions due to the smaller space in Anaheim.
Tinseltown
This takes the place of the Hollywood Pictures Backlot and Hollywoodland section of OTL California Adventure. Mickey can be seen in his Steamboat Willie design, but you can also take part in a meet and greet with Oswald. Here, you'll find the Disney Animation Building and the Hyperion Theatre. Instead of Superstar Limo, you'll be treated to an early version of Mickey and Minnie's Runaway Railway.
As you can see, Epic Kingdom is small, with much of the original Disneyland surface parking still in existence. But in the coming years, you'll see new attractions pop up in the first phase of expansion.
If we use this Master Plan map below as reference, the Grand Californian Hotel takes up a smaller footprint. Number 2 ITTL is where Disney's Epic Kingdom sits, but that chunk of surface parking still sitting on Katella Avenue will be utilized to expand EK as I said earlier. Disneyland Center ITTL is really Downtown Disney with an eight screen AMC Theatre, Flynn's Arcade, The Disney Store and Fox Sports Grill as anchor tenants.
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After looking through this post, I will say that it earns a much better respect than OTL's DCA.
Disney's Epic Kingdom
Grand Opening held on February 8, 2001
As the multi-park model in Orlando proved successful, Disney went to work in the early 1990's on turning the original Disneyland into a resort. One major challenge though, was the limitations of the Anaheim property. In 1988, Walt Disney, Jr. acquired the Wrather Corporation, who owned the original Disneyland Hotel site. Other Wrather assets, such as the Lone Ranger and Lassie television series were sold to syndicator Worldvision Enterprises to facilitate Disney's 1989 purchase of the majority stake in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise. Worldvision itself has since become the syndication arm for The Jim Henson Company. The Queen Mary and the Spruce Goose, which Wrather also owned, were later sold to private investment firms.
After EuroDisney opened in Spain, it was decided that the original Disneyland parking lot would serve as the site of the second Anaheim gate.
With that said, though, does The Jim Henson Company own Worldvision Enterprises as of 2001?
Same as OTL. Nothing new to see here, folks.
That is really cool. Two offsprings of Walt Disney, the CEO of Disney's animation team, the chairman of Fox and its network, and the creator of something that Walt himself would have loved watching as a kid, and probably something that he'd still watch as an adult. You can't get better than that.
This is a great look for Buena Vista Street ITTL.Opening Day Attractions
Buena Vista Street
Pretty much similar to what replaced Sunshine Plaza at California Adventure IOTL. The icon for this section of the park is the statue of Walt, Sr. as he looked when he arrived in Los Angeles in the early 1920's. Serving as this park's equivalent of Main Street, Buena Vista street also houses the Elias & Co clothing shop, a scaled down version of the Carthay Circle Theatre where Snow White premiered and a recreation of the Terminal Station Bar from Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
So, basically what you'd see at Universal Studios, as seen in the above picture, but from Disney? I'm entirely in love with that.
Springfield
This section of the park needs little explanation.
I'll take the smaller area if it means we still get the IPs.
Excelsior Square
This New York City-inspired land serves as home to the Marvel, TMNT and Dick Tracy IP's. Many of this land's attractions are cloned from the Disney-Fox Studios, albeit in condensed versions due to the smaller space in Anaheim.
On the one hand, glad to see Mickey and Oswald getting such acclaim in this park. You gotta love it.
Tinseltown
This takes the place of the Hollywood Pictures Backlot and Hollywoodland section of OTL California Adventure. Mickey can be seen in his Steamboat Willie design, but you can also take part in a meet and greet with Oswald. Here, you'll find the Disney Animation Building and the Hyperion Theatre. Instead of Superstar Limo, you'll be treated to an early version of Mickey and Minnie's Runaway Railway.
On the other hand, does Oswald have his gas station from OTL's Buena Vista Street in Tinseltown? Because I remember being initially confused when I saw it there instead of at Mickey's Toontown at Disneyland. At least with Oswald having a walkaround costume in Epic Kingdom, it would make more sense for it to show up there.
I've got 75 bucks riding on an anime dub-based land, since those products have earned such praise from the community.
I think I can grow to love this park more than I do in our timeline already.If we use this Master Plan map below as reference, the Grand Californian Hotel takes up a smaller footprint. Number 2 ITTL is where Disney's Epic Kingdom sits, but that chunk of surface parking still sitting on Katella Avenue will be utilized to expand EK as I said earlier. Disneyland Center ITTL is really Downtown Disney with an eight screen AMC Theatre, Flynn's Arcade, The Disney Store and Fox Sports Grill as anchor tenants.
Now that the Epic Kingdom where will the next disney park open. I hope hong kong disney is butterflied in favor of South Korea the Chezch Repulbic Thailand Malaysia or Australia. Note if Disney open a park in austilia I hope they build a park form scratch perfely in West Austilia instead of buying out Wonderland Austirlia form Six Kings. Also is Universal japan going to open this year. I feel it is plauable that disney owning two park in japan may lead to increase pushback form japaness nationalist leading to project being butterflied. If so I hope the loction of Unviesal japan be used for for a theme park dedicated to japaness culture. Also if Universal Japan in butterflied then why not have universal build in Hong Macau Taiwan Brazil Egypt or south Africa . I know that the last three markets are less developed but Uniersal is more open to taping risker markets then Disney. Uniersal was intersted in a park in india only for covid to but a stop to those plans. Here a link to info on universal India https://www.themeparx.com/universal-studios-india/
If there is a Spider-Man ride as is implied I would suggest swapping out some of the villains: Scream for Venom or Carnage(Carnage makes more sense if Venom still had his lethal protector phase, but Venom would still be more popular to include), Hydro Man for Sandman, and Hob Goblin for Green Goblin.
We'll I like the Disney's Epic Kingdom ride. But I'll assign Joseph Ruben to direct Xenomorph vs. Predator for Carolco, set for a summer release.
I already did this so it’s fine if you don’t go with it but I’d go with adapting the arc of the alien vs Predator comic book. Humans have colonized a planet that they don’t know but the Predators drop xenomorph eggs so they can hunt them. A farmer accidentally kills a predator leading to the young predators turn on the older veteran predator broken tusk, disobeying the predator rule of not killing innocents. The Japanese-American woman and Weyland Yutani administrator Machiko Noguchi slips into the Ellen Ripley role and teams up with Broken Tusk to stop the Predators and aliens.
@OldNavy1988, THIS JUST IN: The Jim Henson Company had agrees to acquired Pearson Television from Pearson plc. for $1.2 Billion dollars. This deal give them iconic game shows like The Price is Right and Family Feud and the libraries of Thames Television and Grundy Television, including the animated shows Danger Mouse and Count Duckula, formerly seen on Henson-owned Nickelodeon in the United States, CEO Michael Eisner says “With this deal, we will expand our production capabilities in the UK and expands to Australia with Grundy Television and gets some of the world’s most popular game show formats“
—The Financial Times
The plans are for the US-based production side folding into Touchstone Television, with Thames and Grundy remaining as separate studios under Touchstone, Worldvision will take over the distribution of Family Feud and To Tell the Truth and will launch a revival of Card Sharks for the 2001-02 season, while The Price is Right will move to ABC Daytime for the 2002-03 season.
—The Financial Times
The plans are for the US-based production side folding into Touchstone Television, with Thames and Grundy remaining as separate studios under Touchstone, Worldvision will take over the distribution of Family Feud and To Tell the Truth and will launch a revival of Card Sharks for the 2001-02 season, while The Price is Right will move to ABC Daytime for the 2002-03 season.
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Nice. And what is Pearson Television? I know quite a bit about British TV, but don't know about this.
Pearson’s old TV division that is now the British, Australian and American divisions of Fremantle IOTL owned by RTL/Radio Television Luxembourg. Both IOTL and ITTL, they owned Thames Television, Grundy Television (Neighbours, Prisoner Cell Block H), Baywatch and the Mark Goodson library (The Price is Right, Family Feud/Family Fortunes if your British).