Disney will reopen its Chinese theme park Shanghai Disney on Monday, the company said Tuesday, but other parks’ reopening dates are still a big question mark. “While it’s too early to predict when we’ll be able to begin resuming all of our operations, we are evaluating a number of different scenarios to ensure a cautious sensible …
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I missed a chance to travel to Disney for Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge, where I was also hoping to get a chance to ride Disney’s new Mickey rollercoaster at Hollywood Studios. My family was planning a trip this year, and it probably won’t happen. With Disney parks still closed and vacations largely abandoned, Disney’s new AR experience within the company’s …
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Netflix added more new subscribers in the first three months of the year than it ever has before, record growth that will serve as a bellwether for how subscription streaming video may fare during the coronavirus pandemic. But even among its competitors, Netflix emerged as perhaps the best-positioned media company for this extraordinary time, confident that its eye-popping production pipeline will keep …
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Disney Plus has surpassed 50 million subscribers in the five months since it launched, the company said Wednesday. By comparison, Netflix — the biggest subscription video service in the world — had 167 million global subscribers as of the end of last year. That’s three times the size of Disney Plus now, but Netflix began streaming more than a decade ago. Disney Plus …
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Disney animator Hyrum Osmond is creating a new series of Frozen shorts called At Home with Olaf to help keep kids entertained while stuck at home during coronavirus quarantines. The new series features the lovable snowman Olaf (voiced by Josh Gad) and his quirky adventures in Arendelle. The first episode, Fun in the Snow, shows Olaf chucking snowballs in …
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I continue to look for upsides to this pandemic nightmare. One: I get to spend plenty of quality time with my family. Two: Free stuff everywhere. You may have already seen my post on free entertainment to help you survive social distancing, as well as Dave Johnson’s mega-roundup of all the freebies you can get right now. But today I …
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Clara Reeves, CEO of Melbourne-based video game studio Hipster Whale, fell in love with programming when she realized it could be an art form. Reeves, who would go on to oversee Hipster Whale’s popular game Crossy Road in its move to Apple’s mobile gaming subscription service, Apple Arcade, never grew out of her childhood passion of building structures out of …
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For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. Just about every streaming service is throttling video quality in Europe during the coronavirus quarantine. Disney Plus announced over the weekend it was joining Netflix, Apple TV Plus, YouTube and Amazon Prime in the measure taken to help internet services cope with an …
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I love interesting clocks. Recently, for example, I repurposed an old Amazon Fire tablet as a full-time Literature Clock, and I couldn’t be happier with it. Needless to say, I’m all over this deal: For a limited time, and while supplies last, Amazon has the Sharper Image Light Up Electronic Word Clock for $20.99. That’s for the copper version; it’s …
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AT&T TV has arrived and with it, AT&T has yet another option for those looking to ditch traditional cable or satellite. It comes with an Android TV-powered box, starts at $50 per month (for the first year, but then almost doubles) and lets you find channels by using actual numbers as opposed to endlessly scrolling through a guide. But how …
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