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...City club kids--er, college students--have found a new way to expand their billion-dollar media empire: hire more twins. The Olsens' company, Dualstar Entertainment, has entered a licensing agreement with child actors DYLAN and COLE SPROUSE, both 13, who currently star in their own show on the Disney Channel and also appeared on the sitcom Friends. The new brand, D.C. Sprouse, hangs on the twins' cuteness and likability and will include DVD movies, CDs, clothing, sports gear and video games to appeal to the tween-boy audience. "They're real boy boys," says an Olsen...
...decade, CG animation has achieved a commercial and artistic revolution. It has also achieved something else: it annihilated the Disney cartoon feature. Now, with a fresh team at the company--CEO Robert Iger, film-studio boss Richard Cook and animation chief David Stainton--Disney has begun the arduous process of remaking itself. "It's like a battleship changing course," Cook says. "It takes a while, but we're moving in the right direction...
...Numbers 10 min. Time it takes to walk a full circuit of Hong Kong Disneyland, according to one visitor. Opening this week, Hong Kong's is the smallest of the Disney parks...
...media consultant. But government restrictions limit some News Corp. channels to the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou, luxury hotels, top government offices and approved apartment buildings. (Time Warner, owner of TIME, sold its controlling stake in a channel that also broadcast to Guangzhou in 2003.) Meanwhile, Beijing has left Disney in the cold by refusing to approve any more foreign satellite channels for even limited distribution. The government now requires pre-air approval for all foreign shows. Viacom last year announced a deal to produce children's programming but hasn't got approval yet. Now problems at News Corp., says...
...clad in wood, rubber or bright plastic. For sportier couch potatoes there is a TV in the shape of a leather soccer ball, one dressed as a New York Yankees baseball and another with a golf-ball texture. The Fantasy range, designed for kids, includes Bugs Bunny and Disney themes. But it's the cuddly sets that really boggle the eye, with a menagerie of soft (and washable) animals, including a sheep, a teddy bear and a dog. And why not? No one ever said TVs should be seen and not furred. www.hannspree.com