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Walt Disney plans to rapidly expand its language schools across mainland China with the aim of teaching English to 150,000 children by 2015, a newspaper reported Wednesday.

After a successful trial phase that began in 2008, the number of schools will expand from 11 to 148 in five years, Russell Hampton, president of Disney Publishing Worldwide, told the Financial Times in an interview in Los Angeles.

"It is a very sizeable opportunity, something that can deliver operating earnings of well over 100 million dollars in the next five years," Hampton said. The schools are part of expansion plans in China that are to be crowned by the entertainment giant opening its first mainland theme park in Shanghai, expected in 2014.

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Once upon a time, parents and grandparents just packed up the car and took the kids to Disney World. But soon, they'll be able to live there and take their grandkids to Disney World 24/7 without waiting in line. The Orlando, Fla., folks who create our fantasy entertainment environments are now creating living environments for baby boomers.

Rich boomers, that is. Walt Disney World is back in the real estate business, this time with a series of high end, luxury homes in a gated community priced from $1.5 million to --- gulp -- $8 million. The homes will be in Orlando, within the 40 square miles of Disney's thriving theme parks. The developments will be fashioned as resort communities with special ties to Disney World parks -- private VIP tours of the parks, plus holiday home decorating, grocery delivery from an on-call concierge service, a fitness facility and spa.

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Walt Disney World in Florida has a late-summer offer for families. Select a ticket-and-room package and get the dining plan for free.Deal: The magic number for the Magic Your Way package with free dining is four — two adults and two children.

The Free Disney Dining Plan with this offer includes one sit-down meal, one quick-service meal and one snack per day for four at more than 100 restaurants at Walt Disney World.To take advantage of this deal, you must reserve a room at one of the resort’s moderate-priced hotels that comes with Magic Your Way Base Tickets that admit each family member into one of four theme parks per day, including Magic Kingdom and Epcot. Prices for a five-night package start at $1,843, plus taxes and airfare. The minimum stay is three nights, and the maximum is 10.When:

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Just a couple hours after Disney’s new “World of Color” show premiered at the Disney California Adventure theme park on June 10, 2010, I spoke with Walt Disney Imagineer Kevin Eld about the show. Eld told me how the show’s concept was initially pitched, a few details about how it’s produced each night, and what’s in store for “World of Color” in the months and years to come:“World of Color” is now officially open, performing nightly at the Disney California Adventure theme park in Paradise Bay. But if you can’t make it to see the show in person any time soon, you can watch our video of it in its entirety. (Though, I’ll admit that neither this nor any other video of the show can truly do it justice.)

Walt Disney World: Past, Present, and Future. Join John Lithgow as he journeys through Walt Disney World discovering its history, it’s popular attractions and what’s coming next. This was aired 1991 for WDW’s 20th birthday. So at this time Disney’s Animal Kingdom wasn’t built yet and Sunset Boulevard with Tower of Terror and Rockin’ Rollercoaster wasn’t built at the Disney-MGM Studios either.

Avalon High, the next Disney Channel Original Movie, has started production in New Zealand and it stars Britt Robertson and Gregg Sulkin.

American viewers know Robertson best for her role as Lux on Life Unexpected, while Sulkin has guest starred as Mason Greybeck on a couple of episodes of Wizards Of Waverly Place and is recognized back home in England for his appearances on Disney Channel UK's version of As The Bell Rings.

So what is Avalon High about?  Well, we've got the scoop.  It's based on the novel by Meg Cabot and it follows the adventures of Allie Pennington (Robertson), the new girl at Avalon High, who quickly comes to believe that her classmates are reincarnations of King Arthur and his court.

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Disney/Pixar has released a new Toy Story 3 movie poster including a larger number of the characters than on many of the other posters released so far. The movie is set to hit theaters on June 18, 2010 – so we’re getting closer!!! If you are a college student you may be able to head to your local campus movie theater tonight for a sneak peek of Toy Story 3!

Walt Disney is planning to launch the next installment of their animation hit flick, ‘Monsters Inc’. Rich Ross, the Chairman of Disney revealed that the sequel of the flick is scheduled to hit the silver screen on Nov 16, 2012 Monsters Inc’ is a computer-animated film which was released in 2001. The flick was directed by Pete Docter and co-directed by Lee Unkrich and David Silverman, The voiceover of the movie was given by stars like: Billy Crystal and John Goodman.

The movie earned the turnover of $525 million worldwide. Meanwhile, Disney is also planning to launch a new ‘Muppets’ movie which is expected to be made under the direction of James Bobin, the man behind ‘Flight of the Conchords’. The sources close to the company revealed that the film will introduce a new puppet character called Walter.

 Monsters and Muppets are coming back to a theater near you. At a press briefing at The Walt Disney Co. headquarters in Burbank on Thursday, studios chairman Rich Ross said Disney's Pixar division is creating a sequel to "Monsters Inc." that will hit theaters in November 2012.

The original film from 2001 grossed $529 million worldwide. Ross also said the studio was about to give the go-ahead to a new movie featuring the Muppets which will introduce a new character named Walter. "He's in felt and fur rehab now as we build him," Ross said.

It was not clear when the movie would hit theaters. But he said there will be plenty of cameos, as with all Muppet movies. So watch for Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy, too. James Bobin, the creator of "The Flight of the Conchords" TV series, is set to direct.

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While at a recent Radio Disney Takeover, Tiffany Thornton spills the details about how Joe Jonas was in the audience during Demi Lovato’s recent Sonny With A Chance musical performance. Demi actually sung on the Disney Channel Original Series for the first time ever and Joe, who was visiting his girlfriend on the set, wanted to be part of the crowd watching her perform! Turns out if you watch the episode you can actually see Joe in the audience!