BRIEFCASE DISNEY LAB CLOSING MAY DISPLACE 350.Byline: - From staff and wire reports BURBANK - Walt Disney Noun 1. Walt Disney - United States film maker who pioneered animated cartoons and created such characters as Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck; founded Disneyland (1901-1966) Disney, Walter Elias Disney Co. plans to scale back its visual-effects business, a move that could result in about 350 layoffs. The studio will close Secret Lab, the facility that provided computer animation and effects for Disney live-action projects such as ``Dinosaur,'' ``Mission to Mars'' and ``Inspector Gadget.'' The facility was formed in 1999 when Disney folded Dream Quest Images into its feature animation group. Disney's move leaves Sony Pictures as the only studio with its own effects division. In recent years, major studios including Warner Bros BROS Brothers BROS Benefits and Retirement Operations Section (King County, Washington) BROS Barnes and Richmond Operatic Society (London, UK) . and Fox have closed or severed ties with their in-house visual effects facilities. The employees facing layoff are among the 1,700 who work for Walt Disney Feature Animation. Pepsi to supply all Mann theaters ENCINO - Mann Theatres announced a multiyear agreement Wednesday with Pepsi-Cola Co., making Pepsi its exclusive supplier of beverages. Effective Nov. 1, the pact covers all 30 Mann Theatre sites, located primarily in Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, and Colorado. Mann's properties include the Chinese Theatre Chinese theatre has a long and complex history. Today it is often called Chinese opera although this normally refers specifically to the popular form known as Beijing Opera; there have been many other forms of theatre in China. in Hollywood and the Village, National and Bruin theaters in Westwood Village. New Food 4 Less to open Nov. 14 Food 4 Less, the Compton-based supermarket company, will open its latest warehouse-format store on Nov. 14 in the Westlake district of downtown Los Angeles Downtown Los Angeles is the central business district of Los Angeles, California, located close to the geographic center of the metropolitan area. The sprawling, multi-centered megacity is such that its downtown core is often considered just another district like Hollywood or , it was announced Wednesday. The 57,500-square-foot Food 4 Less at 1700 W. Sixth St. will be one of the anchors of the new Wilshire-Union Center, billed as the Westlake district's first major retail development in more than 40 years. The store will be open daily from 6 a.m. to midnight. ``We are very pleased to cast a vote of confidence in Los Angeles' Westlake district with this major investment in the community,'' said Food 4 Less President Dave Hirz. ``Our new store is bringing sorely needed shopping convenience, services and jobs to a neighborhood that has been under-served.'' In addition to Food 4 Less, the shopping center shopping center, a concentration of retail, service, and entertainment enterprises designed to serve the surrounding region. The modern shopping center differs from its antecedents—bazaars and marketplaces—in that the shops are usually amalgamated into will feature a Home Depot The Home Depot (NYSE: HD) is an American retailer of home improvement and construction products and services. Headquartered in Vinings, just outside Atlanta in unincorporated Cobb County, Georgia, Home Depot employs more than 355,000 people and operates 2,164 big-box and a Rite Aid drug store. |
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