Showing posts with label The Walt Disney Company. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Walt Disney Company. Show all posts

Thursday, December 8, 2011

Selena Gomez - actress, singer and businesswoman

Selena Gomez

Selena Gomez is an American actress and singer best identifiedfor portraying Alex Russo in the Emmy Award-winning Disney Channel TV seriesWizards of Waverly Place. She subsequently venture into feature films and hasstarred in the television movies one more Cinderella Story, Wizards of Waverly Place:The Movie, and Princess Protection Program. She prepared her starringtheatrical film debut in Ramona and Beezus.

Her career has extended into the music industry; Gomez isthe lead singer and originator of the pop band Selena Gomez & the Scene,which has released two RIAA Gold certified studio album, Kiss & Tell and AYear without Rain and spawned two RIAA Platinum certified singles,"Naturally" and "Who Says". As of April 2011, the band has sell1,354,000 albums in the United States. Gomez has also give to the soundtracksof Tinker Bell, Another Cinderella Story, Wizards of Waverly Place, and ShakeIt Up after signing a record contract with Hollywood Records. In 2008, Gomezwas chosen a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador.

Selena Gomez

Birth name
Selena Marie Gomez
Date Of Birth
July 22, 1992
Grand
Prairie, Texas, United States
Genres
Electropop, Pop rock, dance-pop
Occupations
singer, businesswoman, Actress
Instruments
piano, guitar, drums, Vocals

Wednesday, April 20, 2011

The Walt Disney Company - media conglomerate, production, television, and travel

http://the-american-history.blogspot.com/The Walt Disney Company is the biggest media conglomerate in the world in terms of revenue. Establish on October 16, 1923, by brothers Walt Disney and Roy Disney as the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio, the company was reincorporate as Walt Disney Productions, Ltd. in 1929, and became exposure traded as Walt Disney Productions in 1938. Walt Disney Productions established itself as a chief in the American animation industry before diversify into live-action film production, television, and travel. Taking on its present name in 1986, The Walt Disney Company expanded its existing process and also started division focused upon theatre, radio, publishing, and online media. In addition, it has formed new divisions of the company in order to market more mature content than it classically associates with its flagship family-oriented brands.

The company is best recognized for the products of its film studio, the Walt Disney Motion Pictures Group, and today one of the biggest and best-known studios in Hollywood. Disney also owns and function the ABC broadcast television network; cable television networks such as Disney Channel, ESPN, and ABC Family; publishing, merchandising, and theatre divisions; and own and licenses 11 theme parks around the world. The company has been a part of the Dow Jones Industrial Average since May 6, 1991. An early and well-known cartoon making of the company, Mickey Mouse, is the official mascot of The Walt Disney Company.

http://the-american-history.blogspot.com/

Industry

Media conglomerate

Founded In

Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Founded On

October 16, 1923

Founder(s)

Walt and Roy Disney

Employees

149,000

Divisions

Walt Disney Motion Pictures Group,

Disney Music Group,

Walt Disney Parks and Resorts,

Disney-ABC Television Group,

Disney Interactive Media Group,

Disney Consumer Products

Subsidiaries

Walt Disney Pictures,

Walt Disney Animation Studios,

Walt Disney Theatrical,

Pixar Animation Studios,

Marvel Entertainment, LLC,

ABC Inc.,

ESPN (80%),

A&E Television Networks (42.5%),

Radio Disney

Revenue

increase US$ 38.063 billion