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  • Disney Shared The Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe Used At One Of Its Resorts and it’s Delicious

    Disney Shared The Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe Used At One Of Its Resorts and it’s Delicious

    To help bring the Magic of Disney home, Disney has been sharing recipes for some of its most iconic treats from the parks, like churro bites and Dole whips, and now there is a Disney resort-inspired chocolate chip cookie recipe that you can make at home and save some dough.

    Chocolate chip cookies get their very own holiday coming up on May 15 and the chefs at Disney’s Grand Floridian Resort & Spa have shared their recipe for The quintessential all-American treat

    Below you’ll find Chef Erich’s chocolate chip cookie recipe – a delicious and easy sweet you can make at home for memories of a Walt Disney World Resort vacation.

    Disney’s Grand Floridian Resort & Spa Chocolate Chip Cookies
    Makes about 3 dozen medium, or 18 large cookies

    2 1/2 cups flour
    1 teaspoon baking soda
    1/2 teaspoon salt
    10 tablespoons (1 1/4 sticks butter), softened
    1 cup packed brown sugar
    3/4 cup powdered sugar
    2 eggs
    2 teaspoons vanilla extract
    12-ounce bag semi-sweet chocolate chips

    1. Preheat oven to 330°F.
    2. Sift flour, baking soda and salt into a large bowl and set aside.
    3. Combine butter, brown sugar and powdered sugar in a separate bowl and cream with electric mixer until fluffy.
    4. With mixer running, add eggs, one at a time, then add vanilla. Mix until combined, scraping sides of bowl.
    5. Slowly add flour mixture, scraping sides of bowl. Stir in chocolate chips.
    6. Scoop 1 tablespoon dough for medium cookies and 2 tablespoons for large onto ungreased baking sheet.
    7. Bake until light golden, 10 to 12 minutes for medium cookies, 12 to 14 minutes for large.
  • Disney Bedtime Hotline Returns for a Limited Time

    Disney Bedtime Hotline Returns for a Limited Time

    It’s official! Disney has announced the return of its beloved Disney Bedtime Hotline to help bring a little pixie dust to fans and families everywhere.

    Beginning today, fans can hear messages from favorite Disney characters before falling asleep – all from the comfort of home.

    Parents, simply call 1-877-7-MICKEY for one of five special messages for your little ones from Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Donald Duck, Daisy Duck or Goofy.

    The toll-free hotline will run for a limited time only, so be sure to make your call before the end of the month, Thursday, April 30 at midnight PT. Available in the United States only. Limit 1 message per call.

    If calling using a mobile phone, standard mobile charges may apply. For other entertaining ideas at home, including free downloadable sleep content activities to Create Magic Moments with Disney, check out www.shopDisney.com/BedtimeHotline. Fans can find out more information on the Disney Bedtime Hotline along with sleep products and information on the subscription Disney Bedtime Adventure Box.

  • Sneak Peek Epic Disney Family Singalong Coming to ABC

    Sneak Peek Epic Disney Family Singalong Coming to ABC

    Disney is committed to bringing magic into homes right now during these uncertain times and now they are bringing more musical magic to your household with The Disney Family Singalong, an all-star variety event that sees celebrities and their families singing classics from their homes.

    This hour-long television special, hosted by Ryan Seacrest, will air Thursday, April 16, at 8 p.m. EDT on ABC. It’s going to be a nationwide event featuring celebrities and their families singing their favorite Disney tunes from home … and encouraging you to join in the fun with them.

    Take a look below of a preview of what you can expect:

    Special guests will be singing plenty of songs that will make you feel as if you magically transported into a Disney park, including:

    • “I Won’t Say I’m In Love,” Ariana Grande
    • “A Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes,” Demi Lovato and Michael Bublé
    • “Be Our Guest,” Derek Hough and Hayley Erbert, with a special appearance by Julianne Hough
    • “Can You Feel the Love Tonight,” Christina Aguilera
    • “Do You Want to Build a Snowman?,” Thomas Rhett
    • “Friend Like Me,” James Monroe Iglehart with Broadway Company of Disney’s “ALADDIN”
    • “Gaston,” Josh Gad, Luke Evans and Alan Menken
    • ‘it’s a small world,” John Stamos
    • “Let It Go,” Amber Riley
    • “Under the Sea,” Jordan Fisher
    • “I Wan’na Be Like You,” Darren Criss
    • “You’ve Got a Friend in Me,” Josh Groban
    • An epic performance of “We’re All in This Together” with Kenny Ortega and his friends from “High School Musical,” “Descendants,” “High School Musical: The Musical: The Series,” “Zombies” and more including Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Tisdale, Corbin Bleu, Monique Coleman, Lucas Grabeel, KayCee Stroh, Raven-Symoné, Dove Cameron, Sofia Carson, Booboo Stewart, Sarah Jeffery, Meg Donelly, Milo Manheim, Joshua Bassett, Olivia Rodrigo, Sofia Wylie, Matt Cornett, Dara Reneé, Julia Lester, Larry Saperstein, Frankie Rodriguez, Joe Serafini, TikTok Sensations Charli D’Amelio and Dixie D’Amelio, Chucky Klapow, Jared Murillo, Ro Malaga, Britt Stewart, Kim Klapow and Bayli Baker Thompson.
    • And many more from across The Walt Disney Company and beyond! 

    An animated character will be your guide as you sing along with well-known melodies from these beloved Disney stories. The broadcast will also feature special messages from Walt Disney Television, sharing information about the United States’ largest domestic hunger-relief organization, Feeding America, and how to support those experiencing hunger in these unprecedented times.

  • You Can Make $1000 Comparing Disney Originals To Their Remakes

    You Can Make $1000 Comparing Disney Originals To Their Remakes

    UpgradedPoints.com has a deal for Disney fans, offering $1,000 and some other goodies to one lucky binger to review and compare 12 classic films to their live-action reboots.

    The winner will be asked to keep track through a spreadsheet and post to social media. Sound like something you could do over the course of 30 days?

    Take a look below the requirements and how to sign up:

    To apply, you have to be at least 18 and a US resident. They are looking for a Disney lover has time to watch 12 classic Disney movies and their respective remakes.

    Take a look at the list of 12 movies that you’ll be asked to binge-watch over 1 month’s time:

    • 101 Dalmatians
    • Alice in Wonderland
    • Sleeping Beauty (Remake: Maleficent)
    • Cinderella
    • The Jungle Book
    • Beauty and the Beast
    • The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (Remake: Christopher Robin)
    • Dumbo
    • Aladdin
    • The Lion King
    • Lady and the Tramp
    • Mulan

    The ideal applicant will have:

    • Overall enthusiasm for Disney – you’re the type of person who has Disney soundtracks on your Spotify and immediately signed up for Disney+
    • A love for movies, especially the Disney classics
    • Strong attention to detail – nothing gets past you!
    • The ability and availability to binge-watch 12 movies and their remakes in a short amount of time
    • Active social media accounts on Facebook and Twitter

    In addition to a worksheet, they’re asking the selected binger to share their experience on social media. You’ll have to prove to them you’re a big Disney fan by the deadline of April 20. The winner will be notified just a few days later.

  • Bob Iger Reasserts Control at Disney as Company Navigates Coronavirus Impact

    Bob Iger Reasserts Control at Disney as Company Navigates Coronavirus Impact

    Bob Iger stepped down from his role of Disney CEO in February, but he has now postponed semi-retirement to retake control of the company as it braces for changes caused by the coronavirus pandemic.

    Iger transitioned into a new role at Disney as executive chairman to focus on the company’s “creative endeavors” after exiting as CEO. But he has “effectively returned to running the company” in recent weeks amid the coronavirus crisis and has “smoothly reasserted control,” according to The New York Times.

    “A crisis of this magnitude and its impact on Disney would necessarily result in my actively helping Bob [Chapek] and the company contend with it, particularly since I ran the company for 15 years,” he told the NYT’s Media Columnist Ben Smith in an email.

    Smith wrote that Iger is also discussing what the company will look like post-pandemic, beyond figuring out how to get the parks back on line, including the possibility of temperature checks. He has asked associates to explore permanent changes across businesses that might include ending expensive upfront advertiser presentations and no longer producing costly pilots for shows that might not air.

  • Live action ‘Robin Hood, Remake in the Works at Disney

    Live action ‘Robin Hood, Remake in the Works at Disney

    Disney has been turning out live-action remakes like a machine and now the company has announced that it is the early production phase of making a live-action version of the 1973 movie-musical version of ‘Robin Hood’ which is to be released on Disney+.

    The new version is being developed with the animals in a CGI/live-action hybrid format, similar to Disney remakes of “The Jungle Book” and “Dumbo.” The deals for Estrada and Granlund were signed early last month prior to the coronavirus pandemic.

    The 1973 “Robin Hood” — produced and directed by Wolfgang Reitherman — was centered on the classic story of Robin Hood, Little John, Friar Tuck, Maid Marian and the Sheriff of Nottingham. Hood, portrayed as a fox, led the fight against Prince John’s excessive taxation. Little John was depicted as a bear, Friar Tuck as a badger, Prince John as a lion, the sheriff of Nottingham as a wolf and Maid Marian as a vixen.

    Carlos Lopez Estrada, perhaps best known for directing the 2018 crime movie Blindspotting, is on board to helm the project, which is being written by Kari Granlund. Granlund already is in the Disney fold after having written the studio’s recent remake of Lady and the Tramp.

    Justin Springer, who counts the studio’s Dumbo and Tron Legacy among his credits, is producing the feature being developed for the studio’s Disney+ streaming service. 

  • Disney’s Broadway Anniversary Concert To Stream For COVID-19 Assistance Fund

    Disney’s Broadway Anniversary Concert To Stream For COVID-19 Assistance Fund

    November 2019 Celebrating 25 Magical Years of Disney on Broadway concert will be live streamed April 13 at 7 PM ET to raise money for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS’ COVID-19 Emergency Assistance Fund.

    Ryan McCartan (Frozen, Liv and Maddie) will host the event from his family’s basement and will interview Disney on Broadway stars from their respective homes throughout the evening. The stream will be available online at Playbill and on BroadwayCares.org.

    “The event last November was such an unforgettable evening of Disney on Broadway magic,” Broadway Cares Executive Director Tom Viola said in a statement. “We are so grateful to all our friends at Disney Theatrical Productions for generously joining us in sharing this evening again, supporting our entertainment industry friends and colleagues who are out of work and facing serious health and personal challenges due to this devastating coronavirus pandemic.”

    The show marks a reunion of 18 Newsies from the show’s Broadway and national touring productions and a performance from Broadway Inspirational Voices. Celebrating 25 Magical Years of Disney on Broadway was held at the New Amsterdam Theatre and raised $570,426 for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.

    The concert also featured 79 performers, including Jelani Alladin (Hercules), Sierra Boggess (The Little Mermaid, School of Rock), Christian Borle (Little Shop of Horrors, Mary Poppins), Ashley Brown (Mary Poppins), Kerry Butler (Beetlejuice, Beauty and the Beast), Lauryn Ciardullo (Aladdin), Gavin Creel (Hello, Dolly!, Waitress), Merle Dandridge (Tarzan, Aida), Lindiwe Dlamini (The Lion King), Bongi Duma (The Lion King), Susan Egan (Beauty and the Beast), Andrew Barth Feldman (Dear Evan Hansen), Bradley Gibson (The Lion King), Whoopi Goldberg (The View), Mandy Gonzalez (Hamilton, Aida), April Holloway (Aladdin), James Monroe Iglehart (Aladdin, Hamilton), Adam Jacobs (Aladdin), Ramona Keller (Hercules), Nina LaFarga (Frozen), Tamika Lawrence (Hercules, Come From Away), Norm Lewis (Once on This Island, The Little Mermaid), Kara Lindsay (Newsies, Beautiful), Tshidi Manye (The Lion King), Sbusiso Ngema (The Lion King), Ashley Park (Mean Girls), Adam Pascal (Rent, Aida), Krysta Rodriguez (Hercules), Michael James Scott (Aladdin), Sherie Rene Scott (The Little Mermaid, Aida), Kissy Simmons (The Lion King), Josh Strickland (Tarzan), Katie Terza (Aladdin), Marisha Wallace (Aladdin, Something Rotten!), Rema Webb (Hercules, The Lion King), Alton Fitzgerald White (The Lion King), and Syndee Winters (Hamilton, The Lion King).

    Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS’ COVID-19 Emergency Assistance Fund, administered by The Actors Fund, is helping those onstage, backstage, and behind the scenes impacted by the coronavirus pandemic.

  • The Walt Disney Studios Announces Updated Release Schedule

    The Walt Disney Studios Announces Updated Release Schedule

    Following the announcement in March that several titles would be delayed due to the global health crisis, The Walt Disney Studios announced updates to its upcoming release schedule.

    Disney’s Mulan is now slated to open on July 24, 2020, with Disney’s Jungle Cruise moving to July 30, 2021; while Marvel Studios’ Black Widow will arrive in theaters on November 6, 2020, with The Eternals moving to February 12, 2021.

    Below is the updated release schedule through 2022, beginning with Disney and Pixar’s Soul, opening June 19, 2020:

    2020

    Soul (Disney and Pixar)—June 19, 2020

    Mulan (Disney)—July 24, 2020

    Empty Man (20th Century Studios)—August 7, 2020

    The One and Only Ivan (Disney)—August 14, 2020

    The Beatles: Get Back (Disney)—September 4, 2020

    The King’s Man (20th Century Studios)—September 18, 2020

    Death on the Nile (20th Century Studios)—October 9, 2020

    The French Dispatch (Searchlight Pictures)—October 16, 2020

    Everybody’s Talking About Jamie (20th Century Studios)—October 23, 2020

    Black Widow (Marvel Studios)—November 6, 2020

    Deep Water (20th Century Studios)—November 13, 2020

    Raya and the Last Dragon (Walt Disney Animation Studios)—November 25, 2020

    Free Guy (20th Century Studios)—December 11, 2020

    West Side Story (20th Century Studios)—December 18, 2020

    The Last Duel (20th Century Studios)—December 25, 2020 (limited)

    2021

    The Last Duel (20th Century Studios)—January 8, 2021 (Wide)

    The Eternals (Marvel Studios)—February 12, 2021

    Ron’s Gone Wrong (20th Century Studios)—February 26, 2021

    Untitled Disney Live Action—March 12, 2021

    Bob’s Burgers (20th Century Studios)—April 9, 2021

    Untitled 20th Century—April 23, 2021

    Shang Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (Marvel Studios)—May 7, 2021

    Cruella (Disney)—May 28, 2021

    Untitled Pixar Animation—June 18, 2021

    Jungle Cruise (Disney)—July 30, 2021

    Untitled 20th Century—August 13, 2021

    Untitled 20th Century—September 10, 2021

    Untitled 20th Century—October 1, 2021

    Hamilton (Disney)—October 15, 2021

    Untitled 20th Century—October 22, 2021

    Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (Marvel Studios)—November 5, 2021

    Untitled Disney Live Action—November 19, 2021

    Untitled Disney Animation—November 24, 2021

    Untitled 20th Century—December 3, 2021

    AVATAR 2 (20th Century Studios)—December 17, 2021

    2022

    Untitled 20th Century—January 7, 2022

    Nimona (20th Century Studios)—January 14, 2022

    Thor: Love and Thunder (Marvel Studios)—February 18, 2022

    Untitled Pixar Animation—March 11, 2022

    Untitled Disney Live Action—March 25, 2022

    Untitled 20th Century—April 8, 2022

    Black Panther 2 (Marvel Studios)—May 6, 2022

    Untitled Disney Live Action—May 27, 2022

    Untitled 20th Century—June 10, 2022

    Untitled Pixar Animation—June 17, 2022

    Captain Marvel 2 (Marvel Studios)—July 8, 2022

    Untitled Indiana Jones (Disney)—July 29, 2022

    Untitled Disney Live Action—August 12, 2022

    Untitled 20th Century—September 16, 2022

    Untitled Marvel—October 7, 2022

    Untitled 20th Century—October 21, 2022

    Untitled Disney Live Action—November 4, 2022

    Untitled 20th Century—November 11, 2022

    Untitled Disney Animation—November 23, 2022

    Untitled Star Wars (Lucasfilm)—December 16, 2022

    Untitled 20th Century—December 23, 2022

  • Disney Purchases More Land Near Magic Kingdom

    Disney Purchases More Land Near Magic Kingdom

    More land has been purchased near Magic Kingdom by The Disney Company.

    The land was bought last month by Celebration Company, a subsidiary of Disney, according to Orange County records and the 26.3 acres of land sits right next to Reedy Lake.

    Disney purchased the land from Lake Reedy Development Group, LLC, the same company it purchased 235 acres of adjacent land from in late December.

    Both pieces of property sit just west of Magic Kingdom and northwest of Disney’s Magnolia Golf Course.

    Just like with that purchase, Disney hasn’t publicly said what it plans to do with the land.

  • Disney Publishing Worldwide Authors Providing Free eBooks

    Disney Publishing Worldwide Authors Providing Free eBooks

    Disney Publishing Worldwide authors are joining forces to provide a free eBook, drawing workshops and online videos sharing their favorite excerpts.

    For all the young adult fiction fans asking, ‘What might have happened if Anna and Elsa never knew each other?’, we have a free download of Conceal, Don’t Feel: A Twisted Tale by Jen Calonita, available from March 30 through April 4 via Apple Books, Google Play, Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Kobo.

    As the future Queen of Arendelle, Princess Elsa’s life is full of expectation and responsibility—not to mention, questions. What type of ruler will she be? When will she have to pick a suitor? Elsa as she answers all these questions and more. Check back here to see how you can enjoy more Disney Books for free in the coming weeks.

    Emmy Award–winning writer and New York Times best-selling Disney Hyperion author, Mo Willems invites you to join him in the studio for virtual lunchtime doodling sessions, weekdays at 1pm ET/10am PT. Recent videos include a DIY board game and lessons on fun drawings to make for a birthday celebration. To draw along live, visit the Kennedy Center website and to binge the entire series, head to the Kennedy Center YouTube channel.

    Already downloaded Conceal, Don’t Feel, and crave more? Don’t miss Twisted Tales on @DisneyBooks Instagram. Authors Liz Braswell, Elizabeth Lim, and Jen Calonita will share passages from several Twisted Talesbooks – the series that dives into alternate “what-if” scenarios inspired by familiar animated Disney films.