I strongly recommend you don’t read this Season four press release until after you watch the season three finale which airs/aired tonight.
This fourth season will be the show’s last, and the second DCOM will likely be the actual series finale … although we don’t know that for sure.
Disney’s official press release follows:
SEASON FOUR OF THE EMMY AWARD-WINNING SERIES
“WIZARDS OF WAVERLY PLACE” PREMIERES FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12
–Bailee Madison and Gregg Sulkin Guest Star in Multi-Episode Story Arc–
In a new, fourth season of wizardly twists and turns, everything is not what it seems, as Alex is tricked into announcing to the world that she and her brothers are wizards, and a duplicating spell goes haywire, changing Max’s life forever. Bailee Madison (“Bridge to Terabithia,” “Brothers”) joins the cast as Maxine, an adorable 10 year-old wizard and Gregg Sulkin (Disney Channel UK’s “As The Bell Rings”) reprises the role of Mason the werewolf in the Emmy Award-winning comedy series “Wizards of Waverly Place.” The season premiere episode will be presented FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12 (9:45-10:15 p.m., ET/PT) on Disney Channel.
Season three is the series’ most-watched season to-date in Total Viewers and key kid demographics. The penultimate episode of season three “Alex Saves Mason,” ranked as the season’s second-most-watched episode in Total Viewers (4.9 million), Kids 6-11 (2.1 million) and Tweens 9-14 (1.9 million). The third season finale premieres FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15.
Created by Todd J. Greenwald (“Hannah Montana,” “Saved By the Bell: The New Class”) and executive-produced by Vince Cheung, Ben Montanio (“Married…with Children,” “Greetings from Tucson”) and Greenwald, the series stars Selena Gomez (whose sophomore album with her band, The Scene, “A Year Without Rain,” debuted at # 4 on the Billboard Top 200 album chart. “Round & Round,” the first single from Selena’s latest Hollywood Records’ CD, has been certified gold), David Henrie (“How I Met Your Mother”), Jake T. Austin (“Hotel For Dogs”), Jennifer Stone (“Mean Girls 2”), Maria Canals-Barrera (“Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam,” “Larry Crowne”) and David DeLuise (“Stargate SG-1”).
“Wizards of Waverly Place” debuted in 2007 and won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Children’s Program in 2009 and “Wizards of Waverly Place The Movie” won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Children’s Program in 2010.
New episodes of “Wizards of Waverly Place” air FRIDAYS on Disney Channel. A production of It’s a Laugh Productions for Disney Channel, the series carries a TV-G parental guideline.
It’s time for another random twitpic post! It’s been quite a while since Random Twitter Fun #4
From time to time, I like to post some of the pics that the stars share of themselves that really don’t fit anywhere else, and that don’t really warrant their own post.
Take for example, this picture of Selena Gomez hard at work on the set of Wizards.
Next up, here’s a cute pic of Ashley Tisdale and Aly Michalka during a break from filming Hellcats. Of course, they both have their dogs in their laps. LOL
Speaking of Aly, here is a stunning new pic of Aly for Venice Magazine. When the full set leaks, I will of course be posting it.
I have a couple pics of Demi Lovato to share. First this one of Demi and Eva Longoria. I’m glad that Demi and Eva are as close as they are, because she’s probably the only good entertainment industry role model that she has left.
Here’s Demi with “the totally sweet and talented [Jennette McCurdy]” yesterday. Jennette returns the love saying: “Just caught up with [Demi Lovato] … She’s the sweetest!” I love how Jennette couldn’t look more casual while Demi’s all made up.
I absolutely adore this next picture of Tiffany Thornton and her BFF Alisha. the expression on Tiff’s face is just indescribably sexy. Her boobs are lookin’ pretty nice too.
I’ve had this next pic of Emily Osment sitting on my desktop for awhile. I probably should have posted it when she released her new album, but I didn’t think of that.
Is it just me, or is this pic of Nicole Anderson really hot? Nic’s caption: “This is what happens when home schoolers go 2 their 1st college game. My nails spell UNR #teamspirit”
I haven’t really been following what my favorite Canadian “sort-of” Disney girl, Ashley Leggat, has been up to recently. But anything at involves midriff and cleavage bearing outfits like this is okay with me!
High School Musical 3 Sweetheart Jemma McKenzie-Brown posted this old pic of herself with fellow actors Tony Oller, Matt Prokop, and Sterling Knight!
Although Taylor Swift isn’t a Disney Girl, I wanted to share one of her recent twitter pics too. I hope you’re all excited about her upcoming CD.
That concludes today’s batch of random Twitter updates.
I meant to post this when it was published last month. Sorry.
Walt Disney Co.’s (DIS) fiscal third-quarter earnings jumped 40% because of deferred revenue at ESPN and hit movies like “Toy Story 3,” although its domestic theme parks continued to struggle.
Nonetheless, shares of media giant climbed 1.1% after-hours to $35.68 as the company’s results beat analysts’ views. Disney’s stock had risen 9.4% this year, better than the broader market.
In the most recent period, the film and TV production studio swung to a profit as revenue jumped 30% on the strong response to “Toy Story 3,” as well as “Alice in Wonderland” and “Iron Man 2.” The results were a bit stronger than expected, said Alan Gould, analyst with Evercore Partners.
Disney’s networks division, the company’s largest, posted a 19% rise in revenue and a 43% jump in profit, driven by deferred revenue at ESPN and, to a lesser extent, the Disney Channel. Broadcasting, which includes ABC, posted modest 4% and 2% increases in revenue and earnings, respectively.
Media companies have been reporting improvement in the advertising spending after the recession caused a slump in ad dollars. On the company’s conference call, Disney Chief Financial Officer Jay Rasulo said advertising is strong, but visibility is “somewhat limited”
Disney’s theme parks struggled in the most recent period, hurt by decreases at its domestic parks and Disney Cruise Line. Overall, revenue rose 3% thanks to higher guest spending, but operating income fell 8% because of increased costs and lower attendance and hotel occupancy.
Disney said unfavorable timing of the Easter holiday hurt attendance. However, results at the international parks improved, not only because of a real estate sale but also on better guest spending, hotel occupancy and attendance at Disneyland Paris.
Gould noted that the company, in a display of confidence, recently raised prices at its parks division. The company used discounts to boost attendance during the recession, but executives have said Disney has been reining them in since the beginning of the year, aiming for prices to return to normal next year.
In the current fourth quarter, Disney’s hotel bookings are down 9% from a year ago.
For the third quarter ended July 3, the company posted a profit of $1.33 billion, or 67 cents a share, from $954 million, or 51 cents a share, a year earlier. Both periods included restructuring and impairment charges, while the most recent period also included a gain on the sale of the Power Rangers franchise, which canceled out the charges in the most recent results.
Analysts surveyed by Thomson Reuters predicted earnings of 58 cents a share Gould noted that Disney’s EPS results were boosted by about 7.5 cents a share from roughly $230 million more in deferred revenue at ESPN than analysts were expecting. He said that should be factored out when comparing the company’s results to Wall Street estimates.
Revenue increased 16% to $10 billion, above the average analyst estimate of $9.38 billion.
Ariana Grande just posted this flawless, gorgeous, simply amazing bikini photo oh her twitter account.
Her caption was: “here’s a pic from a photo shoot i did in Santa Monica , such a fun shoot !! xxxxxooo <3″
Ariana is one of the most beautiful creatures on this planet. I was so taken by this photo that I’ve been trying to properly formulate my thoughts on it for the past two hours and I still haven’t come up with anything remotely worthy.
Be sure to click the photo to see the full size version.
Ooh! La, La! Couture held a special fashion show during Scott Baio’s 50th birthday bash in Los Angeles in September 2010. Three of Disney’s up and coming new stars, Ryan Newman, Bella Thorne, and Allisyn Ashley Arm, where on hand for the event.
The show featured all three young hollywood actresses in poufy pink and black dresses.
I’m sure I can’t be the only one who thinks that Ryan Newman and Bella Thorne would make a heck of a team for a DCOM or maybe even a future series.
Bella really is, in particular, an exceptional actress. Shake it Up is gonna rock.
Ryan Newman’s character is, clearly, the only good part of Zeke and Luther.
And no episode of Sonny with a Chance would be complete without Allisyn’s character Zora. Except for, ya know, the episodes she’s not actually in… LOL
I hope you don’t mind my posting another Nick girl. I swear I had a preferably legitimate reason to be searching for a Victoria Justice head shot on Google Images when I came across this pic that stopped me dead in my tracks.
This unbelievably hot Victoria bikini pic was from earlier this when she went on a vacation to Mexico with her family.
I read that the girl with her in most of these pics is her half-sister. But I don’t know if that was accurate or not.
It looks like she had fun.
And here’s one more pool bikini picture, just ’cause I can.
As always, click any pic for the full gallery. If you’ve already seen any of these, then I apologize for wasting your time.
Disney Interactive Media Group is the division that is responcible for Disney’s web properties, and the games, videos, and other content that they put online. This also includes sites they’re purchased like Club Penguin.
Official Disney Press Release follows:
John Pleasants and James Pitaro have been named Co-Presidents, Disney Interactive Media Group (DIMG), it was announced today by Disney President and CEO Robert A. Iger.
John Pleasants, a well-respected new media executive whose career has included top jobs at digital commerce and game companies, will lead Disney’s multi-faceted digital games businesses, including online, console, social and mobile. He will also continue to run Playdom, the fast-growing social games publishing company acquired by Disney earlier this year. James Pitaro, an experienced Internet executive known for consistently delivering great branded web experiences to consumers, will oversee Disney Online, the home of Disney branded web and social media sites.
The new structure at DIMG is intended to enhance the strategic focus and responsiveness of the company’s digital games and Disney Online businesses in a marketplace characterized by swiftly evolving consumer behavior and technologies. The structure is designed so that the two businesses can share consumer insights and technological resources and jointly take advantage of growth opportunities.
“Our rapidly growing Disney digital businesses will benefit greatly from the deep experience and distinct leadership skills shown by John and Jimmy,” Iger said. “John has shown incredible agility and skill in helping companies achieve success in the ever-shifting digital games business, while Jimmy has vast knowledge of the online world and has been hugely successful at creating and building audiences around branded online content.”
“Both have outstanding track records in anticipating trends and delivering to consumers creative, innovative and successful experiences and products,” Iger added. “As Co-Presidents, I’m confident they will make Disney’s digital content and businesses even more robust and successful.”
Pleasants, who will be based in the Bay Area, will oversee Disney’s overall games strategy and its global network of game development studios, including recently acquired mobile publisher Tapulous. The games group will include such popular online virtual worlds as Club Penguin and World of Cars as well as console and mobile titles.
Prior to joining Playdom as CEO in June 2009, he was President of Global Publishing and Chief Operating Officer of Electronic Arts Inc., where he led the company’s online and mobile business units and its strategic expansion into online and social games. He previously served as President and CEO of Revolution Health and CEO of Ticketmaster, which included Match.com, CitySearch.com and Evite.com.
“I am extremely excited to be working with the DIMG team, and our colleagues across Disney, to advance the mission of enlivening people everywhere through the world’s best interactive entertainment,” Pleasants said. “Bob’s vision and commitment to excellence in new media positions our organization to achieve great things.”
In leading Disney Online, Pitaro will be responsible for enhancing the consumer experience on the company’s numerous Disney-branded web and social media sites, including Disney.com, the number one global site for kids and families, and Family.com. Pitaro will also oversee Disney’s social media marketing agency, DigiSynd.
Pitaro joins Disney from Yahoo! Inc. where he was Vice President and Head of Media. In that role, he significantly expanded Yahoo!’s original video, branded entertainment and editorial content and pioneered using data to enhance the consumer web experience. Pitaro led the successful expansion of Yahoo! Sports prior to being named to lead all of Yahoo!’s media properties, including its news, finance, entertainment and lifestyle sites. Previously, Pitaro ran Business Affairs for online music site Launch Media and practiced law at several New York firms.
“I’m honored to be joining the Disney family and energized to start working with the DIMG team. I’ve admired Disney for as long as I can remember and am looking forward to bringing my experience to the company and partnering with John to advance our online businesses,” Pitaro said.
As Co-Presidents, they will be replacing former President Steve Wadsworth, who over many years established a firm foundation for DIMG’s growth. Pleasants and Pitaro will report to Iger and will co-manage DIMG enterprise functions, including business affairs, finance and human resources. They will assume their new roles on October 18, 2010.
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