In 2001, the other beneficiaries sold their interest in the estate to the Disney Corporation for $ 350m.

* 2001 – Downtown Disney opens to the public as part of the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California.

* Watts, Steven, The Magic Kingdom: Walt Disney and the American Way of Life, University of Missouri Press, 2001, ISBN 0-8262-1379-0

* Richard Fogelsong ( 2001 ), Married to the Mouse: Walt Disney World and Orlando, Yale University Press, ISBN 0-300-08707-1, ISBN 0-300-09828-6

Disney acquired FFC in 2001 and its name was changed again, to ABC Family.

* Leslie Iwerks and John Kenworthy, The Hand Behind the Mouse ( Disney Editions, 2001 ) and documentary of the same name ( DVD, 1999 )

This is the Brers ' first major appearance in Disney media since House of Mouse in 2001 and their first appearance as computer-generated characters.

Disney's House of Mouse is an American animated television series, produced by Walt Disney Television, that originally aired from 2001 to 2003.

The show was produced by Walt Disney Television, and originally aired from 2001 to 2003, running for 52 episodes.

The Zoog Disney brand later expanded from September 2001 to August 2002, when the entire weekend lineup outside of the Vault Disney and Playhouse Disney blocks was branded as " Zoog Weekendz " at that point.

By 2001, Disney Channel was available to approximately 70 million cable and satellite subscribers, largely consisting of those who already received the channel via a basic tier as well at the remnants of its pay subscriber base.

Disney had previously announced plans for a preschool-targeted network in the U. S. in 2001, however the planned Playhouse Disney Channel did not come to fruition, though dedicated Playhouse Disney Channels did launch internationally.

Lizzie McGuire is an American teen sitcom that premiered on the Disney Channel on January 12, 2001 following the premiere of Zenon: The Zequel and ended February 14, 2004.

On December 3, 2001, Disney released " Silly Symphonies " as part of its DVD series " Walt Disney Treasures ".

In 2001, he lent his voice to the character Vincenzo " Vinny " Santorini in the Disney animated film Atlantis: The Lost Empire, and subsequently in the direct to video sequel Atlantis: Milo's Return.

In Disney Studios ' animated film Atlantis: The Lost Empire released in 2001, Don Novello uses the voice and speech style of Father Sarducci to portray the character of demolitions expert Vinny Santorini.

In 2001, he became the new voice of Disney's Peter Pan, and has performed that voice in various children's films as well as in recordings for the Disney theme parks.

The show premiered on October 20, 2001 on The Walt Disney Company's One Saturday Morning on The American Broadcasting Company and was cancelled after one season due to poor ratings.

The Proud Family is an American animated television series that ran on Disney Channel from September 15, 2001 to August 19, 2005.

Originally piloted for Nickelodeon, it was eventually picked up by the Disney Channel and started airing in September 2001.

A 2001 remake of the movie for ABC starred Sean Maher as Piccolo and Mekhi Phifer as Sayers.

In both the book and movie 2001, astronaut and scientist David Bowman is on a mission to track the source of an alien artifact found on the moon, which leads to a moon around the planet Jupiter ( in the novel, Saturn ); the story takes place in the year 2001.

The movie featured in-joke homages to such sci-fi classics as Star Wars, The Terminator, and 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Sandi Simcha Dubowski's movie Trembling Before G-d ( 2001 ) documented the experiences of several homosexual Modern Orthodox and Haredi Jews.

Also in 2001, Voight joined Leelee Sobieski, Hank Azaria and David Schwimmer in the made-for-television movie Uprising, which was based on the uprising in the Warsaw ghetto.

Minsky was an adviser on the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey and is referred to in the movie and book.

In 2001, Dixit starred in Deepak Shivdasani's love triangle movie Yeh Raaste Hain Pyaar Ke opposite Ajay Devgan and Preity Zinta.

Its theme is based on an outtake from the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey in which the astronaut ( seen playing chess in the final version ) is playing a two-player pentomino game against a computer.

In 2001, Rodríguez enjoyed his first $ 100, 000, 000 ( USD ) Hollywood hit with Spy Kids, which went on to become a movie franchise, with the third film released in a crude form of 3D.

Larry Niven reported in 2001 that a movie deal had been signed and was in the early planning stages.

Ocean's Eleven ( 2001 ), a Ted Griffin-scripted remake from a Rat Pack-movie from 1960, featuring an all-star cast and flashy aesthetics, is Soderbergh's highest grossing movie to date, grossing more than $ 183 million domestically and more than $ 450 million worldwide.

* Chōbaku Mahōden Slayers ( original name: 超爆魔道伝スレイヤーズ, 8 volumes, illustrated by Shoko Yoshinaka, adapted from Slayers main novels 1-8, 4th volume adapted from Slayers Return movie, 1995 – 2001, also known as Super Explosive Demon Story Slayers )

" The Sentinel " is a short story by Arthur C. Clarke, which was expanded and modified into the novel and movie 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Robert B. Parker's 2001 novel Potshot borrows heavily from the end of the movie for the final confrontation between Spenser's group of seven outlaws and the Dell, the antagonists of the story, going so far as to acknowledge it in dialog between characters and having one of them say the line, " We deal in lead, friend.

* The 2001 Mamoru Oshii movie " Avalon " ( アヴァロン ) is set in a bleak future, where the population is hooked on an immersive illegal virtual reality video game called Avalon.

* January 1 – A black monolith — dubbed the Seattle Monolith — measuring approximately tall appears in Seattle, Washington's Magnuson Park, placed by an anonymous artist in reference to the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey.

* The movie and novel 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke.

The opening scene of Kubrick's movie 2001: A Space Odyssey ( 1968 ) depicted prehistoric ape-like men wielding weapons of war, as the tools that supposedly lifted them out of their animal state and made them human.

In 2001, she won nominations for Best Supporting Actress for the Golden Globe Awards, the SAG Awards, the Critics ' Choice Awards, and the American Film Institute Awards for Vanilla Sky, and also voiced Princess Fiona in the movie Shrek, for which she earned $ 10 million.

* Chelsea Walls ( 2001 ) A movie about a new generation of artists living at the hotel.

* Session 9, a 2001 horror movie about a group of men hired to remove the asbestos from a defunct mental hospital.

In the 2001 movie A Knight's Tale, the protagonist William Thatcher ( played by Heath Ledger ) poses as a noble and competes in his first jousting tournament at Rouen.

A 2001 TV movie about Maris ' record-breaking season was called 61 * ( pronounced sixty-one asterisk ) in reference to the controversy.