Disney settled on the film's concept as work neared completion on The Sorcerer's Apprentice, an elaborate Silly Symphonies short designed as a comeback role for Mickey Mouse who had declined in popularity.

Disney intended for the film to have an open-air premiere at Pnyx hill, but the Greek government declined after Greek media and public panned the film.

Disney declined saying that he would put it to a vote.

Composer André Previn reports in his book No Minor Chords that he was approached by Disney to work on a sequel, but declined after he learned that the soundtrack was, at that point, conceived of as an orchestration of songs by The Beatles.

When Disney asked Ford Motor Company to continue sponsorship by sponsoring Disneyland's new PeopleMover, they declined, because Ford was reluctant to support technology that appeared to replace the automobile.

The Santa Fe Railway offered the use of full-scale crossing signals, but Disney declined as they would be out of scale with the trains.

Though a prominent Los Angeles signal, KABC declined in the ratings following ABC's takeover by Disney in December, 1996.

Camarata had suggested Disney build his own recording studio, but Disney declined and instead encouraged Camarata to build his own.

While his fellow animators remained at Mintz's studio, Disney decided to quit his job and therefore leave the character he created.

During the summer of 2004, as the NHL and the NHL Players Association's labor dispute was headed towards a long lockout, Disney tried to sell the team but received a low offer of $ 40-million US, less than the franchise's original price.

In writing to Disney, he reported that Stokowski was " really serious in his offer to do the music for nothing.

On 28 February Litvack made an offer ( without the consent of Eisner or Frank Wells ) to split the debts between Euro Disney's creditors and Disney.

Even as larger multiple system operators such as Cox Communications and Marcus Cable began to offer The Disney Channel on their basic tiers, Walt Disney Company executives continued to deny any plans to convert the channel to an ad-supported basic service, referring to the switches to basic on some systems as part of a five-year " hybrid " strategy ; allowing providers to offer it as either a pay service or a basic service.

Disney World is run by rival adhocracies, each dedicated to providing the best experience to the park's visitors and competing for the Whuffie the guests offer.

On October 16, 1923, Walt Disney accepted Margaret Winkler's, of Universal Studios ' offer to distribute the new Alice Comedies starring Virginia Davis.

Michael Colglazier, General Manager of Innoventions, qualified the technology as life changing, and was very pleased to offer the Disney ’ s guests a chance to experience it.

The battle extended into 2007 with a $ 385 million buyout offer led by the firms Madison Dearborn and Tornante ( an investment company started by former longtime Disney CEO Michael Eisner ).

As Disney was unable to " offer his nocturnal loners enough scope ", Burton left the studio in 1984, and went on to produce the commercially successful films Beetlejuice and Batman.

* As expected, the board of directors of the Walt Disney Company unanimously rejects a hostile buyout offer by Comcast, saying the cable television giant's bid is too low, but does not rule out accepting a higher bid in the future.

Robin Hood Prince of Thieves, First Knight, Goldfinger, The Princess Bride, the 1952 Disney film The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 are just some of the many films and TV productions which have made use of the facilities on offer at the Beeches.

Having refused Paramount CEO Sherry Lansing's offer to direct the 1996 comedy blockbuster The First Wives Club, Meyers eventually agreed on making her directional debut with The Parent Trap ( 1998 ) following the signing of a development deal with Walt Disney Pictures in 1997.

Disney World is run by rival adhocracies, each dedicated to providing the best experience to the park's visitors and competing for the Whuffie the guests offer.

The Animation Academy, Sid's Create-A-Toy, the Living Easels and Radio Disney Song Maker all offer the option of purchasing created items.

However, Disney turned down the offer, saying that the show had " moved on ".

Although Roald Dahl turned down more than one offer to make an animated film of James and the Giant Peach during his lifetime, his widow, Liccy Dahl, consented to let a film adaptation be made in conjunction with Disney in the mid-1990s.

On September 4, 2009, the Walt Disney Company announced that it would offer a refund for all Baby Einstein DVDs / videos purchased between June 5, 2004 and September 4, 2009, extending a refund policy already in place.

Family's development was in fact more similar to that of Disney Channel ; besides common programming and past co-commissioning of original programming, both launched as premium channels prior to pay television providers offering them as basic channels, and both channels do not offer traditional advertising ( Disney Channel does not accept traditional advertising outside of PBS-style underwriter sponsorships, and breaks within programs consist largely of promotions of its own programming, and Disney Channel-produced featurettes advertising Disney films and consumer products ).

Paramount also owns DVD rights to several films released by Miramax Films prior to that firm's acquisition by Disney in 1993, also a result of a deal.

As a result, Disney used multiple shell companies to buy up land at very low prices from unknowing landowners in the area that eventually become the district.

Bear as the result of an on air competition. Walt Disney Studios had a cartoon character named " Humphrey Bear ".

As a result, Disney Channel stopped airing both shows except for their holiday episodes, but Disney Channel began airing reruns of Lizzie McGuire in a multi-episode blocks two afternoons each week on September 12, 2009, thus making it the first Disney Channel series to air between 1998 and 2002 to be added back on the schedule after being removed from the channel's lineup.

The result of this investment was The Disney Afternoon, a two-hour syndicated television programming block of such animated shows as Chip ' n ' Dale Rescue Rangers, TaleSpin, Darkwing Duck, Goof Troop, Bonkers, and Gargoyles.

As a result, Dumbo lacks the lavish detail of the previous three Disney animated features ( Fantasia, Pinocchio, and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs ): character designs are simpler, background paintings are less detailed, and a number of held cels ( or frames ) were used in the character animation.

Kelly never returned to the studio as an animator, but jobs adapting the studio's films Pinocchio and The Three Caballeros for Dell Comics — apparently the result of a recommendation from Walt Disney himself — led to a new ( and ultimately transitional ) career.

Ironically, The Walt Disney Company bought Marvel Comics in 2009, bringing the all-original DFE library and the Marvel Comics-based DFE library back full circle and as a result DFE is now owned by Disney.

Features of computerized theatre sound design systems were recognized as being essential for live show control systems at Walt Disney World and, as a result, Disney utilized systems of that type to control many facilities at their Disney-MGM Studios theme park, which opened in 1989.

Some press articles written after the completion of Groove reversed the roles, saying that Goldberg first approached Disney for Rhapsody for Fantasia 2000 and was initially rejected, and later the producers came back to him as a result of the need to find something to do with the animation staff while the Kingdom rewrite was going on.

As a result of having met Disney, he joined the Los Angeles artistic team of the Walt Disney Company, a relationship that continued, off and on, until his death in 1993.

The cartoons on KSTW had disappeared ( as a result of UPN ending the Disney Kids block on weekdays in fall 2003 ), and more first-run syndicated talk and reality shows moved to KSTW.

Disney would later find itself the subject of a lawsuit as a result of the film, brought on by TV game show director Paul Alter, who came up with the idea of an oversized toddler after babysitting his granddaughter and watching her topple over building blocks.

The end result of the contentious negotiations between Disney and Pixar was viewed to depend heavily on how Chicken Little performed at the box office.

As a result of this purchase Merlin became the second largest entertainments operator in the world ahead of Parques Reunidos and second only to Disney.

Bass was forced to sell his Disney holdings as a result of a margin call.

The Resort is a result of an agreement signed on 24 March 1987 between The Walt Disney Company and the French Authorities for the development of a new tourist destination, and construction began within a year.

As a result, Disney's America was scrapped, as well as other early 1990s Disney projects WestCOT and Port Disney.