Disney plans second Paris theme park

Euro Disney has announced plans to open THE DISNEY STUDIOS, a second theme
park in 2002 near the existing Disneyland Paris theme park in
Marne-La-Vallee, east of Paris. The park will include attractions based on
cinema, animation and television, similar to the Disney-MGM Studios at Walt
Disney World in Orlando, Florida. Visitors to the park will be able to
observe animators working, special effects demonstrations and the filming
of TV programs. "The goal is that visitors pass through the movie screen
and see what's behind it," said Euro Disney chief Gilles Pelisson. "It's
about interaction." Euro Disney officials also intend for the park, planned
since 1987, to be a working studio where films can be made. Once the park
is fully operational in 2003, the company expects about 4.2 million
visitors per year. Disneyland Paris opened in April 1992 to concern that
American-style family entertainment would not be popular in Europe, but the
theme park has posted profits since 1995.