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'''Disney's Hollywood Studios''' is a [[Amusement park|theme park]] at the [[Walt Disney World|Walt Disney World Resort]] in [[Bay Lake, Florida]], near [[Orlando, Florida|Orlando]]. It is owned and operated by [[The Walt Disney Company]] through its [[Disney Parks, Experiences and Products|Parks, Experiences and Products]] division. Based on a concept by [[Marty Sklar]], Randy Bright, and [[Michael Eisner]], the park opened on May 1, 1989, as the '''
Disney's Hollywood Studios was initially developed as both a theme park inspired by [[show business]] and an operating [[Film studio|production studio]], with active film and television production services, an [[Walt Disney Animation Studios|animation facility branch]], and a functioning [[backlot]]. Construction on the combined park and studio began in 1987, but was accelerated when the construction of the similarly-themed [[Universal Studios Florida]] began a few miles away.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/08/13/us/nastiness-is-not-a-fantasy-in-movie-theme-park-war.html |title=Nastiness Is Not a Fantasy in Movie Theme Park War |newspaper=New York Times |date=August 13, 1989 |access-date=July 11, 2011 |first=Jeffrey |last=Schmalz |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101203043306/http://nytimes.com/1989/08/13/us/nastiness-is-not-a-fantasy-in-movie-theme-park-war.html |archive-date=December 3, 2010 }}</ref> To increase public interest and the variety of film representation within the park, Disney entered into a [[licensing]] agreement with [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer]] (MGM), from which the park's original name was derived. The park's production facilities were removed throughout the 2000s, and many of the park's soundstages were retrofitted for newer attractions and guest use. The park's current name took effect in 2008, with the removal of the MGM-branding throughout the park. In the 2010s, the park began to distance itself from the original studio backlot intention and entered a new direction of immersive theming and attraction development inspired by imagined worlds from Hollywood storytellers.
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