Hollywood Pictures Backlot (soon to become Hollywoodland) is a themed land at Disney California Adventure park at the Disneyland Resort

Disneyland Resort

The Disneyland Resort is a recreational resort in Anaheim, California. The resort is owned and operated by The Walt Disney Company through its Parks and Resorts division and is home to two theme parks, three hotels and a shopping, dining, and entertainment area known as Downtown Disney.The area now...

 in Anaheim, California

California

California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...

. The area is based as a backlot

Backlot

A backlot is an area behind or adjoining a movie studio, containing permanent exterior buildings for outdoor scenes in filmmaking or television productions, or space for temporary set construction....

 of a Hollywood studio

Studio

A studio is an artist's or worker's workroom, or the catchall term for an artist and his or her employees who work within that studio. This can be for the purpose of architecture, painting, pottery , sculpture, scrapbooking, photography, graphic design, filmmaking, animation, radio or television...

 and has attractions themed to this concept. Hollywood Pictures Backlot opened with the park in 2001. The Walt Disney Motion Pictures Group created its own film imprint called Hollywood Pictures

Hollywood Pictures

Hollywood Pictures is one of The Walt Disney Company's several alternate movie divisions. Like Disney's Touchstone Pictures brand, it produces films for a more mature adult audience than Walt Disney Pictures.-History:...

 in 1990.

The towering movie studio gates that serve as the land's entrance feature intricately carved elephants atop massive columns. The gateway is a tribute to the spectacular epics made throughout Hollywood history, especially pioneering director D. W. Griffith

D. W. Griffith

David Llewelyn Wark Griffith was a premier pioneering American film director. He is best known as the director of the controversial and groundbreaking 1915 film The Birth of a Nation and the subsequent film Intolerance .Griffith's film The Birth of a Nation made pioneering use of advanced camera...

's 1916 silent film Intolerance

Intolerance (film)

Intolerance is a 1916 American silent film directed by D. W. Griffith and is considered one of the great masterpieces of the Silent Era. The three-and-a-half hour epic intercuts four parallel storylines each separated by several centuries: A contemporary melodrama of crime and redemption; a...

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The thrill attraction The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror

The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror

The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror, more commonly known as Tower of Terror, is a drop tower thrill ride at Disney's Hollywood Studios , Disney California Adventure Park, Tokyo DisneySea and Walt Disney Studios Park . It is based upon the television show The Twilight Zone...

 opened in 2004, and Monsters, Inc. Mike & Sulley to the Rescue, based on the Disney·Pixar

Pixar

Pixar Animation Studios, pronounced , is an American computer animation film studio based in Emeryville, California. The studio has earned 26 Academy Awards, seven Golden Globes, and three Grammy Awards, among many other awards and acknowledgments. Its films have made over $6.3 billion worldwide...

 movie Monsters, Inc.

Monsters, Inc.

Monsters, Inc. is a 2001 American computer-animated film and the fourth feature-length film produced by Pixar Animation Studios. It was directed by Pete Docter, co-directed by Lee Unkrich and David Silverman, and written by Jill Culton, Peter Docter, Ralph Eggleston, Dan Gerson, Jeff Pidgeon, Rhett...

, opened in 2006 as part of the resort's 50th anniversary

Happiest Homecoming on Earth

The Happiest Homecoming on Earth was the eighteen-month-long celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the Disneyland theme park, which officially opened on July 17, 1955...

. The Red Car Trolley

Red Car Trolley

The Red Car Trolley is an upcoming attraction at Disney's California Adventure at the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California, set to open by 2012...

 attraction, based on the Pacific Electric Railway

Pacific Electric Railway

The Pacific Electric Railway , also known as the Red Car system, was a mass transit system in Southern California using streetcars, light rail, and buses...

, is currently under construction on the streets of Hollywood Pictures Backlot, and will be the park's first transportation attraction.

Attractions

• Animation Academy
  Animation Academy
  Animation Academy is an attraction at the Disney's Hollywood Studios, Disney California Adventure, Walt Disney Studios Park and DisneyQuest. And is also one of the latest attractions of Hong Kong Disneyland....
  
  
• Character Close-Up
• Disney Animation
  Art of Disney Animation
  The Art of Disney Animation is an attraction at the Walt Disney Studios Park, located in Disneyland Paris. It first opened in 2002, along with the park, and is situated in the Toon Studio area...
  
  
• Disney's Aladdin: A Musical Spectacular
  Disney's Aladdin: A Musical Spectacular
  Disney's Aladdin: A Musical Spectacular is a musical show with music by Alan Menken and lyrics by Howard Ashman and Tim Rice, that plays at Disney California Adventure. Based on the Disney film by the same name, the show plays inside Hyperion Theater in the Hollywood Pictures Backlot...
  
  
• Disney Junior Live on Stage!
• ElecTRONica
  ElecTRONica
  ElecTRONica is a nighttime event at Disney California Adventure Park, part of the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California. Located in the Hollywood Pictures Backlot, ElecTRONica premiered on October 8, 2010...
  
   (End date Spring 2012)
• Monsters, Inc. Mike & Sulley to the Rescue!
  Monsters, Inc. Mike & Sulley to the Rescue!
  Monsters, Inc. Mike & Sulley to the Rescue! is a dark ride attraction at Disney California Adventure at the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California...
  
  
• Muppet*Vision 3D
• Sorcerer's Workshop
• Turtle Talk with Crush
  Turtle Talk with Crush
  Turtle Talk with Crush is an interactive attraction that has appeared at several of the Disney theme parks. It first opened on November 16, 2004 at "The Seas with Nemo & Friends" pavilion at Epcot, and was duplicated at Disney California Adventure in July 2005. The attraction was open in Hong Kong...
  
  
• The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror
  The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror
  The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror, more commonly known as Tower of Terror, is a drop tower thrill ride at Disney's Hollywood Studios , Disney California Adventure Park, Tokyo DisneySea and Walt Disney Studios Park . It is based upon the television show The Twilight Zone...
  
  

Shopping

• Off The Page
• Gone Hollywood
• Studio Store (formerly 'Rizzo's Prop & Pawn Shop')
• Tower Hotel Gifts

Former Attractions

• Superstar Limo
  Superstar Limo
  Superstar Limo was a dark ride in Disney's California Adventure Park at the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California.-History:Superstar Limo was situated in the Hollywood Pictures Backlot area of the park and was one of the original attractions featured on opening day.The attraction closed in 2002,...
  
  
• Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? – Play It!
• Muppet Mobile Lab
  Muppet Mobile Lab
  Muppet Mobile Lab is a free-roving, audio-animatronic entertainment attraction that has been tested at Disney California Adventure park in Anaheim, California and at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida; it is currently deployed at Hong Kong Disneyland in Hong Kong.Implemented on a Segway...
  
  
• Animation Screening Room
• Playhouse Disney Live on Stage!
• The Power of BLAST!
• Chance To Shine
  Chance to Shine
  Chance to Shine is a 10-year programme run by the charitable Cricket Foundation to encourage competitive cricket in state schools in the UK.Devised and implemented by former cricketer Nick Gandon, it launched with pilot programmes launched in March 2005 - immediately before the 2005 Ashes series -...
  
  
• Rizzo's Prop and Pawn Shop
• Hollywood & Dine
• ABC Soap Opera Bistro
• The Hollywood Backlot Stage
• Disney Dance Crew

Expansion

Hollywood Pictures Backlot will be renamed to Hollywood Land and will represent the Golden Age of Hollywood that was present in the 1930s. The land will house several ticketed events in the future. The "Walt Disney Plaza Red Car Trolleys" (similar to the ones featured in Who Framed Roger Rabbit

Who Framed Roger Rabbit

Who Framed Roger Rabbit is a 1988 American fantasy-comedy-noir film directed by Robert Zemeckis and released by Touchstone Pictures. The film combines live action and animation, and is based on Gary K. Wolf's novel Who Censored Roger Rabbit?, which depicts a world in which cartoon characters...

), will take guests from the new area, Buena Vista Street (2012), to Hollywood Land. Disney film directors, writers and animators will occasionally be in the area to inform guests about their careers. The building that formerly held the Who Wants To Be A Millionaire - Play It!

Who Wants To Be A Millionaire - Play It!

Who Wants To Be A Millionaire - Play It! was an attraction at Disney's Hollywood Studios theme park at Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, Florida and Disney's California Adventure Park in Anaheim, California...

 attraction was to have served as a temporary entrance, while the real one will be renovated, but was moved next to Soarin' Over California

Soarin' Over California

Soarin' Over California is a simulator attraction at Disney California Adventure . It debuted with the park on February 8, 2001...

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