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Disney World already has closed up shop for the day due to Hurricane Dorian, and Universal Orlando is about to follow suit. "We will be closing Universal Studios Florida and Universal's Islands of Adventure as of 6 PM today," a spokesperson for the Comcast-owned theme park said Tuesday. "Our CityWalk venues will…

UPDATED, 6: 13 PM:  As Hurricane Dorian decimates the Bahamas and shifts its force towards eastern Florida tonight, the Universal Orlando theme park is taking a business-as-usual approach, for now. With the exception of the Comcast-owned company's Volcano Bay Water Theme Park in the central Florida town, most of…

A force perhaps greater than the Jedi faith is likely to hit Walt Disney World and Universal Orlando this holiday weekend and it could prove harder than making the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs, to paraphrase Han Solo. Just days after the House of Mouse opened its $1 billion-budgeted Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge…

Disney and Universal’s Florida theme parks will reopen on Saturday now that Hurricane Matthew has passed in its move northward along the Atlantic coast. The state’s Orange County lifted its curfew today as both parks cleaned up. Neither appears to have seen much damage as the the storm hugged the coast, not moving as…

Universal Orlando Resort today celebrated the reopening of “The Amazing Adventures of Spider-Man”,– one of the worldÂ'’s most popular theme park experiences. The attraction now features enhancements including all-new 4K digital high-definition ride animation, a new highly-sophisticated Infitec 3-D projection system,…

POTTER FINALE PHENOM! $82.5M Foreign And $43.5M Domestic Midnights As ‘Harry Potter’ Continues Shattering Records In Orlando last night, 3,000 audience members of the midnight film screening of Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part 2 at AMC Universal Cineplex 20 received free passes to The Wizarding World of Harry…

Executives at Universal Orlando can breathe a little easier this evening now that Comcast has agreed to pay The Blackstone Group $1.025 billion for its 50% stake in the theme park. The deal consolidating ownership at Comcast-controlled NBCUniversal means the park will be able to hang on to licensing agreements with…

A holding company that oversees the theme parks said in a regulatory filing this week that the private-equity group has offered to sell its 50% stake in the Florida parks to NBC Universal, which owns the rest of the venture. Comcast-owned NBCU has until June 12 to make a call on that offer; after that, Blackstone can…