DreamWorks Russia?

[LiamC]

Screamscape are reporting that DreamWorks plan to open THREE!! parks in Russia by 2015:

The head of DreamWorks Animation, Jeffrey Katzenberg has announced to the media in Russia that they will open THREE DreamWorks Animation themed “parks” in 2015 (near Moscow, St. Petersburg and Yekaterinburg), pointing out that these will open about 3 years ahead of Universal’s project in Moscow’s Galactica Park which is aiming for a 2018 opening date.

These will be year-round parks (indoor) that will be built along with a 400-room hotel, concert hall, 4-D Theater, a retail mall and more in each location. The cost of building all three projects is estimated at $1.5 billion. Each park will have 5 of 6 different themed zones representing different popular DreamWorks Animation characters and featuring various rides, shows, attractions and character interactions.

Also, there's a more in depth article here DreamWorks Battles NBCUniversal for Theme-Park Title

3 parks and $1.5 billion is a substantial amount to be throwing around! Seems like they really want to knock Universal off their perch

 

[Alastair]

Screamscape are reporting that DreamWorks plan to open THREE!! parks in Russia by 2015:

The head of DreamWorks Animation, Jeffrey Katzenberg has announced to the media in Russia that they will open THREE DreamWorks Animation themed “parks” in 2015 (near Moscow, St. Petersburg and Yekaterinburg), pointing out that these will open about 3 years ahead of Universal’s project in Moscow’s Galactica Park which is aiming for a 2018 opening date.

These will be year-round parks (indoor) that will be built along with a 400-room hotel, concert hall, 4-D Theater, a retail mall and more in each location. The cost of building all three projects is estimated at $1.5 billion. Each park will have 5 of 6 different themed zones representing different popular DreamWorks Animation characters and featuring various rides, shows, attractions and character interactions.

Also, there's a more in depth article here DreamWorks Battles NBCUniversal for Theme-Park Title

3 parks and $1.5 billion is a substantial amount to be throwing around! Seems like they really want to knock Universal off their perch

That's actually only £950m which leaves roughly £315m for each park. That's really not that much to say it's the construction of an entire park from scratch.

 

[Sam]

Oh Yekaterinburg, that well known tourist hot-spot!

 

[LiamC]

Oh Yekaterinburg, that well known tourist hot-spot!

I thought exactly the same thing. The first two make sense, but Yekaterinburg...no :/