Changes
===Change of Name===
{{Quotation|The new name reflects how the park has grown from representing the golden age of movies to a celebration of the new entertainment that today’s Hollywood has to offer—in music, television, movies and theater,|Meg Crofton, President of Walt Disney World Resort}}
In 2007, Disney announced that it would be renaming the park to Disney's Hollywood Studios. The contract signed in 1985 between MGM and Disney expired in 2005, and Disney chose not to renew the contract. In 1985 the inclusion of MGM gave credibility to a Disney film theme park. Though Disney had some recent successes, such as The Fox and the Hound, they were not as strong of a film company as they had been in 1985. MGM, however, had been the studio most associated with the Golden Age of Animation. By 2005, however, Disney was major player in film, TV, and home video markets. In addition, Kirk Kerkorian, who was the owner of MGM in 1985, had always been unhappy with the deal and was still influential in the company until 2005. This may have affected the decision not to continue the partnership. It is who made the official decision not to renew the deal, or if both parties simply allowed it to expire, but by 2008 the park had been renamed to Disney's Hollywood Studios.
