Hollywood Pictures Backlot

Hollywood Pictures Backlot is an area styled as Hollywood boulevards and movie backlots, with Hollywood, Television, and movie-themed attractions. A version of the Tower of Terror attraction from Disney's Hollywood Studios opened in the Hollywood Pictures Backlot in 2004. There is also, Monsters, Inc. Mike & Sulley to the Rescue! based on the characters from Monsters, Inc. opened in the attraction building that housed Superstar Limo. The 2000-seat Hyperion Theater currently plays host to Disney's Aladdin: A Musical Spectacular.

Also featured since the park's opening is Muppet Vision 3-D. Both the Tower of Terror and Muppet Vision 3-D benefited from the many advances and new technology made available to the imagineers since their original incarnations opened in Florida. This allowed the DCA versions to be technologically superior in certain aspects.

The entrance to the area with the sign Hollywood Pictures Backlot featuring two ceramic elephants sculptures atop columns is a homage to a huge set constructed for the epic 1916 Hollywood film Intolerance directed by D.W. Griffith. This homage is echoed at the Hollywood and Highland entertainment complex in Los Angeles, which currently houses the Academy Awards ceremonies at Kodak Theatre (which opened the same year, 2001) which also has elephant sculptures atop columns.

Attractions

• Disney's Aladdin: A Musical Spectacular
• Monsters, Inc. Mike & Sulley to the Rescue!
• Turtle Talk with Crush
• The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror
• Playhouse Disney Live on Stage!
• Jim Henson's Muppet*Vision 3D
• Animation Academy
• Character Close-Up
• Sorcerer's Workshop
• The Hollywood Backlot Stage
• Drawn to the Magic

Restaurants

• Award Wieners
• Schmoozies
• Studio Catering Service

Shopping

• Off The Page
• Gone Hollywood
• Studio Store
• Tower Hotel Gifts