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This means that Disney now controls Marvel, Pixar, LucasArts, ABC, ESPN, A+E, Disney Channel plus all their own original content and of course the parks and merchandising rights for everything stated above. Those businesses most likely control the top 10 film franchises of the last few years. This is a pretty insane acquisition.
Disney paid $4B for Lucasfilm. Six years ago, they paid $7B for Pixar.[1] Pixar used to be a subsidiary of Lucasfilm. This means that John Lasseter is now going to have control of all of the assets that allowed him to get into making movies in the first place. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixar#Acquisition_by_Disney
Edit: Thought of better terms than "creative force".
This means that Disney now controls Marvel, Pixar, LucasArts, ABC, ESPN, A+E, Disney Channel plus all their own original content and of course the parks and merchandising rights for everything stated above. Those businesses most likely control the top 10 film franchises of the last few years. This is a pretty insane acquisition.
$4 Billion and it's 100% owned by George Lucas. Does anyone know if that 100% is literal? That he didn't give away ANYTHING, even for a pool for employees?
This means that Disney now controls Marvel, Pixar, LucasArts, ABC, ESPN, A+E, Disney Channel plus all their own original content and of course the parks and merchandising rights for everything stated above. Those businesses most likely control the top 10 film franchises of the last few years. This is a pretty insane acquisition.
Keeps Apple out, too.
$4 Billion and it's 100% owned by George Lucas. Does anyone know if that 100% is literal? That he didn't give away ANYTHING, even for a pool for employees?
The 100% ownership is literal. From the press release: "The agreement has been approved by the sole shareholder of Lucasfilm."
$4 Billion and it's 100% owned by George Lucas. Does anyone know if that 100% is literal? That he didn't give away ANYTHING, even for a pool for employees?
" the transaction value is $4.05 billion, with Disney paying approximately half of the consideration in cash and issuing approximately 40 million shares at closing. " Half of it is cash, that is $2.025B. Represents an a pretty healthy chunk of cash on top of the $2B in Disney stock. It will be interesting to see what he does next.
He should start with focus ultrasound. It allows to grow/shrink any part of the body and so essentially reach immortality.
> I’ve always believed that Star Wars could live beyond me, and I thought it was important to set up the transition during my lifetime. This is effectively Lucas' slow decent into retirement; he's not actively directing Episode 7 but instead consulting. Say what you want about the movies and franchises, ILM and Skywalker Sound are gold standards created by a tech visionary.