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Re: Disney to Acquire Lucasfilm Ltd.

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Post by stevewillows »

marshallp wrote: post #28
ChuckMcM wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

" 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.

Hopefully he invests in immortality research. The trend of billionaires dying without even trying to engineer a solution is retarded. He should start with focus ultrasound. It allows to grow/shrink any part of the body and so essentially reach immortality.

There's that carbonite process he looked into a long time ago.

Re: Disney to Acquire Lucasfilm Ltd.

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Post by 2mur »

ROFISH wrote: post #13

> 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.

I hope they are doing the Thrawn trilogy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thrawn_trilogy

Re: Disney to Acquire Lucasfilm Ltd.

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Post by happycube »

noonespecial wrote: post #15
robbiet480 wrote: post #2

Star Wars Episode 7 will come out in 2015. They also acquired all of the assets including Indiana Jones, Star Wars, ILM, LucasArts and Skywalker Sound

I feel a great disturbance in the force, as if... Sigh. I can't even make the joke. I fear the Jarjification of all I held dear as a child. Sad panda.

Remember that Disney owns Marvel, who made Avengers. SW7-9 might be more of a popcorn movie, but I think they'll steer clear of outright stupidity.

Re: Disney to Acquire Lucasfilm Ltd.

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Post by noonespecial »

padobson wrote: post #41
noonespecial wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I feel a great disturbance in the force, as if... Sigh. I can't even make the joke. I fear the Jarjification of all I held dear as a child. Sad panda.

You need to get excited. The creative folk at Pixar and Disney have been killing it in comparison to what's come out of Lucasfilm lately. Watch The Pixar Story (streaming on Netflix: http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/The_Pixar_Story/70083532?l... ), and tell me you're not more comfortable with Star Wars in their hands then in Lucas'.

Ok. Point made. But if this ends with JJ Abrams doing a "reboot" of ANH where Han is a genuinely nice guy and Greedo was just 'misunderstood', I shall be very put out.

Re: Disney to Acquire Lucasfilm Ltd.

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Post by afterburner »

philwelch wrote: post #46
tectonic wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Therefore, it should be noted that they directly, or via tacit gatekeeping, have a huge amount of influence on our public dialog and cultural messaging.

Fortunately, corporations are pretty shitty at deliberately pushing a cultural agenda. I dare you to find a consistent agenda in any media conglomerate's output.

Sarcasm? I can think of one...

EDIT: News Corp was what I was thinking.

Re: Disney to Acquire Lucasfilm Ltd.

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Post by brudgers »

jwarzech wrote: post #36
mchanson wrote: post #30

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I didn't know there was an episode 7 in the works...

Even more shocking: "That will be followed by Episodes 8 and 9 – and our long term plan is to release a new Star Wars feature film every two to three years"

Star Wars has long been envisioned as three trilogies.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_sequel_trilogy

Yes, I'm a bit of a nerd. Please don't get me started on Star Trek.

Re: Disney to Acquire Lucasfilm Ltd.

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Post by tptacek »

Firehed wrote: post #48
tptacek wrote: post #37

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Marvel, Pixar, LucasArts, ABC, ESPN, A+E, Disney Channel, and associated merchandising. I'm not sure how much "control" over our "public dialog" this really implies. I'm the parent of two very normal middle aged children and, while they're certainly exposed to some of this IP, I'd contest that it has much "influence" over them. Google has much more control over our public dialog than Disney does.

Yet it would seem that Disney has a lot more to lose if IP laws are not kept in their favor, as evidenced by the Life+70 copyright extension they were able to successfully lobby into existence. Google and Disney clearly have two very different set of influences, but to imply that Disney has little control is simply wrong. Ultimately the buck stops with our various representatives, but Disney has some serious skin in…

I think this is orthogonal to the argument that I responded to upthread. The idea I responded to is that by rolling up so much of our popular culture, Disney has reached a point where it bears some kind of responsibility for vouchsafing our culture. Strong disagree: just like buying OMGPOP didn't reward Zynga with a mortal lock on the market for iPhone games, buying up the most popular media properties won't reward Disney with control of our culture.

Disney in reality has much less control over our culture than many other companies, including many other media companies. The fact of their purchasing Lucasfilm doesn't change that. It's alarmist to suggest that owning Star Wars is going to give Disney some kind of undue influence. If anything, it's likely to improve that terribly corrupted and besmirched franchise.

Re: Disney to Acquire Lucasfilm Ltd.

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Post by Pyrodogg »

jwarzech wrote: post #36
mchanson wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I didn't know there was an episode 7 in the works...

Even more shocking: "That will be followed by Episodes 8 and 9 – and our long term plan is to release a new Star Wars feature film every two to three years"

Every two to three years as a long term strategy? All they need to do is get on the super hero kick movie model. 1. Publish Trilogy 2. Reboot 3. Repeat
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