In one of the biggest movie studio purchases in history, Disney is paying $ 4.05 billion to buy Lucasfilm Ltd., the production company behind the blockbuster “Star Wars” franchise. The payment will be made with both cash and stock — around 40 million shares.
Lucasfilm’s chairman, founder and owner George Lucas, has agreed to the deal; Disney also announced that it will be making a seventh “Star Wars” movie, set for… Continue reading Disney Buys Lucasfilm, 'Star Wars 7' Set For 2015 Release
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Chimpanzee – Disney Nature – Blu-ray and DVD
Release Date: Apr 20, 2012Director: Mark Linfield, Alastair FothergillCast: Tim Allen. Full cast + crew
I don’t want to come off so aggressive about a movie that’s so innocent, but if Chimpanzee doesn’t put a huge, ear-to-ear smile on your face, you should return to your home planet. Though there’s obviously a message of preservation… Continue reading New on Blu-ray: Seven Disney Animated Films Hit HD All at Once
August 14, 2012
Following the success of his Coraline at Laika, it was announced in 2010 that Henry Selick would be returning to Walt Disney Pictures to develop an original stop-motion feature for the studio. Today, Variety reports that production on the film has now been halted and that the project may now look for a home elsewhere.
Selick, who directed Disney’s perennial hit The
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June 19, 2012
The animated Disney Fairies movies are always a big hit on Blu-ray and DVD and Disney has just released the trailer for Secret of the Wings, the latest installment coming to Blu-ray and DVD on October 23rd. You can watch the trailer using the player below the synopsis:
Journey with Tinker Bell and her fairy friends
May 17, 2012
The Broadway play Peter and the Starcatchers, based on Dave Barry and Ridley Pierson’s bestselling children’s book, is already a huge hit, having received nine Tony Award nominations earlier this month, and now Walt Disney Pictures (whose publishing division Hyperion released the original book) have hired writer Jesse Wigutow to adapt the book into a movie with likely franchise potential.
The book
