It's been revealed that there is a slight cock up for Disney at the moment involving the Star Wars franchise.
Basically, 20th Century Fox currently own the distribution rights to The Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones, Revenge of the Sith, The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi up until 2020. After that I guess they will revert back to LucasFilm and thus, back to Disney.
However, when it comes to the original Star Wars (aka A New Hope) it turns out that 20th Century Fox own the distribution rights to that one forever. So yeah. I can't see FOX flat out giving Disney the full rights to that movie any time soon since the Star Wars franchise is such a huge cash cow, so if anything, a deal between the two will have to be settled where Disney can license the movie from FOX, or FOX can license the other movies from Disney.
And when you also think about it, with Lucas now stepping down, this could lead to the possibility of maybe getting the unaltered versions of the original trilogy on blu-ray now. FOX could release that themselves before 2020. But this could also probably lead to the release of, ugh... The Star Wars Holiday Special and all the other less then stellar spin offs like the Ewok cartoon series.
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Disney Buys Lucasfilm
Started by Shadow, Oct 30 2012 01:47 PM
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Posted 01 November 2012 - 07:46 AM
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"The Devil Inside is the new scam from director William Something Something. The movie stars actors and was edited on a computer. Somewhere. This movie is the latest film in a series of very low budget films designed to look like real movies! And be released in theaters to make a quick buck via a horribly off kilter budget to profit ratio that the general public seem to be stupidly unaware of! These films use to be called 'direct to video' but now they are called 'first run features'. These films then vanish from the theaters, like a rapist leaving the scene of a crime." - Mike Stoklasa of RedLetterMedia
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Posted 01 November 2012 - 08:52 AM
So its safe for now... I feel better
Some say that he knows 2 facts about ducks, and both of them are wrong. And that 61 years ago he accidentally introduced Her Majesty The Queen to a Greek racialist. All we know is, I'm going to the tower now to have my head cut off, and he is called The Stig.
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Posted 05 November 2012 - 10:19 AM
Ha ha.
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Posted 17 November 2012 - 04:59 AM
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Posted 17 November 2012 - 05:20 AM
"Hayden Christensen still looks fake."
'Star Wars' is my story, just like my house is my house. So if I wanna paint my house green, even if everyone else thinks it should be red, guess what? I'm gonna paint it Jar Jar! - George Lucas
"The Devil Inside is the new scam from director William Something Something. The movie stars actors and was edited on a computer. Somewhere. This movie is the latest film in a series of very low budget films designed to look like real movies! And be released in theaters to make a quick buck via a horribly off kilter budget to profit ratio that the general public seem to be stupidly unaware of! These films use to be called 'direct to video' but now they are called 'first run features'. These films then vanish from the theaters, like a rapist leaving the scene of a crime." - Mike Stoklasa of RedLetterMedia
"The Devil Inside is the new scam from director William Something Something. The movie stars actors and was edited on a computer. Somewhere. This movie is the latest film in a series of very low budget films designed to look like real movies! And be released in theaters to make a quick buck via a horribly off kilter budget to profit ratio that the general public seem to be stupidly unaware of! These films use to be called 'direct to video' but now they are called 'first run features'. These films then vanish from the theaters, like a rapist leaving the scene of a crime." - Mike Stoklasa of RedLetterMedia
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Posted 17 November 2012 - 07:57 AM
Ohh god..
Some say that he knows 2 facts about ducks, and both of them are wrong. And that 61 years ago he accidentally introduced Her Majesty The Queen to a Greek racialist. All we know is, I'm going to the tower now to have my head cut off, and he is called The Stig.
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Posted 28 April 2013 - 11:31 PM
I think this could be a new life for SW since it make sense since the Disney corporation did theme park rides and shows based on both Indy and SW, it worked wonders with Marvel and now with SW.
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Posted 09 May 2013 - 07:50 PM
Something*Positive is such a great comic. (warning: occasionally mildly NSFW)
And then Disney killed LucasArts.
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Posted 10 May 2013 - 09:20 AM
I know a lot of people who won't miss the current LucasArts anyway. What we had now wasn't exactly the same company that made games like Monkey Island (except on paper).
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Posted 17 May 2013 - 12:09 AM
I know a lot of people who won't miss the current LucasArts anyway. What we had now wasn't exactly the same company that made games like Monkey Island (except on paper).
Perhaps not, but I was still looking highly forward to 1313.
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