Burbank, CA and San Francisco, CA, October 30, 2012 — The Walt Disney Company has acquired Lucasfilm, in its entirety, for $4.05 billion. The deal includes special effects giants Industrial Light & Magic and Skywalker Sound. Disney intends to release Star Wars: Episode 7 sometime in 2015, kicking off a new trilogy with a long […]
The trailer for Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides is now online. Loosely based on Tim Powers’ novel One Stranger Tides, the film continues the story of Jack Sparrow and Barbossa…sans Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightly. Oh, and Blackbeard (played by Ian McShane) will be in it as well. Interestingly, On Stranger Tides was […]
According to Cinematical, citing an L.A. Times article, the fourth Pirates of the Caribbean film is already having money issues. Disney executive Rich Ross is pressuring producer Jerry Bruckheimer to cut back on his usual extravagant expenditures by cutting special effects and filming at sea less. To save more money, the number and selection of […]
The fate of the third Chronicles of Narnia film hangs precariously balanced. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, the next movie planned in the series, will not be happening under a Disney/Walden Media partnership. Disney has abandoned plans to continue with the franchise, leaving Walden Media with a project not even in the production phase. […]
