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...In 2012, Iger added Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader to the mix with a $4bn deal to acquire Lucasfilm....
...total is the second-highest domestic preview gross in history, though 21 per cent less than the $57m preview haul of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the first new Star Wars movie released after Disney bought Lucasfilm...
...Disney bought Lucasfilm for $4bn in 2012. Its Star Wars saga makes steady merchandise sales as well as blockbusters. The deal comes at a time when Wanda is retrenching....
...The other will cater to families and carry Disney animated movies as well as titles from its Pixar, Marvel Studios and Lucasfilm divisions....
...Later this year, in partnership with Disney’s Lucasfilm unit, it plans to offer Star Wars-themed attractions in California and Florida....
...Disney paid $4bn for Lucasfilm, primarily for the rights to Star Wars....
...For Walt Disney’s Lucasfilm, the film’s producer, the stakes are high. That is why the Hollywood group decided to shoot the film at Pinewood Shepperton, the venerable British studios....
...Walt Disney, parent of Star Wars-maker Lucasfilm, has teamed up with Google and telecoms operator Verizon to hand out thousands of free Cardboard viewers featuring characters such as R2-D2....
...It applies to Walt Disney, which in 2012 bought LucasFilms, the franchise’s creator, for $4bn....
...That is not the only thing to have changed in the intervening years: Han Solo and Princess Leia are older and greyer and Star Wars is now owned by Walt Disney, following its $4bn acquisition of Lucasfilm...
...Disney acquired Lucasfilm in 2012....
...However, its movie studio has enjoyed an unprecedented run, thanks to a pipeline of hits from its Marvel, Pixar and Lucasfilm divisions....
...Walt Disney’s acquisitions of comic-character juggernaut Marvel and Lucasfilm were cheaper at $4bn each. The deal will be a windfall for King’s founders....
...But the shares he received are now also worth $4.1bn, giving the Lucasfilm deal a total value of approximately $6.3bn....
...He bets on well-known brands — securing the Star Wars franchise, for example, by buying Lucasfilm — and then gives the people more of what they wanted in the past....
...Disney acquired the Star Wars franchise when it bought Lucasfilm for $4bn in 2012 and has commissioned six films....
...“Audiences have moved to mobile devices far quicker than anyone in the entertainment industry expected,” Mr Stalbow, who was responsible for signing deals with Lucasfilm and Hasbro at Rovio, told the Financial...
...According to Judge Koh, the series of secret pacts began when Mr Jobs reached a no-poaching deal for Pixar, the animation studio he controlled, with George Lucas, head of Lucasfilm....
...George Lucas, director of the Star Wars movies, is to base the regional headquarters for his company Lucasfilm at the Sandcrawler building, which resembles the huge mobile fortresses featured in films...
...acquiring valuable intellectual property central to its strategy under Bob Iger, its chief executive, and in the past few years has acquired Marvel Studios ($4.2bn), which has produced a string of hits, and Lucasfilm...
...Of the top 20 highest grossing films ever released, 19 were family-driven, with half coming from Disney or its Pixar, Marvel and Lucasfilm brands, Mr Iger added....
...And they raise a question: can the $8bn Disney invested in Marvel Entertainment (home of the X Men) and Lucasfilm (home of Star Wars) make decent returns?...
...LucasArts is part of Lucasfilm, sold by Star Wars director George Lucas to Disney last October for $4.05bn in cash and stock....
...The company, which recently acquired Lucasfilm for $4bn – giving it the right to make sequels to the Star Wars films – revealed it was also planning spin-off movies based on popular Star Wars characters....
...(Reuters) Disney buys Lucasfilm: Mickey Mouse has forged an unlikely alliance with Darth Vader after Walt Disney agreed a $4bn deal to acquire Lucasfilm, the company behind the Star Wars films, and revealed...
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