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Yeah, that's big: Two massive pieces of film news just hit the wires. The Walt Disney Company have acquired Lucasfilm for $4.05 billion in cash and stocks. Lucasfilm's current co-chair Kathleen Kennedy will become president of the company and will report to Alan Horn, the chair of Wast Disney Studios.
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Two massive pieces of film news just hit the wires. The Walt Disney Company have acquired Lucasfilm for $4.05 billion in cash and stocks. Lucasfilm's current co-chair Kathleen Kennedy will become president of the company and will report to Alan Horn, the chair of Wast Disney Studios.
So the entertainment industry hasn't quite finished exploding over the news that Disney had bought Lucasfilm and are planning new Star Wars movies but more news kept coming via the Disney Conference Call with Bob Iger.
The Return Of Zur En Arh… | Bleeding Cool Comic Book, Movies and TV News and Rumors
From Talon #1… ia a certain personality… back?
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Earlier this week, Bleeding Cool reported on Amazon's peculiar reluctance to sell Saga Vol 1 by Brian K Vaughan and Fiona Staples. Well, now it's back. Vaughan writes;
Disney Buy Lucasfilm For $4.05 Billion, Non-Lucas Directed Star Wars "Episode 7" Planned
Two massive pieces of film news just hit the wires. The Walt Disney Company have acquired Lucasfilm for $4.05 billion in cash and stocks. Lucasfilm's current co-chair Kathleen Kennedy will become president of the company and will report to Alan Horn, the chair of Wast Disney Studios.
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YouTube user Visakh Vishnu tends to collect polished promos, trailers and TV spots. In the last couple of days, he posted an unexplained bit of Man of Steel CG.
Could We Get The Robins After All On November 7th? And The New Gods That Weren't. (UPDATE)
I was taken aside at New York Comic Con by someone keen to tell me that the rumour Bleeding Cool had run a while ago, that Jeff Lemire was to launch a new New 52 comic called The Robins was, at least at some point in recent history true. It may have been turned down, or replaced with another project, but at one point it was seriously being considered by the company.
One Extra, Hard-Won Page Of Gillen And Land's Iron Man
ComiXology has given us an extra page of Kieron Gillen and Greg Land's Iron Man #1 in its preview, beyond that which we already had.
