Disney Buys Lucasfilm, Plans 2015 ‘Star Wars 7'

October 30, 2012 by Mercedes Milligan 5 Comments

Big business news today as The Walt Disney Company announces it has agreed to acquire Lucasfilm Ltd.—including the popular Star Wars franchise—in a stock and cash transaction from 100% owner, chairman and founder George Lucas. Under the terms of the agreement and based on the closing price of Disney stock  [...]

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‘Angry Birds’ and ‘Star Wars’ Join Forces

October 8, 2012 by Mercedes Milligan No Comments

After dashing from meeting to meeting around the Palais des Festivals at Cannes’ MIPCOM market this week, there’s going to be a lot of tired TV professionals looking for an entertaining time waster. Good news for them: Rovio Entertainment and Lucasfilm Ltd. have announced a new collaboration: Angry Birds Star [...]

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Paramount to Unleash ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark’ in IMAX

August 15, 2012 by Ramin Zahed No Comments

Steven Spielberg and George Lucas’ timeless adventure classic Raiders of the Lost Ark will get a special one-week release in select IMAX theaters beginning September 7. The film has undergone a complete restoration for the IMAX exclusive one-week release and subsequent debut on Blu-ray. “When I saw the stunning quality [...]

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Lucasfilm, Imageworks Release Alembic 1.0

August 10, 2011 by Mercedes Milligan No Comments

The public release of Alembic 1.0, the open source project developed jointly by Sony Pictures Imageworks and Lucasfilm Ltd., was announced at SIGGRAPH in Vancouver, BC yesterday. Alembic is a computer graphics interchange format focused on efficiently storing and sharing animation and visual effects scenes across multiple software applications. It [...]

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