{"id":258,"date":"2012-11-02T19:20:50","date_gmt":"2012-11-03T02:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.smudgemarks-engelwerks.com\/minions-of-the-fickle-muse\/?p=258"},"modified":"2012-11-02T19:29:29","modified_gmt":"2012-11-03T02:29:29","slug":"disney-buys-all-of-lucasfilm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smudgemarks-engelwerks.com\/minions-of-the-fickle-muse\/2012\/11\/02\/disney-buys-all-of-lucasfilm\/","title":{"rendered":"Disney buys all of Lucasfilm!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 370px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/my.deviantart.com\/messages\/#\/d5jr7sk\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" src=\"http:\/\/fc01.deviantart.net\/fs71\/f\/2012\/306\/9\/f\/mickey_the_new_jedi_by_oakks-d5jr7sk.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mickey the new Jedi by ~OakKs on deviantART<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In case you haven't heard - <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crunchyroll.com\/anime-news\/2012\/10\/30-1\/disney-buying-lucasfilm-for-405-billion-in-cash-and-stock\">Disney recently announced the acquisition of all of Lucasfilms, including ILM and LucasArts, for 4.05 billion in cash and stocks<\/a>. I have not heard as of this writing, if it also includes Skywalker Ranch and\/or Skywalker Sound, but it seems likely.<\/p>\n<p>In a followup, Lucas announced he was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crunchyroll.com\/anime-news\/2012\/11\/01-1\/george-lucas-giving-the-bulk-of-405b-lucasfilm-buyout-to-charity\">donating the majority of the 4.05 billion to charity<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You go, George!<\/p>\n<p>With all that in the buzz, Disney has also announced that they will indeed be making a new Star Wars film, Star Wars: Episode VII. At first this seems unwise, as the performance of episodes 1-3 was, well, we won't go there. One must also remember that Marvel Studios was once the house of shlock pre-Disney, but became the champion of awesome post-Disney.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case you haven&#8217;t heard &#8211; Disney recently announced the acquisition of all of Lucasfilms, including ILM and LucasArts, for 4.05 billion in cash and stocks. 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