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Disney is acquiring George Lucas’s Lucasfilm, including the “Star Wars” franchise and associated technology, for $4.05 billion. “Star Wars Episode 7” is slated to be released in 2015, with more films to follow every two to three years afterwards.
A quick look at Disney’s Marvel (NYSE: DIS) acquisition through our archives:
» Updated: Marvel Transforms Into Disney Unit; Dea…
A trio of iPhone app-makers have secured mobile rights to publish more than 70 Marvel (NYSE: MVL) comics. Titles include Joss Whedon’s Aston…
Updated: The shockwaves from this morning’s news that the Walt Disney Co. (NYSE: DIS) is buying Marvel Entertainment for $4 billion had bare…
Marvel (NYSE: MVL) Entertainment’s fourth-quarter earnings were buoyed by the release of Iron Man on DVD, which accounted for the lion’s sha…
Marvel’s investment in digital media, including digital publication of its comic books, is costing some profit on the publishing side, Peter…
Just like music, movies and TV shows, comic books are going digital. But unlike other media migrations, the jump from ink to bits isn’t an attempt to stem the loss of print sales. Publishers are experimenting with different approaches to presenting comics on the web as they try to figure out what consumers want — and what they’ll pay for. Continue Reading.
Update, May 4: Can Grand Theft Auto IV defeat “Iron Man”? The weekend box office results are in, and as I predicted…
Last fall, Marvel Entertainment (NYSE: MVL) started to put its deep comics library online. Now it’s making a push to boost its digital media…
Marvel Comics will start to place full issues of its 40-year-plus library of comic books online next week on a subscription-only basis. Inte…
