Durka-Durka~SPARTA~
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Haha that's awesome. What are those purple lights around him though?
Here's my contribution. Not me, I'm not that creative/hard-working
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Do not tell me these things. They anger me.
Why do you say that? Disney's had a solid track record of producing great movies with, more importantly, great stories. They took over all the recent Marvel movies as well. Regardless, they can't be any worse than Lucas' dumb tinkering and EpI-III.
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Wow over $4 billion, I wonder why Mr Lucas is retiring?
He must have seen that he can't really make good movies, and his one success is better left in the hands of a company who does great original stories.
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On "breaking news" will post link once there is one.
I feel a disturbance in the force, as if 1 billion nerds just came at the same time.
Press release:
Continuing its strategy of delivering exceptional creative content to audiences around the world, The Walt Disney Company has agreed to acquire Lucasfilm Ltd. in a stock and cash transaction. Lucasfilm is 100% owned by Lucasfilm Chairman and Founder, George Lucas. Under the terms of the agreement and based on the closing price of Disney stock on October 26, 2012, the transaction value is $4.05 billion, with Disney paying approximately half of the consideration in cash and issuing approximately 40 million shares at closing. The final consideration will be subject to customary post-closing balance sheet adjustments.
"Lucasfilm reflects the extraordinary passion, vision, and storytelling of its founder, George Lucas," said Robert A. Iger, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of The Walt Disney Company. "This transaction combines a world-class portfolio of content including Star Wars, one of the greatest family entertainment franchises of all time, with Disney's unique and unparalleled creativity across multiple platforms, businesses, and markets to generate sustained growth and drive significant long-term value."
"For the past 35 years, one of my greatest pleasures has been to see Star Wars passed from one generation to the next," said George Lucas, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Lucasfilm. "It's now time for me to pass Star Wars on to a new generation of filmmakers. I've always believed that Star Wars could live beyond me, and I thought it was important to set up the transition during my lifetime. I'm confident that with Lucasfilm under the leadership of Kathleen Kennedy, and having a new home within the Disney organization, Star Wars will certainly live on and flourish for many generations to come. Disney's reach and experience give Lucasfilm the opportunity to blaze new trails in film, television, interactive media, theme parks, live entertainment, and consumer products."
Under the deal, Disney will acquire ownership of Lucasfilm, a leader in entertainment, innovation and technology, including its massively popular and "evergreen" Star Wars franchise and its operating businesses in live action film production, consumer products, animation, visual effects, and audio post production. Disney will also acquire the substantial portfolio of cutting-edge entertainment technologies that have kept audiences enthralled for many years. Lucasfilm, headquartered in San Francisco, operates under the names Lucasfilm Ltd., LucasArts, Industrial Light & Magic, and Skywalker Sound, and the present intent is for Lucasfilm employees to remain in their current locations.
Kathleen Kennedy, current Co-Chairman of Lucasfilm, will become President of Lucasfilm, reporting to Walt Disney Studios Chairman Alan Horn. Additionally she will serve as the brand manager for Star Wars, working directly with Disney's global lines of business to build, further integrate, and maximize the value of this global franchise. Ms. Kennedy will serve as executive producer on new Star Wars feature films, with George Lucas serving as creative consultant. Star Wars Episode 7 is targeted for release in 2015, with more feature films expected to continue the Star Wars saga and grow the franchise well into the future.
The acquisition combines two highly compatible family entertainment brands, and strengthens the long-standing beneficial relationship between them that already includes successful integration of Star Wars content into Disney theme parks in Anaheim, Orlando, Paris and Tokyo.
Driven by a tremendously talented creative team, Lucasfilm's legendary Star Wars franchise has flourished for more than 35 years, and offers a virtually limitless universe of characters and stories to drive continued feature film releases and franchise growth over the long term. Star Wars resonates with consumers around the world and creates extensive opportunities for Disney to deliver the content across its diverse portfolio of businesses including movies, television, consumer products, games and theme parks. Star Wars feature films have earned a total of $4.4 billion in global box to date, and continued global demand has made Star Wars one of the world's top product brands, and Lucasfilm a leading product licensor in the United States in 2011. The franchise provides a sustainable source of high quality, branded content with global appeal and is well suited for new business models including digital platforms, putting the acquisition in strong alignment with Disney's strategic priorities for continued long-term growth.
The Lucasfilm acquisition follows Disney's very successful acquisitions of Pixar and Marvel, which demonstrated the company's unique ability to fully develop and expand the financial potential of high quality creative content with compelling characters and storytelling through the application of innovative technology and multiplatform distribution on a truly global basis to create maximum value. Adding Lucasfilm to Disney's portfolio of world class brands significantly enhances the company's ability to serve consumers with a broad variety of the world's highest-quality content and to create additional long-term value for our shareholders.
The Boards of Directors of Disney and Lucasfilm have approved the transaction, which is subject to clearance under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act, certain non-United States merger control regulations, and other customary closing conditions. The agreement has been approved by the sole shareholder of Lucasfilm.
Read more at http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/JoshWildingNewsAndReviews/news/?a=69442#1KVYVhkPCRm5Rk7r.99
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Yeah I was a little worried because the winds starting picking up a bit around midnight, but come morning all our trees were still standing.
People weren't so lucky up in Jersey: http://www.liveleak....=528_1351587184
lol "reporting live to you from the apocolypse"
"I hate to be 'that guy' but show me the video"
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I've been seeing Blizzard WARNINGS for Northern VA all day long. Now it's in W. VA. I doubt there's any truth to that or we'd see it in the news.
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Cool looking trailer, but I was left wondering how he gets cuts and scrapes inside that helmet in little areas. I would think if something hit that helmet enough to cut and scrape him, he wouldn't have a nose lol.
(yeah I know, hollywood...)
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Ahh ok that's what I was looking for.
And I thought this was funny...
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I'm buying a new laptop for the wife for Christmas and I don't really care if it's 7 or 8, but I just wanted to see if 8 might be more her style. I've heard from a lot of people 8 is for mobile devices and 7 is for desktops. Would 8 be better for a laptop?
I should add that the new laptop will have one or the other already installed, so I'm basically choosing a laptop based on the software provided. (i already know the hardware i want)
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vistaaaaaaaaaaaaa
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I've been looking at a laptop for my wife for Christmas and am wondering about Windows 8 or 7. Is there an advantage of getting 8 for the wife's laptop over 7, other than it being the most recent OS? Actually, I'm mostly concerned with there being a disadvantage.
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Can you imagine being in the cockpit when those things go off? Haha it's a redneck's wet dream.
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Holy carp it's $80 to preorder here in the US. No game is worth that.
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That can't be right. That would be $100 US Dollars.
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Wow, that's a shame. It wasn't a failure of the equipment, it was a failure of bureaucracy in dealing with a setback. If everything was running smoothly up until that point, I can't see how an operator error would trash the whole program.
That and I'm trying to envision a C-130 landing in a stadium with bleachers and everything without crashing
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This makes me
like trying to read that Icelandic volcano's name. 
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Ok, here's the backstory: I like to watch British documentaries before I go to sleep at night because they help me wind down and some BBC stuff is better than any Ambien I've ever taken. Last night I get to this documentary about Owain Glyndwr. First off, awesome doc. Great story and some pretty good footage as well.
What made me go
many times were when they started speaking Welsh, particularly when they mentioned town names. I had to rewind several times to hear the name again and never could figure it out, so today I showed it to the wife and we were cracking up. It sounded like no other language I've ever heard. I couldn't pick out vowels or syllabels or anything resembling anything familiar. It sounded like the guy from Snatch got his tongue stung by a bee while having severe sinus drainage problems.
So here's to you, Welshmen. I may not have a clue what you're saying, but at least you're saying it with style.
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seems like any score i like to listen to is composed by Hans Zimmer, just look at his list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Zimmer_discography Blackhawk Down, new batman films, POTC Gladiator etc . Philip Glass does some nice stuff to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_compositions_by_Philip_Glass
I was surprised Zimmer did The Dark Knight. I loved the score, but thought it was somebody else. It takes someone extreemly talented not only to create scores for new movies, but do 3-4 per year that are memorable. I still think Michael Kamen (relatively unknown) did the best work with Robin Hood. I got to hear the score once played by an orchestra, and it was breathtaking. I'm a sucker for strings and horns
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So we're seeing the beginnings of Fall here and I'm breaking out my old movie scores I love to listen to on quiet days. It's been raining, and there's mist in the mountains, so I'm going with the Braveheart soundtrack today. Tomorrow it will dry up a bit and I'll probably listen to the Patriot or Last of The Mohicans. But, later, when the leaves really start to change, and I head up into the forrests and mountains to hike, I pop in my Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves soundtrack, which I think is probably the best movie score of all time.
What do you think is the best score of all time?
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It doesn't interest me but I do have a key if you would like it Durka
Oh don't worry haha. I've been so busy lately that as much as I'd love to, I can't get in to gaming. Hopefully around Winter when things slow down.
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Damn.....was that English they were speaking? lol
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Happy Birthday Cy!
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Thanks guys! That means a lot. I stopped counting at 25 BTW