Star wars. on December 15, "The Last Jedi" will be in theaters to enjoy for all star wars fans.Star wars is seen as one of the biggest and most popular franchises in the history of franchises in terms of cinematic. After lucasfilm was bought by Disney for 4 billion dollars, Disney took no time in attempting to expand the star wars theme to whatever they could. Currently,Disneyland is producing star wars land in Anaheim,California and plan on creating a movie based on Han Solo called "a new hope". George Lucas himself had admired Disney power to continue to make significant profit as seen after the release the the film "Rogue One", making almost 1 billion worldwide.
link:http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/08/entertainment/star-wars-saturation-column/index.html
questions:
1. star wars in unarguably one of the greatest franchises in history.Was selling lucasfilm to Disney a mistake for George Lucas in terms of profit?
2.Disney bought star wars for 4 billion, will Disney be able to make a significant profit?
3.FUN QUESTION: the cover shows Luke skywalker in both red and regular color. having in mind the quote "its time for the Jedi to end" and "things will not go as you planned", do you believe that Luke is a sith lord?do you believe he does not believe in sith or jedi anymore?
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I feel that selling Lucasfilm to Disney was a mistake by George Lucas because over the past year, Disney isn't making much progress. If you review its stock performance over the past 2 years, Disney hasn't made any progress. I feel that Lucas is able to make more profit on his own. I don't think Disney will be able to make a significant amount of profit because most of the revenue came in from the early star wars. The time of making extreme amounts of profits has passed. I do believe that Disney is able to profit off this transaction, but not a significant amount.
Economically, this was probably a good decision for disney to acquire the franchise because, not only will money be made on movies and toys and comics in the future, but it is a form of advertisement for disney. Tying the Disney name to something as world wide as Star Wars not only improves the public's view of Disney, but allows it to grow up, diversifying entertainment away from children and more towards adults. However Disney, being a large corporate machine, will do certain things to smear the franchise, selling rights for high profit only to gain money. Star Wars under Disney is no longer the inventive and cinematographic masterpiece it one was, because it has been taken over by a corporation bent on making profit.
The Force Awakens grossed $2 billion. Rogue One hit $1 billion. It's hard to claim that Disney, once they finish making Star Wars films, will have lost money in the deal with George Lucas. I disagree with Stephen's comment. Even adjusted for inflation, The Force Awakens ranks below only the original movie, and Rogue One, which isn't even part of the main series, ranks above episodes 2 and 3. Disney will definitely profit off of this purchase in the long run.
In regard to your bonus question, I would like to add that the in title "The Last Jedi," Jedi is plural, as shown by translations, and therefore I think Luke is included in the word Jedi.
I agree with Aech in that Disney is well on its to making enough money from the Star Wars franchise to balance out their investment in buying Lucas Films. I also think it was smart for George Lucas to sell Lucas Films to Disney because Disney is so big that it had the proper resources to carry on the franchise. Disney has not only been able to set aside huge budgets for each of the new Star Wars movies, they have very successfully made and advertised all of the new movies so far. Rogue One was personally one of my favorite Star Wars movies so far.
In response to your fun question, in every one of the official movie posters for all of the previous Star Wars movies, the main villains have been looming at the back of the poster behind all of the other characters. In episode 1, Darth Maul was featured in the background; in episode 2 it was Anakin Skywalker (as he had begun his shift to the dark side); in episodes 3, 4, 5, and 6 it was Darth Vader; and in the most recent episode, it was Kylo Ren. In the newest poster, Luke holds this position. This leads me to believe that he might take a role as a villain in the upcoming movie, although as a long time Star Wars fan and a Luke supporter, I hope this is just Disney trying to mislead their audience.
Disney is trying to milk out the Star Wars brand as much as possible and trying to make as much money as possible. Star Wars is a hugely popular brand, and thus Disney bought it for that reason, to reap the profits of it. Also, many people forget that Disney also bought the Indiana Jones franchise, which came from Lucasfilms in that package, another profitable and marketable franchise (seen in that they are making a fifth film coming out in 2019). In the end, this will probably turn out to be a smart option by Disney. They were largely successful with their purchase of Marvel and creating the MCU, so they have a track record of success. For George Lucas, it seems to early to tell, but it seems like a good deal from an artistic standpoint, as he clearly seemed to run out of ideas for the franchise seen in the awful prequels and that terrible Indiana Jones movie in 2008.
Disney made a tremendous decision with buying LucasFilm. Even though, the company might not have made a profit yet, it's worth noting that they have one more episode as well as spin-offs coming out soon that will eventually get Disney out of the $4 billion hole. However, considering that the Star Wars hype that came a few years ago was basically a major reason why The Force Awakens garnered over $2 billion in the global box office, it won't be surprising to see the next few films make a lot less money than that movie. Despite that, I believe Disney is doing a great job with keeping the fans, like me, excited and amazed at what they have given and what they have yet to surprise us with. And as for that last question, I agree with Lydia's comment that it could just be Disney trying to mislead the audience. Nobody wants to see Luke turn into the villain, at least not when there's still Kylo and Snoke to worry about, but it doesn't mean that he can't be the villain. He was the one who trained Kylo and have you seen Snoke and Luke in the same room together?? If Disney does hits us with another plot twist (after the whole "Han dies" thing in the last movie), I doubt that the fans will be too happy with it.
I believe that selling Lucas film to Disney was a good idea for both George Lucas and Disney. Lucas was able to make a large amount of money, while also providing Disney his vision they can interpret for the future. Although currently in the hole, the appeal of Star wars and the many facets of the story can be used by Disney in a wide range of media. This range of possibilities helps Disney make back their money while spreading the culture of Star Wars as well.
This is huge I mean with the people eating up the latest star wars movie. The merchandising and the figurehead alone makes the profit. Everyone knows star wars even people who never watch the movies knows star wars. Even hated films of the star wars franchise are heavily remembered. So I think Disney will be able to get out of that 4 billion hole. For the bonus question, Probably not,
Disney buying Lucas Films is a great example of how big business monopolies buy out the competition to grow their company. I definitely think Disney will profit from this buy out because they have expanded Star wars far beyond just the movie series and TV shows. As we've seen, the latest movies of Star Wars have been a great success. Disney knew that buying out Lucas Films would bring a big audience coming from Star Wars. Overall, I feel like this will benefit both companies. The original Star wars series had ended years before they sold out to Disney, so it was only right to sell out to Disney. With Disney's big presence in the media, they can definitely market the newest Star Wats series, and make it popular.
I believe that this exchange was beneficial for both parties.
First of all, George Lucas has already passed his prime with the Star Wars franchise. He has made incredible movies and incredible financial gains, but I believe it is unlikely he would ever be able to top what he has already done. He was paid 4 billion dollars for LucasFilm, and it is very unlikely he would have been able to make this money himself by keeping his company. Therefore, selling the company is the right decision for him, and should result in profit.
On the other hand, Disney has much more money-making tools than George Lucas does. LucasFilm is a company they could use to make themselves money through many different methods. I am convinced by their plans to spread the Star Wars brand, and could see them making billions of dollars in profit in the future. 4 billion dollars is a great price to pay if they believe they can make much more.
If there is anything Disney is an expert at, it is milking money out of sequels and long series. Almost anything they release now makes money, and they can profit from an array of products. They now sell Star Wars toys, games, movies; the list goes on. No matter what they do, people will allow disney to profit by simply releasing products. There are claims that Disney is ruining the franchise and taking it away from the original ideas, but the story must go somewhere new to actually have meaning.
I personally feel that selling the franchise was a good idea. Four billion dollars is huge. I feel like when you are that rich, what's the point of making more prophet when you are practically set to live luxurious for life. Furthermore, Disney land benefited greatly because Star Wars is an extremely well known movie and like previously said, off one movie a billion dollars was made. Both sides benefit greatly.
I wasn't super keen on the idea of Disney taking over Star Wars and I am worried Disney is going to continue getting away from the original message and theme of the series just to make money. Disney needs to know when a series is done. However, it seems that Star Wars is still extremely popular among children, not just the adults that grew up watching the series. I babysit some kids and the majority of the boys (and some girls) still love Star Wars. Disney has done a good job creating a multitude of merchandise for children to love such as stuffed animals, mini R2D2 robots, video games, etc. So, I think they still have a shot of continuing this series for many years.
Personally, I feel that selling LucasFilm to Disney was a bad idea at times as the LucasFilm team lost their independence as a creative studio when they were acquired. As a massive fan, seeing Disney lock the door on all material to do with the prequels hurt me on the inside as they ended the Clone Wars series and subsequently lost their potential to make more money off of that era and produce interesting canonical material. Now we are getting movies in between episodes 3 and 4, which is good and will allow Disney to make a significant profit off of what's left of the original trilogy. Disclaimer: I haven't seen the movie, but I am enough of a nerd to reasonably speculate that Luke is a grey jedi that took the Barash Vow after Kylo Ren and the Knights of Ren ravaged Luke's new order. I don't want to potentially spoil anything so I'll stop...
Looking at the box office of Force Awakens and Rogue One, it is easy to see that Disney has made a huge amount of profit by purchasing Star Wars. It is important to note that this is money earned from people watching the movie alone. Toys, TV shows, books, and merchandise in general also make their fair share of money, and are capable of generating huge amounts of profit alone. This was definitely the right move for Disney, and will increase the already large amount of revenue that Disney receives.
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