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Disney buys Lucasfilm for $4 billion
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Looking through a collection of behind the scenes photos.
http://imgur.com/a/0RmF7 God, Carrie Fisher.
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looks like novels with old ass luke/han/leia are already popping up
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Luke looks the same...but he looked pretty bad by the time Return of the Jedi came out...so...
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Analysts are already predicting a 1.2 billion global take for ep 7.
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I obviously don't understand movie accounting. If John Carter cost 200M and brought in 283M in receipts, how did Disney write off 200M? Are they accruing sales or something?
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Creative accounting is one thing, but I seriously doubt any company makes known losers. Hell even at a 90% tax rate, it still pays to make the most money possible.
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