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ICv2
By: Staff
Dec,26,2012
Disney’s purchase of Lucasfilm closed on Friday, with Disney paying $2.208,199,950 in cash and 37,076,679 Disney shares to Lucasfilm shareholders. The deal was announced in late October (see "Disney Acquires Lucasfilm"), making this a relatively rapid path to closing. The implications of the purchase are still working their way through both companies. Work on the next trilogy of films is proceeding, with writers already assigned to Episodes 8 and 9 (see "Kasdan and Kinberg for 'Star Wars'"). Meanwhile, it’s just been reported that the Dark Horse Star Wars license ends after 2013, and that Disney does not plan to renew, planning instead to have Marvel produce Star Wars comics (see "No More Dark Horse 'Star Wars'?").
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One Piece Film Z Rises to the Top in Japan
Animation Magazine
By: Ramin Zahed
Dec,21,2012
Toei Animation’s 11th One Piece animated feature tilted subtitled Film Z, landed at the No. 1 spot at the Japanese box office with a 1.3 billion yen (approximately $16.2 million) during its opening weekend (Dec. 15, 16). The 11th film of the long-running hit anime series opened on 300 screens and reached 1.1 million people. After the success of the previous opus Strong World three years ago, One Piece Film Z is the fastest film to reach 1 million ticket sales in the Japanese film market not only this year but since 2001 in Japan! Compared with the 10th installment of the series, the revenue and attendance rate both increased 130%.
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TOKYOPOP's Year in Review: Best Manga of 2012
Tokyopop
By: Staff
Dec,26,2012
What a difference a year can make! At this time last year, the future was uncertain, publishers were just dipping their toes into digital publishing and there was no Hetalia, Vol. 3. Now we're back in business with offerings at Right Stuf and Graphicly, there are robust digital manga offerings across the industry and we've had a chance to read a heapin' helping of seriously awesome manga. Yet what is a discerning manga maven like yourself to read? Relax - we've got you covered; we whittled down the competition to choose our top 5 manga of 2012.
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RightStuff
Dec,26,2012
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