SAN FRANCISCO — Electronic Arts and Walt Disney hermetic a multi-year chartering understanding Monday underneath that a Redwood City video diversion publisher will rise games for mobile devices, PCs and consoles formed on a “Star Wars” movies.

Disney, that bought George Lucas’s Lucasfilm and a blockbuster sci-fi authorization for $4.05 billion in October, will keep a rights to rise online and mobile games, both companies pronounced in a matter on Monday.

They did not exhibit a financial terms of a agreement.

EA gamble large on a Star Wars’ universe of jedis and wookies in 2011 by releasing a “Star Wars: The Old Republic” — a large multiplayer actor online game, or MMO, that allows thousands of people to play concurrently for a monthly subscription price as against to a one-time purchase.

Analysts pronounced EA done a record investment of between $100 million and $300 million to build “Star Wars: The Old Republic,” though EA has not disclosed costs. It hired some-more than 1,000 voice actors for “Star Wars: The Old Republic,” that pennyless a diversion attention record.

But a diversion has struggled to keep players, call a association to offer 15 diversion levels for giveaway in Jun final year. And in November, it launched a free-to-play chronicle of a game.

Disney, that has a possess interactive games division, final month close a 30-year-old LucasArts games studio it hereditary with a merger to concentration on chartering a “Star Wars” code externally.

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shares were adult 2 percent during $18.67 and Disney’s batch was adult somewhat during $65.17 in after-hours trading.

(CNN) — Electronic Arts will be a disdainful provider of games formed on a Star Wars series, Disney and a diversion developer announced jointly on Monday.

Following Disney’s merger of Lucasfilm final year, it close down a LucasArts diversion growth division, indicating a welfare to permit console games rather than rise them in-house. Now, Electronic Arts will be a usually publisher formulating Star Wars games for a “core gaming audience,” according to today’s press release.

Electronic Arts pronounced that a in-house diversion teams DICE (Battlefield) and Visceral (Dead Space) will work on Star Wars titles, in further to BioWare, a group behind EA’s existent Star Wars MMO The Old Republic.

Meanwhile, Disney will “retain certain rights to rise new titles within a mobile, social, inscription and online diversion categories.”

My initial take: While this competence seem like a good arrangement for Electronic Arts and Disney, we can't see how holding divided a component of foe will be good for a peculiarity of Star Wars games.

Individually chartering out Star Wars games to opposite publishers and developers competence have ushered in a accumulation of artistic ideas and directions for a franchise, though locking out anyone that isn’t dependent with Electronic Arts seems like a joining to a same old, same old.

“Every developer dreams of formulating games for a Star Wars universe,” pronounced EA Labels President Frank Gibeau.

And now, unless they go work during EA, they can’t.

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If this gossip is true… are we f*cking KIDDING us with this behavior, Lindz?

Even yet Lindsay Lohan caused mass media frenzy when she incidentally PEACED on Morningside Recovery since she reportedly didn’t like a facilities AND apparently insisted that her usually re-hired counsel Shawn Holley cut a understanding to immigrate her to a Betty Ford Center, it seems a former child star is NOT happy with her new home (for a subsequent 90 days) and is already seeking to be moved.

In fact, not usually Is Lilo repeating her mantra of “I don’t need rehab,” she’s allegedly revelation people during a diagnosis trickery that Betty Ford is not a best place for her during this time.

Which we totally determine with, saying as JAIL would substantially be a best place for her during this time… though we digress.

One ostensible insider claims:

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LOS ANGELES — Disney is not giving adult on “Star Wars” video games after all.

A month after shutting down diversion prolongation during Lucasfilm auxiliary LucasArts, The Walt Disney Co. pronounced Monday that it had entered multi-year understanding with Electronic Arts Inc. to rise new “Star Wars” video games.

According to a statement, EA will rise games for a “core gaming audience” while Disney will keep a right to rise titles for mobile devices, amicable platforms and online.

Terms were not disclosed.

Disney is aiming to make the money-losing interactive section essential this year and changeable some diversion growth costs elsewhere should help.

Disney bought Lucasfilm for $4.06 billion in December. The association pronounced final month that it will recover a new “Star Wars” film each year starting in 2015.

Star Wars: The Old Republic, published by Electronic Arts.

Electronic Arts will be a disdainful provider of games formed on a Star Wars series, Disney and a diversion developer announced jointly today.

Following Disney’s merger of Lucasfilm final year, it shut down a LucasArts diversion growth division, indicating a welfare to permit console games rather than rise them in-house. Now, Electronic Arts will be a usually publisher formulating Star Wars games for a “core gaming audience,” according to today’s press release. Electronic Arts pronounced that a in-house diversion teams DICE (Battlefield) and Visceral (Dead Space) will work on Star Wars titles, in further to BioWare, a group behind EA’s existent Star Wars MMO The Old Republic.

Meanwhile, Disney will “retain certain rights to rise new titles within a mobile, social, inscription and online diversion categories.”

My initial take: While this competence seem like a good arrangement for Electronic Arts and Disney, we can't see how holding divided a component of foe will be good for a peculiarity of Star Wars games. Individually chartering out Star Wars games to opposite publishers and developers competence have ushered in a accumulation of artistic ideas and directions for a franchise, though locking out anyone that isn’t dependent with Electronic Arts seems like a joining to a same old, same old.

“Every developer dreams of formulating games for a Star Wars universe,” pronounced EA Labels President Frank Gibeau. And now, unless they go work during EA, they can’t.

PARIS — European powerhouse Studiocanal is fasten army with Disney Nordic to hurl out a bigscreen instrumentation of Jonas Jonasson’s bestseller “The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out a Window and Disappeared.”

Disney Nordic will recover a pic opposite Scandinavia Dec. 25, while TeleMunchen will discharge it in Germany and Austria, and Wild Bunch in Benelux.

Meanwhile, Studiocanal will hurl out a pic in France, U.K. and Australia, and will repute it in general market, kicking off sales during Cannes.

Swedish up-and-comer Felix Herngren, creator of strike comedy skein “Solsidan,” has fabricated a expel of Swedish thesps, including Robert Gustafsson, Mia Skaringer and Johan Rheborg, and English thesp Alan Ford.

Described as “quirky and definitely unique” by Studiocanal, pic turns on a healthy 100-year-old man, Allan Karlsson, who escapes his nursing home to embark on an random journey, involving, among other surprises, a container pressed with money and some upsetting criminals.

“The book is already substantiating itself as a vital code around a world. For us as melodramatic distributors, we consider we have a leader formed on what we saw so distant of a absolute film instrumentation a producers and a partners during Disney will be delivering during a finish of a year,” pronounced Harold Van Lier, exec VP general placement during Studiocanal. “It is an impossibly cinematic story that is really comfortable and filled with feel-good humor. It will positively be one of a vital films entrance out of Scandinavia during a finish of this year.”

Added Patrick Nebout, writer during Nice FLX Pictures, “It’s a tale with a concept theme, a large heart and a clarity of amusement that travels perfectly, relocating millions of readers all over a world.”

The book has been published in some-more than 35 countries and sole some-more than 5 million copies.

Pic is constructed by Henrik Jansson-Schweizer, Nebout, Herngren and Malte Forssell for Nice FLX Pictures.

PARIS — European powerhouse Studiocanal is fasten army with Disney Nordic to hurl out a bigscreen instrumentation of Jonas Jonasson’s bestseller “The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out a Window and Disappeared.”

Disney Nordic will recover a pic opposite Scandinavia Dec. 25, while TeleMunchen will discharge it in Germany and Austria, and Wild Bunch in Benelux.

Meanwhile, Studiocanal will hurl out a pic in France, U.K. and Australia, and will repute it in general market, kicking off sales during Cannes.

Swedish up-and-comer Felix Herngren, creator of strike comedy skein “Solsidan,” has fabricated a expel of Swedish thesps, including Robert Gustafsson, Mia Skaringer and Johan Rheborg, and English thesp Alan Ford.

Described as “quirky and definitely unique” by Studiocanal, pic turns on a healthy 100-year-old man, Allan Karlsson, who escapes his nursing home to embark on an random journey, involving, among other surprises, a container pressed with money and some upsetting criminals.

“The book is already substantiating itself as a vital code around a world. For us as melodramatic distributors, we consider we have a leader formed on what we saw so distant of a absolute film instrumentation a producers and a partners during Disney will be delivering during a finish of a year,” pronounced Harold Van Lier, exec VP general placement during Studiocanal. “It is an impossibly cinematic story that is really comfortable and filled with feel-good humor. It will positively be one of a vital films entrance out of Scandinavia during a finish of this year.”

Added Patrick Nebout, writer during Nice FLX Pictures, “It’s a tale with a concept theme, a large heart and a clarity of amusement that travels perfectly, relocating millions of readers all over a world.”

The book has been published in some-more than 35 countries and sole some-more than 5 million copies.

Pic is constructed by Henrik Jansson-Schweizer, Nebout, Herngren and Malte Forssell for Nice FLX Pictures.

It was all for a kids.

A cash-strapped male on vacation in Florida attacked a bank so he could take his girlfriend’s children on a Disney cruise, military said.

Cedrick Swinson, 37, allegedly hold adult a Navy Federal Credit Union bend on Thursday — as his gullible partner and her dual infants sat in a automobile outside.

Cops pronounced a North Carolina local motionless to sack a Satellite Beach organisation after realizing he was brief on money for a trip.

Driving his SUV off in a hurry, his partner reportedly asked him: “What did we do, sack a bank?”

He was pulled over within minutes, and a stolen money was found in a vehicle.

He told officers he felt “pressured” to respect his guarantee of a outing and a spoliation was finished on a “spur of a moment.”

Swinson was requisitioned and charged on robbery, grand burglary and pushing on a dangling license, reports WPTV .

It was all for a kids.

A cash-strapped male on vacation in Florida attacked a bank so he could take his girlfriend’s children on a Disney cruise, military said.

Cedrick Swinson, 37, allegedly hold adult a Navy Federal Credit Union bend on Thursday — as his gullible partner and her dual infants sat in a automobile outside.

Cops pronounced a North Carolina local motionless to sack a Satellite Beach organisation after realizing he was brief on money for a trip.

Driving his SUV off in a hurry, his partner reportedly asked him: “What did we do, sack a bank?”

He was pulled over within minutes, and a stolen money was found in a vehicle.

He told officers he felt “pressured” to respect his guarantee of a outing and a spoliation was finished on a “spur of a moment.”

Swinson was requisitioned and charged on robbery, grand burglary and pushing on a dangling license, reports WPTV .

(Image credit: Getty Images around @daylife)

You need to suppose that, during this point, a halls of House of a Mouse are paved in gold. Walt Disney Walt Disney shares shot to still aloft highs this morning, after a blockbuster opening weekend for a company’s Iron Man 3 and expectation for quarterly total due tomorrow.

Iron Man 3 reached truly drastic heights during this weekend’s box office, holding in a whopping $175.3 million. The film scored a second-largest opening weekend ever, behind usually Disney’s other mega-profitable comic-book movie: final year’s The Avengers, that took in a overwhelming $207.4 million in a initial weekend.

The residence that Walt built is truly a entirely assigned structure these days. There’s a cash-rich wire business of ABC and ESPN ESPN, a thesis parks and a namesake film studio. In a film unit, Disney has skeleton to recover normal vehicles–Planes, entrance in August, is seen as a intensity contender to a hugely renouned Cars franchise–and to keep a folks in spandex bustling too. Disney has dubbed a subsequent line-up of superhero facilities as Phase 2, with skeleton for Thor: The Dark World, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Guardians of a Galaxy, The Avengers 2, Ant-Man and presumably more.

As Phase 1 (Thor, Captain America, Iron Man 1 and 2, The Avengers) proved, these films furnish a suggestive outcome on a company’s bottom-line. After The Avengers strike theaters final summer, Disney’s studio business requisitioned $313 million in fiscal-third-quarter profit, compared to only $49 million a year earlier. (Avengers wound adult grossing some-more than $600 million.) Company-wide distinction increasing 22.5% to $1.84 billion, violence Wall Street‘s foresee for $1.69 billion.

For now, investors are focused on second-quarter results, which, unfortunately for shareholders, will not be buoyed by any good film. Analysts still design a association to grow gain by 22.5% to $1.4 billion. Revenue is seen rising 9% to $10.5 billion.

Shares of Disney increasing 0.7% to $65.28 in pre-market trading. The stock’s lengthy, lofty run–the batch scarcely doubled in 3 years– has indeed pushed adult a multiple. Shares fetch 18.9 times brazen estimated gain of $3.45 a share. This a none-too-light reward over media peers like Time Warner Time Warner (16.4 times), CBS CBS (14.9) and Viacom (14.3).

Reach Abram Brown during abrown@forbes.com.