Disney appears one step closer to opening a Star Wars thesis park, if we can trust that recent comments from Disney CEO Bob Iger aren’t only a Jedi mind trick. After appropriation Lucasfilm final Oct for some-more than $4 billion, a thesis park competence enrich Disney’s large skeleton for a franchise.

“In further to a Star Wars underline films that we’ve already talked about, we’re also operative on opportunities for radio and a parks,” Iger pronounced during an gain call Tuesday. “It’s still really early in a process. We’ll announce sum as these developments evolve.”

Disney wrote in an emailed matter to The Huffington Post:

“For some-more than 25 years, a partnership with LucasFilm has helped move a talented star of Star Wars to life during a parks and resorts opposite a globe. We mix mythological Disney storytelling and creation with a iconic characters of a Star Wars authorization to ride guest of all ages to a universe far, distant away. We’re vehement to try new ways to move these stories to life.”

Disney’s existent parks have achieved unusually good as of late, with their handling income jumping 73 percent from a year ago, a Los Angeles Times reports. The association benefited from new areas during both a California and Florida park locations, according to The New York Times.

Disney World already announced skeleton for Star Wars-themed weekends, and rumors of an whole park have been present ever given reports emerged of a Disney consult seeking fans how they’d feel about one, as tweeted by Gawker editor Ken Layne.

This new Disneyland caller consult suggests there’s a lot some-more Star Wars thesis park things on a way. twitter.com/KenLayne/statu…

— Ken Layne (@KenLayne) March 20, 2013

What it competence demeanour like will be adult to Disney, though Star Wars comic book artist Tom hodges has some ideas. Disney, greatfully take note: We need a distraction of that bar where Obi-Wan chopped off that dude’s arm. We need it.

(Hat tip: Business Insider)

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The latest to join a cadre of startups charity collection for some-more private pity outward of Facebook’s large footprint is not, in fact, another startup, though rather another media giant: Disney. Citing a “rich birthright in storytelling,” Disney’s Interactive division, best famous for games, sites, and practical worlds like “Where’s My Water?,” “Temple Run: Brave,” “Club Penguin,” Disney.com, and more, currently launched a personal, mobile memory builder simply called “Story.”

The new app, that debuts initial on iPhone, takes a photos and videos saved on your device, afterwards automatically organizes them into sharable, though by default, private albums that can also be personalized with captions, calm and several themes and layouts. The albums’ calm is also saved in iCloud, so it can be corroborated adult and synced to other Apple devices.

Separating a collection of photos into albums isn’t accurately a new trick. Practically each photo-management focus today, including Apple’s possess Photos app, allows for some turn of organization. What creates Disney’s app a bit some-more slicing corner is a approach it automatically organizes a calm for we formed on a time and plcae of a photos and videos it finds.

Though a saved digital memories have prolonged given enclosed time, date and plcae information, usually some-more recently have we begun to see a solid tide of newer mobile applications that use that information for organisation photos or formulating common albums with friends. Color was a large instance station out in everyone’s mind of how not to hoop location-based print albums, though others that followed, including Flock, Cluster, Tracks, Flayvr, Moment.me, Everpix, and many more, have been experimenting to varying degrees in this space.

But since of Story’s scrapbooking-esque assessment and customization features, it also shares a likeness to mobile photo-book makers like Mosaic, SimplePrints and KeepShot, for example. Unfortunately, Story stops brief of indeed permitting we to sequence a printed book during a finish of your creation. However, Scott Gerlach, Senior Director of Engineering during Disney Interactive, says that’s something that’s “definitely” being deliberate for a future.

“In a endless usability contrast of Story, we listened clearly from a users that they’d like to squeeze high-quality printed materials for themselves and others,” he tells us, adding that a association is “absolutely looking during opposite options to assistance users share their stories.” Those options might even embody other photo-based gifts, too.

These additional options would expected be combined to Story as in-app purchases alongside other reward facilities a association has in a works, such as upgraded themes, for example. But for now, a app itself is wholly free, with no ads.

Story itself is elementary to use. To serve revise any of Story’s automatically combined albums, we can daub a symbol to supplement some-more content, including photos, videos or text, or change a theme. You can also daub on any particular object to heading it, mislay it, or change a size. You can also drag and dump equipment around to barter their positions in a approach that’s suggestive to what the Kleiner Perkins-backed startup Erly once offered years ago on a web, before it sold to Airtime in Mar 2012.

Once you’ve combined your “story,” we can afterwards email it to your family or friends, or select to share it a bit some-more broadly by posting to Facebook. Stories can also be embedded on your possess website, if we choose.

If there’s any censure with a app, it’s that it has launched usually half-done, notwithstanding carrying a resources of a incomparable house during a disposal. Story would make a many clarity on iPad, though support for both that and Android isn’t nonetheless available, nor is a choice for printed books or other smart facilities like print filters or stickers.

That being said, from a sounds of it, Story will solemnly morph into a micro amicable network for families and/or other tighten friends over time, as Gerlach hints during skeleton for “more amicable and collaborative” facilities in time. That speaks to things like commenting, fondness or common albums, perhaps, and could put Story adult opposite other family-first mobile apps like Famil.io, Familiar, or Tweekaboo, for instance.

But for now, Story sits somewhere in center of all these competitors, not utterly finished on any front. If you’re disposition towards photo-book origination or private, family-focused amicable networking, there are other apps that still lead this space for now.

Story is accessible here in iTunes.

They are, moreover, partial of what is certainly a conspicuous new golden age of violinists in their 30s — Leila Josefowicz and Janine Jansen are also in a picture. All have been elaborating from glamorous prodigies into hazardous mature artists who are relocating a violin into new realms.

But nothing has shown some-more startling new growth than Hahn did in her distinguished Disney Hall show with elements from her commissioning project: “In 27 Pieces: The Hilary Hahn Encores.”

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The encores aren’t encores, during slightest Hahn did not provide them as such on Tuesday’s program. Instead, she featured 8 brief pieces interspersed between sonatas by Fauré and Mozart, along with Bach’s solo Chaconne in D Minor.

The new works were a furious brew — edgy, violent, sweet, clearly sweet, ethereal, earthy, folksy, apparently descriptive, complexly abstract. The violinist writes in her module note that she listened widely late during night to song she had never heard, and when she found pieces she desired she “made nerve-wracking cold calls to a composers to ask them to attend in my project.”

The brew is so interestingly heterogeneous that a initial doubt has to be: Just who is Hilary Hahn? She done a dash as a shockingly well-put-together teen violinist, her Bach in sold being musically distant over her years. In her 20s she became famous as an resistant control freak. Many conductors found her tough to work with. Although coolly collected and definitely serious, she stretched her repertory with such counsel that she courted shallowness and became a new song lightweight.

That was not, however, a Hahn who walked onstage Tuesday, or not entirely. She wore an scarcely divulgence (for her) gown, and tore into Elliott Sharp’s well-named “Storm of a Eye.” Sharp is a longtime tie of New York’s downtown fashionable scene, a composer and multi-instrumentalist improviser remarkable for raw, aloud oppressive sound. Hahn braved this storm’s eye with all her technique total and in a routine done a nauseous pleasing and astounding.

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Also new for Hahn was her accompanist, Cory Smythe. A immature New York new song pianist, he demonstrated a stimulating clarity of tone, as good as an sparkling clarity of tone and rhythm. The piano partial indispensable to browbeat David Lang’s indolent “Light Moving,” a ease reverence to early Minimalism, as it indispensable to lead most of Mozart’s short, early Sonata in E-flat, K. 302, and Hahn — this, too, surprising for her — let it. The sonata perceived was a gloriously crisp, low-pitched and excitingly uninformed reading.

As for a rest of a normal repertory, a Chaconne, that Hahn dedicated to a memory of cellist Janos Starker, was a transfixing instance of her architectural approach with Bach and her complete authority of her instrument. Only Fauré’s early Sonata No. 1, Opus 13, was disappointing, here a calm Hahn refusing to let go an inch.

But a news was in a new. David Del Tredici’s “Farewell” suggested his special hold in a approach he creates a touching balance ramble where it substantially shouldn’t and afterwards be splendidly welcomed home. British composer Richard Barrett’s “Shade” was during a conflicting finish of a spectrum, an intricately fashioned practice in high-end low-pitched engineering.

Azerbaijani composer Franghiz Ali-Zadeh, done renouned in a West by a Kronos Quartet, gave Hahn, in “Impulse,” a fractured, autocratic arrangement square — a knockout. The Ukrainian Valentin Silvestrov dwelled, as he mostly likes to, on a mystically sour dregs of nostalgia in his vivid Two Pieces (Waltz and Christmas Serenade). There was no module note for L.A. composer James Newton Howard’s sensuous though concerned “133 … At Least,” so a pretension stays a mystery.

As partial of her commissioning project, Hahn sponsored a competition for a final encore. The leader was Hawaiian composer Jeff Myers, and a violinist pennyless into a singular grin while squealing enticingly in his outlandish “The Angry Birds of Kauai.” A unequivocally good hold was Hahn’s tangible encore. It was a universe premiere of one of a competition’s runners-up, Rani Sharone’s “Tick.” Tick it did, imaginatively.

In a most bigger clarity Hahn has unequivocally begun to tick, too, as a proponent for new music. Tuesday she valid that she has a intensity to make a difference.

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In a latest instance of a energy of social-media backlash, Disney-Pixar announced late yesterday that a association would behind off on a pierce that had generated an online conflict over a final few days.

As a Pixar-centric site Pixartimes.com reports, a studio behind such dear cinema as Toy Story 3 have long done it famous that they’re operative on a film associated to a Latin American holiday Día de Los Muertos—or, Day of a Dead. On May 6, Stitch Kingdom reported that Disney had filed applications to heading a word “Día de Los Muertos,” that some speculated would be movie’s title. The heading would have lonesome snacks, audio recordings, jewelry, cosmetics, pivotal bondage and lots of other intensity sell associated to a film. It was a pierce that lifted a madness of many who found sickening a thought of a vital media association perplexing to settle “ownership” of an critical informative event.

The pushback worked: Disney told Fronteras on Tuesday that not usually would a heading filing be withdrawn, though also a movie’s pretension would be changed.

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But if Disney had not motionless to behind off, could they have successfully copyright a name of a holiday? In a way, says Marshall Leaffer, a copyright-law consultant and highbrow during Indiana Law.

“The Day of a Dead can achieve a heading stress if it’s used in a copyright sense,” he says. “If someone wants to use ‘Day of a Dead’ in describing a sold holiday, underneath ubiquitous heading beliefs and giveaway debate principles, a heading owners can't intent to it.”

In short, a trademark—not a copyright; U.S. law doesn’t yield copyright insurance for titles—would have stable Disney opposite others perplexing to emanate sell that referenced their movie, though it would not have given a association tenure of a thought behind a holiday, or a disproportion used in a phrase. In addition, Disney would substantially have had to infer that a word “Día de los Muertos” had a specific Pixar-only definition in sequence to be successful in requesting for a trademark. “We don’t wish to give terms to far-reaching a insurance if they don’t have any arrange of stress for a consumer,” he explains.

Leaffer draws a together to a rope The Cars: there’s a disproportion between perplexing to sell a illicit Cars t-shirt outward a unison venue (not authorised if they have a trademark) and perplexing to sell an we Love Cars t-shirt during a Honda dealership (fine). And a same proof would request to Cars—but a folks during Pixar substantially already know about that.

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Disneyland’s forward-looking land of tomorrow has seen many evolutions given opening day in 1955. Through a years, there have been vital expansions in 1959 (Monorail), 1977 (Space Mountain) and 1986 (Star Tours) as good as finish makeovers in 1967 (New Tomorrowland) and 1998 (New New Tomorrowland).

The stream iteration has a retro-futuristic scholarship novella anticipation thesis that was designed to be a bit some-more undying though nonetheless is display a age.

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With a recover of “Iron Man 3” and skeleton for “Star Wars” and “Tron” sequels in a works, we suspicion it would be a good time to do a bit of “blue sky” forgetful about what Walt Disney Imagineering competence have in mind for a New New New Tomorrowland.

What follows is some surmise churned with a healthy sip of surmise blended with a heaping assisting of armchair imagineering. Take it for what it’s worth.

During a Bob Iger era, Disney has turn a association of brands – from Pixar to Marvel to Star Wars. And a Mouse has a ton of underused egghead properties – such as Iron Man, Tron and Wall-E- that would fit ideally in any Tomorrowland reboot.

Using that logic, Buzz Lightyear Astro Blasters and Star Tours are a close for a foreseeable destiny while feasible all else in and around Tomorrowland is potentially in play. That means Innoventions, Astro Orbiter, Captain EO, Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage, Autopia and even a princely Space Mountain could be scrapped or mutated to make approach for a reimagined land. And afterwards there’s a reserve area subsequent to Star Tours, a deserted Rocket Rods lane and even some backstage acreage. All in all, that’s utterly a bit of genuine estate to work with.

So let’s take any of a brands one during a time and see how they competence fit into a renovated Tomorrowland.

Star Wars

Disneyland has been contemplating annual passholders about their seductiveness in a Star Wars-themed land, according to SlashFilm.

The judicious plcae for such a land would be behind Star Tours in a backstage area between Space Mountain and Main Street USA, a mark that has been mentioned as a probable home for other mini-lands in a past.

A Star Wars mini-land is reportedly in a pattern proviso for Disneyland Paris and a subject of prevalent surmise during Disney’s Hollywood Studios in Florida.

Redd Rockett’s Pizza Port in Disneyland would be ideal place for a Mos Eisley Cantina finish with an audio-animatronic visitor jazz band.

Iron Man

I have to acknowledge we did a double take when we initial saw a twitter announcing skeleton for a Iron Man Tech: Presented by Stark Industries vaunt during Disneyland’s Innoventions building. For a brief, passing impulse we suspicion Disney had finally announced a long-rumored Iron Man ride. Instead what we got was a walk-through of film sets and props that feels like a destiny reserve of a long-rumored E-Ticket attraction.

We had been wondering for a while where Disney would initial deliver Marvel characters into a parks, though this feels like a baby step.

Hong Kong Disneyland will reportedly get a initial Marvel-themed land, according to a China edition of a Wall Street Journal.

Tron

Fans have been forgetful of a Tron LightCycle float given a strange film came out in 1982. The 2010 recover of “Tron: Legacy” usually reignited a sad thinking.

Electronic Arts (EA) and The Walt Disney Company have announced a multi-year video diversion agreement for a Star Wars franchise. The understanding will concede EA to rise and tell new Star Wars titles opposite mixed interactive platforms. No financial terms of a understanding were disclosed.

Disney Interactive’s Co-President John Pleasants pronounced in a statement: “This agreement demonstrates a joining to formulating peculiarity diversion practice that expostulate a recognition of the Star Wars franchise for years to come. Collaborating with one of a world’s premier diversion developers will concede us to move an extraordinary portfolio of new Star Wars titles to a fans around a world.”

Under a terms of a agreement, EA has a rights to rise and tell Star Wars games, though Disney will keep a rights to also rise new titles within a mobile, social, tablet, and online diversion categories.

EA Labels President Frank Gibeau says that 3 of a studios, BioWare, DICE, and Gibeau, will be operative on producing a new games.

This is a one of a initial diversion chartering deals that Disney has done following a purchase of a Star Wars franchise from Lucas Arts studio behind in Oct 2012. Months later, a media hulk wound adult shuttering a studio. Last month, Disney pronounced that it will concentration on chartering a diversion properties instead.

Publishing Star Wars games isn’t new to Electronic Arts. It has been concerned in a mythological array for a while, including Star Wars: The Old Republic.

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Reuters: Electronic Arts, Disney Sign “Star Wars” Games Deal

Reuters reports that Electronic Arts and Walt Disney Co. have sealed a multi-year chartering understanding underneath that a video diversion publisher will emanate games for smartphones, PCs and consoles formed on a “Star Wars” movies. The financial sum of a agreement were not disclosed. Disney, that acquired Lucasfilm Ltd. and a “Star Wars” authorization for $4.05 billion in October, will keep a rights to furnish online and mobile games, both companies pronounced in a statement.  Read more

“While we don’t have any sum to share currently on specific titles, a growth teams are already packed with pattern ideas,” pronounced EA Labels President Frank Gibeau. “The EA Studios that will rise these games are some of a many innovative and renouned artistic teams in a world, and embody DICE and Visceral, in further to a BioWare team, that is already building for a Star Wars franchise.”

The financial terms of a understanding weren’t disclosed. EA will rise and tell new Star Wars games for a “core gaming audience” opposite all interactive platforms and “most renouned diversion genres.” Disney will keep certain rights to mobile, social, inscription and online games.