Now that Disney has “Star Wars” in a clutches, design a force to brief over into a thesis parks and radio ventures.

“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,” CEO Bob Iger pronounced Tuesday, according to MSN. “It’s still really early in a process. We’ll announce sum as these developments evolve.”

This will be some-more than value it if they can somehow build an captivate pitting Snow White’s dwarves opposite a container of wild jawas in a blade fight.

There’s conjecture over how large Disney competence go, from adding a few some-more attractions to all-out, code new “Star Wars” thesis parks.

If that’s a case, they should build a hulk Darth Vader helmet and call it “Sith Mountain.”

The association has reportedly begun gauging intensity patron response to a idea. Gawker’s Ken Layne tweeted an picture from a Disney consult that asked respondents this question: “How meddlesome would we be in visiting a ‘Star Wars’ themed land during a Disneyland Resort?”

IWOULDIWOULDIWOULDIWOULD!!

Sorry.

Disney’s thesis park business is already booming, MSN says. The association on Tuesday reported a parks and resorts shred rose 73 percent in a initial 3 months of a year to $383 million, and sales were adult 14 percent.

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Walt Disney Co. boss and CEO Bob Iger, left, and “Star Wars” creator George Lucas, right, side “Star Wars” impression Darth Vadar during grand opening ceremonies for Star Tours – The Adventures Continue, a new 3-D captivate formed on a films in Disney’s Hollywood Studios thesis park in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., Friday, May 20, 2011. ((AP Photo/Disney, Kent Phillips))

The Skinny: By a time many of we review this I’ll be in a atmosphere on my approach to a Big Apple for a promote upfronts and genuine pizza. I’m listening to “The Boxer” as we write this usually to get in a mood. Of course, a New York that Simon Garfunkel sang about is now a apart memory. Enough low thoughts from me. Today’s stories embody Walt Disney Co.’s clever gain and Legendary Entertainment maybe jumping ship.  If we are meddlesome in receiving an email warning when a Morning Fix is live greatfully send me a note.

Daily Dose: Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) wants to tummy a sports trance order that prohibits a internal hire or a pay-TV distributor from display a home diversion in a marketplace of a group that has not sole out a stadium. McCain wants a trance to request usually for teams whose stadiums have perceived taxpayer funding, a chairman with believe of a matter said. 

Great and absolute indeed. Walt Disney Co. posted clever formula for a mercantile second entertain interjection in vast partial to a ESPN section and a melodramatic strike “Oz a Great and Powerful.” Overall a association had gain of $1.5 billion on income of $10.55 billion. A barbiturate was ABC’s distinction descending 40% due to aloft programming costs. More on a numbers from a Los Angeles Times and Bloomberg BusinessWeek.

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Parting ways? One of a Hollywood’s biggest guessing games is either film banker Thomas Tull’s Legendary Entertainment will disjoin ties with Warner Bros., a longtime home. Legendary cinema embody a “Dark Knight” and “Hangover” franchises. Variety says it appears increasingly expected that Legendary will pierce to another studio — maybe Universal — as it is struggling to come to terms with Warner Bros. on a new deal. 

Nothing fancy. NBC is scrapping skeleton to build a beast studio for Jimmy Fallon when he takes over “The Tonight Show” for Jay Leno subsequent year. According to a Hollywood Reporter, desirous skeleton to spend $25 million on a new home for Fallon have been scrapped in preference of a $5 million restoration of his stream studio.

Cable madness. TBS, that shares TV rights to a NCAA college basketball contest famous as Mar Madness with CBS, will lift a tournament’s semifinal games on Final Four weekend for a subsequent dual years and in 2016 will have a championship game. After that, it will swap coverage of a semifinals and championship with CBS. For TBS, carrying even some-more of Mar Madness will give it precedence with pay-TV distributors. Details from a New York Times and Los Angeles Times.

End credits. Gilles Jacob, boss of a Cannes Film Festival, is scheming his exit from a prestigious event. The 83-year-old told a French journal Nice Martin that he would step down after a 2015 festival, when his latest tenure ends.

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Maybe it should be renamed a Chuck Network. Chuck Lorre, writer of CBS comedies “Two and a Half Men,” “The Big Bang Theory” and “Mike Molly,” will shortly supplement a fourth sitcom to a network. Deadline Hollywood says CBS will announce that it is picking adult Lorre’s “Mom” starring Anna Faris and Allison Janney for a tumble schedule. Maybe this means Janney will take a mangle from doing voice-over work for Kaiser Permanente. Hope so as those radio ads provoke a heck out of me when I’m pushing to work.

Inside a Los Angeles Times: Special effects fable Ray Harryhausen died during a age of 92. FX continues to gamble big on movies.

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The association filed 10 applications with a U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for “Dia de los Muertos,” including applications regarding to toys, cereals and jewelry. The May 1 filings came in expectation of an untitled movie about a Mexican holiday, famous in English as Day of a Dead.

“As we have formerly announced, Disney-Pixar is building an charcterised underline desirous by a Mexican holiday Día de los Muertos,” a studio orator pronounced in a statement.

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“Disney’s heading filing was dictated to strengthen any intensity pretension for a film and associated activities. It has given been dynamic that a pretension of a film will change and therefore we are withdrawing a heading filing.”

The centuries-old holiday, with roots in inland Aztec culture, honors a passed by building altars, decorating gravesites and holding processions. The Day of a Dead is not only celebrated in Mexico, though other tools of Latin America, Europe and a United States.

A petition to stop Walt Disney Co. from trademarking “Dia de los Muertos” went adult on change.org Tuesday, a day after Stitch Kingdom reported a filings. As of Wednesday morning it had 19,500 signatures.

“Our devout traditions are for everyone, not for companies like Walt Disney to heading and exploit,” wrote Grace Sesma, a petition’s creator. “I am deeply annoyed and perturbed that a family-oriented association like Walt Disney would find to possess a rights to something that is a legitimate birthright of a people of Mexico.”

“This is a dedicated tradition. It’s NOT FOR SALE,” wrote Consuelo Alba, of Watsonville, Calif.

The heading focus was “odd” to Evonne Gallardo, executive executive of a Boyle Heights art core Self Help Graphics. The core puts on one of a largest Day of a Dead celebrations in Los Angeles and has been sponsored by a Walt Disney Co.

“The right thing to do is not to try to heading a informative and devout celebration,” Gallardo said. “I have nonetheless to see a heading on Christmas or Hanukkah.”

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It’s not a initial time Walt Disney Co. drew critique for a heading application. In 2011 it withdrew a focus to heading “Seal Team 6,” a name of a troops section that tracked and killed Osama bin Laden. Less than a week after a Navy SEAL team’s successful mission, Disney changed to obvious with skeleton to furnish toys and entertainment.

After a Navy filed a possess heading claim, Disney bailed out.

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Leah Zanolla | Posted: May 8, 2013 | Updated: May 8, 2013 – 9:52:35 AM

Even yet construction has been function for months and rumors have been using prevalent for even longer, Universal Orlando has finally strictly announced an enlargement to The Wizarding World of Harry Potter, entrance in 2014. In truth, a enlargement isn’t simply an instance of creation a existent area in Islands of Adventure larger, though instead adding a new land in a Universal Studios park. This expansion, called Diagon Alley, will be permitted by a Hogwarts Express, a sight that will lift passengers behind and onward between a existent and new lands, only like in a renouned book and film franchise. According to Universal’s central press release, a “new area will move to life some of a practice and places found in and around London in a Harry Potter books and films, charity mint adventures for fans and thesis park guest from around a world.” It will also “feature shops, a grill and an innovative, marquee captivate formed on Gringotts bank.” The recover doesn’t offer most some-more information, simply observant that some-more sum “will be expelled over time.”

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Most of these sum were leaked behind in March, so it’s always engaging to review what was leaked and what is now official. This time, they seem to filigree sincerely well. Read that essay here.

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Electronic Arts and Walt Disney hermetic a multi-year chartering understanding underneath that a videogame 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 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.

EA shares were adult 2 percent during $18.67 and Disney’s batch was adult somewhat during $65.17 in after-hours trading. What’s a batch doing now? Click here for a latest DIS and EA quotes.

Three days after each other chairman on a internet was posting “May a fourth be with you,” Tokyo Disneyland was flooded with Star Wars fans celebrating a grand reopening of Star Tours: a Adventures Continues. The float offers a 3-D Star Wars knowledge with over 50 probable incidentally comparison story combinations. There’s no larger disturb than feeling as if we are rocketing by space, interacting with informed Star Wars characters in a third dimension.

But what tender a reporter, Kuzo, a many was a pushing that day. With around 200 Disney expel members dressed in Star Wars dress and some-more Disney-Star Wars sell than we can shake a light saber at, Tokyo Disneyland on May 7 was the place to be for Star Wars fans.

Darth Vader, Storm Troopers, even Jedi Mickey and Princess Leia Minnie done an coming during a day, adding to a sharp-witted atmosphere. Many park guest were also dressed as Star Wars characters. You could truly feel everyone’s adore of Star Wars.

▼  Jedi Mickey and Princess Leia Minnie.

▼  Everyone collected around for a commemorative photo.

▼  R2-D2 and C-3P0 nod guest as they enter Star Tours.

▼  Darth Maul!!!

▼  Obi-Wan Kenobi! He looks only like Ewan McGregor!!!

▼  Kuzo unresolved with Obi-Wan.

▼  It’s utterly probable that Japanese Princess Leia is even hotter than a original.

▼ Kuzo “interviewing” Princess Leia.

Coinciding with a reopening of Star Tours, new Star Wars products went on sale. Jedi Knight Mickey Mouse, Princess Leia Minnie Mouse, and R2-D2 Donald Duck were only a few of a many renouned Disney characters given a Star Wars makeover.

The pressed plush fondle that held Kuzo’s courtesy a many was Yoda Stitch. Yoda, a Jedi Master (known as Yoda-sensei in Japanese) who lerned scores of immature Jedi and talks in puzzling prose, has been incited into Stitch, a fun-loving contriver visitor who chills out in Hawaii (or Okinawa if you’re examination in Japan). This alloy caused Kuzo most difficulty as he attempted to figure out because dual impression with frigid conflicting personalities were used…maybe it’s a ears. But notwithstanding his bewilderment, Kuzo only had to buy it.

As we competence expect, Kuzo had a best day in a happiest place on earth on a biggest day in Tokyo Disneyland history.

▼ Star Tours poster.

▼ Schedule of park events with Darth Vader on a cover.

▼ People watchful in line to float Star Tours.

▼  Happy Kuzo pleasantly display us a approach to Star Tours.

For those incompetent to make it to Tokyo Disneyland to knowledge Star Tours, we’ll leave we with a integrate of cold Star Wars commercials from Japan.

▼  Darth Vader attacks Japan.

▼ Darth Vader attacks Okinawa.

▼   Japanese Star Tours commercial.

[ Read in Japanese ]

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Bob Iger and George Lucas during a opening of Star Tours float in 2011.

“Star Wars” thesis parks might be a subsequent journey for Disney.

During yesterday’s gain call, Disney CEO Bob Iger hinted during a probability of a thesis park while discussing serve opportunities for a “Star Wars” acquisition.

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

Rumors have been swirling about a probable “Star Wars” land given Disney acquired a rights to Lucasfilm final year for $4 billion. 

Earlier this year, a rumors seemed some-more than only that as images of surveys in Disneyland California seeking visitors if they’d be meddlesome in a “Star Wars”-themed park popped adult online.

Gawker’s Ken Layne tweeted a following in March: 

Yeah, we’re going to get a Star Wars Land. The 11-year-old partial of me is really gratified with this development. twitter.com/KenLayne/statu…

— Ken Layne (@KenLayne) March 20, 2013

Since Iger mentioned opportunities by parks, it sounds expected a concentration could also be on “Star Wars”-themed rides. 

Disney already has annual “Star Wars” weekends in place during a parks.

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