2012
Global leader in high-quality family entertainment agrees to acquire world-renowned Lucasfilm
By GalaTView staff
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Acquisition continues Disney’s strategic focus on creating and monetizing the world’s best branded content, innovative technology and global growth to drive long-term shareholder value including legendary STAR WARS franchise. Lucasfilm to join company’s global portfolio of world class brands including Disney, ESPN, Pixar, Marvel and ABC. STAR WARS: EPISODE 7 feature film targeted for release in 2015.
“Lucasfilm reflects the extraordinary passion, vision, and storytelling of its founder, George Lucas,” said Robert A. Iger, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of The Walt Disney Company. “This transaction combines a world-class portfolio of content including Star Wars, one of the greatest family entertainment franchises of all time, with Disney’s unique and unparalleled creativity across multiple platforms, businesses, and markets to generate sustained growth and drive significant long-term value.”
“For the past 35 years, one of my greatest pleasures has been to see Star Wars passed from one generation to the next,” said George Lucas, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Lucasfilm. “It’s now time for me to pass Star Wars on to a new generation of filmmakers. I’ve always believed that Star Wars could live beyond me, and I thought it was important to set up the transition during my lifetime. I’m confident that with Lucasfilm under the leadership of Kathleen Kennedy, and having a new home within the Disney organization, Star Wars will certainly live on and flourish for many generations to come. Disney’s reach and experience give Lucasfilm the opportunity to blaze new trails in film, television, interactive media, theme parks, live entertainment, and consumer products.”
Rest in peace Mitch Lucker
Mitch Lucker, singer for metal band Suicide Silence, died Thursday morning in Orange County after a motorcycle crash Oct. 31, according to the Orange County Coroner’s office. The accident was in Huntington Beach, California and police is still investigating all the details of this accident.
The the Bond star is back
By GalaTView.com
The new James Bond movie “Skyfall” has been breaking box office records overseas, and now it even has the blessing of the Vatican. Daniel Craig, is signed for both movies too and he says he’s heard no such thing. “It’s impossible to do a two-parter, I heard that someone was talking about that we’re doing a two-parter, but that’s the first I’ve heard about it.”
Los Angeles, CA celebrates “The Day of the Death”
By GalaTView Staff
The 2012 Dia de Los Muertos festival at Hollywood Forever Cemetery is the largest celebration of it’s kind in California. This year’s event will reach back to the pre-Aztec roots of Dia De Los Muertos and explore the Mayan Gods, rituals and calendar.
This joyful celebration of our ancestors had Musical performances by Ozomatli, La Santa Cecilia, Very Be Careful, Las Cafeteras, and Tribu. Over 100 Altars created by members of the community to their ancestors and loved ones. It also included Hundreds of Aztec Ritual Dancers in full costume and an Art Exhibition in the Cathedral Mausoleum. The environment was full of flash backs with death and alive people with many Arts and Crafts vendors. Therefore, there was Traditional Mexican cuisine by The Taste of Mexico, a group of LA’s top native Mexican restaurateurs who adhere to traditional Mexican ingredients and recipes to promote the authentic flavor of Mexico (any try was delicious) with tacos, tortas, enchiladas and Mexican drinks which everyone looks happy and satisfied with this incredible event. Los Angeles is a city that welcomes to all the foreigners traditions and open a part of its traditions in order to share “ A real taste of Hispanic Traditions.”
Taylor Swift is a romantic singer forever
The 22-year-old music superstar Taylor Swift and Conor Kennedy, 18, have split after three months of dating. However, she is very focus in her music and maybe her next song will be a break-up song about him.
“Iron Man 3” is going to have revenge?
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Marvel’s “Iron Man 3” pits brash-but-brilliant industrialist Tony Stark/Iron Man against an enemy whose reach knows no bounds. When Stark finds his personal world destroyed at his enemy’s hands, he embarks on a harrowing quest to find those responsible. This journey, at every turn, will test his mettle. With his back against the wall, Stark is left to survive by his own devices, relying on his ingenuity and instincts to protect those closest to him. As he fights his way back, Stark discovers the answer to the question that has secretly haunted him: does the man make the suit or does the suit make the man?
Starring Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, Don Cheadle, Guy Pearce, Rebecca Hall, Stephanie Szostak, James Badge Dale with Jon Favreau and Ben Kingsley, “Iron Man 3” is directed by Shane Black from a screenplay by Drew Pearce and Shane Black and is based on Marvel’s iconic Super Hero Iron Man, who first appeared on the pages of “Tales of Suspense” (#39) in 1963 and had his solo comic book debut with “The Invincible Iron Man” (#1) in May of 1968. The film releases May 3, 2013,
Hollywood celebrates “The Day of the Death”
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Hollywood celebrates “The Day of the Death”
The 2012 Dia de Los Muertos festival at Hollywood Forever Cemetery is the largest celebration of it’s kind in California. This year’s event will reach back to the pre-Aztec roots of Dia De Los Muertos and explore the Mayan Gods, rituals and calendar. This celebration will be placed at Hollywood Forever Cemetery, on 6000 Santa Monica Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90038 this coming Saturday October 27, 2012 from 12PM to 12AM.
This joyful celebration of our ancestors will feature:
•Musical performances by Ozomatli, La Santa Cecilia, Very Be Careful, Las Cafeteras, and Tribu
• 100+ Altars created by members of the community to their ancestors and loved ones
• Hundreds of Aztec Ritual Dancers in full costume
• An Art Exhibition in the Cathedral Mausoleum
• A children’s arts project area presented by LACMA (The Los Angeles County Museum of Art)
• A new Dance Plaza featuring historical and modern dance rituals
• Arts and Crafts vendors
• Food vendors from around Los Angeles
“The Flat” is an emotionally riveting documentary
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At age 98, filmmaker Goldfinger’s grandmother passed away, leaving him the task of clearing out the Tel Aviv flat that she and her husband shared for decades since immigrating from Nazi Germany in the 1930s. Sifting through a dense mountain of photos, letters, files, and objects, Goldfinger begins to uncover clues that seem to point to a greater mystery and soon a complicated family history unfolds before his camera. What starts to take shape reflects nothing less than the troubled and taboo story of three generations of Germans – both Jewish and non-Jewish – trying to piece together the puzzle of their lives in the aftermath of the terrible events of World War II.
It’s clear she knows nothing of her father’s war crimes. Or does she? In families, this fascinating film suggests, acknowledging or denying the darker truths of one’s legacy is a choice that must be made again and again, each and every day.
Steven Spielberg is back again
Steven Spielberg probably is turning his back on action movies with Indiana Jones 5 but yet still not confirm their participation in this action film.
Zimmerman claimed a fair hearing
By GalaTView Staff
A Florida judge has set June 10, 2013 as the start date of the murder trial of George Zimmerman for shooting and killing 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Fla., on Feb. 26.
