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In spite of regulatory hurdles and anticompetetive accusations, The Walt Disney Company completed their acquisition of Fox yesterday. Disney themselves value the deal at about $71 Billion, and say they expect to make at least $2 billion from it by 2021. As we've noted before, the deal could have...

Jason Lewis, a professional senior environment artist at Obsidian, is reportedly porting the environments of Star Wars Dark Forces to Unreal Engine 4 as a passion project. While port looks significantly better than the 1995 FPS, to say the last, it doesn't feature any shootable enemies yet. If...

Even though Netflix's Marvel TV series are still quite popular, the streaming platform has steadily been axing all of them. They already canceled Daredevil, Luke Cage, and Iron Fist, and today, Deadline reports that Netflix has all but finished off their slice of the Marvel Cinematic Universe by...

EA has an exclusive license to produce Star Wars games, but there's been plenty of outrage on the internet focused on what they've chosen to do with that license. Multiple promising projects, like another KOTOR or a "Star Wars Uncharted" game have allegedly been canceled or turned down, while...

Disney's Marvel Cinematic Universe has snowballed into a truly enormous franchise, but few parts of the franchise are more popular than the "Avengers" movies. Today, Marvel uploaded a trailer for the 4th Avengers film: Avengers Endgame. As expected, it looks like survivors are dealing with the...

Variety is reporting that Disney's annual report shows ESPN has lost 2 million subscribers over the past 12 months. The sports juggernaut's subscriber numbers have dropped from 88 million in September 2017 to 86 million in September 2018. The Disney Channel lost 3 million subscribers, Freeform...

Amazon has bid on Disney's 22 regional sports networks that it gained when it purchased television and movie assets from Fox. The Justice Department made Disney divest itself of those properties to close the deal on the Fox assets. While Fox hasn't placed a bid for the 22 regional sports...

Following in the footsteps of ESPN+, Disney's CEO Bob Iger revealed that Disney's new streaming service will be called Disney+. The service is expected to launch in the U.S. "in late 2019." If you simply can't wait for the new service, Disney also launched a website for the new service, where...

Kathleen Kennedy's contract with Disney has been extended for another 3 years to remain president of Lucasfilm through 2021. The four Star Wars films that she has launched since becoming the president of Lucasfilm have made $4.5 billion at the worldwide box office alone and more through...

The $4.99 a month streaming video service from ESPN has attracted more than 1 million paid subscribers since its launch in April of this year. Disney, which owns ESPN has decided to pull its content from Netflix in favor of starting a branded streaming service dedicated to its movies and shows...

Instagram users are getting hacked and in addition to their passwords being changed; profile pictures are being switched to animated Disney characters. The hackers then change the email address to a Russian .ru domain to completely lock them out. This leaves the user to complain on Twitter...

Disney Animation lighting artist Jeff Gipson is making his virtual reality (VR) directorial debut with the release of the short film "Cycles." Cycles is the story of what the true meaning of a home is as it was inspired by Gipson's childhood experience in moving his grandparents to an assisted...

During San Diego Comic-Con, Disney announced the revival of an animated series that younger Star Wars fans grew up with a decade ago. Star Wars: The Clone Wars is set to return for a 12 episode run on Disney's direct-to-consumer streaming service. The first five seasons of the series...

Esports must be getting pretty good if ESPN and Disney are interested in it. They along with Blizzard announced an exclusive broadcasting deal for the Overwatch League that kicked off on both cable networks last night. With that said, I've tried watching some esports and I couldn't really get...

Disney has just joined the ranks of streaming content providers with their new ESPN+ service. Disney has never done anything like this before and it makes sense for them to offer their flagship sports product to the masses like this. I guess they've seen the ESPN numbers dropping on traditional...

In a surprise move a federal judge in California has denied Disney's injunction request against Redbox to stop them from selling download codes of their movies. To further salt the wound the judge has also found that Disney has engaged in copyright misuse. Ouch! It sounds like a dude named...

ESPN has made an announcement today that themselves, Disney, and the NFL have signed a multiyear deal to broadcast the Madden NFL Championship Series and future leagues surrounding the franchise. The agreement will broadcast two Madden-based leagues: The Madden NFL 18 Club Championship and the...

CNBC is reporting (WARNING auto play video) talks have taken place over the last few weeks and there is no certainty they will lead to a deal. The two sides are not currently talking at this very moment, but given the on again, off again nature of the talks, they could be revisited. If this...

With news of Disney pulling most of its content from Netflix by 2019 and starting its own streaming service, TorrentFreak mentions the move can lead to more rampant piracy due to a saturation of too many services. Disney's content is one of the top consumed media on Netflix. The company having...

The House of Mouse is facing a class action lawsuit from a mom in San Francisco. Filed in California courts last Thursday, the suit claims that Disney is violating the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). Apparently without parental consent, Disney is collecting "persistent...

Disney has reportedly filed for a new patent for robotic versions of its animated characters, presumably to replace those pesky humans in suits at theme parks. The robots are intended to have a "posing interface, providing soft collisions, and facilitating hugging (or soft human interaction)"...