User blog:ARTaylor/Disney to Buy Lucasfilm

Lucasfilm, the company behind Star Wars and Indiana Jones franchises, will join Marvel Entertainment and Pixar Animation Studios under The Walt Disney Company banner. Today, it was announced that Disney would be purchasing Lucasfilm and all their businesses and rights, including the famed franchise as well as Industrial Light and Magic and Skywalker Sound.

Disney has already announced Star Wars Episode VII, which will be released in 2015, with VIII and IX on the way.