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by Timothy Zahn is a well written book about Thrawn and Eli Vanto, two soldiers in the Imperial Navy. It is a canonized twist on the story of a popular character, Grand Admiral Thrawn, in the Star Wars fan base after Disney bought Star Wars from Lucasfilm. (In this case, canon means what did or didn’t happen in Disney’s Star Wars universe, not Lucasfilm’s.) Eli Vanto wanted to be a supply officer in the Imperial Navy, but on an assignment to a backwater planet, his life is suddenly turned…

The Walt Disney Company has brought happiness through “the happiest place on earth” in California and its numerous other locations, as well as countless movies, animation or live action. Some of their most popular movies and attractions involve some version of a story where a charming prince saves a princess from peril or a plot that purposefully subverts that formula to the delight of a progressive society. While Mickey Mouse has become a cultural icon, one of the first things people think of…

I will be carefully studying a fifteen second teaser for the third trailer developed for the movie Star Wars: The Force Awakens. This film is set “a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away”. It has been thirty years in the Star Wars Universe since the conclusion of Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi and the galaxy has changed much in this thirty year time skip. The evil Galactic Empire has collapsed and its remnants have reformed to establish a successor organization called The First Order…

hit such a chord precisely because it was an original and precisely because it was unlike anything that was currently available in the marketplace (Mendelson).” When Disney purchased Lucasfilms, they announced that new Star Wars films would be made. Star Wars: The Force Awakens is the seventh installment in the Lucasfilm lineup and the first full feature Star Wars movie to be made by Disney (StarWars.com). With advanced ticket sales smashing…

The classic movies people know were created by Disney and have been cemented into our minds. Employees at Walt Disney Animations have worked to evolve ideas from the mind of Walt Disney, to the thriving studios we know and love today. From the 1970’s to the 2000’s Disney, as a whole, has changed drastically. Disney then and now are different in ways such as animation, effect, and company size. Animation in Disney has changed a great deal since the mid 1900’s. Disney’s animation style…

The Telecommunications Act of 1996 was a law that would let anyone enter the communications business and to let any communications business compete in other markets against each other. Prior to the act in 1996, the U.S. telecommunications industry was a monopoly and the act opened the doors to anybody who wanted to be a part of the communications industry. Although it opened the doors to anybody it also led to concentration of media ownership. Concentration of media ownership is essentially when…

The Walt Disney Company was founded on October 16, 1923 in California by Walt Disney and his brother Roy O. Disney. The company was originally started as an animation studio and named The Disney Brothers Company. At present time, the company is composed of four main business units which are divided into more specialized segments or divisions. The four primary business units are: Studio Entertainment where the main business unit is The Walt Disney Studios, Parks and Resorts, Disney Consumer…

stations, as well as a number of cable networks, including ABC Family, Disney Channel and ESPN. Walt Disney Pictures, Disney Animation and Pixar produce films for Walt Disney Studios, and Disney (Hoovers.com 2016). Also owning Marvel Entertainment and Lucasfilm as well as their theme parks, Walt Disney World and Disneyland. The ABC Television Group oversees The Walt Disney Company's TV, broadcasting, production, and distribution operations, as well as its radio stations and book publishing.…

on. The most popular items when you think of Disney are the fictional character that were first created with Disney such as Mickey Mouse. But after digging into Disney some more I found that they own Pixar, ABC, ESPN, Hollywood Records, Marvel, Lucasfilms and many more! Because they own so much, they are able to make big bucks. There are two main reasons I invested in Disney, one because I love them company and two, because after looking at the 52 week prices, I realized that I was buying it for…

Walt Disney, his brother Roy Disney and other animators created the Walt Disney Studios. The Walt Disney Company parent of the Walt Disney Studios was founded in 1923 in a small office in Holly- Vermont Reality in Los Angeles. They produced a series of animated and live action called Alice comedies. As they started to make the studios larger they started to call the studio Disney Bros. Studio. Later 2 years after in 1925, a larger studio was constructed in Hyperion Avenue lot, Silver Lake…