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Bloody Marys All Around! Pirates of the Caribbean Teaser!

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Whisperings and rumors of Captain Jack Sparrow’s next adventure to find the Fountain of Youth was teased this weekend at the San Diego Comic Con for the new movie Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. Even if it weren’t not true, you wouldn’t be interested in viewing would you? He proposes the dangers of zombies, cutthroats, mermaids, and of course Penelope Cruz. I am pretty excited to see this movie, unlike others who were left with a bad taste in their mouths after the last two films, but I can side with that as well. That doesn’t make me run away from the franchise, as I still love the world that Jerry Bruckheimer created in the first Pirates of the Caribbean movie. Nothing new was really revealed in this teaser other than that it was presented in 3D at the con, but was released in 2D online obviously. The new movie is being shot in 3D so that will give new depth to the pirate world.

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Story Details for Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides

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Production of Rob Marshall’s Pirates of the Caribbean: on Stranger Tides has begun in Hawaii, and with that more details of the story have been revealed thanks to the lovely folks at Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. The fountain of youth cannot hide when Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) is on the hunt. Joining the crew is Ian McShane as Captain Blackbeard and Penelope Cruz as Blackbeard’s daughter and one of Sparrow’s illustrious exes. Coming back is also Kevin R. McNally as Joshamee Gibbs and of course Geoffrey Rush as Captain Hector Barbossa. To read more on the story and further information regarding the production, check out the Walt Disney press release after the jump!

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An Epic Look at the Disney-Marvel Merger

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I stumbled on this epic ‘mural’ of someone’s portrayal of the Disney and Marvel Comics merge. I think it’s pretty cool and someone put some good thought into it. Click on the picture to enlarge it. Plus if you didn’t know, the Marvel share holders approved the buy out this past week or so. Word……

Disney’s A Christmas Carol Trailer

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Yahoo! Movies has debuted the trailer for Disney’s A Christmas Carol, writer/director Robert Zemeckis’ adaptation featuring Jim Carrey, Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Bob Hoskins, Robin Wright Penn and Cary Elwes.

Opening in conventional and IMAX theaters on November 6th, the film captures the fantastical essence of the classic Dickens tale in a groundbreaking 3-D motion picture event. Carrey plays eight different characters in the film, including the alternate versions of Scrooge.

You can watch the trailer here at, Yahoo! Movies, since all embedding has been disabled on YouTube. ARG!

Pirates of the Caribbean 4: On Stranger Tides?

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According to /Film, at the D23 Expo, it was released that the new Pirates of the Caribbean movie is currently subtitled, On Stranger Tides. What does this mean? The new movie is up for shooting around the April 2010 time frame. This would be the start of a whole new trilogy and luckily without Orlando Bloom. These won’t be shot back to back like the original trilogy, so maybe we’ll get a decent Pirates movie……

Epic Purchase: Disney Buys Marvel Entertainment Inc. for $4.24 Billion

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WHAT??!?!?!?! Disney has just purchased Marvel Entertainment Inc. for a sum $4 billion dollars. This is just ridiculous. The closing price of Disney stock on Friday, August 28, their stock was $50 each, which will be distrtibuted to Marvel for their company that accumulates to the $4 billion.

According to Walt Disney Company:

“This transaction combines Marvel’s strong global brand and world-renowned library of characters including Iron Man, Spider-Man, X-Men, Captain America, Fantastic Four and Thor with Disney’s creative skills, unparalleled global portfolio of entertainment properties, and a business structure that maximizes the value of creative properties across multiple platforms and territories,” said Robert A. Iger, President and Chief Executive Officer of The Walt Disney Company. “Ike Perlmutter and his team have done an impressive job of nurturing these properties and have created significant value. We are pleased to bring this talent and these great assets to Disney.”

Under the deal, Disney will acquire ownership of Marvel including its more than 5,000 Marvel characters. Mr. Perlmutter will oversee the Marvel properties, and will work directly with Disney’s global lines of business to build and further integrate Marvel’s properties.

From Superhero Hype:

UPDATE #1: In a conference call, the companies said that the deals for movies for characters at other studios (Spider-Man, X-Men, etc.) will stay in place under the terms set by Marvel and the other studios.

UPDATE #2: John Lasseter met with Marvel last week about a possible team-up between Marvel and Pixar and got “pretty excited, pretty fast.” They say there’s definitely an opportunity there.

UPDATE #3: The deal with Paramount Pictures to distribute “Iron Man 2,” “Thor,” “Captain America” and “The Avengers” stays in place as well, but Disney would like to self-distribute down the line. “When the time comes we’ll take a closer look at it.” It was actually stated that the deal still included five films, so that is one more film after “The Avengers.”