Saturday, July 7, 2018

Show Notes - Ep. 65, 7/6/18

Episode #65: It’s power trio time as Dave, Greg, and Steve blast out of Mos Eisley and into your ear holes to talk STAR WARS including the latest with the FOX-DISNEY merger, Disney’s direct-to-consumer possibilities, and why our favorite franchise is NOT the most lucrative of them all (you’ll never guess what is…and no, it’s not Marvel). We give props to our sister podcast SKYWALKING THROUGH NEVERLAND, offer up a big thanks to Marilou and Mark Hamill, and announce the winner of our first HIVE FIVE contest.

Lucasfilm “licking their wounds but not halting SW development; Boba Fett movie could be scaled down

Syfywire: mid-budget original movies work on Netflix. Could SW standalone films arrive via Disney’s direct to consumer platform?

Syfywire: Feige connects Antman and the Wasp directly to Avengers 4

Bloomberg: Every SW movie is controvercial; Disney wrote off $50 million for Solo. Video: “you want to say solo is worse than Jar Jar binks?  Come on.”

Meanwhile, Solo is available for pre-order from Target and other retailers, including iTunes

Similarities between Rey and Kylo’s light saber style – kind of awesome

GQ’s Scott Meslow’s TLJ Fan Script is hilarious

Reuters via Yahoo: Disney gets approval to buy Fox from US justice dept; must sell Fox regional sports 

Hayden is back! Vader makes the cover of Thrawn-Alliances, due out July 24th.

Fun: DL-44 from ROTJ sold for $550K

Fun: The highest grossing franchise is….