Disney Takes Over Rights to ‘Indiana Jones’ Franchise
Paramount keeps distribution rights to previous four films
The Walt Disney Studios and Paramount Pictures have reached a distribution and marketing agreement for the Indiana Jonesfranchise.
Under the arrangement, Disney gains distribution and marketing rights to future films, in addition to retaining the ownership rights it secured when it acquired Lucasfilm.
Paramount will continue to be responsible for distribution of the first four films in the franchise and will receive a financial participation on any future films that are produced and released.
Disney also had to buy the rights from Paramount to market and release “The Avengers” and “Iron Man 3,” which earned Paramount a considerable sum in return.
Disney has not officially announced that a fifth “Indiana Jones” film is in the works.
While promoting his Relativity film “Paranoia” in August, Harrison Ford expressed interest at another crack at the whip but, as of right now, no writers have been hired to write a script.
Sources say that Steven Spielberg, who directed the previous films, would still be interested in helming future pics but, like with the other installments, a story would first need to be hashed out before Spielberg would ever commit. Insiders also added that while George Lucas has sold his stake in Lucasfilm to Disney, he still may have a part in developing the story like he and Spielberg had done in the past.
http://variety.com/2013/film/news/disney-acquires-indiana-jones-rights-from-paramount-1200927216/
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What is left for Disney to buy from the collective childhoods of the world?
Paramount keeps distribution rights to previous four films
The Walt Disney Studios and Paramount Pictures have reached a distribution and marketing agreement for the Indiana Jonesfranchise.
Under the arrangement, Disney gains distribution and marketing rights to future films, in addition to retaining the ownership rights it secured when it acquired Lucasfilm.
Paramount will continue to be responsible for distribution of the first four films in the franchise and will receive a financial participation on any future films that are produced and released.
Disney also had to buy the rights from Paramount to market and release “The Avengers” and “Iron Man 3,” which earned Paramount a considerable sum in return.
Disney has not officially announced that a fifth “Indiana Jones” film is in the works.
While promoting his Relativity film “Paranoia” in August, Harrison Ford expressed interest at another crack at the whip but, as of right now, no writers have been hired to write a script.
Sources say that Steven Spielberg, who directed the previous films, would still be interested in helming future pics but, like with the other installments, a story would first need to be hashed out before Spielberg would ever commit. Insiders also added that while George Lucas has sold his stake in Lucasfilm to Disney, he still may have a part in developing the story like he and Spielberg had done in the past.
http://variety.com/2013/film/news/disney-acquires-indiana-jones-rights-from-paramount-1200927216/
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What is left for Disney to buy from the collective childhoods of the world?
It was inevitable that this would would eventually happen.