A news that shook the galaxy. More powerfull than 10 Death Stars and more devastating than ten Galactic Empires. Right now, Disney became the most powerful movie studio in this galaxy.
Disney bought Lucasfilm for US$ 4.05 billion. The deal, which ran under wraps until now, was formalized on Tuesday, and the first project has already been announced: “Star Wars – Episode VII” in theaters in 2015.
Mickey, Donald and Goofy have the Force. They alread have the command over Pixar and Marvel. From now on, they have the command over Lucasfilms and all the subsidiaries as LucasArts, Industrial Light & Magic and Skywalker Sound, too. May the Force be with them.
Watch Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of The Walt Disney Company Bob Iger and George Lucas, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Lucasfilm, discuss the announcement:
Having your own Millenniun Falcon is a dream of almost all Star Wars fans, isn’t? But if you can not buy one, just build one! You may not believe this, but there are some nuts building an unique and full-scale Millennium Falcon right now in a galaxy not too far…
The project is a quest to build the ultimate Star Wars prop: a 1:1 scale ESB/ANH hybrid Millennium Falcon with complete, correctly scaled interior. According to Chris Lee – Founder and Project Leader – he owns a secluded 88 acre of land where the Millennium Falcon is being building and selected a site on the property that is low enough so that the top of the Falcon can be seen easily from several vantage points.
According to the members of the project:
“We’ve done quite a bit of research on the full-size sets, both interior and exterior, and there is little coordination between the two. For instance, the interior set of the cockpit is way larger than the dimensions of the separate exterior set part of the cockpit. For those interested, I was able to resurrect Robert Brown’s Ship of Riddles site using the web archive wayback machine. That’s where I first encountered the problem that existed between interior and exterior scales. This has been an tremendously helpful source of information for full-scale building endeavours”. From there, they arrived at:
Length: 114 feet
Beam (docking ring to docking ring): 81.485 feet
Height to top of body (not counting quad-laser turret): 24.878 feet
Height to top of dish: 30.889 feet
Clearance: ground to landing gear bay level: 7.779 feet
Clearance: ground to outside bottom of cockpit tube: 13.081 feet
Using the Robert Brown’s site and many pictures from the Star Wars movies (you can see the pictures cliking here), the project will take 5-7 years to be completed.
Sylvia Maria Kristel
28 September 1952 – 17 October 2012
The Dutch actress Sylvia Kristel, best known for her roles in soft-porn films in the 1970s particularly the French hit “Emmanuelle”, has died in Amsterdam at the age of 60.
Over a 30-year career she starred in more than 50 international feature films. But she shot to fame with “Emmanuelle” in 1974, an erotic story set in Bangkok about a bored housewife, her husband, and their many companions.
The movie was followed by work with directors including Alain Robbe-Grillet, Claude Chabrol and Roger Vadim. Later films included “The Nude Bomb” (1980) and “Private Lessons” (1981). She also starred in a 1981 film version of the D.H. Lawrence novel “Lady Chatterley’s Lover”.
“She was known for her erotic work, but she could do a lot more than that,” said Marieke Verharen, her agent. “She is the most famous Dutch actress ever.”
Before falling ill recently, she had been preparing for a role in an Amsterdam theatre production of the Tim Firth play “Calendar Girls”. Her last film role was in a 2010 Italian television production about a trio of Dutch female singers who were popular in inter-war Italy.
Source: Reuters.
FOREVER EMMANUELLE
Sylvia Maria Kristel was a Dutch actress who performed in over 50 movies but she always will be remember for playing the lead character in four of the seven “Emmanuelle” films.
Sylvia was born in Utrecht, Netherlands, the elder daughter of an innkeeper, Jean-Nicholas Kristel, and his wife. In her 2006 autobiography “Nue”, she claims to have been sexually abused by an elderly guest at the hotel at the age of nine, an event which she has refused to discuss in detail. Her parents divorced when she was 14 years old after her father left home for another woman.
She began modeling when she was 17. She entered the Miss TV Europe contest in 1973 and won. Multilingual, she spoke Dutch, English, French, German and Italian. She gained international attention in 1974 for playing the title character in the softcore film “Emmanuelle” which remains one of the most successful French films ever produced.
After the success of “Emmanuelle”, she often played roles that capitalised on that sexually provocative image, most notably starring in an adaptation of “Lady Chatterley’s Lover” (1981), and a nudity-filled biopic of the World War I spy in “Mata Hari”.
Her Emmanuelle image followed her to the United States, where she played Nicole Mallow, a maid who seduces a teenage boy, in the 1981 sex comedy “Private Lessons”. Another mainstream American film appearance was a brief comic turn in the Get Smart revival film “The Nude Bomb” in 1980.
In September 2006 Kristel’s autobiography “Nue” (Nude) was published in France. It was translated into English as “Undressing Emmanuelle: A Memoir”, in which she told of a turbulent personal life blighted by addictions to drugs, alcohol, and her quest for a father figure, which resulted in some harmful relationships with older men. The book received some positive reviews.
A heavy smoker of unfiltered cigarettes from the age of 11, Kristel was diagnosed with throat cancer in 2001 and underwent three courses of chemotherapy, and surgery after it spread to her lung. On 12 June 2012, she suffered a stroke and was hospitalized in a life-threatening condition. She died in her sleep, aged 60, on 17 October 2012, from esophageal and lung cancer. She was survived by her son Arhtur, from her relationship with the Belgian novelist Hugo Claus, and her younger sister.
Source: Wikipedia.
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