Marvel star meets Disney star

The Goliath of kid-entertainment has just gotten bigger. Walt Disney company has announced that it has put forward a deal of $4 billion to Marvel Comics Enterprises. Marvel Comics is a brand everybody can relate to with X-Men, Spiderman, The Fantastic Four, The Incredible Hulk and the recent success, Iron Man and of course many more.

Patrick Goldstein of the The Los Angeles Times calls this takeover a “re-invention”. Disney, that has been catering majorly to the kid audience, will now be charming the PG-13 crowd too who, love action, super-skilled superheroes and bloody super-villains! Marvel will also see a “new dawn” in the entertainment arena as marveled by Marvel editor-in-chief Joe Quesada.

Experts believe that this takeover story is not new. In 2006, Pixar was taken over by Disney in a whooping 7.4 billion USD deal. Their business combination brought the sweet tinkles of successes called Toy Story, Ratatouille, Cars, Wall-E and many more new-age cartoons.

Bob O’ Brien of the Barron’s Online wonders why this partnership did not happen sooner. He calls this combination as the “marriage of a maker of axe-heads with the maker of axe-handles”. At the same time he brings about an interesting point asking how well this merger be advantageous. Various Marvel films are in the pipeline with other production houses like Columbia Pictures (for Spiderman), 20th Century Fox for (X-Men) etc. It will take a while for Disney to get their hands on these more popular Marvels. Distributing rights of several Marvel movies like “Thor”, “The Avengers”, “First Avengers: Captain America” will not be in the hands of Disney. For now, they can try scooping up some of the less known Marvel characters among the 5,000 characters collection! Quite a number huh?! The Chief Executive Officer for Marvel proudly conveys the fact that “Disney is the perfect home for Marvel’s fantastic library of characters … this is an unparalleled opportunity for Marvel to build upon its vibrant brand and character properties by accessing Disney’s tremendous global organization and infrastructure.”

Seems like Disney has their hands and legs on a Diamond mine! Oops… no pun intended

We have now to see how this will affect the fans. Disney Chief Executive Robert Iger has already made it clear that they would not interfere with the Marvel’s inner workings.

Disney and Marvel have their own sets of fans. Will they like to see something like Spiderman meeting Minnie Mouse (as coined by Canaccord Adams)?

Would you like that? What would you really like?

Disney and Marvel Entertainment

Disney has spent $4 billion to take over the comic-book giant Marvel Entertainment. This surprise announcement have left many speculate about the upcoming releases of Disney. After this deal Disney will now have access to Marvel’s huge volumes of super heroes, which include Spider-Man, Iron Man, the X-Men, Captain America, Thor and the Fantastic Four and about 4,995 other comic-book characters.

The former executive of Marvel and a co-creator of Spider-Man, Stan Lee has said, “I couldn’t be happier with this agreement. It’s a great move for Disney, for Marvel and for my company Pow! Entertainment since Pow! has a first-look deal with Disney. From every possible point of view, the merger of Disney and Marvel is a match made in heaven. Just imagine, with this deal Marvel gives Disney a library of literally hundreds of unique and colorful characters that have the potential to make great, high-concept movies and long-lasting franchises — and nobody knows how to play in that ball park better than Disney. This is a great day for the two companies and for the entertainment community as a whole. To sum it up as simply as possible, when you combine the best with the best, everyone wins!”

One of the rival studio chief has been quoted as saying, “The real difference maker with Marvel is that it makes movies where the parents are just as excited to see the film as their kids. That’s the difference between a movie barely making $100 million — like a lot of Disney’s homegrown products — and a movie making $300 or $400 million. It’s a whole different playing field”.

The deal will now allow Disney to diversify its brand. It can now embrace all types of production from “High School Musical” to “Pirates of the Caribbean” to “Toy Story” to “Spider-Man”.

Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart

All the Twilight stars like Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, Taylor Lautner and all the others are all set to get real close and personal with the millions of fans across the world.

Inspired by the raging success of the “Star Trek”, the Summit Entertainment, which is the movie producer of “Twilight”, is planning to set up a series of new formulas for Twilight fans over the next three years during the course of the film series’ run.

The convention will begin on August 28th just outside New York at the Hilton Parsippany Hotel in Parsippany, N.J. The several other conventions will take place in Chicago, Miami, Seattle, Nashville, San Francisco, Atlanta, Los Angeles, Charlotte, N.C., Minneapolis, Phoenix, Boston, Toronto and Portland, Ore.

According to the Hollywood Reporter, the Summit Entertainment has joined hands with Creation Entertainment to create the “Twilight” fan conventions. The conventions will closely replicate the extremely successful Star Trek conventions that have very successfully carried off to keep that franchise popularly alive for over 40 years.

The Twilight conventions will sport onstage appearances by “Twilight” stars including Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart, screenings of exclusive footage from the Twilight Sequel, panel discussions, parties, musical performances, costume and trivia competitions, auctions, autographing, merchandising and photo opportunities.

Taylor Swift

Country music artist Taylor Swift will be adorning the pages of Time Magazine. Recently, the teen star sat down with the magazine for a new photo shoot, and also answered questions. In reply to which recording artist she would like to collaborate with (musically),  Swift says “I would like to do a duet with Taylor Hanson, because I have loved Hanson since I was 8. And Taylor Hanson has an amazing voice. And also we’re both named Taylor.”

But that is not all. Swift had more words about the other Taylor which she spilt on her Twitter. “Taylor Hanson will always be awesome. I’m always going to be stoked that we share a name.” Somebody is all mushy about her namesake!

Check out Time magazine for more questions asked to the beautiful country singer, and the answerrs she gave. Swift will be taking the stage, along with another superstar country singer Brad Paisley, in Nashville to perform at the CMT Awards. There will be a host of other country stars including Toby Keith and Rascal Flatts.

Freida Pinto

Freida Pinto has got a mentor in Scarlett Johansson. Pinto is riding high, these days, on the heels of her ´Slumdog Millionaire´ success. Freida has bagged a Woody Allen film. To top it all she is busy shooting for magazines and fashion shows these days. Freida has gained access to all the high profile assignments. Scarlette Johansson has allegedly teamed up Freida to star in Milan Fashion Week. Freida has raised several eyebrows in Hollywood for her stellar role as ´Latika´ in the Danny Boyle film.

Scarlette Johansson

Freida worked several Hollywood red carpets which sure is an achievement for the 24 year old actress. Scarlett who has acted in three Woody Allen films including he Oscar-winning Vicky Cristina Barcelona has taken Freida Pinto under her guidance and light. Freida must be really lucky to have raised several other eyebrows like those of Angelina Jolie and several others.

Freida was seen posing in a stylish and glamorous cream dress at the fashion show. Freida acts in the Woody Allen film which also has Josh Brolin, Naomi Watts and Anthony Hopkins. Pinto has several other big shot kitties in her bag. Freida recently appeared on Indian Vogue´s cover. Freida has also been shot by Cosmopolitan and Maxim. Freida Pinto is the talk of the town. The stylish young actress is going places and is even said to be the next big thing of the fashion town. Several industry experts and International fashion magazines believe that Freida would rise much higher than estimated by many.

Lindsay Lohan

Pharrell Williams has expressed his desire to make music with Lindsay Lohan. Lindsay reportedly is getting calls from Pharrell, the American music star who desperately wants to dig on a collaboration on Lindsay’s next record, the follow up to her upcoming record ‘Spirit in the Dark’. Lindsay has claimed that Pharrell has talked her out for the alleged collaboration.

The 22-year-old actress said: “Pharrell Williams is an amazing guy. He’s only been really kind to me whenever I’ve met him…” Lindsay also talked about the record which is being planned. She further said: “…He said, ‘I’d love to make a great record with you, but I want to take you out of all the elements that you’re used to. Let’s go away. Let’s go somewhere nice where you can be focused, and let’s make an album there.’”

Lindsay sounded really awed with Pharrell’s request and wish to make something interesting. Her joys knew no bound: “I really respected that because not only is it hard for someone to just say something like that, it’s nice that, as much as I admire him, he would even take the time to say that to me. But it’s true. That’s what it takes.”

Lindsay started off with her pop career by recording songs for the films she starred in. Those were: ‘Herbie: Fully Loaded’ and ‘Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen’. Lohan had also released two albums ‘Speak’ in 2004 and ‘A Little More Personal (Raw)’ in 2005.

Lindsay’s ‘Spirit in the Dark’ will be a much awaited stars galore affair. Guest appearances of Ne-Yo, Akon, Snoop Dogg, 50 Cent, Kanye West and Timbaland are reportedly in for the record.