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The acquisition of Lucasfilm is in keeping with this proven strategy for success and we expect it to create similar opportunity for Disney to drive long-term value for our shareholders. We believe we can do great things with these amazing assets…. Lucasfilm, and more specifically the Star Wars franchise, fits perfectly within the Disney portfolio of intellectual properties and the strategic and financial implications of this acquisition are compelling.

Our valuation focused almost entirely on the financial potential of the Star Wars franchise, which we expect to provide us with a stream of storytelling opportunities for years to come delivered via all relevant platforms on a global basis.

George and his team have built Star Wars into one of the most successful and enduring family entertainment franchises in history, as well as one of the best selling licensed character merchandise brands in the U.

However, we believe there is great opportunity to further expand the consumer products business. Today, Star Wars is heavily skewed toward toys and North America. We see great opportunity domestically to extend the breadth and depth of the Star Wars franchise into other categories.

With renewed film releases, and the support we can give the Star Wars property on our Disney-branded TV channels, we expect that business to grow substantially and profitably for many years to come. We also expect to create significant value in the film business. We plan to release the first new Star Wars film in , and then plan to release one film every two to three years.

Lucasfilm has not released a Star Wars film since Revenge of the Sith in These initiatives were also considered in our valuation. Our valuation of Lucasfilm is roughly comparable to the value we placed on Marvel when we announced that acquisition in Our Lucasfilm valuation is almost entirely driven by the Star Wars franchise, so any success from other franchises would provide upside to our base case.

I realize it may be a challenge for you to quantify our opportunity given the limited amount of publicly available information. In terms of the impact on our financials, we expect the acquisition to be dilutive to our EPS by low single digit percentage points in fiscal and and become accretive to EPS in Our capital allocation philosophy has been consistent since Bob took over as CEO.

Wall Street is hopeful Disney can quickly recoup the money by fully tapping the potential for more movies, theme park tie-ins and merchandise, says David Miller, analyst at investment research firm Caris. Lucasfilm "is one of the great entertainment franchises of all time. Many investors were caught off guard by the announcement, but there have been questions about what Disney would do with its mounting pile of cash.

Kennedy, who produced Schindler's List and War Horse , will become the new studio president and be executive producer on the new films. Film critic Leonard Maltin, also a historian of the medium, was taken aback by the news and had questions about it. There are a lot of unanswered questions. Peter Sealey, a California professor and former president of marketing and distribution for Columbia Pictures, says it appears Lucas gains the most out of the deal.