The Walt Disney Company has announced it will acquire Marvel Entertainment, Inc. in a stock and cash transaction worth 4 billion dollars.

Disney will pay Marvel shareholders a $30 per share, plus approximately 0.745 Disney shares for each Marvel share they own, based on the closing price of Disney on August 28, 2009. What makes this deal huge, as far as content goes, is the fact that under the terms of the deal, Disney will acquire ownership of not only Marvel itself, but also over than 5,000 Marvel characters. Disney will now benefit from any movie or a game based on characters such as Iron Man, Spider-Man, X-Men and many others; extending its reach to the young male population it had somewhat neglected will definitely be good for the entertainment giant.

Ike Perlmutter, Marvel’s Chief Executive Officer said that “Disney is the perfect home for Marvel’s fantastic library of characters given its proven ability to expand content creation and licensing businesses.”

“This transaction combines Marvel’s strong global brand and world-renowned library of characters including Iron Man, Spider-Man, X-Men, Captain America, Fantastic Four and Thor with Disney’s creative skills, unparalleled global portfolio of entertainment properties, and a business structure that maximizes the value of creative properties across multiple platforms and territories,” said Robert A. Iger, President and Chief Executive Officer of The Walt Disney Company.

Read the official announcement here.

August 31st, 2009 | by Stan Schroeder

Great dance tune!

I miss hearing your voice,
All the words that you said to me
But now this empty space fills me up and takes over me
And I cant escape it

It always keeps coming back
The sound of missing you
I hear it all around
The sound of missing you
The silence is so loud
The sound of missing you

I cant break through these walls that are rising in front of me
And the deeper I fall, I realise I never gonna be free
Baby release me

It always keeps coming back
The sound of missing you
I hear it all around
The sound of missing you
The silence is so loud
The sound of missing you

Time goes by and it feels like Im just going out of my mind
What we had, bring it back now
Cause Im feeling empty inside
Oh, times goes by and it feels like Im just going out of my mind
What we had, bring it back now
Cause Im feeling empty inside

It always keeps coming back
The sound of missing you
I hear it all around
The sound of missing you
The silence is so loud

(Yeah) I miss hearing your voice,
All the words that you said to me (oh I need you)
But now this empty space fills me up and takes over me (heeeey)
(Baby release me)
I cant break through these walls, they are rising in front of me (it alway keeps coming back)
(The sound of missing you)
And the deeper I fall, I realise I never gonna be free (I hear it all around)
(The sound of missing you)
I cant break through these walls, they are rising in front of me (the silence is so loud)
The sound of missing you

The sound of missing you

The sound of missing you

Found another Doobie hit on Conan O’Briens Site. Doobie Wrote, “After singing to the City Council of Whittier on August 11th, I figured Conan deserved a song about my broken down cars. This is a depiction of their saga.”

Inspired by the classic Universal film that launched a legacy of horror, The Wolfman brings the myth of a cursed man back to its iconic origins. Oscar® winner Benicio Del Toro stars as Lawrence Talbot, a haunted nobleman lured back to his family estate after his brother vanishes. Reunited with his estranged father (Oscar® winner Anthony Hopkins), Talbot sets out to find his brother…and discovers a horrifying destiny for himself.

Lawrence Talbots childhood ended the night his mother died. After he left the sleepy Victorian hamlet of Blackmoor, he spent decades recovering and trying to forget. But when his brothers fiancée, Gwen Conliffe (Emily Blunt), tracks him down to help find her missing love, Talbot returns home to join the search. He learns that something with brute strength and insatiable bloodlust has been killing the villagers, and that a suspicious Scotland Yard inspector named Aberline (Hugo Weaving) has come to investigate.

As he pieces together the gory puzzle, he hears of an ancient curse that turns the afflicted into werewolves when the moon is full. Now, if he has any chance at ending the slaughter and protecting the woman he has grown to love, Talbot must destroy the vicious creature in the woods surrounding Blackmoor. But as he hunts for the nightmarish beast, a simple man with a tortured past will uncover a primal side to himselfone he never imagined existed

First single off their new album.

In Cinemas Worldwide December – In the epic action adventure AVATAR, James Cameron, the director of Titanic, takes us to a spectacular new world beyond our imagination. On the distant moon Pandora, a reluctant hero embarks on a journey of redemption and discovery as he leads a heroic battle to save a civilization. The film was first conceived by Cameron 14 years ago, when the means to realize his vision did not yet exist. Now, after four years of actual production work, AVATAR delivers a fully immersive cinematic experience of a new kind, where the revolutionary technology invented to make the film, disappears into the emotion of the characters and the sweep of the story.

In the supernatural action thriller Legion, an out-of-the-way diner becomes the unlikely battleground for the survival of the human race. When God loses faith in Mankind, he sends his legion of angels to bring on the Apocalypse. Humanity’s only hope lies in a group of strangers trapped in a desert diner and the Archangel Michael (Paul Bettany). Legion also stars Dennis Quaid, Lucas Black, Tyrese Gibson, Kate Walsh, Adrianne Palicki, Charles S. Dutton and Willa Holland and is directed by Scott Stewart.

This is Awesome!  I’ve been following this guy Doobie McDonald for a few weeks now and I woke up this morning to this surprise,  he wrote me a song!  How cool it that!?!  I love it. Thanks Doobie!  Hope I can sit down and have a drink with you someday. Keep up the good work.

This article by by David Rojas in Resources is too long to post but the link below is worth the read.
In the Woods