The Walt Disney Studios and Paramount Pictures have reached a distribution and marketing agreement for the Indiana Jones franchise.
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 âThe Avengersâ and âIron Man 3,â which earned Paramount a considerable sum in return.
Disney has not officially announced that a fifth âIndiana Jonesâ film is in the works.
While promoting his Relativity film âParanoiaâ 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.
That said, Disney will likely move quickly to get a film in motion, given Disneyâs desire to monetize its $4 billion acquisition of Lucasfilm.
The last installment, âIndiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull,â grossed $783 million worldwide. The entire franchise has earned $1.9 billion.
As the article says they already were the ones that had the rights to make IJ films.
The difference is that now they will also be distributed under their banner.
Meaning, for the average moviegoer who doesn't care who distributes what, nothing changed.
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@Chiv: I was about to say "noooo it's a disgrace" but when I remembered that Indy movie I instantly went all "hmm on a second thought, I'm ok with the change" xD
The last Indiana Jones was the only movie in my whole life where I was out loud asking for a refund of my ticket at the cinema after it ended (which I never got of course ).
far as im concerned, alien, aliens and alien 3 (workprint ) are the perfect, closed, trilogy.
alien resurrection was some bizarre alternate universe experiment that has nothing to do with the first 3 as far as im concerned.
also like me and the terminator franchise as well i guess... and pirates of the caribbean... come to think of it, is there ANY 4th franchise film that doesnt suck out loud?!?!?
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OOH, wait, yes, fast and the furious. say what you will about the franchise as a whole, but aside from the first one, that franchise sucked UNTIL the fourth film (maybe the 5th film..., either way, they were all better than the third!). SUCCESS!! a franchise that bucks the trend!!
well i was talking more about a franchise not sucking past number 3
i mean this is about indy primarily, and indy was only a trilogy in that there were 3 films, it wasnt a 3-film STORY and in that regard, 2f2f is an apt example of a franchise going against the traditional trend and managing to get better with age (after number 3 atleast).
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and in that regard, 2f2f is an apt example of a franchise going against the traditional trend and managing to get better with age (after number 3 atleast).
