Another interesting article regarding the Disney/Marvel merger hoopla:
Following up on the Disney acquisition of Marvel, I attended this morning’s investor call. A full transcript is supposed to be available later today; in the meantime, here are some quick notes I took. I apologize in advance if there are any glitches; I was trying to type very fast to take down statements.
The call was opened by Lowell Singer, Disney’s SVP of Investor Relations. Bob Iger, President and CEO of Disney, began with prepared remarks. Several times, Marvel’s portfolio of “over 5000 characters” was mentioned as having potential value for development. Terms like “value”, “leverage”, and “revenue synergies” were used frequently. Disney expects that “synergies over time will drive value creation”, that [...]

Oh the amusing little things I stumble across while checking my MySpace…

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NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — The Walt Disney Co. announced Monday that it has agreed to purchase comic book and action hero company Marvel Entertainment for about $4 billion.
The deal pairs a comic book publisher that just recently began to produce its own movies with one of the largest international media companies in the world.
“This is perfect from a strategic perspective,” Disney Chief Executive Robert Iger told CNNMoney.com. “This treasure trove of over 5,000 characters offers Disney the ability to do what we do best.”
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12,937 people in Mexico City on Saturday made the attempt to break the world record for the largest number of people dancing to Michael Jackson’s Thriller at once!
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Worldwide leader in family entertainment agrees to acquire Marvel and its portfolio of over 5,000 characters
Acquisition highlights Disney’s strategic focus on quality branded content, technological innovation and international expansion to build long-term shareholder value
Burbank, CA and New York, NY, August 31, 2009 —Building on its strategy of delivering quality branded content to people around the world, The Walt Disney Company (NYSE:DIS) has agreed to acquire Marvel Entertainment, Inc. (NYSE:MVL) in a stock and cash transaction, the companies announced today.
Under the terms of the agreement and based on the closing price of Disney on August 28, 2009, Marvel shareholders would receive a total of $30 per share in cash plus approximately 0.745 Disney shares for each Marvel share they own. At [...]

I have been looking forward to this day for quite some time. I have been itching to get myself back to Hawaii, but realistically (especially now that I am fulltime at my job), that most likely won’t be happening until my birthday next year. Since I can’t have Hawaii for the time being, I’ve been itching for any beach scenario, really. There’s nothing like digging my toes in the sand and finding my peace there while listening to ocean waves crash.
Karri decided we needed to return to this spot– we actually camped there together back in 2005 not too long after I first met her. I agreed. We started inviting a handful of our friends… and voila! We’ve got a [...]

…it already has me excited.
“It” being Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios. There is one in both Los Angeles and Orlando. Karri, her hubby, Elissa, and I all went together a couple of years ago on the actual holiday and had a blast! That year, that had something that catered to each of our (well, the girls anyway) fears: a Freddy Krueger maze for Karri, a Jason Vorhees maze for Elissa, and a Leatherface maze for me.
Of course, Elissa decided to make it a point to send every dude with a chainsaw after me that night: “Pssst… go get my friend! She’s terrified of chainsaws!”

We weren’t able to make it last year, but Karri and I have mentioned a few [...]

Not really into the song, but the video looks cool.

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A cemetery? Tombstones? Dudes in fedoras and capes? Open graves? Guys with epic beards and dreads, rocking out like true badasses? Why it must be a metal video, right? Well, it’s Five Finger Death Punch’s new clip for ‘Hard to See,’ the lead single of the band’s forthcoming LP, ‘War is the Answer,’ which bombards record stores Sept. 22. Noisecreep is honored to be bringing you the world premiere of the video, helmed and conceptualized by Matt Silverman. And we actually spoke yesterday with drummer Jeremy Spencer about what went down during the black snot-producing shoot.
The video opens with Five Finger frontman Ivan Moody inexplicably standing at the edge of an open grave. Is he a gravedigger? Is this hole [...]