{"id":5920,"date":"2017-05-03T08:00:58","date_gmt":"2017-05-03T16:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wou.edu\/westernjournal\/?p=5920"},"modified":"2017-05-02T16:28:58","modified_gmt":"2017-05-03T00:28:58","slug":"disney-meet-kubrick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/disney-meet-kubrick\/","title":{"rendered":"Disney, meet Kubrick"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>By: Darien Campo | Film Aficionado<\/pre>\n<p>Film fans rejoice. Last week, the Walt Disney Company finally signed a multi-million dollar, multi-corporation contract which has been years in the making, officially granting them all rights to the entirety of late director Stanley Kubrick\u2019s back catalogue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a very exciting time,\u201d Disney CEO Bob Iger said in a press conference last Friday. We\u2019ve known for years now that Disney has hit its stride, and we can all admit that it\u2019s time for us to pursue a new angle, if we dare to continue releasing films.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been saying this for years,\u201d Zenia Mucha, executive vice president and chief communications officer at Disney told the Washington Post. \u201cIf we have to do one more god d&#8212; heartwarming musical about talking animals, I\u2019m burning this place to the ground. So I gave Bob an ultimatum: either we purchase the rights to every Stanley Kubrick film, or I\u2019m out. And he knew I was serious.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Stanley Kubrick Cinematic Universe, or SKCU as Disney is calling it, will reportedly mold perfectly with Disney\u2019s existing film canons.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the greatest day of my life,\u201d Kevin Feige, president of Marvel Studios said in an online post yesterday. \u201cI always knew, no matter what, that the Marvel Cinematic Universe would never reach its peak until I was legally able to give the OK on Dr. Strange vs. Dr. Strangelove \u2013 and now I can.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Feige has also greenlit production on sequels to \u201cA Clockwork Orange,\u201d \u201cLolita\u201d and \u201cSpartacus,\u201d as well as sending talent scouts to begin casting for a \u201c2001: A Space Odyssey\u201d television series exclusively for Netflix.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s in the future for Disney? A whole lot, according to Pixar chief creative officer, John Lasseter: \u201cIt\u2019s a world of opportunity that has opened up to us now. The first project I ever started was a CGI children\u2019s remake of Kubrick\u2019s \u2018Barry Lyndon,\u2019 but Steve Jobs told me there was no way he was going to purchase those rights for us. So eventually that project became Toy Story. But you know what? Steve Jobs is dead now. And so is that b&#8212;&#8211; Kubrick, so I\u2019m going to make whatever film I want to make, and there\u2019s no one left alive who can tell me I can\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Today, an article in Entertainment Weekly revealed that DC is currently in talks to purchase the rights to the filmography of Paul Thomas Anderson.<\/p>\n<p>Contact the author at dcampo13@wou.edu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By: Darien Campo | Film Aficionado Film fans rejoice. Last week, the Walt Disney Company finally signed a multi-million dollar, multi-corporation contract which has been years in the making, officially granting them all rights to the entirety of late director Stanley Kubrick\u2019s back catalogue. \u201cIt\u2019s a very exciting time,\u201d Disney CEO Bob Iger said in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":937,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/937"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}