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The Walt Disney Co. is buying Lucasfilm for about $4.05 billion in stock and cash. Lucasfilm is best known for its lucrative Star Wars franchise. Disney will makeStar Wars: Episode VII for release in 2015. With this purchase, Disney is expanding in the tent-pole feature film business. In recent years, Disney has expanded