Disney has been buying a lot of companies lately, but Imax isn’t one of them.

A fake press release went out this morning claiming that Disney was buying the large-screen movie theater chain for $1.5 billion. That price would have represented a rich 90 percent premium to Imax’s closing stock price yesterday had the offer been real — but it wasn’t.

“[Imax] has not been acquired, nor is it in discussions with The Walt Disney Company about a potential acquisition,” Imax said in a statement.

Disney has yet to officially respond to the phony release.

A few weeks ago, Disney bought comic book company Marvel Entertainment for $4 billion. The Mouse House has spent $11 billion over the last three years buying movie production companies to shore up its struggling film division. But Disney has never owned movie theaters and getting into that business would be a departure from its core strategy of content creation.

Imax shares initially jumped 6 percent on the false news.