Here's the entirety of what Devin learned, and how he ended up having to cough a bunch of it up because he didn't check the iTunes versions before writing up the story.
That's basically it.
Something I learned recently about the entertainment enthusiast press - sometimes (often, actually) they will report on stories and never actually email/call all (or any) of the relevant people. I heard from a poster here that they'd been told by a manager that they were going to start taking pre-sales for The Force Awakens in mid-October. Later, I sent a bunch of emails to theater managers asking when they'd been told pre-sales would go live. I got responses from two theaters in my own state, and one from Texas, all with the exact same date. So I posted it up on Facebook, and it got picked up by more than a few websites.
None of those websites actually called to verify anything. In fact, one of them mentioned that they thought about calling Lucasfilm/Disney, but decided against it because they were pretty sure they'd get a no comment. But they never then called any theaters, or theater representatives (or even messaged me, the guy they kept quoting) themselves. Most of them simply rolled with the assumption some sneaky mole from the inside smuggled out valuable information to a guy they knew, and the whole clandestine affair just miraculously became a story. Because that's how people just naturally believe this shit gets out. It couldn't possibly be that someone simply asked questions and got answers from multiple people.
So far as I can tell, Empire reported on a thing Landis said Lucas said "awhile ago" - but nobody following up on the story has attempted to contact Lucas, or Lucasfilm, or Disney. Even if it's nothing but a "no comment."
Hopefully someone at one of the trades will pick up on what Empire's reporting, and at least take the step to contact someone (either the company who did the restoration, or Lucasfilm/Disney themselves, or even Fox, for that matter) to find out what's the truth behind this statement.
