11-06-2017, 11:58 AM
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First Line Centre
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21st Century Fox has been holding talks to sell most of the company to Disney
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21st Century Fox has been holding talks to sell most of the company to Walt Disney Co., leaving behind a media company tightly focused on news and sports, according to people familiar with the situation.
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Wow.
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11-06-2017, 12:00 PM
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First Line Centre
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Originally Posted by Sr. Mints
<https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/06/21st-century-fox-has-been-holding-talks-to-sell-most-of-company-to-disney-sources.html>
Wow.
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Would that make the X-Men part of the DCU!?!?! Sign me up!
Could also mean the Simpsons in Disneyland!
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11-06-2017, 12:25 PM
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Um....at what point are people seeing Mickey Mouse dressed as 'The Monopoly Man?'
I dont begrudge them their success, but they'd own a sizable chunk of the Entertainment industry...
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11-06-2017, 12:29 PM
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That Crazy Guy at the Bus Stop
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Originally Posted by cKy
Would that make the X-Men part of the DCU!?!?! Sign me up!
Could also mean the Simpsons in Disneyland!
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You mean MCU right?
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11-06-2017, 12:31 PM
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That would be brutal. If Disney owned X-Men then would they continue with Deadpool? Would be super cool to see X-Men integrated into the MCU (X-Men vs Avengers movie yes sign me up!), but I prefer the tone of X-Men films and wouldn't want them to have the same style as the MCU.
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11-06-2017, 12:40 PM
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That Crazy Guy at the Bus Stop
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I'm guessing that Disney would release R rated movies under an imprint or something.
No way they are giving up on a $700m franchise like Deadpool just because of their reputation as a family friendly studio.
It would also be good news for Marvel Comics. They've put all non Disney comics on the back burner for a while now.
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11-06-2017, 12:48 PM
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First Line Centre
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The amount of massive consolidation going on in basically every industry has been rubbing me the wrong way for a while.
Granted, this makes sense for a whole host of reasons (Marvel/X-Men/FF/etc.; Star Wars distribution; The World of Pandora at Disney World; this would give Disney even more clout with whatever plans they have to stream - i.e. Hulu.) But what's after that?
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11-06-2017, 12:52 PM
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#9
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I believe in the Jays.
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Good. Maybe we can finally get a Fantastic Four movie that doesn't suck.
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11-06-2017, 12:55 PM
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Disney and the Aliens franchise should be interesting.
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11-06-2017, 04:35 PM
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Originally Posted by Nadal Fan
That would be brutal. If Disney owned X-Men then would they continue with Deadpool? Would be super cool to see X-Men integrated into the MCU (X-Men vs Avengers movie yes sign me up!), but I prefer the tone of X-Men films and wouldn't want them to have the same style as the MCU.
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You do realize that Disney has had no issue with it's subsidiaries releasing R-rated content in the past right? They owned Miramax in the 90's and early 2000's, during which such family friendly movies like Pulp Fiction, Clerks, Trainspotting, and Jay & Silent Bob Stike Back were released. The Daredevil series is pretty violent as well, and the Punisher series will likely ramp that up more. I doubt they'd make any changes to Deadpool, especially with how lucrative he is right now
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11-06-2017, 07:30 PM
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Bad bad bad...
Monopolies aren’t great
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11-06-2017, 07:55 PM
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Don't worry, there's still Time Warner, Sony, NBC Universal/Comcast, Viacom, and MGM, among others.
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11-06-2017, 08:00 PM
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ALL ABOARD!
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This should scare Netflix. They're focusing on original content right now but people still come for the movies and TV shows they're able to add to their library.
They'd lose all the Fox programming when Disney pulls out.
Selfishly, I want the X-Men and FF in in the MCU and a Planet of the Apes Land at Disney.
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11-13-2017, 10:56 AM
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Originally Posted by Parallex
Good. Maybe we can finally get a Fantastic Four movie that doesn't suck.
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Disney already did that.
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12-05-2017, 07:54 AM
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Some kinda newsbreaker!
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Looks like deal is close to being done:
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/12/05/disn...--sources.html
Over $60 billion.
Disney will get Nat Geo, Star, regional sports networks, movie studios, stakes in Sky and Hulu.
Fox will keep news, business news, and Fox Sports.
Last edited by sureLoss; 12-05-2017 at 12:05 PM.
Reason: CNBC article was updated
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12-05-2017, 08:02 AM
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This is awesome! I honestly only care because like most have said, Disney could start over the X-Men and make them not suck! The FF would be great too and I don't think they'd touch Deadpool because it's a license to print money. I love comic book movies and this would be amazing for the future of comic book movies.
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12-05-2017, 08:14 AM
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Originally Posted by sureLoss
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I am kind of surprised Disney didn't take this opportunity to be the hero and dismantle Fox News. I guess that would have been a bit too political for Disney.
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12-05-2017, 08:16 AM
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Originally Posted by Poe969
This is awesome! I honestly only care because like most have said, Disney could start over the X-Men and make them not suck! The FF would be great too and I don't think they'd touch Deadpool because it's a license to print money. I love comic book movies and this would be amazing for the future of comic book movies.
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I agree with most of what you say but I have really enjoyed the X-Men universe. It's something different than the MCU and we got great stand alone movies. Movies like X2, DOFP, First Class, Deadpool, Logan are some of the best comic book movies ever done. There batting at 50% which isn't bad. I don't know if we get a Logan film if Disney owns the rights, at least not the one we got. If this deal does go through then next years 3 X-Men films are all probably going to bomb knowing that they are just going to reboot it anyways.
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12-05-2017, 08:25 AM
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The XMen movies suck? It's arguably the most consistent (and the longest) superhero film franchise.
Honestly, I would prefer that XMen stays separate of the Avengers universe. I know people want to see Wolverine fight Hulk, but I think there will be benefits to keeping the large universes with unlimited characters separate.
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