The Walt Disney Company to Acquire Twenty-First Century Fox, Inc., after Spinoff of Certain Businesses, for $52.4 Billion in Stock
21st Century Fox to spin off Fox Broadcasting network and stations, Fox News, Fox Business, FS1, FS2 and Big Ten Network to its shareholder
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The agreement also provides Disney with the opportunity to reunite the X-Men, Fantastic Four and Deadpool with the Marvel family under one roof and create richer, more complex worlds of inter-related characters and stories that audiences have shown they love.
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I think the ramifications to sports are going to be bigger than for movies. Disney has now bought into the declining regional sports industry in a big way, along with owning all streaming. I expect that their answer to no longer being able to force bundle ESPN to everyone is to create a Super ESPN where if you want to watch sports including your local team in the US, you have to subscribe to ESPN.
So Deadpool stays R rated thankfully. with Disney buying everything they're eventually going to have to grow up too, I can see them taking Deadpool as their leap into more mature content.
They get Predator as well and no way in hell does that thing go PG.
Now that Marvel have the Fantastic 4 back. we'll finally get a good movie out of that beleaguered franchise.
Also, does Hugh Jackman come back? maybe into Deadpool 3?
Disney owned Miramax for a number of years (bought it just before Pulp Fiction came out). Touchstone was created in the mid-80s specifically so they could release more adult-oriented stuff without tainting their family-friendly brand.
Down and Out in Beverly Hills was their first R-rated movie, in 1986.
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If this includes the marvel properties not only will we never get that avengers vs X-Men crossover but I think it’s safe to say that Comcast will ruin every property that they own.
Comcast owns universal, I did not know that. So I guess instead of avengers/X-Men crossover we can expect to see the xmen/Jurassic Park crossover instead. Who doesn’t want to see wolverine fighting dinosaurs?
I believe there is a clause with the X-Men franchise that if anyone buys Fox the rights revert back to Marvel, so no matter who buys Fox it looks like X-Men back to Disney will still happen.
So you would rather something like Fantastic Four vs. Infinity war? Marvel franchises have done much better under Disney critically and financially.
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I believe there is a clause with the X-Men franchise that if anyone buys Fox the rights revert back to Marvel, so no matter who buys Fox it looks like X-Men back to Disney will still happen.
No one knows what is in those contracts, but the rumor is the rights will revert only if Fox no longer exists as an entity. I doubt Comcast would dissolve Fox and risk losing those rights?
Comcast is bigger and even more of a giant than Disney due to their cable division.
Neither is an ideal option from a competition perspective but at least with Disney you get the benefit of a unified Marvel universe, and new Fox properties at DisneyWorld/Land.
And Universal is way worse at destroying franchises than Disney is, in reality Disney saved Marvel (and to a lesser extent Star Wars but that one is contentious).
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