**ITS OFFICIAL** Walt Disney buys 21st Century FOX

[humminbird]

even if comcast is sucessful with this the superhero rights go back to marvel/disney since they can't be transferred.

 

[JerseyBoy23]

Gonna be hard to see Comcast owning NBC and Fox

You can't own two national networks so either way the people who work for FOX Network are screwed.

 

[JerseyBoy23]

Owning Universal isn't enough?

But no way can this shyt go through.... Comcast would be a virtual monopoly. Disney was only buying Fox's movie arm - 21st Century Fox whereas Comcast is trying to buy ALL OF FOX.

It's a monopoly either way cause FOX's market share immediately puts Comcast/Disney in the driver's seat.

 

[Ethnic Vagina Finder]

Yeah plus stock is better than cash too for taxes.

No way Disney doesn't get their way with X-Men etc. They would be fukkED after 2019. Them contracts expiring they have nothing to go with. Plus no villians. They make magic but without the Fox properties them shyts gonna get real stale.

At the very least they're going to try to do what they do with Hulk and hamstring Disney to use the characters or like Namor make them lease them at a high price

The marvel fans outside of the comic book readers have grown to the point they are the majority. Marvel doesn’t need well known villains but I get what you’re saying.

 

[parallax]

The marvel fans outside of the comic book readers have grown to the point they are the majority. Marvel doesn’t need well known villains but I get what you’re saying.

tell me about it. hearing them scream about doom is proof in itself

 

[Rekkapryde]

It's a monopoly either way cause FOX's market share immediately puts Comcast/Disney in the driver's seat.

Disney isn't buying all of Fox. Comcast is trying to

 

[Bleed The Freak]

The marvel fans outside of the comic book readers have grown to the point they are the majority. Marvel doesn’t need well known villains but I get what you’re saying.

Yeah but good luck milking the villians catalogue without

Doom
Galactus
Sinister
Omega Red
Apocalypse
Magneto
Annihilus
Krull

For the next 10 years.

It'd be brutal.

 

[Ethnic Vagina Finder]

Yeah but good luck milking the villians catalogue without

Doom
Galactus
Sinister
Omega Red
Apocalypse
Magneto
Annihilus
Krull

For the next 10 years.

It'd be brutal.

I mean as far as phases and team ups, it would be impossible to duplicate the infinity stones saga. I doubt there will be another "culmination" even like IW or Avengers 4. I think that's what they meant when they say the MCU will be changed forever.

It feels like this was the pinnacle. As bad as Galactus is, do you really see them teasing him in movies and after credits like they did Thanos? But then again maybe Galactus is the underboss, his Silver Surfer and his heralds are the capos's who could be the main villains or associated with the main villians in movies leading up to Galactus.

Put it this way. If they renew RDJ's contract, then we won't be seeing the X Men back at Marvel studios for a while (Magneto would dispose of him faster than Thanos )

 

[Bleed The Freak]

I mean as far as phases and team ups, it would be impossible to duplicate the infinity stones saga. I doubt there will be another "culmination" even like IW or Avengers 4. I think that's what they meant when they say the MCU will be changed forever.

It feels like this was the pinnacle. As bad as Galactus is, do you really see them teasing him in movies and after credits like they did Thanos? But then again maybe Galactus is the underboss, his Silver Surfer and his heralds are the capos's who could be the main villains or associated with the main villians in movies leading up to Galactus.

Put it this way. If they renew RDJ's contract, then we won't be seeing the X Men back at Marvel studios for a while (Magneto would dispose of him faster than Thanos )

A proper Apocalypse build up is just as good.

Not that bullshyt that dropped from Fox

 

[Brandeezy]

even if comcast is sucessful with this the superhero rights go back to marvel/disney since they can't be transferred.

False, they only go back if Fox is folded into Comcast. If Comcast keeps the Fox brand and let's them operate on their own then they get to keep them

 

[humminbird]

False, they only go back if Fox is folded into Comcast. If Comcast keeps the Fox brand and let's them operate on their own then they get to keep them

darn comcast sucks then

 

[JerseyBoy23]

Disney isn't buying all of Fox. Comcast is trying to

True. I know we're focusing on the Marvel characters but Comcast really just wants to keep a majority of Hulu and Sky, the X-Men and Fantastic Four just happen to be collateral damage.

If Disney offers them Hulu and Sky, Comcast would probably fall back.

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

X-Men vs. Dom's Crew?

 

[Norrin Radd]

Disney Could Give Up Sky to Get Fox Assets

To fend off a possible bid from Comcast CEO Brian Roberts, Disney chief Bob Iger could let Comcast have Sky.

Bob Iger once called Sky a "crown jewel," but the realization is setting in that the Disney CEO may have to concede the European broadcaster so it can push through its deal to acquire much of 21st Century Fox before Comcast messes it all up, a source with knowledge of the situation tells The Hollywood Reporter.

Disney’s proposal includes Fox’s 39 percent interest in Sky, and by the time a Disney-Fox merger would be approved, Fox may own the entire thing, which is coveted by Iger, though not at the expense of the whole Fox deal.

Comcast is said to be readying a cash offer of about $60 billion for the same Fox assets Disney has agreed to acquire for $52.4 billion, and Comcast has also offered to buy all of Sky for $31 billion. In order to appease Comcast, and sweeten its offer for Fox, Disney may encourage Fox to let Comcast have Sky.

As the deal stands now, if Comcast were to get Sky, Disney would assume about $12 billion less in debt when it acquires Fox in the partial merger. That could represent more negotiating power should Disney still need to outbid Comcast for the Fox assets.

Letting Comcast get Sky so that Disney could close on Fox is an arrangement that makes sense, given Comcast’s mission is to grow more rapidly overseas and Sky could be a perfect fit, while Disney’s goal has more to do with total domination of the movie business and crushing Netflix.

Disney, courtesy of Star Wars, Marvel and Pixar, is already tops in film with a 22 percent share of the domestic box office last year, and adding Fox’s Avatar, X-Men and Planet of the Apes franchises could make it the most formidable studio in the history of Hollywood. As for Netflix, Disney is planning to launch a competing product next year and Iger said on Tuesday that Fox content would be part of it. He also said the plan is that nothing on Disney’s over-the-top service would be available to any other digital entity, so he will need a good amount of strong, exclusive content if he’s expecting to do battle with Netflix, the worldwide leader with 125 million subscribers.

Another Disney goal is to get Fox’s portion of Hulu which, added to what it already owns, would give Disney 60 percent. Interestingly, Iger said Tuesday that Hulu and the upcoming Disney service would co-exist just fine, suggesting Disney content that is inappropriate for the latter would be fed to the former.

As for Fox, it is controlled by Rupert Murdoch, and his plans include becoming one of the largest shareholders of Disney, the premier entertainment conglomerate run by Hollywood’s best CEO. Should the deal close, he would own about 5 percent of the $153 billion company. Murdoch is said to like the Disney deal that involves payment in stock more than a Comcast cash offer that could carry more tax liability. Murdoch's son Lachlan is likely to run what's left of Fox after a sale to Disney (or Comcast), while son James is likely to venture out on his own, perhaps creating a company that will invest in digital-media startups.

For Comcast CEO Brian Roberts, whatever happens is viewed as a victory, as he could acquire Sky, most of Fox or all of the above. If he doesn’t, he will have succeeded in driving up the price Disney must pay for any or all of those assets.

Everything remains in flux, but some on Wall Street see Sky as a near deal-breaker for Disney.

"Is there any scenario where Disney would proceed with Fox, but allow Comcast to assume majority control of Sky?" asks BTIG analyst Richard Greenfield. "We continue to believe Sky is critical to Disney's direct-to-consumer ambitions and international expansion."

On the other hand, Stephen Cahall of RBC Capital Markets calls Fox "quite important to Disney" while adding that Sky is "less so."

Interesting

 

[TransJenner]

A proper Apocalypse build up is just as good.

Not that bullshyt that dropped from Fox

X-men apocalypse

One of the best superhero films I ever saw