The Negatives of Disney Buying the Majority of Fox

[MartyMcFly]

Also, double post but there are only but so many days in the year and only so many people who can oversee movies. Disney now owns a lot of properties that could either languish or just go extinct because of finite resources and finite time

 

[Json]

Also, double post but there are only but so many days in the year and only so many people who can oversee movies. Disney now owns a lot of properties that could either languish or just go extinct because of finite resources and finite time

Is it possible Disney would be more willing to unload some IPs to other studios or some financing group buy it like FF was originally under for Fox?

 

[MartyMcFly]

Is it possible Disney would be more willing to unload some IPs to other studios or some financing group buy it like FF was originally under for Fox?

If the price is right maybe. But I’m sure they want all those IPs for an extensive library on their streaming services. One place where you could stream every alien movie every die hard movie every predator movie and home alone etc? That’s worth its weight in gold. I wouldn’t sell that shyt lol

 

[The Prince of All Saiyans]

disney bout to Star Wars Simpsons

get ready for a movie every other year

Star wars Simpsons?

 

[Hugs]

Rupert Murdoch just got billions to invest in his news networks.

ppl should be shytting themselves about this

 

[Wild self]

ppl should be shytting themselves about this

But their love for MCU movies got them blinded that the fact that this can literally be the end of freedom of choice.

 

[Wild self]

A lot of film sites have laid out the pros and cons. Slash film did a great pros and cons back and forth if anyone wants to check it out.

But ultimately it all comes down to less choice and less variety. Monopolies are bad ideas because they hurt consumers and the people involved in one way or another.

So like someone already said, there’s just less choice and the threat of homogenization. WGA west already sent our a letter saying how pissed they are about this. For them, it comes down to one less place in town meaning less leverage for them to negotiate solid deals as writers. Which leads to less work or people just taking whatever work they can get.

Another potential issue is directors with original ideas (the ones this board always screams they want) will have less of a chance to do that because of Disney is controlling the release calendar with blockbuster after blockbuster, universal and Sony and paramount may feel pressure to play the same game. So we could see a lot more remakes and reboots and movies based on existing IPs rather than original shyt.

Then there’s the theater chains. If you live in a town that doesn’t have an AMC or cinemark or the other big theater chain, there’s a chance they’ll shut down. Disney is already asking theater chains for a crazy amount of the gross for their movies and smaller theaters just can’t afford to pay that. That’s why ticket prices go up and concessions prices are insane. So yeah those prices could go higher which means we’d be fukked in the end.

And in the same vein more big movies on screens means less of other movies. A lot of good horror flicks don’t have the budget or muscle to compete with something like Star Wars. So now those horror flicks could be on less screens or play in theaters for a shorter amount of time. Or just skip theater all together. Which would also suck.

And that’s just scratching the surface. There’s a lot of potentially bad things that can come from this once the smoke is clear and like @Muad'dib said, the industry didn’t want this

Great post. People just don't care until they paying $30 movie tickets

 

[Bobby Lashleys eyebrows]

The good news is that I can completely stop watching FOX as a whole. The bad news is that Rupert Murdoch got 52 billion.

 

[Wild self]

As long as I have my all of X-mens

The reality is a lot of shows getting canceled so the actors and staff gonna be outta work.

There will be fewer opportunities for new movie scripts. If Disney don’t like ya script pray another studio does. They could easily blackball anyone

Everything will be family friendly and corny

They gonna be able to pay actors whatever they want.

The fox properties are for streaming and will be on Disney app.

This off top. It’s prob some more shyt. The industry needed this not to happen

Thats How I feel. This is a massive L for the industry if I ever saw one. Actors outside of a few will take pay cuts, will be forced to take corny roles, and so on.

 

[Wild self]

That's all people can think about with this deal: seeing the X-Men with the Avengers and whatever.

Which admittedly will be cool, but Disney basically runs the entertainment world now, which is not good overall.

If this happened a couple of years go, Hidden Colors and Birth of a Nation would never been released.

 

[head shots101]

As long as I have my all of X-mens

The reality is a lot of shows getting canceled so the actors and staff gonna be outta work.

There will be fewer opportunities for new movie scripts. If Disney don’t like ya script pray another studio does. They could easily blackball anyone

Everything will be family friendly and corny

They gonna be able to pay actors whatever they want.

The fox properties are for streaming and will be on Disney app.

This off top. It’s prob some more shyt. The industry needed this not to happen

How do you know this,?

 

[Maude]

How do you know this,?

The news breh. Already reported that Disney getting rid of fox scripted programming
but keeping all the successful properties. The rest is common sense when you dealing with
a monopoly.

 

[AnonymityX1000]

If this happened a couple of years go, Hidden Colors and Birth of a Nation would never been released.

Hidden Colors?! Freudian slip much?

 

[MartyMcFly]

How do you know this,?

It’s been all over the news breh. Fanboys have only paid attention to one aspect of the news. Hollywood reporter and deadline and variety and even CNBC have covered the other aspects of it.

 

[MartyMcFly]

The news breh. Already reported that Disney getting rid of fox scripted programming
but keeping all the successful properties. The rest is common sense when you dealing with
a monopoly.

They haven’t decided what they’re doing with all the scripted programming but the word is fox as a broadcast company is going to focus more on sports, news, and reality tv. Obviously they’re not dumping the simpsons and family guy and I’m sure they’ll do something with the gifted. But Lucifer and lethal weapon and the exorcist? No clue. Also I really wonder what they’ll do with empire