Disney Buys 21st Century Fox

Those better be tears of lubrication in anticipation for X-Men joining the MCU!

 

Once again...

 

WWIII might be Disney v Amazon. Can't wait to watch them duke it out! Ya know, before anti-trust laws finally come for them both.

 

Don’t forget Apple

 

I know most of the film blogs spent their time talking about how cool it'll be to see the X-Men join the MCU or potentially having the fanfare reintroduced to the Star Wars films, but this is downright fucking scary.

 

Jesus. Isn't Disney worth like 150B? So they're shelling out more than a third of their total value for this? Seems aggressive.

 

Look at the top corporations in the world. They are the umbrella to every other company you can imagine.
Small example: Imgur: The magic of the Internet

 

i think the boldest part about this is their hulu takeover, but that also seems inevitable. they were in the process of building their own streaming service but bought one instead. it honestly probably saved them a few steps. I could see their service going up, being a huge success, pulling any of their content off hulu and onto their own, and over time hulu would become the third, lonely guy in the streaming wars, eventually putting themselves up for sale as cash flow slowed down, and then disney snatches them up. so this makes sense.

but i think acquiring hulu and 90% of their outstanding character licenses was the big move here, and as a comic nerd I am super on board with everything.

 

Conspiracy theories are already rolling that Disney waited to announce this today to help drown out the reports of the FCC/Net Neutrality stuff. Lol

 

if i am being honest, it feels weird to not have the 21st century fanfare before a star wars film haha

 

I know they don't technically qualify as a monopoly, but jesus they are getting way to close to being one. I did not want this.

 

Oh, I totally agree haha.

 

X-Men in the MCU… Fantastic 4 In the MCU! Oh my god this is awesome!

 

Have you seen The Last Stand and the new Fantastic Four? It's completely understandable why people are ignoring everything else and just zoning in on those two properties. That's how poorly handled they were, that no one even gives a fuck about the repercussions of them buying everything else. Them snagging Hulu is probably one of the bigger deals. They just skipped so many steps in setting up their own streaming platform service. But yeah... DOCTOR DOOM!!!!

 

Everyone is concerned over X-Men, meanwhile, as a lifelong fan, I'm very concerned with what they'll do with the Simpsons.

 

fuck them

 

I wish there was someone who could stop this. Really feel uneasy with a single company owning so many properties.

I assume this means Universal Studios now can't modify their Simpsons area? Was bad enough they couldn't modify the Marvel area.

 

Easy problem to fix. Just merge with Disney!

 

Not that The Exorcist tv show was ever a huge smash, but it is excellent and the ppl involved have tweeted they're worried about their fate with this deal and I am displeased.

 

The FOX network will be left in shambles. That network will remain under the same control, but 70% of the FOX network content is produced by 20th TV, so I doubt they will continue a large chunk of their scripted shows. I envision the fox newtwork to be mainly reality TV. I bet there will be 6+ hours of Gordon Ramsey content per week.