I believe the Simpsons have a deal with Universal, kind of like Marvel comics do.
News FOX selling out to Disney?
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I believe the Simpsons have a deal with Universal, kind of like Marvel comics do.
That's my point. Even Disney knows half of this stuff won't make them money, so they're just along for the ride. Dollhouse is dead, for example, Disney or not.
I wouldn't call it "dead," I'd call it "complete." It told an entire story that was brought to a satisfactory conclusion, even if it turned out to be rather more compact than it might've been. But I'm not sure a longer run would've served the story any better.
Disney literally resurrected Boy Meets World, a show that had been dead for like fifteen years, for a 70-episode spinoff run a year or two ago. They'd reanimate Walt's skeleton and show it off as a special attraction for the power of cryonic technology in Tomorrowland if they thought it would sell hotel rooms and park tickets.
I think dead is the better term, because many movies and shows are intended to be "complete" until the unnecessary sequels start churning. But I do see your point, and if there was a huge fanbase and money to be made, "complete" wouldn't matter.
You're not wrong. I'm just going to have to personally disagree and say that, again, there is no nostalgia for something like "Dollhouse" to bring it back, nobody "grew up" with it the way Boy Meets World was able to later capitalize on. I could be wrong, but in EVERY merger, there are main selling points and there are things that are quickly discarded. I think there's no money to be made with a lot of these and they'll be quietly left alone.
The larger point is that it is not good for all of these IPs to be under the umbrella of one conglomerate. I mean, fuck, welcome to the world of Blade Runner.
I'm going to see things a bit more optimistically. With only so many stories Disney can put out in a year, we might finally be at a point where some of the movies that should have stayed at only 1 might be able to do so.
The point is, it's still there. You can still buy the DVD set and watch the series as a complete saga, just as you can still watch Casablanca or Forbidden Planet or read The Great Gatsby or David Copperfield. Just because a work of fiction was finite and is no longer being produced, that doesn't mean it's gone. I get that you're talking about franchise viability from a corporate perspective, but what I'm saying is that that shouldn't matter from a viewer's perspective. I've still got both season sets and the Epitaphs comic on my shelves, so it's not dead to me. And that's why I don't like that choice of words.
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Ah, I see where you're coming from now. And I agree with all of that.
Ah, I see where you're coming from now. And I agree with all of that.
Welcome home, X-Men and Fantastic Four.
As for the rest, and there is a lot of it, only time will tell whether or not the Mouse will do right by their new conquests.
As for the rest, and there is a lot of it, only time will tell whether or not the Mouse will do right by their new conquests.
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2...to-sell-off-21st-century-fox-assets-to-disney
Looks like it's happening. I'm not entirely comfortable with so many IPs being under one roof.
Looks like it's happening. I'm not entirely comfortable with so many IPs being under one roof.
Putting aside the concerns of too many IPs under one roof (which is a serious concern), I look forward to the Fantastic Four finally getting a good film.
I also wonder if it's too late to include Silver Surfer in the fourth Avengers film (probably is).
Looking forward to Disney’s Alien and/or Predator movies.
Princess Ripley? IDK, after that last Alien movie I'm willing to give it a shot.
Of course there will, but that's not the problem. Too much consolidation means that there are too few places to sell new IPs. It doesn't matter how many writers there are if there are only a few buyers. That's bad for writers because there are fewer opportunities to sell their work and less competitive incentive for the buyers to offer them better terms.
I saw a post on Facebook pointing out that, since they're the offspring of a Queen, it's the Xenomorphs that are the Disney Princesses now.
Technically, the Xenos are the Grandkids of the Queen. The Facehuggers are her direct offspring.
But anywho, after 10 years the war is over...and the Mouse has won.
Which doesn't contradict the "Princess" notion. Way to ruin a joke for no reason.