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Holy !@#$, Disney buys Marvel Comics???

You beat me to it!

I was watching fox business this morning! You could see the face of Alexis Glick when she heard this news! She's very stunned!

That's bad!!!
 
We are the Mouse. You will be assimilated. Your creative and economic distinctiveness will be added to our own. Resistance is futile.
 
Bob The Skutter said:
destructive said:
what does this mean?! somebody help me
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It means Disney is $4bn lighter, but just acquired the rights to some of the biggest performing movie tentpoles of the last decade.
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Though I strongly doubt this means that Sony (Spider-Man) and Fox (F4, X-Men) suddenly don't own the movie rights to those characters anymore.

I suspect Marvel's distribution deals with Paramount and Universal for the various Avengers-related movies (Iron Man 2, Thor, Captain America, Avengers and the several other movies Samuel L. Jackson is signed up for) are still in place as well.
 
Christopher said:
We are the Mouse. You will be assimilated. Your creative and economic distinctiveness will be added to our own. Resistance is futile.
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Oh yeah, that was the bit I forgot to add, Walt Disney Corp. managed to grow that bit more. I think now it owns about 7/10th of the entertainment industry doesn't it?
 
Well, I didn't see that coming.

Be interested to see how this affects Marvel's operations, if at all (they already have an independent film studio, for example; of course, given the types of movies Marvel Studios makes, they'll probably be fine with continuing a separate brand).

At the very least, this has the potential to lead to better animated productions with Marvel characters.
 
Hermiod said:
Bob The Skutter said:
destructive said:
what does this mean?! somebody help me
Click to expand...
It means Disney is $4bn lighter, but just acquired the rights to some of the biggest performing movie tentpoles of the last decade.
Click to expand...

Though I strongly doubt this means that Sony (Spider-Man) and Fox (F4, X-Men) suddenly don't own the movie rights to those characters anymore.

I suspect Marvel's distribution deals with Paramount and Universal for the various Avengers-related movies (Iron Man 2, Thor, Captain America, Avengers and the several other movies Samuel L. Jackson is signed up for) are still in place as well.
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No, I was being facetious there. But I guess they will be making money off them though.
 
But Fox and Sony still have X-men and Spiderman film rights correct?
For how long though?
And what of Paramount, will they have to share profit on the Iron Man film franchise?
 
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