[Nicodimas]

https://www.hollywoo...ds-2021-1065347

Let’s discuss implications ! A few are obvious some are not ...

Does .. does this mean Xenomorphs are Disney princesses?

[QuickTidal]

The biggest news is that this means that The X-Men and the Fantastic Four can be folded into the MCU like Spidey was.

And it means we can get an MCU-FF movie.

[amphibian]

In terms of monopoly and competition, this is bad. It also locks in the position of Disney as the arbiter of a certain wide range of pop culture - and as much as people like that stuff, I don't think it's healthy in the long run.

[Aptorian]

I mean, it's just the natural evolution towards the inevitable future, where the mega corporations control every moment of our existence.

[QuickTidal]

amphibian, on 14 December 2017 - 01:48 PM, said:

In terms of monopoly and competition, this is bad. It also locks in the position of Disney as the arbiter of a certain wide range of pop culture - and as much as people like that stuff, I don't think it's healthy in the long run.

Except they will leave 20th Century Fox largely as it is, and allow it to be run by those that run it...like Lucasfilm has been allowed to continue to operate as its own entity doing largely its own thing. Did anyone think that Disney would have allowed ROGUE ONE to end the way it did if it was a directly Disney product? Nope.

You're lumping the entirety of the studios into a bucket where one Disney Exec makes all the calls, creatively or otherwise. That's not remotely the case. Even Kevin Feige, who essentially show-runs the entire MCU isn't somehow beholden on a daily basis to Alan Horn. Disney is smart enough to see that creativity is a font that needs to be allowed to run. Yes, they might step in to course correct now and again, but that's few and far between. Kat Kennedy runs LFL and basically calls all the shots. I doubt that Horn has much/if any of his fingers in the Star Wars pie.

This also pushes the other studios, like Warner Brothers, Sony, MGM, ect. to step their goddam games up, when a heavy hitter produces hit after hit....and then nabs another few genre IPs in a buyout? Warner Brothers better make the Fantastic Beasts movies sing, and better make DC a viable product.

And quite frankly, the less shit that Rupert Fucking Murdoch is in charge of...the goddamned better.

This post has been edited by QuickTidal: 14 December 2017 - 02:05 PM

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amphibian, on 14 December 2017 - 01:48 PM, said:

In terms of monopoly and competition, this is bad. It also locks in the position of Disney as the arbiter of a certain wide range of pop culture - and as much as people like that stuff, I don't think it's healthy in the long run.

This is my fear! I cant watch 5 Marvel movies and 2 star wars movies a year for the rest of my life. Maybe quick is right and it means the other studios will up their game. However I look at the gaming industry and I think it was a canary for the movie industry which is now headed the same way. Though the potential profit for a movie is high the production costs are getting higher as well. Successes are bigger than ever and failures are bigger than ever too. Hence we get trapped in the studioes trying to recycle old movies, reboot old franchises or throw spin offs or franchises at us. These movies come with marketing pre-built in and that means less chance of a complete failure. It also means little these days seems new or fresh. This move strengthens the MCU but honestly though I enjoy a lot of them I'm getting tired of them too. Guardians 2, Thor 3, Civil War, MCU spiderman were average for me. Ill still go see black panther but that I guess is part of the problem and proof the concept is working

[Abyss]

This does mean that the upcoming Disney streaming service is going to be even more of a juggernaut. SW, Marvel, Disney animated...

Hell, they could go full greed and launch three separate services if they wanted to.


Also means that with some basic planning, the end result of Marvel's next phase of movies could be an X-Men v Avengers movie.

...which, i have to admit, could be damn cool, money-grab notwithstanding.

[Nicodimas]

Good point Abyss this article is up : Fox did own 30% of Hulu...

https://www.google.c...s-dis-foxa-21cf

[worry]

[Silencer]

amphibian, on 14 December 2017 - 01:48 PM, said:

In terms of monopoly and competition, this is bad. It also locks in the position of Disney as the arbiter of a certain wide range of pop culture - and as much as people like that stuff, I don't think it's healthy in the long run.

This was my immediate third thought after, "Oh, cool, they finally get the X-Men properties." and "yeah, fuck Fox!". Sadly even if Disney were a paragon of virtue, they shouldn't have this much concentrated power - which they are likely to try and grow further in the future.