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Disney buys 21st Century Fox, Now Owns Controlling Stake in Hulu
mhall85
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I've said it for years. The sleeping giant is awake, and BOOM...
https://thewaltdisneycompany.com/walt-disney-company-acquire-twenty-first-century-fox-inc-spinoff-certain-businesses-52-4-billion-stock-2/
This is a fascinating, and potentially unsettling, development (one that has been rumored for weeks now, if you follow this stuff). The expanse of this purchase is mind-boggling. Short of passing final regulatory checks, Disney now owns:
Basically, the only Fox assets that Disney does NOT own are Fox News, Fox Business, Fox broadcast networks, FS1, FS2, and the Big Ten Network.
Oh, yeah, they also now owns majority stake in Hulu. From the press release, it sounds like they will keep Hulu separate from the Disney streaming service and the ESPN streaming service coming in 2019. I think NBC Universal is the only remaining network that shares in Hulu, and I would not be surprised if they pull out of it completely, or get bought out.
Netflix is so dead, LOL.
https://thewaltdisneycompany.com/walt-disney-company-acquire-twenty-first-century-fox-inc-spinoff-certain-businesses-52-4-billion-stock-2/
This is a fascinating, and potentially unsettling, development (one that has been rumored for weeks now, if you follow this stuff). The expanse of this purchase is mind-boggling. Short of passing final regulatory checks, Disney now owns:
- All FOX Marvel properties in TV and Film
- The rights to Star Wars: A New Hope
- Shows ranging from The X-Files, The Orville, The Simpsons, etc, etc.
- production houses 20th Century Fox, Fox Searchlight, and Fox 2000
- All FX Networks
- All regional FSN networks (wildly important to MLB and college sports)
Basically, the only Fox assets that Disney does NOT own are Fox News, Fox Business, Fox broadcast networks, FS1, FS2, and the Big Ten Network.
Oh, yeah, they also now owns majority stake in Hulu. From the press release, it sounds like they will keep Hulu separate from the Disney streaming service and the ESPN streaming service coming in 2019. I think NBC Universal is the only remaining network that shares in Hulu, and I would not be surprised if they pull out of it completely, or get bought out.
Netflix is so dead, LOL.
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One of the things Disney was apparently interested in, and got in the deal, is better worldwide footholds in Europe and India. If that is the case, it makes sense from their business perspective to go after the networks they purchased. I thought this would more be a content acquisition, but it's much bigger.
Yes, creatively, I'm very excited about both Marvel's and Lucasfilm's futures.
It's especially big for Marvel, as this brings just about everything back under one roof... which will make comic book fans happy, as this likely ends the conspiracy theory (?) that Marvel killed off X-Men books to choke off Fox's effort. With that road block gone, the books AND the movies/shows can go in any direction they want... save for the few remaining outliers.
Um... you forget about something?
Pretty sure Spiderman is MCU now.
Also would like to see a DECENT Fantastic 4 movie come about from this. Last one was ok but a bit of a snooze. And pretty sure the fact Hulk was in Avengers as well as the recent Thor movie means Hulk's over too.
They'd be stupid to do so, of course, and would run the risk of ultimately losing the film rights completely (as no one will support MCU-less Spidey, long-term).
But @valoreah is right. Universal owns Hulk, and Spider-Man is still a Sony property.
And some people wonder why there is a lack of trust in news produced by mainstream media. If an organization controls the information that people receive, then they control people.
It's not exactly what I had in my mind but... it's not a photoshop.. it's a photo of a cosplayer. O-o'
That was way too funny not to share.
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Certainly fits for the present reality where people can choose their race and gender. If a white man can become a Filipino woman without undergoing surgery to make them actually look like a Filipino woman, then race and gender are meaningless.
Because there IS none.
THIS.
That's better.
But seriously, they made so many sarcastic jokes on that show that it was a given some of them would accidentally hit the mark.
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Or maybe hollywood knows ahead of time before us? And most just shrug it off, sadly.
To me, there is no coincidence, everything happens for a reason.
Mr. Spock: And the ways our differences combine, to create meaning and beauty.
-Star Trek: Is There in Truth No Beauty? (1968)
Or someone's telling 'em.
Best way to hide something is put in plain sight, often. o.o
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RIPLEY!