$71 Billion from Disney leaves Comcast behind for 21stCentury Fox and Sky UK
 

Comcast 65 Billion dollars,
now its up to Disney to go above that
or pull out.


[The cable giant says its cash bid - of $35 per share - for most of Fox's assets is 19% higher than the value of Disney's offer.]

SkyNews married to NBC news
maybe,
(ref: CNN Money HD)

[The move follows a previous bid being rebuffed last year.
Wednesday's announcement comes a day after a US federal judge cleared AT&T's $85bn takeover of Time Warner.
The judge rejected the government's argument the takeover would hurt competition in cable and satellite TV and increase costs to consumers for streaming TV and movies.]

https://e3.365dm.com/18/04/1096x616/...20180425122023

https://news.sky.com/story/comcast-6...r-fox-11404074


Sign Of The Times

Sooooo... does this mean that Fox News will go liberal? :laugh: No? Is that how it works with parent companies? I have no clue. I'm no expert on building massive media empires... sorry

No FoxNews
is not part of the deal.

Who owns Fox News?

Rupert Murdoch

It's part of 21st Century Fox, controlled by the Murdochs, but they would keep it (and the Fox local US channels) if the rest of the company is sold to Disney or Comcast. I'm not sure the deal would be allowed to go through otherwise.

Yeah I had thought Murdoch was tied to all that, but don't really remember the details of how exactly that works... interesting.

Wow
Disney now has put $71 Billion offer in

https://news.sky.com/story/disney-ra...713bn-11411067


Feel The Force

From CNN MONEY HD LIVE

Comcast now expected to put in a $80 Billion bid in soon.
21st Century Fox Studios goes to the Winner of the Deal.

Please Note:
FoxNewsHD
FoxBusinessNewsHD
FoxSportsHD
are not for sale in this mega deal.

Get ha Disney!

Fox/Disney deal approved.
 

After ten years, the MCU has all of it's toys to play with.

What's interesting is that the latest X-men films have disappeared completely from the release slate which has led some people to believe they've been cancelled completely despite being finished. If that's the case, I can see the first hint of the MCU X-men appearing in the 2019 Marvel films. I predict that the first x-men to appear will be Storm in Black Panther 2.

Quite exciting although it's not good news for the industry as Disney's monopoly is only gonna get worse from here on out.

Disney is getting too powerful and that is not a good thing.

Yeah not really a fan of what Disney has done with Star Wars tbh... a creative monopoly will be terrible for us in the West. We had that growing up in my generation in the US to a degree with our broad-stroke censorship... but Disney was always challenged to give us a great tale & drama that went outside of the box... now they've become too coveted in our culture.

Oh well, I will just go further towards foreign/india media for all my movies, entertainment etc... I already do for music and I've started to watch a lot of digital shows as well. I guess to some degree, it was pretty much inevitable...

They literally own everything

In theory it means less originality (and there's isn't an awful lot of that at the moment with big-budget tentpole films) but what balances it out is the rise of streaming services and new media.

Disney and Fox are just trying to compete with the likes of Netflix, YouTube and big-technology compaines like Apple getting involved in entertainment. These types of mergers are inevitable.

I have no issue with it to be honest. Hollywood / cinema / blockbuster type movies are what they are, they're never going to be high-brow... Pure escapism and I enjoy them for what they are. Frankly, most of the supposedly Oscar worthy Hollywood stuff is pretentious trash.

So I say keep the blockbusters coming bigger and better. There are still plenty of independent movies that are actually interesting and good coming out, on all sorts of platforms, and that will continue and most likely increase in both quantity and quality as streaming becomes more and more "the norm" over live TV.

My only real concern is that the MCU will become too busy if they start introducing a tonne of mutants. It's already a little crowded.

I would love for Disney/Marvel to put together a good quality Xmen TV series though. We've had a few spin off style ones with minor characters... But a "Proper" one with the core Xmen / the actual school would be awesome.

I hope they sort out fantastic four first.

Disney acquiring a lot of new assets also means substantial IP expansions within its theme parks too. We’re already seeing a mass Marvel presence appearing, and the new Star Wars areas opening on both coasts of America, and also a watered down version in Paris in a few years.
It gives them room to manoeuvre in the market especially in Orlando where the biggest competition, Universal is expected to open a fourth gate by 2023.

They've pretty much trashed Star Wars though... I hope they give the new stuff to more competent people :umm2:.

The core Star Wars audience is not kids anymore, they need to realise that and make their Star Wars universe a bit darker with more impact. Likewise, I feel like there scope for the Xmen franchise being aimed at a slightly older audience than the overall MCU (though there will inevitably be crossovers).

I'm wondering if they'll retcon Scarlet Witch / Quicksilver as mutants? It would be quite easy to do so... They could discover that their powers aren't FROM the mind stone, just that the experiments with it unlocked their latent Mutant abilities that they already had (which would explain why they were the only candidates that the experiments worked on). Both characters are kind of big in the Xmen universe so it would be a bit odd if they had to be kept as "enhanced humans" rather than mutants. I also can't see them not somehow bringing Quicksilver back if they do indeed combine the universes?

Then again, they may well keep them separate franchises for the time being.

Disney takes over 20th [21st] Century Fox tonight.

From https://variety.com/2019/biz/news/di...ne-1203165056/

The Simpsons is now officially a Disney cartoon

[The birth of the Murdochs’ successor Fox Corporation
home of Fox Broadcasting, Fox News
and Fox Sports — will also be official on Tuesday.]

And FoxBusinessNewsHD as well on Tuesday 26th of March

Yes
soon to Launch Disney+
in USA
once they have taken all their shows off Netflix.

They are getting greedy

I mean this year the movies they are releasing

Dumbo/Aladdin/the lion King/toy story 4/frozen 2

Then you have any marvel, or star wars film I'm not a particular fan of those though(loved star wars when I was a kid but it's a bit boring now and I can't keep up with the marvel stuff)

Imagine how much money they are gonna make it one year

They are getting greedy

I mean this year the movies they are releasing

Dumbo/Aladdin/the lion King/toy story 4/frozen 2

Then you have any marvel, or star wars film I'm not a particular fan of those though(loved star wars when I was a kid but it's a bit boring now and I can't keep up with the marvel stuff)

Imagine how much money they are gonna make it one year

A scream that the shot of Kinga shoving a bottle up her is owned by Disney.

Disney put out an updated schedule today for Disney and Fox films.

The Disney releases in the schedule are mostly just Marvel, Pixar, remakes and Star Wars.
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Three years until a new Star Wars film after Episode 9, then every two years. Four Avatar sequels starting December 2021.

They're going to make billions this year, with Avengers, Toy Story 4, Lion King, Frozen 2 and Star Wars.

I thought the star wars this year was the last they are dragging it out like mad

4 avatar sequels?? We only need one

Also the money they made off Dumbo and soon the money they made off aladdin too

How many live action films are they going to make though?

I mean yeah it was kinda cute to start off with and enjoyed some of them but to make a live action of every film is going a bit far what have we had so far?

Snow white and the huntsman
Alice in wonderland
Cinderella
Maleficent
Jungle Book
Beauty and the beast
Dumbo
Aladdin
Lion King

Am I forgetting any?

I know Mulan and Hunchback are being made

So I'm hoping we get

Little Mermaid and Pocahontas

And erm...can't think of any more but I see Cruella is in the pipeline on the schedule that will be good. Ursula needs her own film too!!!

--Much-- better that way and I'd even push it to 3 full years between movies. It's a franchise that needs thought and hype, not constant releases.

Is anyone even all that interested in ONE Avatar sequel at this point? I mean it was an OK film but the major draw was it being a "flagship" 3D movie and there are hundreds of 3D movies now... plus 3D didn't even really take off all that massively :think:.

Sure
but because of Star War Movies
pushing "Avatar 2 "
back to 2021 December
is wrong.

I don't have a problem with the live action remakes so far but that will probably change this year as I'm not keen on the look of Lion King (Why does that even exist?) or Aladdin (Guy Ritchie is a hack). I loved the live action Beauty and the Beast.

Oh and Snow White and the Hunstman isn't a Disney film, it's not a remake of the animation.

Hunchback will probably be delayed or cancelled all together now, I expect. It was never a huge success for Disney despite how good it was and now Notre Dame is out of commission for at least a few years, I can't see them forging ahead with it.

I can't imagine they'd touch Pocahontas again, it's too much of a powder keg these days.

NO! I was bored rigid.

I really liked Avatar.

...I really liked Avatar...I watched it 3 times...:laugh:...

All i remember about Avatar was blue people and Sigourney Weaver.

Disney will make their 60 billion back within 5 years.