Disney to buy 21st Century Fox for $52.4 billion

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In what appears to be a huge power play for Disney, it seems that they'll be buying out the 21st Century Fox division. The media giant is attempting to bolster its repertoire in order to offer more content when the company gets its own streaming service, to compete with Netflix and Amazon Prime Video. Disney now owns the rights to certain properties like The Simpsons, Family Guy, Deadpool, Modern Family, Sky TV, X-Men, and the one Star Wars movie that Disney didn't already have in its arsenal; the first Star Wars movie. They'll also get access to Fox's 30% shares of streaming service Hulu, which means coupled with the shares that Disney already owned, they now have 60% stake in Hulu, with the remaining 40% tied to Comcast and Time Warner. While Fox's Rupert Murdoch and Disney's Bob Iger both endorse the deal, it won't be signed and sealed until it passes through the US Government. This does not spell the end for Fox, however, as they will be keeping parts of their empire, such as Fox Sports 1+2, Fox News, and Fox Business Network.

Though it's more speculation than anything, perhaps due to having Disney own some of these franchises, we might see new games created with these IPs, or maybe even remasters of older games, as Disney is no newcomer to allowing their properties to be involved in some beloved games.
 

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Funny when Mark Hamill himself shits on this new movies, and he is a fan himself and an old fan. But in all due honesty with you, I will tell you the truth, in my country, old fans simply don't care about these new movies, is like they don't even know they exist. Is like music, when music is good, it can be heard even in the Himalayas, when the music is bad, is not known by the small countries. To give you an example of music, 2 years ago Lionel Richie came to my country Chile. People were enjoying his show, loving his music, and suddenly in one of his songs he started dancing, he said let's dance like Shakira, people were meh, and then when he said Beyonce, people started booing a bit, no magic and the moment was weird.

People went to hear good music, Lionel Richie to us is 1000 times better than Shakira or Beyonce, because in the 80's when there was no cable, no sattelite, no nothing, music spread through word of mouth and radio. And only GOOD music filtered in and reached people!

What I mean by all this, is that now, there is a FAKE sense of success and something being "good" is not always "actually good" as the Internet and the media is so strong that they can brainwash you to death until you must admit like a mindless sheep that you like it. It is fascinating to see actors/singers/etc when they go to a small country, if they are really good (because their music is good or acting is great) they will be received with love and admiration, but the funny thing is when some people come here like they are the greatest, but when in here people and media don't even care about them! Hahaha, it is because they were "convinced" by their counter parts that they are famous, but they are not, because they are trash, wether their music or acting is trash. And in a small country, this is revealed, it can be funny let me tell you, these people's egos falling to the ground is a must watch :rofl2:
Nice subjective argument, basically boils down to anecdotal evidence and rose-tinted glasses IMO. And I live in a country that is forgotten by most artists btw. Since we are doing anecdotal here, my dad has been a Star Wars fan since he was a little kid and he is hyped for those movies. It basically boils down to taste and if you keep yourself informed about something, and you can still see people complaining about a movie/actor or song/singer if it is bad, even with the power of internet(tm). I, for one, think Star Wars should rest in peace (along with other long running series), but it is not like the recent movies are just garbage trash.
Also saying that Chile is a small country is pushing it a bit, while it has no proper global influence yet, it is arguably one of the fastest growing country in South America right now. (RIP Brazil)
 
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I guess we're no longer getting Ice Age movies, then.


Disney has been famous for musicals since the release of Snow White in 1937.

Compare Snow White to Frozen.
The occasional song or 4 has been replaced with the occasional word or 4.
 

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I see this as a good thing simply because they owned marvel characters like X-Men, so now they can make movies with those characters in it
 

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Ahtheybdont seem to effect anything.
They buy stuff butbpretty much keep it the same ans just get more money from it.
 

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Compare Snow White to Frozen.
The occasional song or 4 has been replaced with the occasional word or 4.
They're musicals written by two different people. Not surprising. Have you never been to a musical? Pretty much the same.

The content and music need to make space for each other. Frozen, and other films since Beauty and the Beast, implement content into songs to speed things along. Giving exposition and plot progression within the song. This is closer to how actual plays are conducted.

In fact, many voice actors in the recent Disney musicals are actual actors and singers in theatre, most notably Donna Murphy from Tangled. Her voice is pure gold.
 

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Finally! the marvel cinematic universe is complete!!!
Well not quite. While they do have the rights to the Hulk, WB studios has the distribution rights to Hulk movies, which is why we haven't had a Hulk movie after Disney obtained Mavel, as while they can make Hulk movies, Warner Brothers has the last say on it getting released, to which they have been blocking them from doing so. Right now they're working around this by basically having a single Hulk movie throughout the different Advenger and other Mavel movies, but if they really want to have ALL of Mavel, they'll have to buy out WB as well.
 

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