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Disney to Acquire Twenty-First Century Fox
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#12which means less content for netflix I would assume. not worried to much about the R rated content they got, they are staunch anti gambling not exactly staunch anti R except under the original brand
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#14My knee jerk reaction here was "ugh, more consolidation of the media by US mega corporations." But then I noted that Fox is owned by News Corp, which owns the Wall Street Journal and New York Post.
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#15So along with Disney pulling all their titles from Netflix for their own streaming service, I guess the FX content will be next to go from Netflix.
Most of the FX Networks-owned content has been gone from Netflix for a while; it's been on Hulu or Prime Video.
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
- Capitalism, errr, wait no....
Market freedom leads to competition, doncha know?
It's not a hostile takeover right? Totally voluntary. Can't force competition, right?
(actually they can and some takeovers esp. in europe are blocked to avoid monopolies)
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
I suspect that’s part of it but you don’t spend billions of dollars just to make a few X-men movies.
Yes you do. According to wired, [0] Disney paid Lucas Arts $4.5B, which half was cash. In 2016, [1] The Force Awakens made $1.54B globally. Maybe it's more now. Lets say that the last Jedi manages the same success? Well, they made their money back and the new rumored trilogy. That's profit. When you can put Spiderman and the X-men in the same universe as the Avengers and do the next 20 or 30 super hero movies where o…
They spent 52 billion on the merger.
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#19Wow, Disney didn’t ask them to divest FX, which means they’re knowingly acquiring It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia among other content they’d normally not find palatable. They even call out that they’re bringing in The Americans and Deadpool . That’s kind of strange for Disney, given that historically they’re careful about what they’re associated with. I really hope they leave their new portfolio alone, but that’s n…
You know Disney released Pulp Fiction and Scream right?
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
I suspect that’s part of it but you don’t spend billions of dollars just to make a few X-men movies.
Yes you do. According to wired, [0] Disney paid Lucas Arts $4.5B, which half was cash. In 2016, [1] The Force Awakens made $1.54B globally. Maybe it's more now. Lets say that the last Jedi manages the same success? Well, they made their money back and the new rumored trilogy. That's profit. When you can put Spiderman and the X-men in the same universe as the Avengers and do the next 20 or 30 super hero movies where o…
Also worth noting that Fox still owned the rights to the first Star Wars movie. It didn't come with the Lucasfilm acquisition:
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/tangled-rights-could-...