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Re: Disney to Acquire Twenty-First Century Fox

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Post by amelius » Thu, Dec 14, 2017, 2:11 PM UTC

ekianjo wrote: post #39

jamiethompson wrote: post #33

So what you're saying is that Disney will own The Simpsons? https://i.redd.it/cx2j4c9aufwz.jpg (predicted in 1998)

That's visionary. Actually the Simpsons got lucky with several of their goofy predictions, it's always amusing after the fact.

Can we have a list of mispredictions?

Re: Disney to Acquire Twenty-First Century Fox

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Post by JustSomeNobody » Thu, Dec 14, 2017, 2:12 PM UTC

CPLX wrote: post #28

no1youknowz wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Your math is impeccable. But I do wonder if someone is considering the possibility that people will get tired of superhero movies in the relatively near future and the whole concept will seem dated.

Considering it? Sure. Milking it until people are truly sick of them and then producing 3 more? Yes. Of Course.

Re: Disney to Acquire Twenty-First Century Fox

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Post by snarf21 » Thu, Dec 14, 2017, 2:12 PM UTC

jakozaur wrote: post #24

Sane antitrust regulations should kill this deal. It is bad for everybody other than shareholders of those two companies. In particular bad for customers, other companies and employees: https://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/2172555... https://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21695385-profits-are...

True, if only there was any sane anti-trust regulation in the last 20 years.

Re: Disney to Acquire Twenty-First Century Fox

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Post by DanCarvajal » Thu, Dec 14, 2017, 2:12 PM UTC

jakozaur wrote: post #24

Sane antitrust regulations should kill this deal. It is bad for everybody other than shareholders of those two companies. In particular bad for customers, other companies and employees: https://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/2172555... https://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21695385-profits-are...

Why?

Re: Disney to Acquire Twenty-First Century Fox

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Post by YCode » Thu, Dec 14, 2017, 2:14 PM UTC

wallace_f wrote: post #34

werdnapk wrote: post #9

So 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.

How is it that this is so much less anti-competitive than bundling an OS with a web browser?

Really makes that seem like a simpler time when the concern of the day was that your OS came with an integrated browser.

Re: Disney to Acquire Twenty-First Century Fox

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Post by reubeniv » Thu, Dec 14, 2017, 2:14 PM UTC

werdnapk wrote: post #9

So 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.

Oh it's crazy how much stuff Disney can pull off Netflix, I don't know if they will, because it's in their interest to have some stuff accessible over more than one place, but they own ABC (Lost, Castle, Firefly, etc), ESPN, Marvel, LucasArts, now Fox and their assets, not to mention they distribute on behalf of many publishers (Dreamworks for example), they would probably clear more than half of Netflix's content if they pulled everything.

Re: Disney to Acquire Twenty-First Century Fox

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Post by JustSomeNobody » Thu, Dec 14, 2017, 2:14 PM UTC

mattbrewsbytes wrote: post #35

Maybe there will be a consolidation and some crappy repetitive movies will go away? I think these businesses are overvalued. What happens when consumers get sick of the super hero genre? EDIT: for whoever down-voted - that wasn't a sarcastic question. Honest question of what happens when the main products lose popularity? If there is a downturn in interest in that, will they get their $50B back?

They'll make westerns.

Re: Disney to Acquire Twenty-First Century Fox

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Post by greesil » Thu, Dec 14, 2017, 2:17 PM UTC

amelius wrote: post #41

ekianjo wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's visionary. Actually the Simpsons got lucky with several of their goofy predictions, it's always amusing after the fact.

Can we have a list of mispredictions?

"Smell you later" replacing "goodbye"

Re: Disney to Acquire Twenty-First Century Fox

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Post by exelius » Thu, Dec 14, 2017, 2:17 PM UTC

jakozaur wrote: post #24

Sane antitrust regulations should kill this deal. It is bad for everybody other than shareholders of those two companies. In particular bad for customers, other companies and employees: https://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/2172555... https://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21695385-profits-are...

Disney is only interested in the creative/film assets; broadcast distribution and news/sports are being spun off.

Re: Disney to Acquire Twenty-First Century Fox

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Post by calimac » Thu, Dec 14, 2017, 2:17 PM UTC

jakozaur wrote: post #24

Sane antitrust regulations should kill this deal. It is bad for everybody other than shareholders of those two companies. In particular bad for customers, other companies and employees: https://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/2172555... https://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21695385-profits-are...

True! Hopefully they wake up to kill this deal.