21st Century Fox is down to one suitor, The Walt Disney Company, to purchase the majority of its assets as the Murdoch family looks to offload much of their media ownership. The expected $60 Billion deal in cash and stock could be announced as soon… Read More »Disney CEO announces acquisition of 21st Century Fox assets
The talks between the Walt Disney Company and 21st Century Fox for the mouse to acquire many of the fox’s assets are nearing final stages. Variety reports that both sides are working with bankers to arrange what could be a $74 Billion deal. That’s ten… Read More »Disney and Fox in final stages of mega-deal
An article on CNBC , claiming sources close to negotiations, reports that The Walt Disney Company is considering buying most of the operations and assets of 21st Century Fox. Even for an entertainment giant the size of The Walt Disney Company, this is huge news.… Read More »Report: Disney in talks to buy most of 21st Century Fox
One of the downsides to Marvel selling off the film rights of their biggest character families before Disney purchased them, is that it gets confusing trying to remember who owns who, even for them. When James Gunn began working on Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.… Read More »The story of how Marvel and Fox made a deal to save Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2
Disney may have bought Marvel studios, but unfortunately it was too late to land the rights to some of Marvel’s biggest properties. Those comics were licensed to other studios, who had previous deals with Marvel. There’s hope that some of these will eventually come back to Disney, but in general, the deals favor the other studios, as long as they continue to make movies using the comic book super heroes.
That explains why 20th Century Fox is rebooting the Fantastic Four series with a new cast and new backstory. Fox also owns the rights to the X-Men in movies. Marvel co-producers, but Fox will distribute.
There was a lot of buzz about the new the teaser trailer which you can watch here. .
It’s definitely darker than the previous two. They’re obviously trying to capture that same feel Christopher Nolan brought to the Batman Begins series. Read More »Marvel’s Fantastic Four reboot teaser trailer released
Nearly three years ago, Disney fans and comic book geeks alike did double takes as they looked at the latest news: Disney bought Marvel Entertainment for $4 billion. While this was less than Disney spent for PIXAR, there were no previous projects between Disney and… Read More »Three Years Later: A Look at Disney’s Acquisition of Marvel
The one standout from last season’s popular TV show Glee has to be newcomer Darren Criss. But, like many Hollywood stars, before he hit it big, he was just another college student in his dorm room banging out the covers on youtube. Here he is… Read More »Videopolis – Glee’s Darren Criss sings Belle (aka Before They Were Stars)
I was just about to log off for the night when this story came across my radar. A Fox News station in Tampa Bay is back on the old story that the Walt Disney Company is refusing to authenticate what a gentleman claims is the… Read More »World’s Laziest Reporting Strikes Fox News – It’s NOT an original Mickey Mouse