Walt Disney Posted June 27, 2018 Share Posted June 27, 2018 On 6/13/2018 at 7:47 PM, IronJimbo said: God whatever happens I hope they don't mess with Avatar We know Disney won't. They already worked with James Cameron in designing Avatar Land. Disney is completely invested in the Avatar franchise. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Panda Posted June 28, 2018 Share Posted June 28, 2018 19 hours ago, Walt Disney said: We know Disney won't. They already worked with James Cameron in designing Avatar Land. Disney is completely invested in the Avatar franchise. That also means Disney will likely want more longevity from that franchise than Cameron might want. Granted, this may be compensated by spacing out the movies differently than Fox originally had planned, and alternate SW and Avatar every other year Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lilmac Posted June 29, 2018 Share Posted June 29, 2018 On 6/27/2018 at 7:56 PM, Walt Disney said: We know Disney won't. They already worked with James Cameron in designing Avatar Land. Disney is completely invested in the Avatar franchise. Yes that’s right! I think the underperforming of Solo may compel Disney to treat the Avatar franchise with care and not rush things. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walt Disney Posted June 29, 2018 Share Posted June 29, 2018 16 hours ago, Pandamia! said: That also means Disney will likely want more longevity from that franchise than Cameron might want. Granted, this may be compensated by spacing out the movies differently than Fox originally had planned, and alternate SW and Avatar every other year It definitely would give Disney another monster franchise, so they would be able to stop making Star Wars films every year. Star Wars needs to be able to breathe and Avatar would help with that. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aabattery Posted July 19, 2018 Share Posted July 19, 2018 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RandomCat Posted July 19, 2018 Share Posted July 19, 2018 42 minutes ago, aabattery said: This is how creativity dies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walt Disney Posted July 19, 2018 Share Posted July 19, 2018 Just remember one thing, it all started with a mouse. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HouseOfTheSun Posted July 19, 2018 Share Posted July 19, 2018 Well after the shareholder vote what else is there to finalize? They’ve gotten DOJ, shareholders, both boards, UK has approved SKY....what else? India and Star? This is going to wrap up much quicker than expected. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeeCee Posted July 19, 2018 Author Share Posted July 19, 2018 Murdoch must know someone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Community Manager Water Bottle Posted July 27, 2018 Community Manager Share Posted July 27, 2018 This is official now. What a sad day for real movie fans. Yes lots of people will lose their jobs: how many jobs lost will determine if Disney keeps Fox open or not. If it closes Fox and stuff I believe this will make it even more difficult for me and people like me to break into the industry. If it doesn't, how much independence will Fox have? Regardless people will lose their jobs and there will be less opportunity. Fox Searchlight might be on the chopping block leaving independent producers with one less outlet making it more likely they'll have to go to Netflix to get a deal. Really bad news for indie films if that's the case. Will Fox if it stays open be allowed to do non-franchise films? Or are we just getting even more franchise films and less big budget original movies? What a cluster fuck for many movie fans. As for CBMs, if they merge the X-Men with the MCU I'm probably out. It makes no sense for the current MCU to have mutants all of a sudden: world is too established. Would need a reboot for the MCU. Anyways this sucks for many reasons. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
filmlover Posted July 28, 2018 Share Posted July 28, 2018 9 hours ago, Water Bottle said: This is official now. What a sad day for real movie fans. Yes lots of people will lose their jobs: how many jobs lost will determine if Disney keeps Fox open or not. If it closes Fox and stuff I believe this will make it even more difficult for me and people like me to break into the industry. If it doesn't, how much independence will Fox have? Regardless people will lose their jobs and there will be less opportunity. Fox Searchlight might be on the chopping block leaving independent producers with one less outlet making it more likely they'll have to go to Netflix to get a deal. Really bad news for indie films if that's the case. Will Fox if it stays open be allowed to do non-franchise films? Or are we just getting even more franchise films and less big budget original movies? What a cluster fuck for many movie fans. As for CBMs, if they merge the X-Men with the MCU I'm probably out. It makes no sense for the current MCU to have mutants all of a sudden: world is too established. Would need a reboot for the MCU. Anyways this sucks for many reasons. We just need to wait and see how it plays out. I'm not thrilled this is happening, but hey, what can any of us do? And all of the "blame" really belongs to Fox for selling in the first place. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RandomCat Posted July 28, 2018 Share Posted July 28, 2018 Situations like this. Where one has no control. At least how I feel about it, it's best to hope for the best, than assume the worst. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZeeSoh Posted September 24, 2018 Share Posted September 24, 2018 Update: - India gave its approval to the deal last month - Oct 19 is the deadline for EU decision on the deal - Apart from EU and India, China is the only major country left for approval. No idea when it will happen though Also Comcasts bid for Sky was successful over that of Disney/Fox. This means Comcast will own 61% of Sky whereas Fox/Disney still owns 39%. Foxney is considering what to do with its 39% stake which is valued at 15 billion USD Comcast wants it all. Foxney might consider selling its share directly to Comcast which would mean that Disney gets back 15b of what it paid for Fox. Hulu is also in play as Foxney might want Comcast to give up its share of Hulu. There are also lots of movie and character rights as well as theme park rights that Comcast/Universal has that Foxney might consider bargaining for 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZeeSoh Posted October 9, 2018 Share Posted October 9, 2018 (edited) Disney-Fox Film Structure Coming Next: Alan Horn Atop Divisions, Streaming Big Priority Basically the takeaway from this is that - Alan Horn will retain his position atop the studio with everyone like kennedy and feige,etc still reporting to him - Stacey Sneider who is the chief of 20th century fox is out after the deal - Vice chairman of 20th century fox Emma Watts will stay and shepherd adult themed slate of films for Disney -Fox 2000 will continue generating movies for Disney after the deal - The fact that the reshuffle is happening means Disney-Fox are very confident that the deal will go through without any hiccup - As mentioned earlier, decision on EU approval which is a biggie will come by October 19. - rumours are going around that the deal will be finalized by November of this year (which seems a bit early) and that China approval (which is a pretty small thing and the deal will go through nonetheless) will come by Q1 of 2019. Edited October 9, 2018 by ZeeSoh 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SLAM! Posted October 9, 2018 Share Posted October 9, 2018 So Disney is simply Fox's parent company now. That's good. That's very good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barnack Posted October 9, 2018 Share Posted October 9, 2018 Century Fox head out, with Searchlight & Fox 2000 heads staying in goes has what I expected, specialty arm being much more safe than the main studio, movie wise. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meriodejaneiro Posted October 9, 2018 Share Posted October 9, 2018 Fox is such a renown and respected brad in the entertainment world for Disney to just dissolve it and terminate it. Is very intelligent that Disney keeps a Disney-Fox brand (as Disney-Pixar, Disney-Marvel, Disney-SW) for adult oriented movies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barnack Posted October 9, 2018 Share Posted October 9, 2018 2 minutes ago, meriodejaneiro said: Fox is such a renown and respected brad in the entertainment world for Disney to just dissolve it and terminate it. Is very intelligent that Disney keeps a Disney-Fox brand (as Disney-Pixar, Disney-Marvel, Disney-SW) for adult oriented movies. Not 100% sure they will go for a Disney-Fox brand and not go pure Fox Searchlight / Fox 2000 / Century Fox, etc... for the adult product. Did Disney name showed up back in the days in any ostensible way on the Touchstone brand release ? It could be wise to not have Disney brand/name show up in any way if it is adult oriented, to not create any brand confusion. Keeping the century fox fanfanre do make a lot of sense. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZeeSoh Posted October 10, 2018 Share Posted October 10, 2018 Fox Will be Ready to Close Disney Deal Jan. 1, Says Peter Rice Excerpts from the article Fox will be logistically ready for its pending mega-deal with the Walt Disney Co. to close Jan. 1, top exec Peter Rice told employees Wednesday. According to sources present in the meeting, Rice reiterated that the deal is still on track to close sometime in the first half of 2019, either in the first or second quarter. But he said that structure of New Fox — down to elements such as human resources and payroll — will be ready to go by Jan. 1. Regulatory processes will likely drag the ultimate closure beyond that date. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZeeSoh Posted November 6, 2018 Share Posted November 6, 2018 Disney's Fox Deal Gets European Union Clearance Subject to Divestments Points from the article - The deal is approved, granted that Disney comply with the conditions set forth - Conditions being that Disney must divest its interest in channels it operates in EU namely History, H2, Crime and Investigation, Blaze and Lifetime channels - These channels are controlled by A&E Television networks which is joint venture between Disney and Hearst - Disney has agreed to the conditions and will divest from these channels but will remain a partner in A&E’s other ventures. This was the big one after US approval. Disney will be very happy they got the clearance without much fuss. There was also news a few days ago that China has also approved the deal without any conditions. Not sure how true that was. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
