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Agent 007

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Hope it is true!!  X-men books going up even more............can't wait to see what books get a price increase from the merger......

I wonder how QuickSilver is done?  If at all...

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6 hours ago, jason4 said:

Good thing I got xmen 1 and hulk 181 and I would advise anyone to get them now before Disney does what they do best and announce films with them. Might be missing the boat if you don't 

yes, those seem to be overlooked books. sage advice.

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Bosco685

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7 minutes ago, Key Largo Comics said:

Disney buys Fox film and TV businesses. Iger to remain CEO through 2021 per CNBC.

Yup!

Disney to buy 21st Century Fox assets in a deal worth more than $52 billion in stock

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Walt Disney on Thursday announced it acquired many parts of 21st Century Fox in a deal worth more than $52 billion in stock. The company will get network Nat Geo, Asian pay-TV operator Star TV, Fox's movie studios, stakes in Sky and Hulu, and regional sports networks.

 

Disney's Fox acquisition bolsters its plans to become a dominant streaming service platform, making it a bigger threat to Netflix.

 

"The more desirable content they have, the better they will be able to compete in terms of trying to sell a subscription offering at a time there's so much competition for subscription-based services," said eMarketer senior analyst Paul Verna.

 

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Bosco685

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They are still talking about regulatory approval.

Disney buys much of Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox in deal that will reshape Hollywood

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Walt Disney Co. has finalized a $52.4-billion stock deal to buy much of Rupert Murdoch’s entertainment empire, a blockbuster union that would radically transform Hollywood into a land of fewer giants.

 

The deal, which Disney announced Thursday morning, represents Disney’s boldest acquisition yet. If regulators approve it, the Burbank behemoth would take over the prolific 20th Century Fox movie and television studio, Fox’s 22 regional sports channels, cable entertainment brands FX and National Geographic, and Fox’s portfolio of international operations, including a fast-growing pay-TV service in India.

 

The proposed purchase of much of Murdoch’s 21 Century Fox media company accelerates the trend of media consolidation and would eliminate one of the six major Hollywood film studios. Murdoch would retain control of Fox News Channel, the Fox broadcast network and his newspapers.

 

Including debt that Disney will assume, the deal is valued at $66 billion. Disney also announced Thursday that its chairman and chief executive Bob Iger will remain with the company through 2021.

Here is what Fox keeps.

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But Murdoch is not selling out completely. He is holding onto certain properties, including Fox News, the Fox broadcast network, television stations and Fox Sports 1 and Fox Sports 2. His newspapers such as Wall Street Journal, New York Post, Times of London and a portfolio of Australian properties are housed in a second company, News Corp., that the Murdoch family controls with 39% of the voting shares. Some analysts expect Murdoch to eventually fold the remaining Fox assets into News Corp.

Amazing what Disney now will own.

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Buying Fox would continue the transformation of Disney, which began when Chief Executive Bob Iger took the helm in 2005. He engineered a series of savvy acquisitions, starting with the 2006 purchase of Pixar Animation Studios — creator of “Toy Story,” and “Finding Nemo” — which reinvigorated Disney’s moribund animation division. The company then bought Marvel Entertainment in 2009 and Lucasfilm in 2012, betting big on marquee film brands such as “Star Wars.”

 

Then came a shift. This year, Disney spent $1.6 billion to gain a majority stake in BamTech, an online streaming platform that Disney plans to use to launch two streaming services in the next two years, including an ESPN service next year. Disney decided its future was in selling its shows and sports channels directly to consumers. That meant taking on Netflix.

 

“The core underlying driver for this deal … is the impending battle royale for content and streaming services vs. the Netflix machine,” Daniel Ives, head of technology research for GBH Insights, said in a recent report. The “appetite for content among media companies [is] reaching a feverish pitch.”

 

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Bosco685

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On 12/5/2017 at 1:53 PM, NewWorldOrder said:

As stated before intellectual property is different.  Nothing will block this. 

Never say 'Never'.

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Wall Street isn’t sure whether the U.S. Justice Department would bless the combination. It would reduce Hollywood’s television and movie production capacity by eliminating one of the major studios. The Justice Department’s antitrust division is suing to block AT&T’s proposed $85-billion takeover of Time Warner, which includes HBO, CNN, TBS, Cartoon Network and the Warner Bros. film and TV studio.

 

However, the elder Murdoch is a powerful friend of President Trump, whose administration would oversee the regulatory review.

 

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So if Fox keeps the Fox Broadcast Network, and Disney acquires the FX Broadcast Network, FX Productions and 20th Century Fox Television - does Fox then license shows from Disney?

Disney Acquires 21st Century Fox in Landmark Deal

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Combining with Disney are 21st Century Fox’s critically acclaimed film production businesses, including Twentieth Century Fox, Fox Searchlight Pictures and Fox 2000, which together offer diverse and compelling storytelling businesses and are the homes of Avatar, X-Men, Fantastic Four and Deadpool, as well as The Grand Budapest Hotel, Hidden Figures, Gone Girl, The Shape of Water and The Martian—and its storied television creative units, Twentieth Century Fox Television, FX Productions and Fox21, which have brought The Americans, This Is Us, Modern Family, The Simpsons and so many more hit TV series to viewers across the globe. Disney will also acquire FX Networks, National Geographic Partners, Fox Sports Regional Networks, Fox Networks Group International, Star India and Fox’s interests in Hulu, Sky plc, Tata Sky and Endemol Shine Group.

 

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