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It's insane that this company started from a man drawing mouse cartoons, and has continued to thrive without him way after his death.
Disney Sets Deal To Acquire Most Of Fox In Game-Changing Hollywood Merger | Deadline
Noteworthy points:
Iger will be CEO until 2021 :bang:
James Murdoch might become head of Television.
The main studio and Searchlight should remain largely intact. The TV networks on the other hand are trickier to forecast.
Depends on your definition of thrive. If thriving means buying other peoples stuff sure. I would say the company is obviously successful, but has continuously declined in vision and creativity since losing it's founder. I expect this merger to further drift Disney away from what Disney was, but yes I think they will find a way to have great financial success with this.It's insane that this company started from a man drawing mouse cartoons, and has continued to thrive without him way after his death.
Yeah, I agree. Content is everything, Comcast is focused too much on delivering that content. If a new better way to deliver that content appears in the near future they could see much of their business vanish and be left with a whole lot less content to keep them relevant.This is extremely sad/bad news for Universal
It's insane that this company started from a man drawing mouse cartoons, and has continued to thrive without him way after his death.
I'm not sure why people have a problem with Iger. Especially theme park fans.
This is extremely sad/bad news for Universal
They'll continue unchanged until the expiration of the Simpsons contract at which point the rights will revert to Disney (sometime in the late 2020s).What will happen to Springfield in USO and USH?
To be fair, this is entirely due to the 1995 Disney-ABC merger which brought ABC and ESPN into the fold; those are nearly 2/3s of the value of the current Disney conglomerate and which gave them the power to make so many purchases under Iger.It's insane that this company started from a man drawing mouse cartoons, and has continued to thrive without him way after his death.
Eh, not really. It’s bad for theater owners and those working in the entertainment industry though.
Yes, all these contracts work in such a way that if they expire without a new contract extending it, the attraction must shut down on the expiration date.Then in the late 2020s, they'll need to replace Springfield?
This is extremely sad/bad news for Universal
Specialties are becoming a rarityActually the opposite. You never know when something special will come up for sale now.
So several things possibly happening at Universal HQ right now: (They probably have already thought about this)
> Keep Simpsons to expiration date or should Nintendo gobble up this space later on?
>American Horror Story? At this point, if they don't have a multi-year contract might as well try to get Stranger Things.
>Keep Marvel as long as you can
Exactly, and who has the biggest pockets in the business with the strongest cash flow and fastest growing media operations among legacy media companies? Comcast and NBCUniversal.Actually the opposite. You never know when something special will come up for sale now.
Universal will keep MSHI forever in IoA.So several things possibly happening at Universal HQ right now: (They probably have already thought about this)
> Keep Simpsons to expiration date or should Nintendo gobble up this space later on?
>American Horror Story? At this point, if they don't have a multi-year contract might as well try to get Stranger Things.
>Keep Marvel as long as you can
A couple of other Big 6 studios are likely to sell in the future.Specialties are becoming a rarity
What will happen to Springfield in USO and USH?
I feel like it is. Specially for the theme park division and its fans. The fact that Disney rivals universal in the theme park sector and can now hog these properties is not a good thing. I absolutely believe that if Marvel was not owned by Disney at the current moment.. Marvel island would've gone through one of the biggest renovations at the property.. I don't want to get into the whole contract debate of what universal can or cant do with the properties but it definitely adds a factor that obviously hinders the creativity of innovation. NOW throw in the Simpsons (currently at Universals parks) Also X-Men and all of the properties that were just taken off of the shelf not only by this deal but possibly the AT&T Time Warner deal for universals liking and this war starts to get ugly.
I know universal has a bunch of properties of their own and now even more so with dreamwork's but lets be honest they seem to go with whats popular and they don't do a very good job of reviving properties that they own.
Just sucks for Universal fans in a way.. starts to make you think.. how long before some one makes a bid for Sony film properties. Also Nintendo as a whole.. if i were universal i would want to avoid another Marvel situation from happening.
So several things possibly happening at Universal HQ right now: (They probably have already thought about this)
> Keep Simpsons to expiration date or should Nintendo gobble up this space later on?
>American Horror Story? At this point, if they don't have a multi-year contract might as well try to get Stranger Things.
>Keep Marvel as long as you can
Exactly, and who has the biggest pockets in the business with the strongest cash flow and fastest growing media operations among legacy media companies? Comcast and NBCUniversal.
Comcast is an absolute buyer under every scenario. Disney purchasing Fox's assets just opened up the game. And there will be a lot of other sellers.
Viacom, Sony Pictures, Lionsgate, MGM all look very undersized right now compared to Disney, Comcast and AT&T-TimeWarner.
Another hidden benefit for Comcast based on Iger's statements, its seems Hulu will be the premier Disney streaming service. Even with 30% ownership, thats a lot of profits for little work especially since Hulu currently only operates in Japan and the United States.