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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
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Not really. No monster for starters. Again, it is hard to describe....you would need some understanding for the German school system and the language to get the humour. Though I do think that Mexico bought the rights to make a remake which was also reasonable successful...but naturally created for Mexican sensibilities, so very different.
But Time Warner and Universal being so big is okay? Remember, the alternative to Disney buying those assets was Comcast doing it.
Theatres just deciding not to show Disney movies is a bit of a ridiculous solution. Theatres already face issues with attendance, deciding to just not play movies from some of the most popular and profitable franchises is hardly a great idea for them. The demands Disney is making for The Last Jedi are ridiculous and no theatre wants to piss people off by not playing one of the biggest movies of the year. Not playing Disney movies would hardly make things easier on them. Disney really doesn't need nore weight to throw around.
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The small theatres with only one screen won't play The Last Jedi because they can't afford to put a movie in their theatres for three weeks (or whatever the stipulation by Disney is) when they know that everyone who wants to see the movie in their area will have seen it within the first week, two weeks at most.
Disney will eventually start to loose money over this. There is a tipping point. But even if this point is never reached, it still doesn't change the fact that the pressure Disney can put on the theatre owners about this has nothing to do with Disney's size. This could be the only movie franchise they have and they still could dictate those term. It therefore makes no difference how many franchises Disney owns.
How many small theatres with only one screen are even around anymore? And Disney's size means they can get away with shit like this. Sure if they were smaller then they could make demands but it would be much more harmful for them. No one would really care if films from a smaller studio don't get shown at their local theatre. But if theatres don't play the next Star Wars then audiences will probably be pissed at the theatres for not playing them instead of Disney. Because people actually care about Disney's franchises. It would hurt the theatres more than Disney.
Don't over estimate comcast's size. Sure if they bought fox they'd controlled something like 30% of the annual Holywood revenue, but if Disney buys them they'd have over 40% it's a lesser of two evils.
Plus, if Comcast buys fox, marvel get their properties back, so Comcast t least has a smaller monopoly on I Ps.
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Yeah, if a theatre in North America decides not to show Disney movies, after this merger happens, they'll lose access to (deep breath) Star Wars, Marvel, Avatar, Indiana Jones, Alien, the live action remakes of the animated movies, the animated Disney films, including Frozen 2, the Pixar movies, possibly the Blue Sky movies, and anything else Disney puts out that randomly happens to be a hit and anything that was on Fox's production line that I probably missed.
A theatre deliberately cutting itself off from 40%+ of the movies coming out is going to run into serious problems. And they can't just pull a local equivalent because the local equivalent is, hey look, Disney. If a town has one major theatre...well they aren't going to stand up to Disney because that would be insane. If a town has more than one...none of them are going to stand up because that would mean the other theatres getting all the revenue. The US doesn't actually have very many cross-country chains, instead having a bunch of little ones. So as long as even one theatre in a given area stays with Disney, Disney won't care.
And if Sony decides to sell off it's film and TV division, which have been teetering on the brink for years, well, Disney has an in there, what with the deal made relating to Spiderman. (So does Warner Bros, to be fair. Sony gets the occasional international license to Warner Bros movies.) But if Disney gets their hands on that, they'll literally have over 50% of the market share and no one will be able to push back against that.
edited 8th Dec '17 8:15:56 PM by Zendervai
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I doubt that Disney would buy Sony. If for no other reason that that they won't be able to afford another merger anytime soon after this one. We are taking about a deal which will cost them at least 60 million.
And Comcast is the second-largest pay-TV company after AT&T, largest cable TV company and largest home Internet service provider in the United States. The assets don't just include Universal, but also Illumination and Dream Works.
On an entirely different note: Ao S just introduced the notion of a Multiverse. And I mean not just name-dropping, but actually mentioning the whole theory.
edited 9th Dec '17 5:00:05 AM by Swanpride
I got a couple of ideas for mutants:
-In Civil War Vision said that the number of superhumans were increasing. So mutants were known.
-Say the twins weren’t the first Hydra experiments. That they started experimenting on people the moment they got their hands on the cube. Subjects were Holocaust victims and enemy soldiers.
edited 9th Dec '17 8:52:57 AM by ManOfSin
I welcome Fantastic Four coming to the MCU (mostly for the prospect of potentially seeing Dr. Doom and Galactus as foes in future films). The X-Men, I'm less enthusiastic on just because I feel like even the comics have struggled to integrate them well into the rest of the MU. They tend to work best when they're off in their own little bubble, and it raises far less questions.
My bigger concern, is whether they're all going to be "Marvel-ilized." Not a knock on the MCU specifically, but I don't want every CBM to feel like they do. Also will Marvel let them keep pushing the envelope/experimenting with different genres?
-Will Marvel let them keep making R-rated films potentially.
-Will Marvel let them experiment with different genres ala Logan and Deadpool and New Mutants.
-Will Marvel let The Gifted (which is actually quite good) stay on the air?
-Will Marvel let things like starting a movie with The Holocaust (X1) happen (they managed to mostly write Nazis out of WWII after all), or go further with the themes/ideas of the franchise?
-Etc.
We'll see I guess, but I'm cautious for now.
edited 9th Dec '17 9:51:35 AM by Punisher286
