The Disney/Fox Deal: Questions and Consequences

The Peanuts Movie and/or Ferdinand?

Edited by TargetmasterJoe on Mar 20th 2019 at 5:04:32 AM

I doubt that many people even know that those are Blue Sky movies.

Hello. I have a concern about Star Wars. As we know, the first six films were distributed by Fox before Disney acquired the rights in 2012. Since Disney has just acquired Fox, would the latter company's logo be reinstated for all future releases of said films?

Edited by gjjones on Mar 20th 2019 at 7:10:32 AM

He/His/Him. No matter who you are, always Be Yourself.

No clue. The deal got finalized for only less than a day, so we're not going to learn everything right off the bat.

We should expect more info in press releases, D23, San Diego Comic Con, and other stuff like those.

Kevin Feige has said that we’ll find out more about Phase 4 after Endgame comes out. Do you think they have a plan to introduce the X-Men & Fantastic Four like how they secretly had a plan for Spidey?

Edited by Spinosegnosaurus77 on Mar 20th 2019 at 8:05:29 AM

Peace is the only battle worth waging.

That's one good thing to come out of this, I guess. It will be exciting to see what comes out of this for National Geographic after this.

Meanwhile at New Fox:

Yeah, that's probably what I was thinking.

Edited by gjjones on Mar 20th 2019 at 8:50:36 AM

He/His/Him. No matter who you are, always Be Yourself.

I wonder how the live action television that they produce will be affected.

Edited by megaeliz on Mar 20th 2019 at 9:43:44 AM

I guess they will be forced to buy them in the future?

Well, 20th Television was one of the assets picked up by Disney, so if the new Fox Corporation wants live-action programming on their local stations, they’ll either exclusively have shows produced by other companies in addition to their in-house news and weather coverage, or they'll make a new division later down the line to produce them in-house. I’m thinking they’re just going to go with the former so that they can keep their production resources focused entirely on Fox News and whatnot.

Edited by TrashJack on Mar 21st 2019 at 7:24:56 AM

Now Disney had brought fox, is it true that Disney now owns both Coco and The Book of Life?

Going by the film's article on Wikipedia, it would appear that The Book of Life is owned by Reel FX Creative Studios, with Fox (and thus now Disney) having the distribution rights, though I could be mistaken.

Edited by TrashJack on Mar 21st 2019 at 7:35:49 AM

Yeah, I am pretty sure hat Book of Life isn't a Fox production. They might have distribution rights, but that is not the same as owning the IP.

Funnily enough, The Book of Life's creator, Jorge R. Gutierrez, cracked a joke about the Disney/Fox deal on Twitter, calling the female lead in BOL his favorite Disney Princess.

Disney has begun laying off 20th Century Fox employees.

So it might be less than the previously quoted 7,500 or it might be more. In any case, I hope they give everyone big severance packages.

There was an article a few month ago which said that they will. The plan was to not replace people who leave anyway first and foremost - I am ready to bet both companies avoided hiring certain areas for months now - shift some to other jobs and give who is left a gracious severance deal to tide them over.

yeah, that’s another reason why I’m glad it didn’t go to comcast.

The layoffs would almost certainly have been a lot higher, had things worked out differently.

Here's another surprise, the Fox 2000 label is shutting down.

Btw, currently the industry is booming...that is due to all the streaming services (or planned streaming services) which want content. A lot of those people might not have a too hard time to find a new job.

Now I am confused...I was initially surprised that they wanted to keep it.

But maybe they just want to merge it with the Fox brand in general and give her a high position in it? I mean, at one point it doesn't really make sense to have multiple brands. Keeping Searchlight makes sense because that is a known and distinctive name, but I doubt that many people even know the difference between Fox in general and Fox 2000.

Edited by Swanpride on Mar 21st 2019 at 2:57:24 AM

Considering that Disney already had the main Fox label and Fox Searchlight around, having a third unit made little to no sense, so it's closure isn't as shocking unfortunately.

An in another big departure, 20th Television's president is also out, meaning Buena Vista Television (dba Disney-ABC Domestic Television) will likely absorb that unit.

"The devil's got all the good gear. What's God got? The Inspiral Carpets and nuns. Fuck that." - Liam Gallagher

I know I don't. I always thought it was weird a movie would have the 20th Century Fox logo, but then the opening credits for said movie say "Fox 2000 presents..."

What was Fox 2000's deal? Just movies based on books, or was there more?

They were known more for mid-budget movies, i.e. movies that didn't cost like $80-$100 million+ to make.

"The devil's got all the good gear. What's God got? The Inspiral Carpets and nuns. Fuck that." - Liam Gallagher

I mean, Fox Searchlight Pictures could do that, too, considering that they also sometimes fund low or mid-budget indie films.

In a twist of irony, the first Fox movie to be distributed by Disney, Breakthrough (the one about the kid in a coma after falling through ice) was made by Fox 2000...the same part of Fox that got canned just now.

Actually it got me thinking: from here on out, are we going to see a "Distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures" credit at the end of Fox movies?

Edited by TargetmasterJoe on Mar 21st 2019 at 6:15:05 AM