The Disney/Fox Deal: Questions and Consequences

But are they keeping the Avatar font in Papyrus?

Oh, I think Cameron knows. But I also bet that he thinks that if he delivers truly impressive visuals, people will still come to watch it. And he might be right. See Aquaman. See Doctor Strange.

They had just recently pushed New Mutants to 2020. It makes me wonder how Disney will handle the X-Men after New Mutants and whether or not they are going to make films like Dark Phoenix and New Mutants non canon to whatever they are going to try with the X-Men.

They could invoke the Multiverse again…

. That would make sense. The X-Men kinda work better in their own universe anyway, so just having it be part of an official Multiverse allows for that to be true, while also allowing for possible crossovers if anyone wanted to.

Edited by megaeliz on May 7th 2019 at 2:27:22 PM

Funnily enough, the Avatar logo DID change. When the commercials for Alita: Battle Angel referenced Avatar, they used a logo that WASN'T papyrus.

So thanks for that, Saturday Night Live!

As for The New Mutants getting pushed to 2020, yeah it IS a bit of a pisser, but would you guys rather see it go straight to streaming?

Edited by TargetmasterJoe on May 7th 2019 at 2:23:39 PM

I was always pretty vocal that the smartest thing to do would be to establish the X-men fresh in their own universe and then do a dimension hopping event.

Speaking of X-Men, it looks like the Gambit movie is gone for good, since it's nowhere in the release schedule.

I am sure that a lot of people will be extremely heartbroken about it....

Gambit fans :v

I think even Gambit fans would prefer it if Marvel handles the character and doing it right.

I agree. I would rather have Marvel deal with the Gambit movie than have Fox do it.

I suspect that we might be moving toward Secret Wars/Contest of Champions territory with Marvel. Events like that would allow an easy starting point for integrating new elements like the X-Men.

The X-Men’s introduction will involve their universe somehow being destroyed, leaving them as refugees in the main MCU universe.

Honestly, I don't want anything of the mess X-men continuity connected to the MCU.

If we're going for a hard reboot, I think would actually be a really cool way to retool the X-Men into a reflection of modern Civil Rights issues instead of, as Deadpool, an "outdated analogy for racism in the 60's".

I kinda like the idea someone pitched in the MCU thread about having it start as a Mutant civil rights/self advocacy organization.

It also might be cool to see them get into the parallels you can make to the modern Civil Rights movements. So think stuff like, "Is it okay to use the word Mutant?", "Passing for normal or lack thereof", "The ethics of trying to find cures for Mutations", etc.

Edited by megaeliz on May 8th 2019 at 1:34:56 PM

According to this article, Bob Iger confirmed Fox's film slate will be limited to 5 or 6 per year.

Edited by OldLadyNightMan on May 8th 2019 at 6:29:06 AM

Does that include Fox Searchlight as well or just main Fox?

I get a safety alert from the website. So, second the question. If they mean only Fox and consider Searchlight a separate entity, this isn't so bad, since they only released eight movies in 2018 anyway (not counting Searchlight and Fox 2000). If it is about the whole studio, though, this would be very bad, because that would mean to allow less than half of the releases they did beforehand (around 15 per year).

"This server could not prove that it is collider.com; its security certificate is from default.ssl.fastly.net. This may be caused by a misconfiguration or an attacker intercepting your connection."

🤔

Maybe they copied the IP address wrong?

Let's see if this works. It's the only article I was able to find on it, though.

Edited by megaeliz on May 8th 2019 at 8:20:41 AM

So, reading it this doesn't include searchlight which will "remain untouched"...they are also talking about twelve movies which Fox released last year, but as I said, (if I didn't miscount) there were only eight released under that the 20th century Fox banner, I guess they also counted the Fox 2000 movies.

The most important point the article makes if asking the question if Fox would also do more "riskier" movies if they don't have the more save bets to balance a possible loss out...but, well, the last Fox 2000 movies were all huge losses for the studio.

Well this just happened...

You thought Disney owned only a portion of Hulu?

This probably should've been obvious, but The Simpsons are going to air reruns on Freeform.

Comcast still owns 33% of Hulu, they have just agreed to give Disney full control of the service in exchange for the promise that Disney will buy out Comcast for $5.8 billion within the next five years.

It's basically Disney saying, "We want to roll out a bunch of new stuff for Hulu, since it's already primed to go international, but we don't want to pay right away for the entire thing. Here's an IOU for $5.8 billion, will you accept that?" And since Disney is good at paying their IOUs, Comcast said yes (especially because they are going to try rolling out their own streaming service).