On the horizon: More sucktacular “entertainment.”
At least they can read the tea leaves.
The studio business is a crap shoot anymore with no studio able to create new IP’s on a regular basis.
I can’t believe Fox is the one to fold first, Columbia seems to be the weakest and Paramount not far behind. The Star Trek franchise is legend but not a money maker on the scale of Star Wars and Marvel.
Just as Taco Bell won the franchise war it looks like Disney is on the way to winning the Movie/entertainment war.
Great! How soon after will we get an X-men, Fantastic Four, Avengers cross over movie?
Hope not. The less overreaching control the modern Left Wing Dizzy corp has, the better. Right now Fox has the rights to several Marvel properties, specifically the X-Men and their spin-offs which were granted years before Dizzy got their controlling paws on Marvel.
Think about it, Dizzy Corp really hasn’t been able to generate a major hit out of all the Marvel properties they currently control since they aquired them after the first Avengers movie came out and now they want the X-Men.
Fox’s Deadpool made a ton of money and they’re about to release the sequel in a couple of months plus New Mutants (both X-Men spin-offs). If they don’t catch them now, it may be years before they get control away from those characters from Fox, which I consider a good thing.
Casting couch, uh I mean uh, interviews soon for new “talent”?
Saudi related...?
As of 2015, Comcast Corp. is the largest media conglomerate in the U.S. with Disney, NewsCorp and Time Warner following in order.
As of February, 2017, AT & T and Time Warner are in talks to merge into one superglomerate creating the largest mass media and entertainment company in the U.S.
Many industry experts believe the merger would violate anti-trust laws.
These vast companies are virtually 100% liberal in management and product.
Media integrity, the public interest and the democratic process is at risk when small numbers of companies control the national media market.
I'll be vastly interested in when and if the kibosh is put on these mergers as they come into view during the current administration...and I urge all freepers to keep an eye on things, and write your representatives when necessary.
Our media and entertainment could well be controlled very soon by 5 or 6 corporations, companies and/or families.
Leni
Oh that’s what we really need in the companies that make movies - more consolidation; yea right. /sarc
What may be good for 20th Century Fox may not be good for a movie industry already very consolidated and pushing out more and more crap.
And with the money they’d earn from the studio sale, Fox could further bolster their sports networks and kill off ESPN, once and for all.
Sad ending to a once great film company started by Darryl F. Zannuck.