March 20, 2019. That’s the day Disney takes possession of Fox. Which means that there’s still a faint, hopeless chance that they will go with my idea for the last Avengers: Endgame Easter egg:
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Doctor Doom movie dead. At Fox.
At least, that’s the word: “…Fox has been developing films for Gambit, X-Force, and Doctor Doom for quite awhile, but according to a recent report… those movies are all dead thanks to the upcoming Fox and Disney merger.” ‘Recent report’ being a tweet, but OK. It’s 2019, that’s how this stuff goes now. Continue reading Doctor Doom movie dead. At Fox.
Fox-Disney merger: RISE OF THE FOXBAT.
‘Foxbat‘ is a very obscure gaming reference, which is why I’m taking that particular suggestion. Anyway: “Shareholders of 21st Century Fox and Disney have voted to approve Disney’s $71.3 billion buyout of major Fox assets. Shareholders gathered Friday morning at the New York Hilton for separate meetings to vote on the historic transaction that the companies first set back in December. Both meetings were brief, lasting less than 15 minutes.”
The deal is finalizing in the first half of 2019, which is Just. Enough. Time. for the MCU to put together a teaser credit of the Fantastic Four at the end of Avengers 4. Or maybe the X-Men. But if Disney/Marvel is smart, they’ll take a slap at a F4 movie; if they can make something watchable, then they win. They just simply win the Comic Book Movie wars, and it’s all just mopping up at that point. Bet big, win big.
Mouse eats Fox.
It is official:
The Walt Disney Company and Twenty-First Century Fox, Inc. (21st Century Fox) today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement for Disney to acquire 21st Century Fox, including the Twentieth Century Fox Film and Television studios, along with cable and international TV businesses, for approximately $52.4 billion in stock (subject to adjustment).
[blah blah blah they’re totally doing a streaming service]
Immediately prior to the acquisition, 21st Century Fox will separate the Fox Broadcasting network and stations, Fox News Channel, Fox Business Network, FS1, FS2 and Big Ten Network into a newly listed company that will be spun off to its shareholders.
I TOLD YOU ALL MARVEL/DISNEY NEEDED TO BUY 20TH CENTURY FOX TO GET THE FANTASTIC FOUR.
I told you all back in JANUARY: “I’m starting to think that the only real solution here is to have Marvel and/or Disney invade Fox, conquer it, and annex outright the F4 and X-Men properties.” And, do you know what happened? I WAS RIGHT. It’s looking like a done deal (Via Allahpundit): Marvel/Disney is going to acquire 20th Century Fox as soon as the lawyers finish doing… whatever it is that they do.
And after that, geez, Marvel/Disney gets the one thing that they needed to keep the MCU interesting for the next ten years: new superheroes and villains that aren’t derivative of the original ones. They’re not going to have to scrape the bottom of the barrel; in fact, they already have. Marvel did the Avengers and the Guardians of the Galaxy and Ant-Freaking-Man because the Fantastic Four and the X-Men had already been sold. Funny how that worked out, huh?
The ‘The Gifted’ TV trailer.
Definitely part of the X-Men universe: at one point somebody says that they don’t even know if the X-Men or the Brotherhood even exist anymore. …You and me both, friend. You and me both.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTzW9rMcbzk
But The Gifted might not be bad! There’s often a disconnect between a studio’s movies and its television series. Just because Fox can’t consistently catch fire with its Marvel cinematic properties doesn’t mean that the TV shows will automatically suck. I think. I hope. Let’s be optimistic about it.
Well, I WAS going to put up the Deadpool Integrated Marketing Campaign video…
…but apparently Fox made ’em take it down. Despite the fact that it features, you know, Deadpool explaining how the movie managed to score a Clio Award nomination for marketing the damn film in the first place. Spoiler alert: it wasn’t by ruthlessly own-goaling your own ad team.
I mean, yes, I understand intellectual property. But Fox grossed three-quarters of a billion dollars on a sixty million dollar flick that only got made because SOMEBODY leaked that original test footage. Maybe give the mad advertising geniuses who hyped that movie a little bit of slack, here?
The IRS and Barack Obama: mission, as they say, accomplished.
(H/T: Instapundit) Annnnnnd here we go. Two meaty bits from a Fox News poll:
Translation: people don’t particularly believe that the Executive Branch didn’t know about the IRS targeting Tea Party groups all along. Continue reading The IRS and Barack Obama: mission, as they say, accomplished.