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The Walt Disney Company to Acquire 21st Century Fox Assets Resulting in Majority Control Over Hulu
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While I am wary of the merger, it does bring the Star Wars rights together. I am hoping for 4K remasters of the original trilogy in unmodified form. It is A New Hope.
$10 says controlling Hulu is the main reason for this acquisition and this acquisition would not be nearly as attractive if Net Neutrality were in place.
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You must be forgetting like 80% of the other companies that exist.
Seriously, it’s borderline insane to say Disney is a most “hated” company. Solid management and family entertainment are not the worst things in the world. Yes, ESPN is annoying and completely politicized, but there are a lot of companies with more sinister underlying principles than Disney.
You must not know about a lot of companies. Ever heard of Valeant?
This guy gets it. Fox has wasted these assets. Not sure why all the complaining about this. Should result it much better movies and the inclusion of these characters back into games like MvC again.
I wonder what happens with Fox Sports since Disney will now own both ESPN and Fox Sports? ESPN is terrible these days.
On the streaming side, does this mean they will now pull all Fox materials off Netflix?
I hope the Feds push back but they probably won't.
Is Laurene Powell Jobs still the largest shareholder of Disney stock?
Is Laurene Powell Jobs still the largest shareholder of Disney stock?
Don't worry there is plenty of hate to go around. And I acknowledge that there are worse companies but it was early and I couldn't think of any at the time. I wasn't reading a story about them.
I must not know about a lot of things - and I acknowledge that - that doesn't mean I'm drinking your kool-aid. Call me insane. I care not.
This should breathe new life into the MCU when the contracts with their current big stars run out.
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More concentration of power and more Disney control over popular media...
Ewww. (and I say that loving Disney, but they should've stay what they are at the core)
Glassed Silver:ios
Ewww. (and I say that loving Disney, but they should've stay what they are at the core)
Glassed Silver:ios
To be fair at the time of release Disney only had 1 or 2 4K titles available, and I think they are only at 3 or 4 now. Disney probably just didn't see the point of making any agreements with so little content. Also Disney seems to always be about a year or two behind when it comes to format changes.
According to Disney, all of these new assets will build on the company's "commitment to milk these properties for all they're worth" as well as fuel Disney's ability to "create more sequels."
Shrugs. I do not stream much outside of an occasional song, so I am not the target market. I hope some competition remains for Disney because this is getting ridiculous.
I feel like the opposite should be happening on the sports side, Disney should be forced to hand ESPN over to fox, not ESPN eventually taking over the handful of regional sports channels and turning them into over priced unbearable noise channels.
