Disney reportedly held talks to acquire most of 21st Century Fox

[Visitant]

....on top of this, we're hearing rumors that both the finished xmen dark phoenix and new mutants movie have been shelved. 

[The NZA]

 

[Visitant]

Eh, I didn't care about Phoenix but I was really down for a horror movie with mutants in it.

[The NZA]

this should answer a few questions bindy & the rest of us had 

 

WSJ: It’s Getting Awkward at Fox’s Movie Studio as Disney Deal Looms

Unlike its sibling television studio, Fox’s movie studio is expected to be significantly downsized once the deal is complete. Disney will likely take over Fox’s two biggest film franchises, Avatar and the X-Men, and scale back production of costly movies that don’t fit its family-friendly, franchise-focused formula, people close to both companies have said.

 

Until the deal is done, however, Fox is obligated to keep acting as if it will survive, people who work at the studio say, which means making movies and developing new ideas with no certainty as to what Disney will end up doing with them.

Disney will release all of Fox’s movies that are complete or in production at the time of the acquisition, said a person with knowledge of its plans.

[Visitant]

Yeah, but now X-men is undergoing reshoots. That's pretty interesting. 

[Jont]

 

What's the worst that could happen? 

 

 

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Here's Marvel's Canceled Promo Comic for Defense Contractor Northrop Grumman

 

All Images: Marvel, Northrop Grumman

https://io9.gizmodo.com/heres-marvels-canceled-promo-comic-for-defense-contract-1819898744 

 

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The Shadow Rulers of the VA

How Marvel Entertainment chairman Ike Perlmutter and two other Mar-a-Lago cronies are secretly shaping the Trump administration’s veterans policies.

by Isaac Arnsdorf

 Aug. 7, 6:29 p.m. EDT

Then President-elect Donald Trump meets with Ike Perlmutter, chairman of Marvel Entertainment, center, and Reince Priebus at Mar-a-Lago in December 2016.

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But I am also looking forward to the movie where all of the characters get to have a fight.

 

 

 

[The NZA]

Thanks to Dark Phoenix bombing hard, Disney is now very hesitant about the films it inherited from the Fox deal

 

Twentieth Century Fox received its first-quarter grades from the Walt Disney Co. last week, and in a public rebuke, the studio’s new corporate parent made it plain that it viewed the first few months as an ominous sign of trouble ahead.

In a sharp reprimand that left staffers at Fox reeling and worried about their already fragile job security, Disney chief executive Bob Iger declared on the company’s Aug. 6 quarterly earnings call that “the Fox studio performance … was well below where it had been and well below where we hoped it would be when we made the acquisition.” Iger’s tone was measured, but his message was clear: Shape up.

“I’ve never seen a public hanging like that,” remarks one prominent Hollywood producer.

Disney is optimistic that handing Fox superhero properties such as “Fantastic Four” and “X-Men” to Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige will improve the quality of these movies, but bumps must be smoothed over in that transition. The studio is unimpressed with “New Mutants,” an “X-Men” spinoff with a haunted-house vibe, and believes it has limited box office potential.

The studio is also grappling with how to fit the very R-rated Deadpool into its PG-13-rated Marvel Cinematic Universe.

The goal is to find a way for the character to move seamlessly between “Avengers” spinoffs and bloody, profane stand-alone adventures.

i don't think anyone expected big things out of dark phoenix (and new mutants, while the idea sounded interesting, never really struck me as a safe bet either), but if that pg13 deadpool was a dry run, they're gonna have some issues with this transition 

 

at least we're still getting legion season 3