Disney Acquires 21st Century Fox for $52.4 Billion

They have not acquired it. They want to, but it will have regulatory hurdles to get past before the merger goes through. I don't think they should allow it. Disney is already huge and giving them Fox will mean far less content is made and far too much legacy content is concentrated in the house of mouse....and that's just on the movie side, but they'll also get all of Fox' cable assets.

Sell it to someone else.

Don't fool yourself, it will get approved. We're talking about the company that bought extensions to the copyright system and a current government that is pro big business and pro merger. The FTC and DOJ might impose some llimits and rules on Disney to make it look like they're being fair, but it will go through. I'm just glad it wasn't Comcast or Verizon, as they were the other two looking to pick up Fox assets.
 
Don't fool yourself, it will get approved. We're talking about the company that bought extensions to the copyright system and a current government that is pro big business and pro merger. The FTC and DOJ might impose some llimits and rules on Disney to make it look like they're being fair, but it will go through. I'm just glad it wasn't Comcast or Verizon, as they were the other two looking to pick up Fox assets.

Verizon or Viacom? Would have been an odd choice for Verizon to get into this line of business.
 
Random Reddit comment so who knows if its true or not, but it sounds right and is interesting:


https://www.theguardian.com/media/2...ls-21st-century-fox-stake-in-blow-to-murdochs

Yeah. Saudi investors, including 11 princes, were arrested in an anti-corruption crackdown recently and one of the princes owned part of Fox. He also had an investment in Apple. So if he was forced to sell his stake in the company as part of the crackdown it would hurt Fox, a lot. Everything about Murdoch aligns with things reported on him over the years and his bad purchases, and failure to buy Sky, are pretty well known.

Verizon or Viacom? Would have been an odd choice for Verizon to get into this line of business.

Verizon. It makes sense. Comcast picked up NBCUniversal a few years ago. Cable and internet companies getting into a content business makes a ton of sense, it gives them more control over everything. With the death of net neutrality coming it also allows them to use content to drive more business to them by giving priority access to their own services that will offer these movies. And also to Hulu, which they would then have a stake in.
 
Question now is how the parents of Hulu fight it out now. Disney is strong enough to pull its own streaming services, but perhaps it may opt a two-prong strategy where Hulu takes the more adult-oriented stuff and Disney sticks with its children movies and etc. In my opinion, beyond Netflix, Hulu and Amazon, only Disney is strong enough to get away being on their own

Disney can just bail on their own streaming service and simply use and re-brand Hulu. The vast cry of meh over CBSAA didn't go unnoticed, and HBO Now only has 2M subscribers after 3 years of operation. Convincing consumers to add yet another new OTT subscription service to their monthly fees is a hard sell.
 
Yanno, they could actually do the whole "Infinity War" story line and show a metric crap ton of dead heroes and what not that they now own, rather than "hey look there's 10 heroes trying to save the whole multiverse". Galactus can get snuffed out by Thanos, and all sorts of great things that literally could not have happened before. They can use the term "Mutant" now instead of "Enhanced"
 
Disney can just bail on their own streaming service and simply use and re-brand Hulu. The vast cry of meh over CBSAA didn't go unnoticed, and HBO Now only has 2M subscribers after 3 years of operation. Convincing consumers to add yet another new OTT subscription service to their monthly fees is a hard sell.

Disney is about the only media company capable of pulling it off. Depending on how Comcast takes Disney's 60% share of Hulu (and I doubt they will take it well after Disney prevented them from buying Fox assets) I could still see Disney doing their service. By picking up Fox Disney will own three of the top five hightest grossing movies of all time and they already control two of top five biggest franchises in the world. Not to mention the vast, vast library of movies they have and now purchased. Imagine if The Last Jedi and Marvel movies came to Disney's service only a few weeks after they were available to purchase digitally. Even if Disney put stuff like that in a higher-priced tier it could bring in millions. And they could have a cheaper kids tier filled with Disney animated movies and shows. CBS is primarily watched by older people, not the ones to jump at a streaming services. Outside of a couple shows, HBO lacks the content to really push their service and if anyone has cable it's the same price, or less sometimes, to add HBO to your sub. There is also the option to add it to Prime, so I wonder how many people access HBO stuff through there vs paying for HBO Now. WB might be the only other one that has a chance in hell of making it work, but we'll see once their service launches.
 
Disney is about the only media company capable of pulling it off. Depending on how Comcast takes Disney's 60% share of Hulu (and I doubt they will take it well after Disney prevented them from buying Fox assets) I could still see Disney doing their service. By picking up Fox Disney will own three of the top five hightest grossing movies of all time and they already control two of top five biggest franchises in the world. Not to mention the vast, vast library of movies they have and now purchased. Imagine if The Last Jedi and Marvel movies came to Disney's service only a few weeks after they were available to purchase digitally. Even if Disney put stuff like that in a higher-priced tier it could bring in millions. And they could have a cheaper kids tier filled with Disney animated movies and shows. CBS is primarily watched by older people, not the ones to jump at a streaming services. Outside of a couple shows, HBO lacks the content to really push their service and if anyone has cable it's the same price, or less sometimes, to add HBO to your sub. There is also the option to add it to Prime, so I wonder how many people access HBO stuff through there vs paying for HBO Now. WB might be the only other one that has a chance in hell of making it work, but we'll see once their service launches.

You can also get HBO through Hulu as well, which is why I don't consider it a separate streaming service.
 
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