Disney buying Marvel Entertainment

[mariness]

Disney buying Marvel Entertainment for about $4 billion.

It probably says something about me that I immediately thought, but, all of the Marvel heroes comics rides are at the Islands of Adventure theme park, and not at any of the Disney parks, so what is Disney going to do with its rival park merrily making use of its now owned superhero icons?

Comments

[hawkward]

That thought occurred to us too. Conflict of interest?

Also, what about the movies that are either in production or in pre-production? (I'm mostly worried about Thor, of course.)

[stevenglassman]

Disney is smart enough to not mess with The Plan(tm), imho.

Thor and Captain America are both needed to build up to the grand finale- the Avengers movie. They've been working toward it for a while now, with the Nick Fury presence in Iron Man and the Tony Stark presence in Hulk.

Now if only we could get a decent JLA movie in my lifetime. ::sigh::

[mariness]

I think the movies already in production will probably be fine - no sense in losing the money already invested. The ones in pre-production...that's a little more iffy.

Then again, I haven't seen that much visible Disney interference in the Pixar films - mostly, I assume, because the Pixar films have been earning a lot of money - even with the films that Disney hasn't been able to transform into rides/merchandizing opportunities (Wall-E, Up). And by some reports Disney hasn't interfered that much with Miramax either even though Miramax has not been making the money it used to. (I've also heard that Miramax is making less money because Disney has interfered, but both are pure rumor, and not being a Hollywood insider, I couldn't tell you which is true.)

[wolfblade]

my first thought as well

[mariness]

The Orlando Sentinel is reporting that it won't make any difference.

This would be the same Orlando Sentinel that yesterday reported that Tropical Storm Erika was on its way to threaten Florida as a hurricane just as the National Hurricane Center was predicting that Tropical Storm Erika would diminish to a remnant low by this weekend (it's already gone down to a tropical depression in the last update.) So I will leave you to judge the quality of the Orlando Sentinel's reporting.

[wolfblade]

well realistically (and ultra simplified I am sure) there has to be an existing contractual relationship, i am sure that has to be honored.... once that contract is up, then they may change things.