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Here we go http://www.bbc.com/news/business-42353545 quote:Walt Disney buys Murdoch's Fox for $52bn
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Dec 14, 2017 13:37
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Dec 14, 2017 13:43
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Top Gun posted:It also means: BRING BACK FIREFLY MOTHERFUCKERS
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Dec 14, 2017 14:03
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80s James Hetfield posted:BRING BACK FIREFLY MOTHERFUCKERS Depends. How much are you willing to pay for Disney's Hulu?
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Top Gun posted:Ridleys plan for the Alien franchise is to focus on AI is the big threat and main story and less aliens. He’s been talking this up in interviews. After Covenant he should be fired from the franchise. It needs a completely new direction and relaunch. Ridley Scott should be fired from the franchise? He made Alien with the likes of Giger. It’s his series. You don’t fire him and continue on. Does Scott hold the rights? I mean granted I suppose you could fire Michaelango before he finishes the Sistine Chapel and hire Liefeld’s ancestor who tries his best to draw foot anatomy but why? For the morbid who want to pay to see train wrecks? EDIT: Disney buying Marvel I feel is what kickstarted his whole thing. It’s been good for them.
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Dec 14, 2017 14:40
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Just give me a properly done DOOM and Galactus and we'll call it good yeah?
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Scyantific posted:Just give me a properly done DOOM and Galactus and we'll call it good yeah? I feel like either James Gunn or Taika Waititi stand a good chance at doing Galactus justice.
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Dec 14, 2017 15:35
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I can see it now. Galactus is looming over planet earth, people are panicking, this is the end of the world... And then a homeless guy looks up in terror and says "boy howdy did i pick a bad day to stop doing meth!" Galactus eats earth, burps, moves on, all the while F4 are watching helplessly from a spaceship. Thing says "aint that revoltin'" Qué credits
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Silver Surfer: You're so selfish! There's no I in Galactus! Galactus: But there is an *us*
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Well We just had some excellent news from Alabama Of course something had to fall to pieces, why not let it be Hollywood
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If you don't like David, there's the airlock yo. I need to see what hijinks my boy gets into. Don't take this from me.
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Gonz posted:That sound you hear faintly in the distance is Disney executives rolling up to Hugh Jackman's house with a dump truck full of 24 karat gold bricks. Gold is very soft so this wouldn't work. It wouldn't support the weight of a dump truck full of itself. And by that I mean a dump truck full of gold, not a dump truck that's really haughty and conceited.
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Dec 14, 2017 16:16
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This buyout is loving disgusting. A big "gently caress you" to any nerds just thinking for themselves and all their action figures finally being able to have sex with each other.
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Vintersorg posted:This buyout is loving disgusting. No but you see this means I can finally see Iron man take on darth vader on a death star being attacked by galactus while Captain Sparrow and Captain America fight of the Alien and predator team up!
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Dec 14, 2017 16:25
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Is there any possibility for the buyout being denied over accusations of Monopoly or something? 
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Burkion posted:What's funny is, Reeve's Superman is not that dissimilar to Synder's take right up until he went into the Fortress of Solitude for like, a year and came out THE SUPERMAN Donner's whole Superman is about Clark finding what it means to be Superman. He is certainly no "THE SUPERMAN" when he flies away from the Fotress. He's still very much Clark Kent in a suit. Reeves' Superman doesn't reveal himself to the world until someone personal to him (Lois) is in trouble, only after his actions are seen by the world does he take to fighting bad guys, and the only bad guys he fights are common thieves. Which of course leads him to the moment of hubris when the first time he encounters someone who's intellectually his superior (Lex), it nearly leads to his death. It's interesting that his salvation comes only because of someone else's selfish motives (Miss Tessmacher's desire to save her mother), who wouldn't have been in danger in the first place is Superman hadn't revealed himself to the world. Then there's the whole baptism metaphor with Superman putting someone else's desires (promising to save Miss Techmacher's mother) over his own wants. He even pleads to be allowed to save Lois first. Reeves' Superman is one who is very much flawed. People just overlook it because they expect a "flawed" character to be full of angst all the time. Sometime when people talk about Superman The Movie, I wonder if they even watched it.
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"This acquisition reflects a changing media landscape increasingly defined by transformative technology and evolving consumer expectations" Disney CEO Bob Iger said in a call with investors and analysts. "Today's empowered consumers want more: more compelling, high quality entertainment; more access to content; more choice; and more convenience." "Which is why we're trying to create a monopoly."
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Burkion posted:Well Net Neutrality vote today as well. Take your pick.
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Davros1 posted:Donner's whole Superman is about Clark finding what it means to be Superman. He is certainly no "THE SUPERMAN" when he flies away from the Fotress. He's still very much Clark Kent in a suit. The main thing that I was referring to, which I decided not to go into because it would be a whole thing After Superman leaves the fortress, we rarely see him as a person again. He's there, HE IS there, but it's muddled because he wears two different masks. He wears the mask of Clark Kent Buffoon and he wears the mask of Superman, demi god savior of all We only get to see the REAL Clark in very brief moments there after, the real person behind both facades. He especially shows up when Lois dies and he's just unable to cope with that. Refuses to allow that to happen.
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The Fantastic Four are included in the Disney-Fox deal. https://screenrant.com/disney-fox-deal-marvel-fantastic-four/ quote:The agreement also provides Disney with the opportunity to reunite the X-Men, Fantastic Four and Deadpool with the Marvel family under one roof and create richer, more complex worlds of inter-related characters and stories that audiences have shown they love. The addition of Avatar to its family of films also promises expanded opportunities for consumers to watch and experience storytelling within these extraordinary fantasy worlds. Already, guests at Disney’s Animal Kingdom Park at Walt Disney World Resort can experience the magic of Pandora—The World of Avatar, a new land inspired by the Fox film franchise that opened earlier this year. And through the incredible storytelling of National Geographic—whose mission is to explore and protect our planet and inspire new generations through education initiatives and resources—Disney will be able to offer more ways than ever before to bring kids and families the world and all that is in it. Fantastic Four / National Geographic crossover 
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10 Beers posted:Net Neutrality vote today as well. Take your pick. loving Christ Fine Take your morally bankrupt monopoly if that nightmare doesn't happen
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Burkion posted:The main thing that I was referring to, which I decided not to go into because it would be a whole thing It’s there and the other time we see the real him is when he reveals himself to Lois in the Niagara Falls hotel room after he’s supposed to have burned his hand. And I think in the diner when he’s powerless. When he’s vulnerable.
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Mr. Apollo posted:The Fantastic Four are included in the Disney-Fox deal. That’s the poo poo that’s needed. Nation Geographic sells its exploding of space and the world with the Fantastic Four guiding the journey. EDIT: Oh poo poo....PLEASE REPLACE TONY STARK WITH SCROOGE MCDUCK AT ONCE. Thank you. And get me Darkwing in the Avengers please. He can be the teams Batman. Gatts fucked around with this message at 17:01 on Dec 14, 2017 |
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Dark_Tzitzimine posted:Is there any possibility for the buyout being denied over accusations of Monopoly or something? with this legislative and executive branch? 
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Seers, Oracles (1998) NTRabbit fucked around with this message at 17:04 on Dec 14, 2017 |
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Dark_Tzitzimine posted:Is there any possibility for the buyout being denied over accusations of Monopoly or something? Antitrust laws haven't been used for like a decade at this time.
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CelticPredator posted:If you don't like David, there's the airlock yo. I agree with you but I mean, this is exactly what happened to Snyder's DC series so why wouldn't it happen to Ridley's Alien stuff? The general audience hates it and complains about stuff not making sense and it underperforms at the box office so it will get increasing studio interference until poo poo's unrecognizable and the director we love leaves. There is no reason to hope 
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KVeezy3 posted:I'm having trouble seeing how Snyder's Superman is existentialist, but I fully admit to finding that philosophy largely uncompelling. Superman spends all of Man of Steel wrestling with the question of who he is and what his abilities oblige him to do; his main moral guide, Kevin Costner, refuses to instruct him except by example. Zod, the antagonist, sees all his own actions as determined. He was made to protect his people and he cannot do anything else. This bad faith is uncovered in the final act when, with the death of the remaining Kryptonians, he acts freely in revenge on Superman. Superman choses to kill him, aware and accepting of the monstrosity of his act. The codex, and the discussion on bringing back the glories of Krypton, are also fairly straightforward existentialism. Why attribute to Kryptonian society the potential for more great wonders when that is exactly what it did not achieve? Krypton is literally the sum of the people who lived on it, in the physical object of the codex.
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MonsieurChoc posted:Antitrust laws haven't been used for like a decade at this time. Nah, regulators blocked the Sprint and T-Mobile merger just a few months ago. They won't block this, though, because it doesn't affect the Fox TV network, and IP consolidation doesn't fall under antitrust rules.
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lmao murdoch would rather have disney own his assets rather than his kids running things
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PenguinKnight posted:lmao murdoch would rather have disney own his assets rather than his kids running things One of Murdoch's kids is now being discussed as a potential successor to Iger.
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Dark_Tzitzimine posted:Is there any possibility for the buyout being denied over accusations of Monopoly or something? In school we were taught rule of thumb for actionable monopolies was around 70% market share. According to the only thing I found cited multiple places: https://www.the-numbers.com/market/2016/distributors ...this deal moves Disney from 26% to 39%. WB next at 17%, Universal at 13%, etc. I think it would be too low, although if adjusted 2017 numbers bump that up nearer to 50% there might be some foothold legally. But the Justice Department is currently trying to block AT&T/Time Warner so maybe this won't be as open-shut as it seems... the current landscape is so unpredictable.
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I don't think Trump's Justice department will put any roadblocks in front of something Rupert Murdoch wants to do
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Davros1 posted:Reeves' Superman is one who is very much flawed. People just overlook it because they expect a "flawed" character to be full of angst all the time. Reeves only flaw is that he decides, for no earthly reason, to pretend to be a stupid greasy nerd around a woman he loves. There's zero motivation given for this, zero reason for him to act this way. It's actually really dumb. (his Superman is top notch Daddy Superman, though). Megaman's Jockstrap fucked around with this message at 17:55 on Dec 14, 2017 |
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Al Borland Corp. posted:I don't think Trump's Justice department will put any roadblocks in front of something Rupert Murdoch wants to do Particularly since the Justice Department's complaint about AT&T/Time-Warner seems to revolve around CNN, against whom Trump holds a grudge.
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Timby posted:One of Murdoch's kids is now being discussed as a potential successor to Iger. Murdoch's kids are worthless by the way, Lachlan just lost a stack of money, influence, and political capital for Fox getting outmaneuvered by unions and CBS in a TV channel purchase here in Australia
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:Reeves only flaw is that he decides, for no earthly reason, to pretend to be a stupid greasy nerd around a woman he loves. There's zero motivation given for this, zero reason for him to act this way. It's actually really dumb. (his Superman is top notch Daddy Superman, though). Yeah this is my main problem with Donner films. I hate "Oh gee whiz Lois, aw shucks, aw beans, that sure seems risky oh boy" nerd Clark.
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SMG has a good analysis of it that makes sense from a thematic perspective but as a character beat it's wack as hell. Davros1's framing of Superman loving Lois and wanting to protect her, or Superman having mixed desires, as "flaws" is frankly really bizarre. That's just motivation.
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