Disney and Marvel

[gran guerrero]

next up for disney is to cast this guy to play captain america

[Galaxy Turbo]

It's simple. Disney needed Marvel, their sales were going down, and yeah this news has been blown way out of proportion. Marvel is getting shitloads out of this deal, more money will come their way through disney in this way as they obtain a larger audience. It's really a win-win for both companies, and I'm pretty sure they both realise that if they tampered with the face of Marvel, it's corporate branding and identity, they will suicide themselves into huge losses.

Besides, think of this as a creative opportunity, new things, they will take the opportunity to make very impacting decisions and take things to a new direction. We may even see disney comics or something. It's all good guys, it's all good.

[gran guerrero]

[gran guerrero]

seriously jake gyllenhaal Prince of Persia

[Cops]

There's a harry potter land? ROFL

http://www.universalorlando.com/harrypotter/

If you've read the books from an early age and moderately enjoy the movies you'd be excited too.

[paradise!]

Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?

am I reading this wrong

[Xog]

Troll King has raised some good points that I never really thought about. I now see their business approach as to why they're doing this - and I had no idea they controlled those other companies. Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?

[paradise!]

You aren't a man-boy, you're a child.

well and tonight at 8 jim, we've got Fireside Chats with Paradise, and he's got a pretty earthly guest if you know what i mean.



special thanks to:

barney frank (d-mass)

[phata$$]

I heard Mouserine are coming out next year

I prefer Donald.

[Edify]

Troll King is right, they're not going to fuck with the cash cow that much.



I'm at a Disney resort right now, and they closed almost all the clubs and bars in Downtown Disney. The parks have one to two 'good' rides, the rest are lack luster. It's weird, even though the parks don't appeal to males they still pull in huge fucking crowds of newly weds, couples, old people, kids, etc. I know Disney has its niche but simply adding one thrilling ride to each park does not entice me to purchase park tickets.

Disney is also going to get tripple fucked once Harry Potter land opens, there's already a market for people who have a time share in Disney but want to solely use Universal's parks. I believe Mears and Lynx offer buses from Disney property to Universal, a service that seems to be expanding year by year. Disney isn't hurting, but they need to make better fucking parks, that's for sure.

There's a harry potter land? ROFL

[Cops]

Troll King is right, they're not going to fuck with the cash cow that much.

Someone on Fark yesterday suggested that this was a ploy by Disney to get at Universal Studios in Orlando. They have a lot of Marvel licenses at Islands of Adventure, Disneyworld's main competitor, that they will now be unable to renew. Plus Disney's always had trouble appealing to teenage males, so we'll see how this goes.

I'm at a Disney resort right now, and they closed almost all the clubs and bars in Downtown Disney. The parks have one to two 'good' rides, the rest are lack luster. It's weird, even though the parks don't appeal to males they still pull in huge fucking crowds of newly weds, couples, old people, kids, etc. I know Disney has its niche but simply adding one thrilling ride to each park does not entice me to purchase park tickets.

Disney is also going to get tripple fucked once Harry Potter land opens, there's already a market for people who have a time share in Disney but want to solely use Universal's parks. I believe Mears and Lynx offer buses from Disney property to Universal, a service that seems to be expanding year by year. Disney isn't hurting, but they need to make better fucking parks, that's for sure.

[genocidal]

Why make this personal? You do understand that the largest consumers for Marvel films aren't overweight comic book nerds correct?. You have this uncanny way of making things personal, it's really amazing. This might JUST be me but, I dont think of myself as a man-boy nerd for seeing Iron man or Xmen origins.

You aren't a man-boy, you're a child.

[Troll King]

Here's a good analysis on what direction Disney is likely to take:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?p...d=a3mVWau.h28g

[Squeezer]

And since when does Marvel make the big bucks from their movies? They only make money off of the character licensing. The studios are the ones paying most, if not all of the budget as well as the ones making most of the profits.

edit: Huh. Apparently that was the case until recently when Marvel began making their own movies and paying Paramount only distribution rights. Didn't know that.

New York-based Marvel began making pictures on its own instead of licensing characters, starting with last year’s “Iron Man,” which took in $585.1 million worldwide, according to researcher Box Office Mojo.

[Troll King]

A firmly established corporation like ABC television which Disney purchased in 1996?

They didn't buy Marvel because they want to change the company's target audience to fit their own. They bought them to expand their own to include Marvel's audience. They've got a good grip on the kiddie market, they didn't spend 4 billion to get a larger grip on that market, they did it so they can profit from Marvel's. You're looking at it backwards. You don't spend that kind of change on a market you already dominate, you do it to grab hold of a new one.

You're talking like they're absorbing Marvel and turning it into Disney. Look at the other properties they own and you'll see that's not the way they operate.