With the 21st Century Fox deal days away from a shareholder vote and it seemingly like Comcast could change directions from reports and trying to buy Sky over in the UK ; Disney seems set on acquiring 21st Century Fox soon. The company will have multiple film divisions , a TV studio and numerous cable channel programming.

CNBC brought up that once the deal is complete Disney will have near 40% of the box office each year. This years estimate is 38% and they ran down that Disney already has this list of films (combined with 21st Century Fox) in the top 20.

#1 - Avengers Infinity War : $2.0+ Billion Worldwide
#2 - Black Panther : $1.3+ Billion Worldwide
#4 - Incredibles 2 : $788+ Million worldwide
#5 : Deadpool 2 : $726+ Million worldwide
#10 : Solo : Star Wars Story : $380+ million worldwide
#16 : Maze Runner : Death Cure : $288+ million worldwide
#20 : Ant Man & Wasp : $189+ Million worldwide

Doing the math from this folks , Disney/Fox would account for over $5 billion dollars of this years box office thus far nearly. That is impressive.


Disney itself in one thread as I posted would also secure franchises from Die Hard , Predator , Aliens and Planet of the Apes to work on down the line as well. Combined with getting back the Fantastic Four and X-Men rights ; the company would have built in franchises for the next decade or two.

Theater wise Disney can set even better terms for its film releases. Theater owners get a percentage of a release over weeks. Well Disney last December made a demand that they receive 65% of the The Last Jedi. Theater owners had to give in (the old take was 55%). With this increased power Disney could demand the 65% take every film now.


Moving from films to HULU , that itself is something Disney would have a controlling power over. They would control 60% of the company and would as some expect use the 21st Century Fox library for it and TV shows. Simpsons , Family Guy and others would show on Hulu in this deal. Meanwhile Disney would launch its new Disney streaming service to stream its main cartoon , PG films and all there. ESPN has a streaming service right now. In all Disney would have 3 streaming services and have the content to back it up.

No one would have that much content under one studio as its claimed and could do this than Disney. They would seemingly get a huge leap ahead on the future of media as more video streaming services become the norm.



Now the price tag of stock/cash also was brought up but Disney is a company that pretty much within a couple years have nearly paid off the $4 billion price tag they gave George Lucas . A fact that when Murdoch saw the Disney stock and how Lucas has tripled his earnings stock wise the past near decade made it an easy decision. Disney's stock even went up with the deal announced and given what they will now control , Murdoch will see the same results with his stock he'll have in this Disney/Fox deal.

In all , Disney is gonna have a lot of power ahead. They literally now possess the Infinity Stones.