Variety Piece: Does Kevin Feige’s Marvel Promotion Mean Ike Perlmutter’s Endgame

[Hypestyle]

... as long as Mr. Perlmutter is a legal shareholder, he can't just be ousted without financial compensation for his shares. I doubt that the top Disney bosses want to make those kind of waves. And there may very well be Perlmutter allies on the broader board of directors.

We'll see what happens.

sidebar: it would have been great if George Lucas included a clause in his LucasFilm sale that he would become a board member. Whatever the issues people have with Lucas, I doubt if they're that deep compared to Perlmutter.

[Reviresco]

I definitely wouldn't bat an eye at Perlmutter getting ousted.

I will throw a huge party if Ike finally gets the boot.

QFT!

I would be thrilled!

Feige will likely leave the books be since it's a farm for ideas to adapt later on.

That being said, Ike is likely gone by 2021-22. He has almost no power left sans the games and some books outside comics.

... as long as Mr. Perlmutter is a legal shareholder, he can't just be ousted without financial compensation for his shares. I doubt that the top Disney bosses want to make those kind of waves. And there may very well be Perlmutter allies on the broader board of directors.

We'll see what happens.

Given the Veteran's Administration interference, he may be in jail or spending all his money for lawyers in the next couple of years, and too busy to interfere with Marvel.

[Reviresco]

Loeb is gone.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/li...b-exit-1247867

I'm not unhappy to hear this news. It may not have been all his doing, cause I know he had restrictions imposed on him, but the TV side of Marvel has been less than impressive. Granted, I haven't seen the Netflix stuff.

[Prof. Warren]

Absolutely correct. In fact, merchandise brings in roughly around 7x the amount that box office does for Disney. For example, here is what Disney made last year in merchandise licensing (by billions in USD):



And this is what they made in box office:



Unfortunately, and yes this sucks beyond the telling of it, comics don't even come a little bit close.

I don't even think it sucks. It's just reality.

More people see movies than read comics and more merchandise is bought and consumed by people than either comics or films. You can go anywhere and see people of all walks of life in a Marvel T-shirt of some kind.

Few of those people read comics on a regular basis, if they've ever read them at all and they may or may not see every Marvel movie, much less own them all on DVD.

[capandkirby]

I don't even think it sucks. It's just reality.

More people see movies than read comics and more merchandise is bought and consumed by people than either comics or films. You can go anywhere and see people of all walks of life in a Marvel T-shirt of some kind.

Few of those people read comics on a regular basis, if they've ever read them at all and they may or may not see every Marvel movie, much less own them all on DVD.

Well, yes, my brain totally gets that, but my heart feels that everybody who owns a t-shirt or buys a movie ticket should be reading comics. In a perfect world...

[Frontier]

Loeb is gone.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/li...b-exit-1247867

Loeb practically ruined Marvel Animation but he seemed to have had some success on the TV side, but I'm not surprised to see him go.

[Revolutionary_Jack]

Whatever the issues people have with Lucas, I doubt if they're that deep compared to Perlmutter.

Remember that Rupert Murdoch is also a big shareholder at Disney/Marvel after the purchase and he does have some pull there too...

Perlmutter's nothing to compared to Rupert Murdoch.

[H-E-D]

sidebar: it would have been great if George Lucas included a clause in his LucasFilm sale that he would become a board member. Whatever the issues people have with Lucas, I doubt if they're that deep compared to Perlmutter.

I bet Lucas could have done that, but I doubt he would have wanted to.

I'm not unhappy to hear this news. It may not have been all his doing, cause I know he had restrictions imposed on him, but the TV side of Marvel has been less than impressive. Granted, I haven't seen the Netflix stuff.

If you ask me, the Netflix shows are a little overrated. Except maybe the first season of Jessica Jones. The first seasons of Luke Cage, Punisher and Daredevil are also good, but I don't think they're as good as they get hyped up as. The second season of Daredevil was not good – if they had cut out all the Elektra/Hand stuff, maybe it would have been, the Punisher stuff was pretty good. Defenders wasn't good. LC and JJ's second seasons weren't bad, but weren't as good as the first either.

[Anthony W]

Loeb is gone.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/li...b-exit-1247867

Congratulations Rich Rider fans, If Nova comes to the MCU it won't be Sam Alexander, because that is a Loeb creation.

[Anthony W]

Does he really have power over games? It’s hard to imagine even before with Spider-Man PS4 and MUA3, and Feige is above him everywhere. Loeb is gone, hopefully Ike follows soon.

Perlmutter isn't going anywhere, Joe Quesada is the next domino to fall.

[Drops Of Venus]

Congratulations Rich Rider fans, If Nova comes to the MCU it won't be Sam Alexander, because that is a Loeb creation.

That's... not how it works. If Feige wants to use Sam in the MCU at some point, he can and he will. The fact that Loeb is not around is irrelevant, 'cause the character still belongs to Marvel and not to him. When Bendis left Marvel, they didn't shelve Ironheart because nobody else could write her, they simply gave her to other writers. I mean, Loeb himself hadn't written new Sam stories for years now. A lot of other writers contributed to his mythology within the MU, and I'm sure Marvel can keep hiring new people to write him in any other media out there.

[Digifiend]

Honestly, they should use both. Have Rich as the veteran, recruited to the Nova Corps a few years ago. That way they can skip right to the DnA era with him. Sam would be the new recruit.

[Rosebunse]

Fiege has proven himself to be a fan. I can't see him doing anything that hurts the comics. Plus, there's some indication that he's aware of what Hickman is doing on the X-Men and may want to use thay for the movies.

[Force de Phenix]

Unless someone buys out Perlmutter's market $hares, he's probably staying. People like where he's taken Marvel these past few months. He's still te boogieman in comics though.

I don't really care about Feige's new title but confused by "Comic books create relatively little revenue for Marvel." Is this true?

The fact that we know who Feige is, and that he's now the head honcho should be enough explanation as to which sector makes the most money. The "outside world" knows Stan Lee and Kevin Feige as the masterminds of Marvel. Mostly because they didn't have Kirby cameos.

[Blind Wedjat]

I bet Lucas could have done that, but I doubt he would have wanted to.



If you ask me, the Netflix shows are a little overrated. Except maybe the first season of Jessica Jones. The first seasons of Luke Cage, Punisher and Daredevil are also good, but I don't think they're as good as they get hyped up as. The second season of Daredevil was not good – if they had cut out all the Elektra/Hand stuff, maybe it would have been, the Punisher stuff was pretty good. Defenders wasn't good. LC and JJ's second seasons weren't bad, but weren't as good as the first either.

I'd say the best Netflix stuff really was Jessica Jones season 1, and Daredevil season 1 and 3. The other stuff was either just fine or mediocre.

And there was Iron Fist, which was just a mess.