Disney Now The Most Powerful Movie Studio Of All Time

Jim Vejvoda, IGN
Thu, 12/14/2017 - 2:00pm

Thanks to its $52.4 billion acquisition of News Corp.’s 21st Century Fox film assets, Disney is now the most powerful movie studio that has ever existed. The deal -- a seismic shift in the entertainment industry landscape -- essentially ends one of the six major studios (20th Century Fox has been around since 1935), provides Disney with even more content for their upcoming streaming service, and opens up the Marvel Cinematic Universe to include formerly Fox-controlled Marvel characters like the X-Men, Fantastic Four, Deadpool, Doctor Doom, Silver Surfer, and Galactus. Continue reading…

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