Comcast to outbid Disney for Fox tv/movie assets?

Apple offered more money to purchase Fox's film and television assets than Disney but Fox chose to go with the house of mouse because they were already on top of the game in the multimedia landscape. Who has the most highest grossing movies in recent history? Disney. Who has more than enough movies and TV shows for a streaming service to compete with the likes of Netflix? Disney. Who has more than one functional cinematic universe that is outshining every other studio attempt on the marketplace today? Disney. Who owns Marvel comics where some of their film and television assets originate? Disney. And that's just covering the surface, choosing Disney over others was the best possible decision Fox could've made. Forget about the possibility of not having another Logan or DOFP, think long term and how huge the marketplace is, Fox just could not stand on their own legs for very long and had to sell and Disney was the safest option with much lucrative potential. It would be dumb to reconsider and go to Comcast or anywhere else.

That's likely just a myth or a rumor. Nonetheless, the Murdochs' are still not very likely to do business with Comcast and here's why.

The deal is an all-stock transaction. Neither Disney nor Comcast has 50+ billion dollars laying around in cash, so they have to offer shares of their company as payment to the Murdochs instead. In this scenario, a higher bid wouldn't necessarily be the deciding factor.

Disney can offer better stewardship of properties like the X-Men and the Fantastic Four than Comcast can because they already own the umbrella brand and they have an unbroken string of hits behind that brand (with more on the way). They could more easily make a profit with these properties which would increase the value of Disney stock which, in turn, would increase the Murdochs' wealth. Disney's ability to handle the properties better than Comcast is not a subjective statement. It's a fact. They are the only entity who can unite all Marvel IP on screen and maximize the returns from such an endeavor.

If you give the same properties to Comcast, they may or may not be able to deliver the same value. Could they make a successful X-Men movie right out of the gate where the mutants meet or team up with the Avengers? No, they can't. The Murdochs, as stakeholders, are going to want their newly acquired shares to perform to their maximum potential - Disney can do that in more areas of the acquisition than Comcast can.

And you almost can't blame them for their ignorance. If Marvel hadn't sold the film rights to these properties back in the 90s, there wouldn't be a context in which some of their characters could be thought of as separate and apart from the others. It was a mistake that damaged the fabric of Marvel culture which, ironically, has always been about integration and cross-pollination.

Comic book universes have a natural tendency towards unification - no matter how painful and unwanted it may seem at the time. The Fourth World and The Watchmen started off as separate universes; now both are fully integrated into the mainline DC Universe.

Treating Marvel properties as separate and distinct entities forbids recombination. Recombination is the key to birthing new worlds and ideas. When properties within a shared universe are walled off, they stagnate in an endless loop of repeating themes and ideas.

If Spider-Man can't be in the same universe as the Fantastic Four, Peter Parker and Johnny Storm can't have one of the most famous friendships in all of comic book history. And when Johnny dies, Peter can't take his place in the Future Foundation.

This kind of stuff only makes sense to you if you're a "True Believer" and you either are, or you aren't.

Same, but I'm not holding my breath. It's very unlikely that someone other than Disney will acquire them at this point.

Oh, and Disney is now more committed than ever to the deal.

www.cnbc.com/2018/02/06/disneys-bob-iger-fox-deal-on-track-even-more-encouraged-now-about-assets.html

If my bill goes up, I'm blaming you.

He keeps acting like DOFP wasn't demolished by Guardians of the Galaxy in 2014.