029 - Disney Acquires Fox w/ Jared Kelley

Life, the Cineverse, and Everything

• Introduce Jared.
• Have you seen anything good recently?
  • Jared: I Tonya, Baahubali, Lagaan, Incident in a Ghost Land, Isle of Dogs
  • Nick: Nate Bargatze (Netflix) / Bram Stoker’s Dracula / Shrill (Hulu) / WonderCon
• NEWS:
  • Shooting at a Mosque in Christchurch, NZ (15 Mar) /// Batman is 80 years old (Mar 30, 1939) /// Apple TV+ trailer
• Main Topic: Disney Acquires 20th Century Fox
  • The Walt Disney Company bought 21st Century Fox in a $71.3 Billion-dollar deal @ 12:02 am on 20 Mar 2019. Biggest media consolidation in Hollywood history.
  • History of the merger according to Wikipedia, Comcast almost outbid them ($65B on 13Jun18).
  • In June 2018, the DOJ approved the anti-trust approval case, so the deal was all but done.
  • Controversy: Disney-Fox now controls about 37% of domestic box-office share power.
    • Disney released 10 films in 2018 – Netflix released 93.
  • Disney shuts down Fox 2000 which makes mid-level movies (1 of 4 film production companies owned by Fox) – Fight Club, The Fault in Our Stars, Life of Pi, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Hidden Figures, Walk the Line, Bridge of Spies, The Hate U Give, Love Simon
  • What Disney owns now –
    • 20th Century Fox Movies: Avatar, Titanic, Star Wars (Ep 4), Home Alone, Night at the Museum, Cast Away, The Martian, Mrs. Doubtfire, The Simpsons, Alien, Predator, Fight Club, Dragon Ball, Kingsman, There’s Something About Mary, Independence Day, 28 Days Later, Fantastic Voyage, The Sound of Music, M*A*S*H, Big, Rocky Horror Picture Show…
    • 20th Century Fox TV – The Simpsons, King of the Hill, In Living Color, The X-Files, The Mick, 24, Fresh Off the Boat, The Last Man on Earth, American Horror Story
    • Controlling stake in HULU – already owned 30%, bought Fox’s 30% totaling 60%
      • What does this mean for Disney+ ?
    • What does this mean for the future of Hollywood?
    • Should we be afraid of this? What does it signify?
  • Fox Corp / News Corp still exists, which owns Fox News, Fox TV and Fox Sports.
• What are you looking forward to seeing/doing in the next few months?
  • Twilight Zone (CBS, Apr 1)
  • Pet Sematary, Shazam! (Apr 5) / Hellboy (Apr 12) / Avengers Endgame (Apr 26)
  • Cannes Film Festival (May 25) / John Wick Ch 3 (May 17) / Aladdin (May 24)
• ‘Spider-Man: Far From Home’ thoughts?
• ‘100 Bullets’
• Sign off.