Seems like Searchlight role will be more similar to Miramax and 21CF role is probably more in line with Touchstone.
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Thanks to Dark Phoenix bombing hard, Disney is now very hesitant about the films it inherited from the Fox deal.
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I think that's the idea. Just take the valuable IP out of what was Fox, and make your own movies (albeit under a different studio name than Disney) with it, burn the rest down. We'll see new Alien, more Avatar, maybe some Predator, and the occasionally remake/reboot, but not much else. I wouldn't be surprised if Disney torches the current iteration of Deadpool and creates their own for incorporation into the Marvel universe. No way in hell Feige would want to touch it otherwise.
And to anyone thinking Fox Searchlight stays alive, god speed.
It wasnt planned as an ending though so its not the same at all.
This is not the case at all. From day one basically Iger said Deadpool continues as-is, and just recently reiterated that Deadpool is now on Feige's plate.
That's pretty much my takeaway as well. In the new Disney era, everything must be family friendly. And dull as dishwater.
We'll wait and see on that. It's pretty telling that the Marvel Comic-Con panel announced a new Blade and Fantastic Four instead.
Dark Phoenix wasn't the only problem with Fox's output really.
Well at least we can still look forward to the Avatar sequels, more Planet of the Apes and a new Home Alone......
Alien and Predator fans will probably be left waiting a long time to get new films now, thanks to this news and how Fox handled them. Although it's probably a good idea to let them rest a while anyway after the last few films.
Well at least we can still look forward to the Avatar sequels, more Planet of the Apes and a new Home Alone......
Alien and Predator fans will probably be left waiting a long time to get new films now, thanks to this news and how Fox handled them. Although it's probably a good idea to let them rest a while anyway after the last few films.
haha i remember reading about this an HOPING it was turned into a movie.
That is what I figured, too. Makes sense and hard for me to believe they thought it and the other bombs would do well.
This pretty much. They just wanted the IP and a few other stuff
You'd rather leave the ending of Covenant just hanging like that?
Let him wrap it up, then let someone else start another story arc.
Nah man, these movies are hilarious. Where else do I get to see Michael Fassbender dropkicking Michael Fassbinder?
DP bombed because it was a PoS everyone saw coming a mile away.
I still think Spotlight will be fine. Pictures under 20mil that bring in acclaim and they seem to be a pretty profitable subsection of Fox. The films that are gone for good are ones like Love, Simon, Hate You Give, Bad Times, Maze Runner, etc. Disney doesn't do mid budget. I could still see one getting by every now and then at best. What is a question mark would be the larger pictures, but with no merchandising potential. But if I had to bet, We won't be seeing The Martian, Planet of the Apes, Kingsman either. Disney is more interested in their IPs and holdings
I still think Spotlight will be fine. Pictures under 20mil that bring in acclaim and they seem to be a pretty profitable subsection of Fox. The films that are gone for good are ones like Love, Simon, Hate You Give, Bad Times, Maze Runner, etc. Disney doesn't do mid budget. I could still see one getting by every now and then at best. What is a question mark would be the larger pictures, but with no merchandising potential. But if I had to bet, We won't be seeing The Martian, Planet of the Apes, Kingsman either. Disney is more interested in their IPs and holdings
When people say that Disney is interested in Fox's IPs, what do they mean? What are they planning to do with all these properties?
They have already announced they will be producing Planet of the Apes stuff, that's on the already active list.
It means people don't understand that these IP's and the fact Hulu is a major part of their plans because they want to dominate and they need just as much adult content to truly do that.
I don't understand how brains can handle thoughts like "Disney is a monopoly and trying to own everything" at the same time as "they will kill it all and just sit on it while churning out what they already do and make everything Disney kid friendly " because these two thoughts don't work very well together.
So many articles about Fox in the last week, this totally smells like a PR movie from Disney to cut all undesired projects.
Iger wants to shape Fox into another Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars .... he wants an excuse. Like no one saw Dark Phoenix flopping, pls.
Iger wants to shape Fox into another Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars .... he wants an excuse. Like no one saw Dark Phoenix flopping, pls.
Disney screwing around with Deadpool would be stupid as hell.
The character already has been established with audiences, having both films be two of the highest grossing r-rated films of all time while costing less than pretty much all the MCU movies to make.
The character already has been established with audiences, having both films be two of the highest grossing r-rated films of all time while costing less than pretty much all the MCU movies to make.
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It bombed because it was a bad movie in a series that lost its steam years ago.
I'd say that Deadpool is guaranteed to continue as is, no recasting. As for the PG13 vs R rated thing, it could honestly go either way.
Not surprising at all. Disney always seemed to be embarrassed to be associated to the PR brand for whatever reason, with them trying to get the show canned for years.
My favorite thing is... Disney was largely gifted with those three brands. I wonder how shaping Fox in that mold will go for them, when outside of remakes, live-action Walt Disney Studios is hot garbage.
They'd be safer pretending that it never happened and forget about the silly retcons from those two movies. There's really no interesting story to continue. They killed off Shaw and Daniels wasn't as interesting. David is going to continue to do some mad scientist shit with a pretentious waffley theme of creation. Almost all of the colonists are going to end up dead and there will be a xeno outbreak.
Avatar machine?
Here the top 10 Fox movies, take your pick. Kind of funny half of them belong to Disney already.
The third movie is supposed to tie into the first Alien, it's supposed to show us how the Queen comes to be, how the Alien arrives at it's last 'biomechanical' form we see in the original, wrap up the Engineers' story (which Scott confirmed would be back for the third movie) David's, Daniel's and the Covenant's crew ultimate fates, etc. There are a lot of story threads hanging that IMO need to come together so that the franchise move on.
I get a lot of people don't care about these movies but just handwaving them out of the way isn't going to help, the 'damage' is already done and it's ingrained in the series' canon forever, we might as well get some answers and resolution before we turn to the next page.
Yeah, this is the worst part of the news. Especially considering She-Ra is so good.
It didn't have the X-Men name in the U.S. It was just "Dark Phoenix" here. Someone let me know earlier in the thread that this wasn't the case in other countriesWhat?
So Avatar and Deadpool (which is now Marvel).
RIP 20th Century Fox.
Disney and Comcast were idiots. Plain and simple.
Absolutely shocked Disney has no interest in putting out films that they can't use to strong-arm theaters and the market into showing
Lumberjanes would have been a great indie dramedy, what a shame that it's been cancelled and Disney are getting their grubby hands on other studios' film producing. It should be separate, Disney/Bob Iger should only care of films advertised with the Disney logo. Don't literally act like a parent company.
Embrace your endless remakes and sequels basically.
I'm very sad about Searchlight though, I wonder how long they'll manage to hang on.
I'm very sad about Searchlight though, I wonder how long they'll manage to hang on.
Way to selectively hand pick a few films nobody would be interested in among the many films that sounded great. You sure proved your point!
I see we are still getting the 'Searchlight is doomed because one executive had an opinion that the movie might not work for the Disney audience' hot takes.
They also added "x-men" to the title for the home video release.