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Disney & Fox Shareholders Approve $71.3 Billion Merger

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Shareholders of The Walt Disney Company and 21st Century Fox voted Friday morning to approve the $71.3 billion purchase of Fox’s key assets. The deal is expected to be completed by mid-2019, giving Disney control of Fox’s film and television production studios, and bringing such properties as the X-Men, Fantastic Four, and Deadpool into the Marvel Studios fold. The meetings, held separately at the New York Hilton, each lasted less than 15 minutes, ending a saga that officially began in mid-December when Disney finalized its initial $52.4 billion stock offer…

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Disney Raises Bid For Fox Properties

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It was recently announced that Comcast has offered a $65 billion all-cash deal for Fox Studios. And in the spirit of playing hardball Disney is now offering a reported $71.3 billion, which will give Fox shareholders the option to take their payment in the form of cash or stock, up to a 50-50 level. Disney’s previous offer stood at $52.4 billion, and the new offer is even better as Disney plans to take on about $13.8 billion of Fox’s debt, which would bring the total transaction value above $85 billion.…

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Fox Shareholders Will Decide In July To Sell To Disney Or Comcast

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Media Release: Well, it appears as if we’ll finally get some clarification about whether or not the X-Men and Fantastic Four are heading back to Marvel because a date has been set for a vote which will decide Fox’s fate. It’s been confirmed today that Walt Disney and 21st Century Fox have set a date of July 10th for shareholders to decide whether or not the latter company sells the bulk of its assets to Walt Disney or instead considers a potential offer from Comcast Corp (they recently made their…

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STAN LEE About Disney/Fox Deal

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If you think Stan Lee the creator/co-creator for most of Marvel’s storied and valuable properties would be excited about the movie/TV rights of almost all them being merged with Disney’s pending acquisition of 21st Century Fox … you’d be right. “A truly great piece of news!” Marvel legend Stan Lee briefly told Newsarama Thursday afternoon. “Now characters such as the X-Men and the Fantastic Four can come home to the place where they belong. It’s vitally important to have the Marvel characters under one roof. And now, as great as…

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The Disney – Fox Deal

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The Disney mega-deal for 21st Century Fox’s entertainment assets has happened. This includes all the Marvel properties the comic company gave up to Fox to stave off bankruptcy including the Fantastic Four and X-Men characters in the cinematic universe in the 1990s. Disney’s 4 billion dollar deal to buy Marvel in 2009 has paid many dividends by forging the highest-grossing film franchise of all time with over $13 billion. They hope that the Fox deal will have the same effect on their bottom line and make them an even bigger…

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Deadpool’s “Wet on Wet” Teaser Trailer

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‘I love the smell of turpentine in the morning.’ 20th Century Fox has dropped the first teaser trailer for Deadpool 2, and it’s pretty crazy. There is some new footage. But for the most part, this two-minute video is a parody of Bob Ross painting videos. There is also a synopsis, which doesn’t actually tell you anything about the movie. “After surviving a near fatal bovine attack, a disfigured cafeteria chef (Wade Wilson) struggles to fulfill his dream of becoming Mayberry’s hottest bartender while also learning to cope with his…

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Disney has reportedly been in talks to buy most of 21st Century Fox

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The media corporation 21st Century Fox has been in talks to sell most of itself to Disney, CNBC’s David Faber reported on Monday. An acquisition would leave 21st Century Fox with a smaller, more focused portfolio of news and sports networks to better compete in a changing media space, the report said. A deal would exclude the Fox broadcast network because Disney could not own two broadcast networks, the report said. (Disney acquired ABC in 1996.) It would also exclude Fox’s sports channels to avoid regulatory concerns that combining them…

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The Gifted Promo Trailer Episode 2

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The Gifted from FOX starts this week. It promises to be something different and new in the mutant war between humans and special gifted people. The world fears what they don’t know or can’t control. The FOX new series is trying to find a place in the hearts of X-Men fan’s. let us know what you think in tonight’s episode. Written by Matt Nix (APB, “Burn Notice”), directed by Bryan Singer (the “X-Men” franchise”) and executive-produced by Nix, Singer, Lauren Shuler Donner (“X-Men: Apocalypse,” “X-Men: Days of Future Past,” “The…

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The Original Jean Grey Will Return To The Marvel

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Marvel Comics has officially announced that the original, adult incarnation of Jean Grey will make her return in Phoenix Resurrection this December. The five-issue Marvel Legacy limited series will be written by Matthew Rosenberg (Secret Warriors, Punisher) with art by Leinil Yu (Secret Empire), and will reintroduce the original, adult version of Jean, who hasn’t been seen in quite some time. “Matt came to us with a really interesting and unique approach to bringing Jean back,” said senior editor Mark Paniccia. “It’s not what we expected, and plays to Matt’s…

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The Full COMIC BOOK SUPERHERO Movie Release Schedule

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The Superhero movie schedule may not be written in stone but here it is using all the media outlets we can to get accurate dates. Our disclamer is that things are subject to change. Keep in mind the Aquaman movie was moved back to December 2018. The movie industry is always in flux with Marvel Entertainment the most stable of all the movie makers. Here it is for superhero the movie fans. 2017: September 1: The Inhumans (Marvel/ABC) [Editor’s Note: The first two episodes of this planned 8-episode series will…

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Domino photo from Deadpool 2 revealed

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Zazie Beetz as Domino in the upcoming Deadpool 2, Beetz has taken to Instagram to reveal another photo of her in costume as the luck-manpulating mutant. John Wick‘s David Leitch is directing the 20th Century Fox followup from a screenplay by Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick. Reynolds is again serving as a producer on Deadpool 2 alongside X-Men franchise caretakers Simon Kinberg and Lauren Shuler Donner. Ryan Reynolds is set to reprise his role as the Merc with a Mouth alongside Josh Brolin as Cable, the time-traveling son of the…

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Fox’s X-MEN TV Show THE GIFTED

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Fox has released the first teaser for its X-Men spin-off show The Gifted. Focusing on a family who goes on the run when its discovered the two children are mutants, the show has also been picked up for a full series based on a pilot directed by X-Men film director Bryan Singer. No premiere date for The Gifted has been announced. A full trailer is scheduled to premiere May 15.

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Dolph Lundgren in DC Films’ Aquaman

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Veteran superhero actor Dolph Lundgren has been cast in DC Films’ Aquaman as King Nereus of Xebel, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Xebel is an seperate underwater kingdom neighboring Atlantis, and Lundgren’s Nereus is described as a rival “who claims Mera as his own and wants to kill Aquaman.” Nereus was created by Geoff Johns and Paul Pelletier in 2012’s Aquaman #19, and was tipped to play a part in Geoff Johns’ long-promised Aquaman: Legend of the Seven Seas story-arc. Director James Wan is scheduled to begin shooting Aquaman this…

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Josh Brolin as Cable in ‘Deadpool 2’

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Joss Brolin, whose name never came in casting rumors for the character, has snagged a four-movie deal to portray Cable. USA TODAY Josh Brolin has signed on to play comic-book character Cable, opposite Ryan Reynolds’ foul-mouthed mercenary in Deadpool 2, The Hollywood Reporter and The Associated Press confirmed Wednesday. But, wait, wasn’t Brolin already cast in the Marvel Cinematic Universe? Indeed. Brolin plays Thanos, a supervillain who has a major role in the forthcoming Avengers: Infinity War. Reynolds, himself, made light of the fact that Brolin’s been cast as a…

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Brianna Hildebrand’s Negasonic Teenage Warhead Interview

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It’s already been confirmed that the duo will return, but the actress has now talked for the first time about her role in Deadpool 2. She hasn’t seen a script but is expected to get an updated appearance. “I’ve not yet actually read the script,” Hildebrand admitted, adding “But I do think she will be a lot cooler, based on the wardrobe ideas and stuff. I’m very excited.” She explained she’d just seen some concept art, “Just some ideas, nothing that’s concrete or anything. But I think it’s cool that…

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