Disney Returns to Negotiations, Offers $70 Billion for Fox

In case you didn't know, Disney and Fox have been looking for the right deal for a few months now. This time, the company Mickey, which also owns the Lucasfilm and Marvel Studios, proposed a new value in exchange for most of Fox's subsidiaries: US$ 70 billion.

Disney's New Offer Is Far Superior

At the end of last year, the deal seemed to be closed when they officially announced the purchase of US $ 52,4 billion. However, the soap opera dragged on until today, with very few details being revealed throughout the process.

However, what led to Disney to raise the value of your proposal? The reason is just one: the Comcast I was also interested in buying. Furthermore, she tried to acquire Fox for $65 billion. Thus, the company, which owns the NBC Universal (responsible for animations at DreamWorks), should have no more chances in this dispute.

Despite the giant proposal, we will still have several other chapters of this novel. This is because, even though the Fox already accepted the proposal of the Disney, the agreement itself still was not closed. Thus, “intervention” by any other company is still possible.

What changes after this acquisition?

Since the transaction basically includes the film and TV studios as well as the entertainment networks of Fox In general, it is natural that the Disney be so interested in this acquisition. However, what makes you have reason to be excited is knowing that finally the Marvel Cinematic Universe will be complete — or nearly so.

Yes, you didn't see all the publisher's characters together on the big screen because the Fox owns the adaptation rights to some of them. And although no one knows what the Marvel Studios intends to do to take advantage of the arrival of the characters of the Quartet Fantastic and X-Men, only good things can come out there.

However, some characters Marvel are under the command of a third company: the Sony. Yes, she made a deal with the Disney to release the use of Spider-Man and some of the elements of his universe in the MCU. However, this does not change the fact that some characters they are simply not being used as much on TV as they are in movies.

Below, you can see a list of franchises that will be transferred to the domain of Disney if the purchase is made:

• X-Men;
• Quartet Fantastic;
• Deadpool;
• Avatar;
• Titanic;
• Monkey's Planet;
• Ice Age;
• TheSimpsons;
• Homeland;
• Modern Family;
• American Horror Story;
• The Americans;
• This is Us;
• Empire.

In addition to franchises, the acquisition also guarantees control over the following services and channels:

• 20th Century Fox Television;
• FX Networks;
• National Geographic;
• Fox Sports Regional Networks;
• Fox Networks Group International;
• Hulu (streaming service);
• Star India;
• sky plc;
• Tata Sky;
• Endemol Shine Group.

So keep following the showmetech to find out as soon as we have more news about this deal.

Source: Gizmodo.

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