Fantastic Four and X-Men dropped from Marvel Licensing

[samurainoir]

This is fascinating to me... on the one hand, that is potentially a big pile of money left on the table in the next couple of years with FF and X-Men movies coming out from Fox, but shows you the long term thinking behind it and reveals the real engine driving Marvel these days... the movie studio. All for an endgame to try and choke off the blood supply to Fox in a bid to regain the properties. It sucks for fans, but the reasoning is sound... why feed the "competition" in promotional/licensing support and IP content.

Interesting how publishing is using the loopholes... The Thing joins Guardians of the Galaxy, and the Human Torch joins the Inhumans, so Fox can't exploit the use of those characters in those titles for Fox movie content.

http://www.bleedingcool.com/2015/05/19/a-second-marvel-secret-wars-t-shirt-drops-ff-and-x-men/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook

[samurainoir]

coming on the heels with the reveal that Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch are no longer Mutants.

http://io9.com/marvel-confirms-scarlet-witch-and-quicksilver-are-no-lo-1703112599

[hedrap]

I think the big problem for Marvel is the payout. Fox did not renegotiate like Sony did after the first Spidey, so Marvel is still getting a minuscule percentage of profits. I was told many moons past it's about 10% net points. That would make sense decades ago when you look at how the Fox/New World/Marvel/Saban deal was pretty much a laundering between co-owners, but for a stand alone company since 2k, it's beyond horrendous.

I have a feeling FOX could license, but they don't want to push the litigation. It would have to be a Batman '66 type deal with at least half the sales going back to Marvel.

The irony is Marvel will actually increase the value of all the original stuff they're now revising, if this goes on for a few years.

[The Bat]

Marvel NEEDs to do the this...I HATE Fox! With exception of the last two X-Men movies.

[johnmiic]

X-Men films are fine where they are. The FF is the real problem. If FOX would just wise up they could give the FF back and get some inclusion for X-Men in the Marvel Movie Universe.

[Starroid Raiders Dagon]

Honestly, who would have thought Marvel could turn the characters from Guardians of the Galaxy into a hit franchise. They only have about a million characters they could use to produce a new Fantastic Four type team. The movies only have a thin semblance to the original comic heroes.