Newscorp/Time-Warner Merger Effect

[hedrap]

If Newscorp does buy Time-Warner, they will be forced to relinquish all Marvel rights. It would be very easy for Disney/Marvel to argue shelving, market confusion, conflicting interests, etc...I tend to believe that as screwed up as the original Marvel contracts are, they must have a stipulation stating if something changes Fox's organizational structure the rights revert back.

I'm also beginning to wonder if Gotham and Batman '66 aren't part of what got this rolling. Fox needs the genre library to exploit and WB have only continually botched it. If this goes down, which is at least 50/50 if not better, than I think we can scratch all DC/JLA plans past Batman v Superman. Fox does not have to honor any of the deals and Affleck will probably walk anyway.

So if you want to see an explosion of DC properties and X-Men/FF control revert back to Marvel, this looks to be it.

[thunderbolt]

just tell me it will kill that Josh Trank abomination FF, aka Chronicle 2.

[madmarva]

If the sale happens, there will be a ton of antitrust litigation. Who knows how long it would take to be finalized? But money always wins and Murdoch has it in spades. Yuck, just when WB is at the point of seemingly getting its act together with its DC properties, this throws a wrench in it.

Bleeding Cool ran a story about a meeting at DC in NY and LA offices with chief Diane Nelson and evidently WB's panels at Comic Con next week are TV oriented, not film as rumored in June. WB could announce films at the same panel, but why not promote it?

Oh well, par for the course.

[hedrap]

just tell me it will kill that Josh Trank abomination FF, aka Chronicle 2.

No. He'll get the first one out, then it will flip back. The full-on blitz to make this movie and more X films makes a little more sense; milk them for all the goodwill and dollars you can. Leave Marvel with damaged goods that will take even more time to revive. They could do X as a TV series, but the FF would be costly.

[hedrap]

If the sale happens, there will be a ton of antitrust litigation. Who knows how long it would take to be finalized? But money always wins and Murdoch has it in spades. Yuck, just when WB is at the point of seemingly getting its act together with its DC properties, this throws a wrench in it.

Bleeding Cool ran a story about a meeting at DC in NY and LA offices with chief Diane Nelson and evidently WB's panels at Comic Con next week are TV oriented, not film as rumored in June. WB could announce films at the same panel, but why not promote it?

Oh well, par for the course.

It won't be as bad as the trades are making it out to be. Once they let Comcast/NBC happen, which is just rife with conflicts of interest, it's hard to argue against to production companies merging. If TW stilled owned TW Cable, then yeah it would be a massive headache.

Blame AOL. TW could have been bigger than Comcast if they didn't take that sucker's bet.