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I suspect that’s part of it but you don’t spend billions of dollars just to make a few X-men movies.
by empath75 9y ago
I suspect that’s part of it but you don’t spend billions of dollars just to make a few X-men movies.
- vwcx 9y agoDisney owns ESPN. Combining Fox Sports and ESPN is big in its own right.
- no1youknowz 9y agoYes you do. According to wired, [0] Disney paid Lucas Arts $4.5B, which half was cash. In 2016, [1] The Force Awakens made $1.54B globally. Maybe it's more now. Lets say that the last Jedi manages the same success? Well, they made their money back and the new rumored trilogy. That's profit. When you can put Spiderman and the X-men in the same universe as the Avengers and do the next 20 or 30 super hero movies where one, two, three, four, etc characters from the universe makes an appearance? I'm pretty sure fans of whatever franchise will line up to throw money in seeing the movies. This really sounds like a no brainer to me. [0]: https://www.wired.com/2015/12/disney-star-wars-return-on-investment/ https://www.wired.com/2015/12/disney-star-wars-return-on-inv... [1]: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/box-office-star-wars-force-852198 https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/box-office-star-wars-...
- empath75 9y agoThey spent 52 billion on the merger.
- camiller 9y agoin stock
- SyneRyder 9y agoAlso worth noting that Fox still owned the rights to the first Star Wars movie. It didn't come with the Lucasfilm acquisition: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/tangled-rights-could-tie-up-384541 https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/tangled-rights-could-...
- jchw 9y agoBut wait. $1.54B at the box office doesn't equal $1.54B in profit. Right?
- Spooky23 9y agoIt’s indicative of how big a hit the movie is. They get a chunk of every toy, birthday hat, blanket, clothing item, etc that has Star Wars stamped on it.
- bovermyer 9y agoRight, but a large majority of it is. The film cost $445 million to make, including actors' salaries and marketing. That's over a billion in profit.
- CPLX 9y agoYour math is impeccable. But I do wonder if someone is considering the possibility that people will get tired of superhero movies in the relatively near future and the whole concept will seem dated.
- JustSomeNobody 9y agoConsidering it? Sure. Milking it until people are truly sick of them and then producing 3 more? Yes. Of Course.
- emodendroket 9y agoI've been hoping for this for... I mean it must be a decade now.
- pessimizer 9y agoI thought I could wait out Britney Spears, and the entire industry became Britney Spears, and stayed Britney Spears.
- astura 9y agoIt really doesn't matter because right now the MCU is a money printing machine and the lack of certain characters is a big pain point for some of the most dedicated fans, so they still have quite a bit of stream left. Movies continue to make money for years after they are released. I think it makes sense for them.
- Cthulhu_ 9y agoThe X-Men franchise is the 7th highest grossing movie franchise of all time, bringing in almost 5 billion USD: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-grossing_films https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-grossing_films. Add that to the 13.5 billion for the Marvel Cinematic Universe and you can see how valuable this can be.
- randomerr 9y agoAdmittedly Marvel was just a fraction of the equation. There's the Blue Sky Studios (Ice Age, Peanuts, Dr. Seuss, and soon Ferdinand) and the distribution rights to other tons of other films. I've been hearing report that Fox is keeping the rights to specific classic films and all music rights. But the music will be licensed out to Disney for practically nothing.