{"id":3720,"date":"2018-07-15T16:22:23","date_gmt":"2018-07-15T16:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commarts.pleather.us\/2018\/07\/15\/disney-will-control-40-of-the-box-office-if-it-buys-fox-becoming-the-walmart-of-hollywood\/"},"modified":"2018-07-15T16:22:23","modified_gmt":"2018-07-15T16:22:23","slug":"disney-will-control-40-of-the-box-office-if-it-buys-fox-becoming-the-walmart-of-hollywood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/2018\/07\/15\/disney-will-control-40-of-the-box-office-if-it-buys-fox-becoming-the-walmart-of-hollywood\/","title":{"rendered":"Disney Will Control 40% of the Box Office If It Buys Fox, Becoming the \u2018Walmart of Hollywood\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/t\/disney\/\" id=\"auto-tag_disney\">Disney<\/a> spent a whopping $71.3 billion to acquire most of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/t\/21st-century-fox\/\" id=\"auto-tag_21st-century-fox\">21st Century Fox<\/a>, and by most accounts the Mouse House getting a lot of bang for its buck: &#8220;Avatar,&#8221; &#8220;Deadpool,&#8221; and the &#8220;X-Men&#8221; franchise are all part of the deal. If the acquisition ultimately goes through, <a href=\"https:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2018\/07\/11\/media\/disney-fox-box-office-market-share\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">according to CNN&#8217;s number-crunchers<\/a>, Disney will control a full 40 percent of the box office.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s good news for fans who want to see Wolverine in a Marvel movie, but not everyone is celebrating.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"pmc-related-link read-more\">\n\t\t\t<strong class=\"pmc-related-type\">Read More:<\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/2018\/05\/fox-ryan-reynolds-cut-deadpool-2-joke-disney-1201960099\/\" title=\"20th Century Fox Forced Ryan Reynolds to Cut \u2018Deadpool 2\u2019 Joke Targeting Disney\">20th Century Fox Forced Ryan Reynolds to Cut \u2018Deadpool 2\u2019 Joke Targeting Disney<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p>&#8220;They&#8217;ll have so much share, that it will seem to give them leverage up and down the supply chain,&#8221;\u00a0Barton Crockett of FBR Capital Markets tells\u00a0CNN. &#8220;It&#8217;s what happens in a world where one studio, mainly Disney, is having outsized success in doubling down on its investments, and most of the other studios seem to be on their heels a bit when it comes to making movies.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Some of Disney&#8217;s most profitable properties are acquisitions: It bought Lucasfilm for $2.2 billion in 2012 and Pixar for an all-stock deal of $7.4 billion in 2006.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If they continue to grow their share of domestic box office, it&#8217;s hard to escape the conclusion that they&#8217;d have leverage over time to get an even higher share of movie receipts,&#8221; Crockett adds, saying it would make Disney the &#8220;Walmart of Hollywood.&#8221;<\/p>\n<aside class=\"pmc-related-link read-more\">\n\t\t\t<strong class=\"pmc-related-type\">Read More:<\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/2017\/12\/fox-disney-deal-merger-netflix-television-1201907592\/\" title=\"Disney\/Fox Deal: How The Battle to Beat Netflix Starts Today, What Happens to the Fox Network, And Other Burning Questions\">Disney\/Fox Deal: How The Battle to Beat Netflix Starts Today, What Happens to the Fox Network, And Other Burning Questions<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p>&#8220;If a major studio suddenly disappears, that&#8217;s a huge concern for theater owners,&#8221; Jeff Bock \u00a0a senior box-office analyst at Exhibitor Relations, says.\u00a0Fox stockholders will vote on whether or not to approve that happening on July 27.<\/p>\n<p>Source: IndieWire film<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disney spent a whopping $71.3 billion to acquire most of 21st Century Fox, and by most accounts the Mouse House getting&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":245,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[45],"class_list":["post-3720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-careering"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paqOTj-Y0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/245"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}