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[SaturnKnight]

although I bet we are now going to see Wolverine making guest appearances in all the Disney television shows.

Wolverine Vs. Simba

Wolverine Vs. ICarly

Wolverine Vs. Little Mermaid

Oh, I am *so* disappointed in your lack of imagination...

Beast Vs Simba

Cerebro Vs ICarly

Sub-Mariner Vs Little Mermaid

[Benderbrau]

You should upgrade to Pro.

Today!

I don't get it.

/clearly missed part of conversation'd

[Chris]

* Existing licensing and distribution deals should remain where they are.

* Disney believes there’s real opportunity with the Marvel catalog of characters and will work on where those opportunities are greatest and how best to leverage them across the existing Marvel and Disney infrastructure.

* Disney executives went to great lengths during the call to make the point that they don’t pretend to be more expert than Marvel is in handling their characters, citing the hands-off relationship Disney has had with Pixar since the acquisition of that studio. Disney said Marvel manages the properties from a business perspective very intelligently and trusts them to make the right decisions for these products for a long time to come.

* Disney said the deal was attractive not just because they’re buying great characters, stories and brand, but about working with people who know these characters best and how best to work with them in other media.

* Again, referencing the Pixar deal, Disney finds working as one company with Marvel removes friction and creates value that’s very compelling. Licensing offers very attractive opportunities, but nothing is better than being one. International expansion of Marvel properties through Disney was cited as a potential growth area.

* Cable channel Disney XD is currently running about 20 hours a week of Marvel content and Disney has been looking to license more Marvel content and this deal gives them that opportunity as well as the opportunity to expose these characters internationally.<li>

* With regards to video game publishing, Disney praised Marvel’s licensing agreements with some of the best video game producers and publishers in the business and said moving forward they will consider what’s best for each individual property as each licensing deal comes up for renewal and that there would likely be a blend of licensed and self-produced/self-distributed titles.

* With respect to Paramount’s distribution deal with Marvel and the Iron Man franchise, Disney has every intention to respect the deal that’s in place, but noted that it’s in their best interest, overtime, to become the sole distributor of Marvel films.

* Will Disney3D be used for Marvel movies? That will be determined by those who are in charge of producing Marvel’s theatrical films.

* When asked if there was potential for cross-polination between Marvel and Pixar, Disney said that Pixar’s John Lasseter has met with key Marvel creative executives recently and the group got “pretty excited, very fast.” Disney will look at all opportunities and thinks there are some exciting product that could come from this sort of partnership.

* Disney said this deal is expected to benefit Marvel’s retail efforts, being able to leverage Disney’s shelf space and relationships with major chains and distributors.

* The deal began when Disney Chief Executive Bob Iger reached out to Marvel Chief Executive Ike Perlmutter earlier this year. Again, Disney noted that they believe in the creative team at Marvel and see no reason to upset that applecart.

* Disney has not made any real estate decisions and sees no reason to move Marvel Studios from their headquarters in Manhattan Beach, California. No mention of Marvel Publishing’s offices in New York City was made.

In addition, Marvel Editor-In-Chief twittering this morning and has made some comments on the deal:

“G' morning, Marvel U! Welcome to this moment in history. Everyone relax, this is incredible news and all is well in the Marvel U.”

“Everybody take a deep breath, all your favorite comics remain unchanged and Tom Brevoort remains grouchy.”

“If you're familiar with the Disney/Pixar relationship, then you'll understand why this is a new dawn for Marvel and the comics industry.”

[SaturnKnight]

It's not about the wedding per se. Divorce would have been a Marvel type option. or death.

Erasing history, making things imaginary stories, resets, that was a DC thing.

Hence covers where Stan says things like "NOT A HOAX, NOT AN IMAGINARY STORY!!!!!!" SPIDER-MAN UNMASKED BY DOCTOR OCTOPUSS

That's a shot at DC.


While Spider-Man went through periods of being frozen in time, more or less, a sign of Marvel losing the eye of the tiger as it became #1, that was the first time Spidey history got erased, in a crisis like situation, with the expection of JB's abortive Chapter One, a failed attempt at a Man of Steel for Spider-Man.

End of an era.

You are absolutely right.

But it's just Baskerville Holmes. Nobody important so don't sweat it.

[jeremy]

[quote="Chris"][/quote]

You do realize most of that stuff is what every company that buys another company out says right?

[Baskerville Holmes]

You are absolutely right.

But it's just Baskerville Holmes. Nobody important so don't sweat it.

LUTZ.

[bkthomson]

* Disney executives went to great lengths during the call to make the point that they don’t pretend to be more expert than Marvel is in handling their characters, citing the hands-off relationship Disney has had with Pixar since the acquisition of that studio. Disney said Marvel manages the properties from a business perspective very intelligently and trusts them to make the right decisions for these products for a long time to come.

I like the sound of this as long as Disney means it and sticks to it.

[SaturnKnight]

Fuck the FF. Pixar could make Power Pack the best comic film ever.

Amen, brother. Now you're talkin'!

[Chris]

You do realize most of that stuff is what every company that buys another company out says right?

Except, based on their past acquisitions, Disney has proved to stay true to it in the past.

[PDH]

Hm.

Don't know how I feel about this.

I hate DC and a big part of that is because of who they're owned by. Like, they're getting their arses kicked by Marvel now. It's fucking obvious. Everyone can see it, their sales are way lower than they should be.

Didio cocks things up repeatedly and not in an 'OMG, Joe Q raped my favourite character/character A would never do that' sort of bullshit subjective way but in a 'consistently underselling across the board' sort of way. They can't even sell a fucking JLA book for crap's sake. That's pathetic.

And he doesn't get sacked. Why? Because it simply does not matter to TPTB if DC succeed or fail.

All that matters is their licenses.

Comics are worth shit. It's the movies and the merchandise and stuff that brings the real money in. Whenever anyone says 'Didio's gonna get fired this time,' it always just blows over. No-one cares. He's not accountable to anyone.

I don't think Disney will make too many significant changes, at least not at first. But it is a clear sign that Marvel are no longer in the comic book business. They're in the T-Shirt business now.

[PDH]

Perhaps they always were, though. I dunno.

[bkthomson]

You do realize most of that stuff is what every company that buys another company out says right?

sure it is the company line, but try to think positive here, it's not like Disney never own character properties before.

[jeremy]

Except, based on their past acquisitions, Disney has proved to stay true to it in the past.

No, only based on their acquisition of Pixar actually (which was already a studio that made movies the way Disney would want them made).

They have made a lot of disney centric choices in regards to some of their other buyouts actually.

[jeremy]

sure it is the company line, but try to think positive here, it's not like Disney never own character properties before.

I would rather Disney look out in the community and see fans like myself who are asking them to prove themselves in this area and not fuck things up instead of fans going yay, do whatever you want, sounds awesome!

[bkthomson]

No, only based on their acquisition of Pixar actually (which was already a studio that made movies the way Disney would want them made).

I'm not so sure that is 100% accurate. Pixar's success was not soley based on Disney but based on they have some of the most creative and passionate people to produce a quality product .