Box office numbers are way. Summer movies keep flopping. Green Book won Best Picture. For Disney, this is the year it released four global blockbusters, with several more to come. This is the year Disney cleared one of the biggest acquisitions in Hollywood history. And this is the year Disney forced the rest of Hollywood to confront just how it will live under the towering shadow of Mickey Mouse. This is not, like, the Yankees win some, and the Red Sox win some, and occasionally the Marlins will slip in there and grab one or. The company has certainly known hardship. Just seven untl ago, Disney was at the bottom of a five-year box office slump. Then on a clear Los Angeles day in April seven years ago, lonb a blaze of flashbulbs and a small army of movie stars, The Avengers premiered. But Marvel was only one facet of a larger strategy at Disney, spearheaded by CEO Robert Iger, to rescue its box office future by buying up a confederation of film divisions with the same degree of widespread brand recognition already enjoyed by the company at large.
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Disney has also heralded the streaming platform as a transformative event , moving the conglomerate into the Netflix-defined future of media and away from the cable business, which is in cord-cutting decline. Paull, a former Amazon executive, runs the part of Disney that was formerly called BamTech. He was referring was an Ultimate Fighting Championship event. Disney spent several months testing a trial version of Disney Plus in the Netherlands. Iger said on the call. Analysts estimate that Disney Plus will have eight million subscribers by the end of December; Disney has predicted the service will grow to as many as 90 million members by Countries across Western Europe will gain access in March, Mr. Iger said last week. But they have to work out all the bugs.
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It doesn’t make it untrue that X-Men lacks editorial oversight, cohesion within storylines and that they’ve generally been used and continue to be used to boost interest in other franchises The X-men franchise is the longest-lasting superhero franchise and you can’t erase the exposure of the movies. Oct 24, 13, 0 0 The deep south. They’re trying to insinuate the Inhumans and Guardians of the Galaxy into everything and while they’ll reach a certain level of success as franchises, they just don’t have the track record the X-men has. They have to do something Sad but true. Isolate them form universe shaking events by dealing with their own messes. They can’t do it with just the Vacation Club members, since that would be a PR nightmare, so this is really all they can do. The last Disney ticket price increase was in February , and many insider expect an increase in «day» ticket prices next month. Marvel can’t fabricate the narrative of their success by somehow pretending the X-men aren’t still and, more or less, always have been a great asset to their company.
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Status Not open for further replies. Come kaking us and add your take to the daily discourse. Base feuds on that and let it consume most of the relevant product from Schism to this very day with BoTA at the apogee of this nonsense. Why not raise the price of single- and multi-day park tickets on those days as well? It wouldn’t be faithful, nor a good thing to. A hell of a lot more work, and a dumb idea. Just when I thought we would have some breathing room financially the type of annual pass that we’ve had for years is going up significantly. I thought it was smarter to build the third theme park, but that probably would have meant a large increase in AP prices because it’s adding a third park. Problem is I have no desire to make the trip alone; getting a group of friends together that can all afford such a trip is makingg challenge in of. May 28, 0 0.
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Right now, X-Men comics make up a large percentage of Marvel’s comic sales and this is a huge problem for the company because Disney doesn’t own the movie rights to X-Men characters. Marvel is working hard to address this issue by advertising their more preferable characters in the majority of the X-Men books the constant GotG, Avengers and SHIELD guest-stars and by avoiding producing X-Men stuff for kids games, cartoons, accessories, etchowever, they aren’t quite where they want to be in terms of not having to sell X-Men comics.
But they are working on it. If this is a serious question is it? First potential revenue is something they also have to account. They can’t stop selling X-Men comics because even if they successfully stopped making them without decreasing their current profits then they would still have to account for how much more money they could be making by producing X-Men comics. Secondly every time an X-Men movie comes out they see a percentage from it. If they weren’t then they wouldn’t have sold the rights.
So while they could be seeing more from producing in house it’s not like they aren’t seeing anything so there’s that to consider. Thirdly there’s a big gap between prioritizing your greater profits inhouse projects like Avengers, GotG, Antman and eliminating your assets. They can control when the next GotG movie comes out and what it focuses on, and can align a tv show with the goal of strengthening the brand for the next movie.
It’s just easier to be the lead car then to tailgate FOX and now they don’t have to. The number of X-Men titles out currently is greater then the number of several other Marvel franchises combined. It’s arguably half the books they put. We just got two more with a third on the way, three new solos in a year and All New X-Men despite all odds is one the better selling titles that isn’t a number one in comics Marvel isn’t prioritizing X-Men but they aren’t forgetting them.
It doesn’t make it untrue that X-Men lacks editorial oversight, cohesion within storylines and that they’ve generally been used and continue to be used to boost interest in other franchises The saddest thing about X-Fans I honestly don’t think that Marvel will ever end their X-Men comics since they are a huge part of the Marvel universe, but I can see the X-Men getting less popular over the years, especially if Marvel doesn’t get the rights back to the X-Men movies soon.
I say if the X-Men starts losing their popularity it would be on either one or two things: if superhero movies start losing their popularity, meaning that the X-Men will lose their popularity as a superhero franchise or if Fox refuses to give up the rights to the X-Men movies, which I don’t see Fox giving up the X-Men anytime soon since they already have many plans for future movies.
They won’t, in fact can’t end the X-Men completely, because they are such a huge part of the Marvel universe They can’t really afford to stop making X-Men books or erase them from the MU. After all, if the X-Men were gone who else would the Avengers have to fight? I don’t think they will get rid of the xmen completely.
But in my opinion the Marvel U is getting really crowded now and it certainly could lead to the Xmen being put on the backburner more and more and thus pissing us x-fans off more and. Marvel can’t rewrite history, most of us grew up with the X-men. There have been 7 movies going to be more soonyou could watch them every day in the 90’s on Fox, they were a fixture of Saturday morning television on the WB for 4 years with X-men: Evolution.
In August, after the release of «Guardians of the Galaxy», Rocket Racoon shot to number 1 in the comic book sales. The next month? It was number 44 and issues 1 and 2 of Wolverine came in at number 1. Rocket Racoon went fromissues sold from the first issue to 53, issues sold in the second issue. The bump these comics tend to get from movies is momentary, you can’t generate that level of excitement for every issue- the hardcore fans have to kick-in and be engaged.
If they aren’t enthusiastic about it then Marvel can’t appeal to a broader audience because they need to sustain with the present consumers in addition to a greater audience. They’re trying to insinuate the Inhumans and Guardians of the Galaxy into everything and while they’ll reach a certain level of success as franchises, they just don’t have the track record the X-men. In the past, when it was all just dependent on comics, the Inhumans and Guardians never touched what the X-men.
Marvel can’t fabricate the narrative of their success by somehow pretending the X-men aren’t still and, more or less, always have been a great asset to their company. Yes, the Guardians of the Galaxy was the highest grossing superhero film of and Avengers was the highest-grossing superhero film ever but how long can either of those franchises last?
Robert Downey Jr doesn’t want to do another Iron Man, it’s only 6 years into franchise and it all depends on him, after that, anything will be a hundred million dollar gamble. Goodbye, Iron Man franchise! You see X-men: Days of Future Past and there are numerous people who’ve come and gone in different capacities 15 years later.
The X-men have zillions of characters who are viable, characters that have been in publishing for years they still haven’t used yet like Cable, Deadpool, Gambit, Psylocke, and many. Fox realizes this and they’ll surely capitalize on it as best they possibly. The X-men have proven longevity and reliability. So what if Disney wants to cut licensing for toys and stuff? The X-men franchise is the longest-lasting superhero franchise and you can’t erase the exposure of the movies.
They have plans up until as far as their projects go- that’s almost 20 years of exploiting ONE franchise. The conspiracy says, destroy them from. Slowly and consecutively drive them into irrelevance. Make their self imposed segregation logical in universe.
Bind them to cheap, catchy drama and repetitiveness. Alienate the small fandoms of selected BZ-listers by treating them unjustly. Marginalize their Alisters and kill some of them off. Base feuds on that and let it consume most of the relevant product. Keep having their canon as confusing as possible.
Cut their connections to the true elites pretending its all in the name of unbound creativeness. Isolate them form universe shaking events by dealing with their own messes. Let their trademark titles be used by the new corporate representatives of the same concept to make the outrage be heard all over the community thus promoting this new product using the popularity of the old one.
Make them challenge the elites and come out of this devastated. Turn their defeats into bitterness thus fans themselves will ask for said segregation and isolation.
Eventually, fans themselves will also ask to put this franchise out of its misery with Marvel having a perfect cop out with a slogan «You see it wasn’t us, it was you» and saving their face this way. Where that at? I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s what Marvel is planning to do with the X-Men. Make their self imposed segregation logical in universe again, Decimation and post-AvX defeat with «the mutants will be more hated than ever» slogan post X-gene revival. Bind them to cheap, catchy drama and repetitiveness Bendis?
Alienate the small fandoms of selected BZ-listers by treating them unjustly Exodus, Elixir. Marginalize their Alisters and kill some of them off killed off: Wolverine, Xavier; marginalized: Extinction Team, Beast.
Base feuds on that and let it consume most of the relevant product from Schism to this very day with BoTA at the apogee of this nonsense. Keep having their canon as confusing as possible Bendis-continuity, should I say more? Use their trademark titles be used by the new corporate representatives of the same concept to make the outrage be heard all over the community thus promoting this new product using the popularity of the old one Uncanny Inhumans.
Make them challenge the elites and come out of this devastated AvX, Axis. Turn their defeats into bitterness thus fans themselves will ask for said segregation and isolation obvious reaction post AvX and now Axis, isn’t it? Eventually, fans themselves will also ask to put this franchise out of its misery with Marvel having a perfect cop out with a slogan «You see it wasn’t us, it was you» and saving their face this way Fantastic Four cancellation. They’re not just planning, they’re materializing this plan.
Sad but true. But I’m fine with it. Fox is doing a great job with the X-men. So do whatever you want marvel we know you dont care about the X-men.
The day that happens is the day I stop reading Marvel. Marvel is starting to release star wars comics. This could potentially eclipse both xmen and avengers in sales. Please Log In to post. This edit will also create new pages on Comic Vine for:. Until you earn points all your submissions need to be vetted by other Comic Vine users. This process takes no more than a few hours and we’ll send you an email once approved.
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