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Disney Reportedly in Talks to Purchase 21st Century Fox

The Walt Disney Company is reportedly in talks to purchase most of 21st Century Fox, according to CNBC.

According to the report, talks have been taking place for Disney to buy most of the company, not including the news and sports assets.

While talks have been taking place over the last several weeks, there no guarantee that there will be a deal. The report says that talks have ceased for the time being, but that the entire conversation has been on again and off again for some time.

The deal would specifically include 20th Century Fox, 21st Century Fox's movie studio. The deal could then reunite Marvel's X-Men and Fantastic Four with the characters currently existing in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and could bring the rights to the home release of the theatrical cut of Star Wars to the same company that owns Lucasfilm.

Fox senior management is reportedly leaning towards a tighter focus on news and sports for the multimedia company to more effectively compete in those spaces.

As the article speculates, 21st Century Fox is simply not a big enough media company to able to compete in the changing entertainment landscape that has developed as a result of the rise of streaming companies like Netflix and Amazon.

Since Disney is prohibited from owning two broadcast companies, the deal would not include the Fox broadcast network, but it would include cable networks FX and National Geographic. The deal would also not include Fox Sports, as the purchase could be seen as anti-competitive for the sake of antitrust laws.

Disney has already acquired a massive media library that includes the Marvel and Star Wars universe. The purchase of 21st Century Fox would also bring the X-Men movie franchise under that umbrella, for Disney to do with as they see fit, as well as the Alien film franchise.

The X-Men movies franchise is currently booming, with spinoffs Deadpool and Logan generating high box office take and critical acclaim. The franchise will expand further in 2018 with The New Mutants, Deadpool 2, and X-Men: Dark Phoenix, and even further in 2019 with the Gambit movie.

Disney en pourparlers pour racheter la 20th Century Fox

Nos confrères américains de CNBC révèlent que la Walt Disney Compagnie serait en cours de négociation pour le rachat d'actifs de la 20th Century Fox, détentrice notamment des droits de la saga "X-Men", de "Deadpool" ou encore des "Simpson".

20th Century Fox Cinq ans pile après le rachat de Lucasfilm, la compagnie Disney s'apprête-t-elle de nouveau à faire l'acquisition du siècle en s'emparant cette fois-ci des mythiques studios 20th Century Fox ? D'après nos confrères américains de CNBC, des pourparlers seraient en cours entre les représentants des deux sociétés respectives pour la vente de 39% du capital, par le biais d'un accord estimé entre 20 et 30 milliards de dollars que les spécialistes qualifient d'ores et déjà de "Disney's Netflix Killer" (traduction : l'anti-Netflix de Disney).

S'il venait à être acté, ce deal permettrait ainsi à la Walt Disney Cie de s'emparer du catalogue complet de la Fox. Et en premier lieu des droits des deux trilogies Star Wars signées George Lucas, offrant ainsi la possibilité qu'un coffret intégral de la saga (incluant Rogue One et Le Réveil de la Force) soit commercialisé, et donnant également aux fans un nouvel espoir que les montages originaux des premiers films soient enfin réédités.

Mais ce n'est pas tout puisque cet accord permettrait aussi à Disney de récupérer les droits de la franchise X-Men (mais aussi de Deadpool et des Quatre Fantastiques) ouvrant alors un vaste choix de possibilités pour Marvel Studios, qu'il s'agisse d'un retour inespéré de Wolverine (avec ou sans Hugh Jackman) ou encore d'une rencontre inédite au cinéma entre les héros mutants et les Avengers.

Enfin, n'oublions pas que la Fox est en outre productrice d'Avatar - plus gros succès de tous les temps au box-office - dont les suites sont actuellement en cours de tournage sous la direction de James Cameron.
Disney se retire de Netflix et lance sa propre plateforme de streaming
Côté télévision, cette transaction permettrait également à Disney d'hériter des droits de nombreuses séries produites par le studio 20th Century Television, à commencer par X-Files (nouvelle saison attendue pour 2018), 24 heures chrono, Les Simpson ou encore This is Us.

Il n'a en tout cas pas fallu longtemps pour que de nombreuses personnalités du cinéma réagissent à cette information, à commencer par Ryan Reynolds, star et producteur de Deadpool, qui s'est amusé à s'interroger sur Twitter des conséquences qu'auraient ce rachat d'actifs de la Fox par Disney sur le film. De là à penser qu'il s'agit d'un teasing sur la présence d'un Avengers dans le second volet des aventures du plus irrévérencieux des super-héros, il n'y a désormais plus qu'un pas.

Ryan Reynolds ✔@VancityReynolds
If this is true, I wonder how the fudge it would affect Deadpool? https://twitter.com/cnbcnow/status/927604378013446144 …
22:18 - 6 nov. 2017

Reste à savoir si un accord sera bel et bien trouvé entre les deux parties, sous quelles conditions et enfin à partir de quand ce dernier serait effectif. Nul doute en tout cas que ce rachat pourrait avoir un énorme impact sur le contenu de la plateforme de streaming que Disney compte lancer en 2019 et au sein de laquelle seront diffusées de nombreuses productions exclusives Pixar, Disney, Star Wars, Marvel... et Fox ?

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tigers206 a écrit:Sinon je sais pas si tu l'as mis, mais Marvel vient de franchir la barre des 5 milliards de $ de recette aux US après le 1er weekend de Thor Ragnarok ! Et plus de 13 milliards dans le monde en 17 films...ça en fais de l'argent de poche    

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"The passing of the torch" - 07.11.2017

Inside the Avengers Cast’s One-Night-Only Performance of Our Town

Scarlett Johansson conscripted her fellow superheroes for an Atlanta event to support hurricane relief in Puerto Rico.


The Avengers, and friends, assembled in Atlanta on Monday night, though without their usual armor, shields, and superpowers. The event, dreamed up by Scarlett Johansson, brought together some of the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s biggest stars—all in town filming Avengers: Infinity War at Atlanta’s Pinewood Studios—for a stage reading of Thornton Wilder’s theater classic Our Town, a benefit for hurricane relief in Puerto Rico.

As he is on screen as Iron Man, Robert Downey Jr. was front and center as the play’s Stage Manager, serving as the audience’s guide to the world of Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire, in the early 20th century. It was Johansson, though, who introduced the evening, having come up with the idea for the reading in partnership with the John Gore Organization, recruited her co-stars, and persuaded Disney to foot the bill for the minimal set design. “Our Town is almost this kind of warrior cry to remind us of the fragility of life,” Johansson told the crowd. “It reminds us to be present and to live moment to moment with one another and to look at each other, to really see one another. It’s about community, helping other people, being compassionate, reaching across lines to lift somebody out of a tragic situation. It’s all about human connectivity, and theater is all about human connectivity.”

As the play began, the cast, who have been making movies together for nearly a decade now, seemed committed to a straight reading. The antics began quickly, though, with Chris Evans, who played Mr. Webb, the father to Johansson’s Emily. When Evans missed a cue and had to be prompted by the rest of the company, it turned out he was missing page 12 of his script. “As the Stage Manager, I couldn’t have had anything to do with that,” quipped Downey Jr., calling to mind the rivalry of Iron Man and Captain America in the Marvel movies.

There was another dueling dynamic between Jeremy Renner (a.k.a. Hawkeye), reading as young George Gibbs, and Mark Ruffalo (a.k.a. Hulk), as his father, Dr. Gibbs. When asked for his age, Renner answered as scripted, “I’m 16, almost 17,” then mockingly added an impromptu address of “Dad!” to stress the absurdity of a man not knowing how old his son is. Renner then made faces whenever Ruffalo had something to say about George. He also commented on his own character’s line about watching Emily through her window at night, joking, “There’s nothing creepy about that.”

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Other dated bits of dialogue from Our Town elicited chuckles from the crowd. If there were many Thornton Wilder fanboys in attendance, they weren’t as evident as the Marvel faithful with their Captain America shield T-shirts and, in at least one case, Iron Man armor.

Brittany Inge received individual cheers for her more sincerely expressive performance as George’s mother. The other M.C.U. players included Frank Grillo and Maximiliano Hernandez, who respectively portray the villain Crossbones and S.H.I.E.L.D.’s Agent Sitwell in the franchise. There were a handful of non-Marvel cast members too, including local Atlanta actress Tess Malis Kincaid, who earned a number of laughs while reading the part of Mrs. Webb.

Renner continued to provide most of the night’s improvisation, regularly ad-libbing and gesturing for the amusement of the audience. He even blurted out “shit” at one point, and during the wedding scene in Act II, when George is asked if he takes Emily to be his bride, he shouted, “Hell yes!” In another moment, when Evans as Mr. Webb asked George how he was doing, Renner replied, teasingly, “Fine, fine, fine . . . I have page 12.”

George’s part is dialogue-free in the third act, so Renner’s clowning ceased as Johansson took the play into its sentimental conclusion. She appeared to cry her way through Emily’s famous posthumous monologue about the under-appreciated beauty of the world, giving what was truly one of her best performances in years. Those final moments, concluded with Downey Jr.’s final narration, brought a sober reminder of why everyone was there: to provide aid to people affected by a disaster.

The event, which included a post-reading meet-and-greet with the cast, raised $500,000 for the Hurricane Maria Community Relief & Recovery Fund at the Center for Popular Democracy.

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Paul Bettany and Sebastian Stan tease ‘Avengers: Infinity War’ at Rhode Island Comic Con

Due to delays–and booked flights–the standing-room only “Road to Marvel’s Infinity Wars” panel at Rhode Island Comic Con was shorter than promised. But there was still enough time for actors Paul Bettany (The Vision) and Sebastian Stan (The Winter Soldier) to tease the highly anticipated Avengers: Infinity War.


Where is the trailer?
Bettany has seen a new trailer–on co-director Joe Russo’s phone. How does The Vision describe it? “Badass” and “amazing.”
“It’ll be out, everyone will love it,” Bettany said.


How do you sum up Infinity War in one word?
“Epic,” Stan said, “almost every scene is epic.”
Stan went on to explain that, while most Marvel movies build toward an epic third act, Infinity War will be epic from beginning to end.


On the set Avengers 3
Sebastian Stan has spoken out on the difficulties the Avengers Infinity War cast faced on the challenging shoot. “It’s not something you always deal with. I feel like you always kind of have a script.”
“But I guess, what I would say is, because we’ve done these characters for a bit now, there’s a little bit of a telepathic kind of knowledge between us and the writers.

“And you kind of can sometimes guess where they’re going to take it, a little bit.

“For example, this one was really hard, because we keep going in and out. I go back there for a week, and then I leave for a month.

“And then I go back there for a few more days. So it’s a little bit out of sync. But it still hopefully adds up in the end.”


What’s new with The Vision and Wanda?
Fans of the Avengers comic books are well aware of The Vision and Scarlet Witch’s romantic ups and downs. But is a similar story coming to the Marvel Cinematic Universe? Bettany seemed to tease just that when talking about how his character was initially worthy of Thor’s hammer.

The Vision was “pure of heart” at first, but Bettany said, “he’s been on Earth a few years, and he has that whole Scarlet Witch thing going on.” What thing? Hm…


When will Bucky pick up the shield?
You could tell Stan really didn’t want to tackle any question having to do with Bucky’s possible cinematic future, but he did say he has his own idea as to where he’d like to see his character go, including his relationship with Black Widow (something that clearly excited the audience).

“I’m up for whatever they throw my way,” Stan said.

Throw, eh? Like a shield maybe?


Will the Avengers ever meet their friends at Netflix?
Both actors seemed up for crossing over with the heroes from The Defenders. Stan mentioned The Punisher and Bettany said the Marvel Netflix series are loaded with fantastic actors.

"Rhode Island, thank you! Thank you to everyone who came! #RICC #blessed" - 12.11.2017



"When Winter Soldier Bucky Barnes wants a pic w Batman. Who am I to disappoint. Sebastian Stan. Super nice guy. Hero in and out of costume. Thank you. =:) #SebastianStan #Wintersoldier #marvel #dccomics #justiceleague #batman" - 12.11.2017

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"Excited for “The Children’s Monologues” tonight. A one-night-only production, jointly benefiting the South African-based young people's arts charity @dramaticneed & Carnegie Hall’s Education and Social Impact programs across the US. The Monologues bring to life the harrowing stories of young people living on the edge. Hope to see you tonight ! #TheChildrensMonologuesNYC
#DannyBoyle #TheChildrensMonologuesNYC #TheChildrensMonologues #TheChildrensMonologues2017 #dramaticneed #Watchthisspace #NewYorkCity #NYC #theatre #broadway #hamilton #Newyorktheatre" - 13.07.2017

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