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Disney to buy Marvel for $4 billion

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Article (Just a heads up, it's msnbc. But if you're going to whine about "liberal media" bias, get out)
Originally posted by Associated Press
LOS ANGELES - The Walt Disney Co. said Monday it is buying Marvel Entertainment Inc. for $4 billion in cash and stock, bringing characters like Iron Man and Spider-Man into the family of Mickey Mouse and WALL-E.

Under the deal, Disney will acquire ownership of 5,000 Marvel characters. Many of them, including the Fantastic Four and the X-Men, were co-created by the comic book legend Stan Lee.

Analyst David Joyce of Miller Tabak & Co. said the acquisition will help Disney appeal to young men who have flocked to theaters to see Marvel’s superheroes in recent years. That contrasts with Disney’s recent successes among young women with such fare as “Hannah Montana” and the Jonas Brothers.

“It helps Disney add exposure to a young male demographic it had sort of lost some balance with,” Joyce said, noting the $4 billion offer was at “full price.”

Disney said Marvel shareholders will receive $30 per share in cash, plus 0.745 Disney shares for every Marvel share they own. That values each Marvel share at $50 based on Friday’s closing stock prices.

Marvel shares jumped $10.17, or 26 percent, to $48.82 shortly after the market opened. Disney shares fell 47 cents, or 1.8 percent, to $26.37.

Disney said the boards of both companies have approved the transaction, but it will require an antitrust review and the approval of Marvel shareholders.

Disney last made a big purchase in 2006 when it acquired Pixar Animation Studios Inc., the creator of the "Toy Story" franchise, for $7.4 billion in stock.

Disney CEO Robert Iger said the acquisition combines Marvel’s “strong global brand and world-renowned library of characters” with Disney’s “unparalleled global portfolio of entertainment properties” and ability to maximize value across multiple platforms and territories.

Marvel earned a net profit of $206 million last fiscal year, up 47 percent from a year earlier, on revenue of $676 million, as it took movie production in house instead of just cutting licensing deals.

I am not a Marvel fan or follow any Marvel comics, but I was quite surprised to hear that the Magic Kingdom decides buy the company and acquire ownership of characters. But then again, too much is never enough for Disney.
Crap, now disney's plan to take over the media industry has taken another step.
Disney is taking over EVERYTHING.
The floodgates of terrible crossovers, they are opened.

No seriously, aside from extra funding to Marvvel, this is terrible.
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Disney will never stop until they get everything, will they?
And I thought them completely taking over Pixar in 2006 was bad enough.

Oh well. We'll just see how this plays out, but I doubt it'll be for the better.
I sense appearances of Wolverine and Spiderman in Mickey's Clubhouse or whatever that crap show those called.

I was never a Marvel fan on my own but Spiderman and some other characters were certainly cool. Let's see how Disney ruins that. =/
Things are just not the same anymore... Guess we'll have to see how stuff changes now......
Here comes pre-teen pop star Spiderman.
/spit


That's my thoughts on the matter.
Marvel ended, Disney will destroy everything good that Marvel had.
So... wait...

Does this mean Mickey Mouse will not only defeat beings of eternal darkness with a giant key, he will save the world with super heros?

Disney's evil knows no bounds x_x
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I actually heard this earlier from my friends. How sad, that Disney is to shit on something so good. Now the next XMen movie is gonna have the stupid Jonas Brothers as the characters I bet. Good job Disney, spread your failure across the world. As long as Capcom is still alive and free, I'm fine though. I'm looking forward though for a new Disney vs. Capcom game.
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I don't think that disney will screw up marvel THAT much. I don't think disney will go so far as to imput their disney channel icons. I mean, look at pirates of the carribean. I mean, they didn't have lindsey lohan or anyone like that in that movie. Although most of you are right, disney will do a lot of stuff to marvel that most of us would not like.
Originally posted by Magikoopa24
I don't think that disney will screw up marvel THAT much. I don't think disney will go so far as to imput their disney channel icons. I mean, look at pirates of the carribean. I mean, they didn't have lindsey lohan or anyone like that in that movie. Although most of you are right, disney will do a lot of stuff to marvel that most of us would not like.


Guy... Disney actually does some good things, plus I still think it'll end up with everything good that Marvel has done over the years, good for now is just wait, I believe.

Originally posted by Sakura-Chan
I actually heard this earlier from my friends. How sad, that Disney is to shit on something so good. Now the next XMen movie is gonna have the stupid Jonas Brothers as the characters I bet. Good job Disney, spread your failure across the world. As long as Capcom is still alive and free, I'm fine though. I'm looking forward though for a new Disney vs. Capcom game.


I agree with everything you said is exactly what I believe will happen, seriously.
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...WHAT THE HECK?! Will disney now also buy marvel?!?! oh gosh...example of what might happen...

Spidermans and mickeys andventure!

Nah seriosly. I dont want mickeys shit on spiderman...Ok so what will happen next? disney buying nintendo...(wow the world would be doomed to death then).
Originally posted by the bad hacker
disney buying nintendo...(wow the world would be doomed to death then).

So very very true.
Things should be ok as long as Disney doesn’t change anything. And since marvel has someone to help them financially, we’ll be seeing more movies.
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To be honest, I dont think Disney would be as stupid as to ruin Marvel.

They just BOUGHT them for $4 billion. Basically, Marvel went from privately owned, to Disney owned.

Disney knows what they're doing, and they know that if they screw around with Marvel's historic creations and ways of being, they'll have bought it in vain. Marvel was in trouble, and Disney offered to anchor it.

Personally, this will make KH3 10x more interesting. (Cloud Strife, the Beast, and Wolverine...hoooaaahhh....)
Are you silly or what? Disney buying Marvel does not surprisingly mean that the X-Men will be played by the Jonas Brothers and that their next arch enemy will be the Phantom Blot.


inb4 disney buying the internet
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