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Deadpool 2 was never in trouble - it’s done and Disney doesn’t own FOX yet.
It’s the future of Deadpool.
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Rupert Murdoch's Sky bid challenged by Comcast - BBC News\
May have not to do with the deal directly, but since Sky plc is part of the Disney/Fox deal, it looks like Comcast is bidding to take over Sky plc from Fox and potentially Disney. If Comcast seriously wants to acquire Fox, having bidding for acquisition of important, foreign assets would cause some serious concerns here in the U.S., so it looks like they might run into some serious, more red flags from the DOJ.
...what? That's not how that works at all. There have been no cases within the US of a US Company purchasing a legal foreign assets that caused issues with the DOJ. The issue DOJ has is purchasing of shell companies not an asset like Sky.
I stand corrected. And if that's the case, then it's not going to affect what's happening here so nothing changes.
Rupert Murdoch's Sky bid challenged by Comcast - BBC News
If this happens it looks like people in the UK can start hating Comcast too outside of the parks.
Great tactical move by Comcast to go for Sky.
@quinnmac000
Sky and ITV are similar in strength in the UK, but Sky's assets in mainland Europe are why it's so much more attractive than ITV.
Sky has full content production and delivery in Germany, Italy, and Austria, on a combined scale that nearly matches its UK production and delivery.
That's why Comcast wants Sky instead of ITV.
Also as others have said, Sky's technology in terms of OTT is far ahead of ITV.
Just quick update on universal jobs which may point to IPs/rights they are looking to acquire,
I want to point out Universal just put out quite a few acquisition jobs in Japan in the last month to include a content manager, a right manager, and multiple animation producer jobs as well as Content acquistion/development jobs in China and England.
This recent trend may indicate a huge turnover of staff or this may highlight areas where they think they can acquire content that would enhance their offerings on the world market and potentially what content, rights, etc they acquire may be exploited in the new park depending on what it is.
What Chinese, English, and Japanese IPs could NBCUni be specifically looking at?
Could we get Dr. Who the ride? Will Universal acquire Sanrio? I don't know any specifically internationally popular Chinese IPs but this could end up interesting.
Yeah, I think the big attraction for Comcast is the possibilities for global OTT with Comcast and Sky combined.Don't get me wrong Sky is a great move and I'm satisfied at the ability Comcast will have to increase its influence within Europe. I'm just quite surprised they went with a company that lacks an independent content creation studio...that's really surprising. However, they can still purchase ITV without any concerns by Ofcomm as they planned to before until Richard Branson sued on the grounds of he considered it a bad faith death.
Again about 2 weeks ago (Looking back it was feb 4) in another thread, I did state Comcast was looking to acquire content in the UK based on the job opening. This was just wasn't what I was expecting. I guess this may suggest we see Comcast in talks to acquire a japanese company next.
Don't get me wrong Sky is a great move and I'm satisfied at the ability Comcast will have to increase its influence within Europe. I'm just quite surprised they went with a company that lacks an independent content creation studio...that's really surprising. However, they can still purchase ITV without any concerns by Ofcomm as they planned to before until Richard Branson sued on the grounds of he considered it a bad faith death.
Again about 2 weeks ago (Looking back it was feb 4) in another thread, I did state Comcast was looking to acquire content in the UK based on the job opening. This was just wasn't what I was expecting. I guess this may suggest we see Comcast in talks to acquire a japanese company next.
Didn't they acquire Euronews recently too? I think that's due to be rebranded to Euronews NBC at some point this year.
21st Century Fox issued a statement, noting that no firm offer has been made by Comcast — and that it “remains committed to its recommended cash offer for Sky.” Fox offered $16 billion to acquire the 61% share of the British satellite broadcaster it doesn’t already own. The deal, which Fox had hoped to conclude prior to the planned Disney acquisition of much of its film and television assets, has run into difficulties.