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Dracula5 wrote: Brodie999 wrote:

Yeah, We'll have Eddie Brock as the Venom Host first and it can go to Flash Thompson so He can become Agent Venom. And I've heard some interesting theories about what would happen if Disney found a way to save ESPN this year:Disney is having a remarkable year, on course for a record setting $7.6 Billion in global box office. One major Key to this success has been acquiring other companies with valuable IP and maximizing the growth and revenue potentials. Pixar, Marvel and Lucasfilm all came into the Disney corporate fold and all signs point toward the advisability of a couple of new big moves by Disney to further expand their holdings, build a bigger catalogue of new properties to exploit, have their own streaming content with the largest possible audience as directly as possible and finding a way to Rescue ESPN from a slide that continues to be the one small drag on the company's stock and performance overall. The solution to all  of these needs is simple but immense: Disney should buy Netflix, Paramount and Sony. Tall Order? You bet it is, And I'm not saying it would be cheap or easy to accomplish, or that I think it's destined to transpire. But IF any company is positioned to pull if off in order to reap the enormous benefits, it's Disney. It's funny how life works sometimes.

Just one year later, and we know that...

1) Disney is NOT buying Netflix, but starting it's own streaming service

2) Also NOT buying Sony or Paramount, but bought freaking FOX (!!!)

3) Meanwhile Sony got not a bad year themselves, thanks to the success of Homecoming & Jumanji

4) Venom movie is actually coming out this year, so no, he won't be a villain in a Spidey movie Actually, I've talked to Mark Hughes and he said a purchase of Fox would make Paramount and/or Sony purchases even more appetising for Disney, because at that point the additional franchies and back library of content owuld mean that Disney's own new  streaming serrvice could instantly have such a massive library of content while denying that library of content to Netflix (imagine the implications of losing all Fox, Sony, Paramount, Disney, Pixar, Marvel and Lucasfilm movies and TV shows) could allow Disney's service - a combination of the streaming service and FX - to instantly rival Netflix. Which means the advantages of Disney buying Netflix decline over the long haul. Granted, If Disney bought Fox, Paramount and Sony, they'd be spending a massive amount of money, so Netflix would probably be too much of a added expensive purchase anyway. If Netflix reaches its maximum potential for subscribers and growth slows considerably while their debts come due, and if Disney's competitng streaming service is a success (which seems obviously likely), then the price for Netflix could decline while the value of Disney (and their cash in hand) will inevitably rise. In that situation, several years into the future (maybe a decade?) a buyout of Netflix could then become the endgame for Disney where whatever major deals and original content etc. Netflix has built up for their own library - plus their existing subscibers who aren't already Disney subscribers would be appealing and could be merged into the Disney service to create one enormous streaming service with the largest content library and orignal content creation on the planet. Besides, Sony is already rumored to be up for sale and Disney is the favourite to buy them. They want Spider-Man fully back, so if Sony isn't bought by another company at the time Disney finishes its acqusition of Fox, their franchises would add nicely to Disney's list of IPs.