DEMAND FOX/SONY/NEW LINE revert the comic IP film rights back to MARVEL (Disney)!

[spanish39]

I have started a Facebook page in the seemingly hopeless effort to raise awareness to voice comic fans plea to FOX, SONY, and NEW LINE to give back to MARVEL (Disney) the Intellectual Property (IP) rights in order to have back their identity.

If you'd like to join and add to the hopefully growing number, please do so. I will update any news regarding this issue at it occurs as well.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Demand-FoxSony-revert-comic-IP-film-rights-to-Marvel-Studios/124502397634354?sk=wall

 

[Drz]

I'm sure they will stop making money and allow Disney to make money instead of them.

 

[roach]

hahahahahahahahahahaHAHAHAhahahahahahah....oh wait your serious. Dude you energy will be better served creating peace on earth or solving cancer...you want a movie studio to give up a money making IP because you said so?????

 

[MARVEL ROCKS]

LOL

 

[spanish39]

Eventually these movies will no longer make money if they gain a reputation of being crap. Look at LIONSGATE and Punisher, that IP on film is exhausted and LIONSGATE knew it. They got better money for giving it up then to pump more money into a crap sequel. FOX and SONY may soon find the same problems. Why keep throwing good money after bad and having a worse result each time?

 

[Captain Marvel]

I'm pretty sure neither Fox nor Sony care at all what I or anyone else here think.

Eventually these movies will no longer make money if they gain a reputation of being crap. Look at LIONSGATE and Punisher, that IP on film is exhausted and LIONSGATE knew it. They got better money for giving it up then to pump more money into a crap sequel. FOX and SONY may soon find the same problems. Why keep throwing good money after bad and having a worse result each time?

Spider-Man and the X-Men aren't the Punisher. Both Sony and Fox have seen an amazing amount of success with both franchises. Spider-Man, for instance, has made Sony $2.5 BILLION in box office ticket sales alone. And X-Men has so far produced $1.8 billion in ticket sales. Moreover, I doubt that either franchise will run out of steam, espcially X-Men, given just how many different characters they have to play with. And even if they do then they can always reboot, like they did with Spider-Man.

Nah, there's no way Sony or Fox will EVER give up the rights to Spider-Man or the X-Men, although I'd love to be proven wrong.

 

[Tacit Ronin]

This is getting comical now.....

 

[kedrell]

Between Sony & FOX, they've made 12 Marvel movies. Only 1 failed to ultimately turn a profit for the studio(Elektra...and it was the smallest movie of all of them). They aren't going to walk away from that level of virtually guaranteed profit any time soon.

 

[venom892]

After X-men First Class Fox may be on putting that franchise on the right track again.Sony has only produced one bad Spidey movie and I'm liking what I'm seeing from the reboot.Daredevil and Ghost Rider are the only properties I can see going back.

 

[roach]

and both DD and GR have movies in various levels of production

 

[hippie_hunter]

I think Warner Bros. already gave up their Marvel properties. Before New Line was folded, they gave up Iron Man once Marvel Studios was formed and we haven't seen Blade since the TV show was cancelled 6 years ago.

Sony is never going to give up Spider-Man and it all depends on how Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance to see if they'll keep the rights to that IP, but asides from those two, Sony already gave up the rest of their Marvel properties: Thor, Luke Cage, and Dr. Strange.

20th Century Fox on the other hand is doing everything they can to keep their properties. X-Men will never go for the obvious reasons. But they are moving those Daredevil and Fantastic Four reboots at a snails pace, keeping enough development on them so that Disney cannot take them, but not moving fast because it looks like they just don't know what to do with them.

 

[roach]

actually DD has a director and its gonna be an adaptation of Born Again. There is some movement on DD

 

[psylockolussus]

I have started a Facebook page in the seemingly hopeless effort to raise awareness to voice comic fans plea to FOX, SONY, and NEW LINE to give back to MARVEL (Disney) the Intellectual Property (IP) rights in order to have back their identity.

If you'd like to join and add to the hopefully growing number, please do so. I will update any news regarding this issue at it occurs as well.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Demand-FoxSony-revert-comic-IP-film-rights-to-Marvel-Studios/124502397634354?sk=wall

this is a waste of time, TBH

 

[Chris Wallace]

Does the rights changing hands in any way guarantee quality films?

 

[the gael]

Rupert Murdoch's empire is in big trouble, expecially with the english justice. Will Disney finally recover his fox properties, something I couldn't see possible before...

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/wor...hs_struggle_to_save_his_media_emp.html?r=news

 

[bubbadoom]

I do not see Rupert's present problems effecting X-MEN, but maybe the FF is he gets into a cash flow problem...let's hope it does!

 

[hippie_hunter]

Rupert Murdoch's empire is in big trouble, expecially with the english justice. Will Disney finally recover his fox properties, something I couldn't see possible before...

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/wor...hs_struggle_to_save_his_media_emp.html?r=news

I do not see Rupert's present problems effecting X-MEN, but maybe the FF is he gets into a cash flow problem...let's hope it does!

Yeah....neither will happen. The worst that will happen for Murdock is that he will be forced to step aside and the Murdock family will not be in complete control of the company like the way Murdock intended it to be. Any changes within News Corp itself will be confined to the many newspapers that News Corp owns and maybe Fox News.

Fox Filmed Entertainment, with the unlikely exception of Fox News, will not be affected by the scandal. If News Corp gives up on assets due to money issues, they'll go after non-profitable assets first like the newspapers. Time Warner did the same by selling Six Flags, Warner Music Group, the Time Warner Book Group, and splitting off AOL and Time Warner Cable. You didn't see Time Warner selling off intellectual properties of Warner Bros. when they had financial issues.

 

[Donut]

The only way this happens is if their movies stop making money

 

[UltimateJustin]

Considering the first Iron Man has been the only above-average comic book movie that Marvel has put out, I don't even desire for the IP to revert back to them. The rest of the studios have just as good/better a track record.

 

[henzINNIT]

Considering the first Iron Man has been the only above-average comic book movie that Marvel has put out, I don't even desire for the IP to revert back to them. The rest of the studios have just as good/better a track record.

This.

I've enjoyed Marvel's movies enough but none of them stand against X2, or Spiderman 1 & 2, or Nolan's Batman movies. Iron Man is the only one that comes close, and that's off the strength of the cast because the plot wasn't all that interesting.

 

[Timstuff]

The last thing the Marvel Movie Universe needs is a bunch of mutants cluttering it up and acting as plot devices in stories they don't belong in. Aside from XMOW I think X-men is fine where it is and I hope Marvel does not get the rights back, at least not any time soon. Also, I'm glad that Marvel can't use Mephisto because he's become a lame plot device and I don't want to see Marvel using him in the movies when they should strive to have consistent and smart writing. Spider-Man I don't really care about right now, because I love the first 3 but am ambivalent about the reboot. I'd like to see Dr. Doom in an Avengers movie so I guess that the Fantastic 4 would be cool for them to get back, but overall I do not really support this "ONLY MARVEL SHOULD MAKE MARVEL MOVIES!" mentality.

Also, if anything Marvel should be trying to split the X-men comic universe away from 616. 616 is too crowded for the X-men universe to fit inside it, and the recent attempts to make it work have been very poor. 616 is stifling the X-men universe's growth, and the X-men universe is too big to fit inside 616. I think X-men should exist separately from the Marvel Superhero universe, because the X-men aren't really superheroes in the traditional sense anyway. It's always been more of a science fiction comic and I don't think that X-men and the Marvel Superhero universe really benefit from each other enough to justify all the problems that are caused by them sharing a continuity. I'm glad that at least the movies don't have to have that problem, since the X-men films exist in a separate universe from the Marvel Movie Universe.

Even Iron Man 1 did not reach the heights of X2 and XFC IMO, so I do not think reverting to Marvel would help the X-men franchise in terms of quality. As much as I disliked XMOW, and as much as many fans (not me) disliked X3, I think it's safe to say that on the whole Fox has done much more good with the X-men franchise than bad, and I do not trust Marvel to not screw it up by trying to shoehorn it into the Marvel Movie Universe.

 

[UltimateJustin]

The last thing the Marvel Movie Universe needs is a bunch of mutants cluttering it up and acting as plot devices in stories they don't belong in. Aside from XMOW I think X-men is fine where it is and I hope Marvel does not get the rights back, at least not any time soon. Also, I'm glad that Marvel can't use Mephisto because he's become a lame plot device and I don't want to see Marvel using him in the movies when they should strive to have consistent and smart writing. Spider-Man I don't really care about right now, because I love the first 3 but am ambivalent about the reboot. I'd like to see Dr. Doom in an Avengers movie so I guess that the Fantastic 4 would be cool for them to get back, but overall I do not really support this "ONLY MARVEL SHOULD MAKE MARVEL MOVIES!" mentality.

Also, if anything Marvel should be trying to split the X-men comic universe away from 616. 616 is too crowded for the X-men universe to fit inside it, and the recent attempts to make it work have been very poor. 616 is stifling the X-men universe's growth, and the X-men universe is too big to fit inside 616. I think X-men should exist separately from the Marvel Superhero universe, because the X-men aren't really superheroes in the traditional sense anyway. It's always been more of a science fiction comic and I don't think that X-men and the Marvel Superhero universe really benefit from each other enough to justify all the problems that are caused by them sharing a continuity. I'm glad that at least the movies don't have to have that problem, since the X-men films exist in a separate universe from the Marvel Movie Universe.

Even Iron Man 1 did not reach the heights of X2 and XFC IMO, so I do not think reverting to Marvel would help the X-men franchise in terms of quality. As much as I disliked XMOW, and as much as many fans (not me) disliked X3, I think it's safe to say that on the whole Fox has done much more good with the X-men franchise than bad, and I do not trust Marvel to not screw it up by trying to shoehorn it into the Marvel Movie Universe.

A lot of the conflict for mutants from the X-Men books hasn't even made sense in a world already heavily occupied by non-mutant super-powered heroes. To me, the main theme of mutant's persecution/struggle for rights has always been slightly impugned by this.

Also, I would kind of prefer Asgard not to be real.

 

[Timstuff]

^ Exactly. The mutant phenomena is somewhat muted when there are many other ways for people to get superpowers other than mutation, and it never made sense to me why people draw such a sharp line between mutants and superhumans. Two people with superpowers wear costumes and fight evil, but one has to worry about persecution because they were born with their powers instead of getting them from a radioactive accident? It simply doesn't make sense. Either everyone with superpowers should be hated and feared, or people should be numb to supers by now, including mutants-- and again, if having powers is the source of conflict, and not being a mutant, then why do mutants need to exist in the Marvel universe? Mutants in the 616 universe end up just being a lazy source for persecution drama at best, and a lazy source for plot device powers at worst.

I think one of the smartest things Marvel could do is re-launch and revamp the X-men comics as their own continuity, severing all ties with non-mutant superheroes, while simultaneously removing mutants from the 616 universe. The fanboys would obviously piss and moan that Wolverine can't wander into Spider-Man stories anymore and that a lot of comic history has been retconned out, but they will eventually accept it when the quality of the comics in both comic universes see an increase.

 

[Chris Wallace]

The only reason for wanting the rights consolidated is in hope for reboots and/or crossovers, and I am in favor of neither.

 

[roach]

or putting Wolverine and Spidey on Avengers...which I wont like