The Disney owns Fox thread

[terry78]

You thought the logo was that dark?

 

[-JKR-]

Freaking lord, as if the buyout wasn't enough of a heartbreak.

**** Disney. I hate you. I hope Mickey dies from a horrible and violent death one day. Karma, etc.

 

[mclay18]

Freaking lord, as if the buyout wasn't enough of a heartbreak.

**** Disney. I hate you. I hope Mickey dies from a horrible and violent death one day. Karma, etc.

Disney can still legally use the Fox moniker if they want to (in regards to 20th Century and Searchlight), but the rebranding was to distinguish it from the Murdoch-owned Fox networks. Who would want to associate a Disney subsidiary if the name makes them think "Fox News"?

Which makes sense. I'm wondering if Disney is looking to rebrand FX, FXX, and FXM due to the name change.

 

[Micromind]

Well Bernie did say he would break up Disney and other monopolies such as Facebook and Google.

L...O...L

He says a lot and a good amount of it isn't realistic.

What are the chances that he will breakup Facebook, Amazon, Google, Disney, At&T and Apple ?


Edit: Add Microsoft to that.

 

[mclay18]

Hopefully the 20th Century logo looks more like this:

 

[Micromind]

Disney Drops Fox Name, Will Rebrand as 20th Century Studios, Searchlight Pictures

The mouse has officially killed the fox.

In a move at once unsurprising and highly symbolic, the Walt Disney Company is dropping the “Fox” brand from the 21st Century Fox assets it acquired last March, Variety has learned. The 20th Century Fox film studio will become 20th Century Studios, and Fox Searchlight Pictures will become simply Searchlight Pictures.

Goodbye Fox. A lot of us saw this coming but it doesn’t make it any less sad.

Makes sense to me.

 

[Dark Raven]

Disney can still legally use the Fox moniker if they want to (in regards to 20th Century and Searchlight), but the rebranding was to distinguish it from the Murdoch-owned Fox networks. Who would want to associate a Disney subsidiary if the name makes them think "Fox News"?

Which makes sense. I'm wondering if Disney is looking to rebrand FX, FXX, and FXM due to the name change.

I think it is to do with that largely. Fox news has become very political, whereas Disney try to remain politically neutral. So there is a huge conflict of interest there, which is why it's better to rebrand to 20th Century, which is what it was originally anyway.

Hopefully the 20th Century logo looks more like this:

I'm hoping for the same too, and I think it would look similar probably.

 

[Dark Raven]

You thought the logo was that dark?

Well it was called Searchlight so you can understand someone thinking they were search lights. And the early logos from 1935 and throughout WWII do look like wartime search lights. You can see it even looks like that in that 20th Century Pictures logo above.

 

[Micromind]

Something like this would be fine.

 

[Shinobi Shaw]

Freaking lord, as if the buyout wasn't enough of a heartbreak.

**** Disney. I hate you. I hope Mickey dies from a horrible and violent death one day. Karma, etc.

By the looks of this rebranding, Mickey already snapped his fingers.

 

[TheVileOne]

LOL at the hysteria and overreaction.

 

[-JKR-]

Not everyone is a Disney suck-up.

 

[The Guard]

They can't release movies without the Fox logo, can they?

I would have changed it to 20th Century Mouse...but we should probably just be thankful it's not 20th Century Disney Studios. The real tragedy here is the likely job losses from the acquisition.

 

[mclay18]

The real tragedy here is the likely job losses from the acquisition.

Thousands of people were already pink-slipped last year.

Some of them joined Paramount, like Chris Aronson, who reunited with former Fox CEO Jim Gianopolos. Guess Par will be where filmmakers want to go instead of Disney.

 

[Dark Raven]

It would be cool if Disney somehow brought back RKO pictures.

 

[-JKR-]

What for? As if there aren't enough of their labels already. Not to mention that they already dumped Touchstone and Hollywood.

 

[Iceman]

Disney can still legally use the Fox moniker if they want to (in regards to 20th Century and Searchlight), but the rebranding was to distinguish it from the Murdoch-owned Fox networks. Who would want to associate a Disney subsidiary if the name makes them think "Fox News"?

Which makes sense. I'm wondering if Disney is looking to rebrand FX, FXX, and FXM due to the name change.

I don’t know what Fox News were like in the past but that is the first thing I think of when I hear Fox now and I kind of hate it. Pretty glad it’s gone from the name.

 

[Dark Raven]

I don’t know what Fox News were like in the past but that is the first thing I think of when I hear Fox now and I kind of hate it. Pretty glad it’s gone from the name.

Well Fox news wasn't always Trump TV. In fact, I'm pretty sure it was more critical of him before. It's probably mostly been that way post 2016 or maybe in the lead up to the 2016 elections. After all, I remember people talking about Sean Hannity in the context of Trump before he was elected.

 

[Iceman]

Well Fox news wasn't always Trump TV. In fact, I'm pretty sure it was more critical of him before. It's probably mostly been that way post 2016 or maybe in the lead up to the 2016 elections. After all, I remember people talking about Sean Hannity in the context of Trump before he was elected.

It’s a shame to ruin a company’s reputation in a few years when it has been around for ages.

 

[Flint Marko]

Freaking lord, as if the buyout wasn't enough of a heartbreak.

**** Disney. I hate you. I hope Mickey dies from a horrible and violent death one day. Karma, etc.

You’re this upset over a rebranding? Did you expect them to keep Fox in the name?

 

[Lily Adler]

By the looks of this rebranding, Mickey already snapped his fingers.

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Where's Hulu?

 

[Detective Conan]

 

[terry78]

Hmmmm.


Emma Watts Resigns as Twentieth Century Studios Production President

 

[Shinobi Shaw]

Interesting turn of events.

 

[mclay18]

20th Century Studios' Diminished Future: "I Don't Think the Label Means Anything Anymore"

Apparently, Emma Watts left 20th Century because she couldn't stomach the reduced power and autonomy when running it as a Disney subsidiary (and answering to Alan Horn and Alan Bergman).

Disney is under pressure for Watts' replacement to be a woman.