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Chicity said:
Fuck that stupid shit AP saying, Incredible Hulk was awesome

I think it would have been better had Ruffalo played him then. It was a great story without going into his origin yet again.

Its fight scenes is still some of the best MCU has made
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Disney and Fox Deal Likely to Close by Summer 2019

The planned acquisition of 20th Century Fox by the Walt Disney Company is expected to close by summer of next year, according to Fox President Peter Rice.

The merger, which will bring together two of Hollywood's most historic brands and reunite the vast majority of the Star Wars and Marvel Comics movie rights, was announced late last year, and at the time, Disney said they expected the regulatory approval process to take between 12 and 18 months.

The larger Fox company -- 21st Century Fox, which owns the 20th Century Fox studio as well as various Fox-branded entertainment, news, and publishing ventures -- will be slimmed down and renamed for a post-Disney existence. Rice told his audience that management changes to the new company, which will likely be called simply Fox, will be announced over the next year, in the interest of calming investors and reassuring the market that Fox will continue to function after the Disney deal goes through and the lion's share of the company assets are taken over.

There have been reports that Comcast is interested in swooping in to top Disney's order, but those rumors appear to be smoke. Since the Disney negotiations became public, Comcast has been the only serious competitor to throw their hat into the ring, but even then no one appeared to take the interest particularly seriously as it seemed to come only after the Disney/Fox deal was a fait accompli.


A handful of Democrats have suggested that Congress might hold anti-trust hearings, but Congressional approval would not be needed for the merger to succeed. It is likely to be approved by the Justice Department.

The Trump administration has seemed keen to block a merger between AT&T and Time Warner, but the situations are somewhat different: AT&T owns a huge amount of physical infrastructure for delivering data, and if they were to buy Time Warner the argument goes that they could begin to corner that market and limit consumer choice. Critics have argued that the real motivation is President Trump's feud with CNN, the cable news provider owned by Time Warner.

If completed, the deal is worth between $70 and $85 billion.

http://comicbook.com/movies/2018/04/12/avengers-infinity-war-spider-man-new-teaser/

 
'Avengers: Infinity War' Directors Think Secret Wars Would Be Interesting After Fox Deal

Avengers: Infinity War is setting up a game-changing chapter of the Marvel Cinematic Universe saga - one that will truly take fans on a different kind of ride, starting with Avengers 4. With directors the Russo Bros. and Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige all teasing a veritable reboot to the MCU we know in Phase 4, fans have already begun speculating what that new Marvel movie universe will look like.

Back in December the prospects for the MCU's future got much, much, bigger, as it was announced that Disney is acquiring 20th Century Fox in a deal that would finally bring the full roster of Marvel Comics characters together under the MCU tent. That news has forced Marvel fans to entirely re-align their perceptions and expectations for what kind of new world that Avengers 4 could introduce, and there is one recent Marvel crossover event that seems best suited to the task: the 2015 "Secret Wars" storyline.

"Secret Wars" (2015) saw the various realities of the Marvel mutliverse collide in a violent apocalyptic end of days scenario. It is only through the intervention of Doctor Strange, Doctor Doom, and the half-mad Molecule Man that preserves reality, combining fragments of each Marvel Universe dimension into that Frankenstein land mass known as Battleworld. Marvel heroes of the various universes manage to survive the universal destruction thanks to help from the Illuminati (Black Panther, Reed Richards, etc.), only to find themselves in Doom's new world. After that event, reality was restored to what it was supposed to be by Reed Richards - with the caveat that various Marvel timelines now exist in one amalgamated universe.

The appeal of a Secret Wars film event is obvious, as it would be one of the easiest and canon-friendly ways to explain how the X-Men and Fantastic Four suddenly appear in the Marvel Cinematic Universe - something that the Russos themsevles acknowledged in a recent interview with French website Lintern@ute that, "If Disney's takeover of Fox goes through, there's a lot more characters to work with all of a sudden, it might be interesting to do something like Secret Wars... "

At this point, the Russos know how to choose each and every word carefully in press interviews - they also know how to mercilessly troll the fandom, often dropping incomprehensible "teaser images" on social media, or posting cryptic message that can herald a major trailer drop - or simply stoke fan mania for the hell of it. That's all to say: Marvel Studios could indeed have something like Secret Wars in mind - but it also could not arrive until sometime like Phase Five, after Phase Four has jumped into possible storylines like the Skrull "Secret Invasion" and the "Dark Reign" of villains that follows. That's just the type of hook-and-bait trolling the Russos love.

Regardless of how it happens, there will need to be some kind of "event" that is drastic enough to change the entire face of reality in the MCU - and the Infinity Gauntlet could definitely be the start of it. Of course, before we start counting our chickens, the Fox/Disney deal indeed has to go through and become a fully done deal.

Marvel Studios' Black Panther is now playing in theaters. Avengers: Infinity War hits theaters on April 27, 2018. It is followed by Ant-Man and The Wasp on July 6, 2018, Captain Marvel on March 8, 2019, Avengers 4 on May 3, 2019, the sequel to Spider-Man: Homecoming on July 5, 2019, and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 in 2020.

http://comicbook.com/marvel/2018/04/10/avengers-secret-wars-movie-mcu-fox-russo-bros/
 
Universal should just sell the distribution rights back IMO. Marvel isn't gonna make a solo Hulk film, so it's just a game of chicken right now to see who moves first
 
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