About this article
Written By:
Created:
Monday, August 31st, 2009
at 18:42
Tags:
Tags: Activision, Capcom, Disney, Gazillion, Marvel, Sega, THQ, Walt
Filed under:
Save and Share
emailSomething not right?
Oh no, Report a mistakeOneMetal.com NEWS:
Disney Buys Marvel For $4 Billion
Finally, we are one step closer to seeing that Hulk VS Whinnie the Pooh movie we have all waited so long for. Yes that’s right, Walt Disney Entertainment is to buy Marvel Entertainment in a shares and cash deal valued at $4bn (£2.5bn).
Disney will take over ownership of 5,000 Marvel characters, such as Spider-Man and the X-Men. Robert A. Iger, President and Chief Executive Officer of The Walt Disney Company said: -
Robert Iger We believe that adding Marvel to Disney’s unique portfolio of brands provides significant opportunities for long-term growth and value creation.
Robert Iger This transaction combines Marvel’s strong global brand and world-renowned library of characters including Iron Man, Spider-Man, X-Men, Captain America, Fantastic Four and Thor with Disney’s creative skills, unparalleled global portfolio of entertainment properties, and a business structure that maximizes the value of creative properties across multiple platforms and territories.
Ike Perlmutter, Marvel’s Chief Executive Officer
Ike Perlmutter Disney is the perfect home for Marvel’s fantastic library of characters given its proven ability to expand content creation and licensing businesses.
Ike Perlmutter This is an unparalleled opportunity for Marvel to build upon its vibrant brand and character properties by accessing Disney’s tremendous global organization and infrastructure around the world.
There may be some serious fallout for Marvel video game titles from Activision, Sega, THQ, and the upcoming MMO from Gazillion. And whilst the future Marvel vs. Capcom might be in jepody, this news at least opens the door for Marvel VS Hannah Montana, and lets be honest, we would all buy it.
Source : BBC, kotaku
Related Posts
NEWS: Jeph Loeb Appointed Head Of Marvel TV Productions
Posted: June 28th, 2010
NEWS: Mighty Marvel Movies – Joss Whedon And Edgar Wright Getting Directing Gigs?
Posted: April 18th, 2010
NEWS: Philip K. Dick’s Electric Ant Invades Your Comic Picnic
Posted: January 28th, 2010
NEWS: Crabba Snabba! Stitch Crashes onto the DS
Posted: January 8th, 2010
NEWS: Spider-Man 4 No More?
Posted: January 12th, 2010
NEWS: New MMO from Blizzard will be ‘Significantly Different’ From Warcraft
Posted: September 1st, 2009
NEWS: ‘The Walking Dead’ TV series one rigor-mortis-defying step closer
Posted: January 22nd, 2010
NEWS: Tron : Legacy Trailer
Posted: March 9th, 2010
6 Responses to “Disney Buys Marvel For $4 Billion”
Follow responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.
Leave a Reply
Twitter
Facebook
MySpace
RSS feedOneMetal was created, and is maintained by William Owen . Made with love, coffee and Wordpress
CAUTION: Onemetal.com is safe to use whilst pregnant. Please do use this website whilst under the influence of alcohol. Avoid using whilst using any other website. Stop using if irritation develops. May cause drowsiness, onemetal.com was not tested on animals. Onemetal.com may have been tested by animals. No HTML was harmed during the creation of this website.
© 2009 William Owen unless otherwise stated. All rights reserved. | Privacy Policy | Terms of Use.
Tin-Tin says:
nice do you think all the future marvel films will go ahead ?
William Ham says:
I don’t think that they would stop making the movies, for the most part I think Marvel has done well from them. If anything I think we might start to see more movies.
franoverbury says:
…as long as they don’t make an alien vs. predator style amalgamation and end up with fluffy bambified x-men! that’d be a little bit weirdy
Mark Wrigley says:
My kids will just be chuffed about all the Marvel stuff they will be able to buy at the Disney Store now…
David Cox says:
Given the cash cow that Marvel represents ($4billion is no small change, even for Disney), I’d expect all the current Marvel films on the slate to continue into production. Whether they’re subject to interference from the House Of Mouse (as with previous fraught relations with Pixar and Studio Ghibli, for example) remains to be seen….
Peri says:
I am most probably wrong (and i really hope i am) but i can see Disney squeezing the life out of Marvel characters by over using them…