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Disney Buying Marvel Entertainment
by Alice O'Connor, Aug 31, 2009 9:41am PDTDisney has announced that it intends to buy comic book giant Marvel Entertainment in a stock and cash deal worth around $4 billion, subject to Marvel shareholder approval.
The deal includes Marvel's over 5000 characters, who have starred in games ranging from the sublime 1992 X-Men arcade side-scroller and gory X-Men Origins: Wolverine, to the critically-panned movie tie-ins Iron Man and Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer.
"We are not doing crappy movie-based games anymore," Marvel digital media VP Ira Rubenstein recently declared. Tie-in games for the Iron Man 2 and Thor movies are in the pipeline, along with unknown fruits of Marvel's ten-year MMO deal with Gazillion.
Marvel's chief spandex rival DC Comics has been owned by Warner Bros. since 1969.
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Disney owns more shit than you probably realize.
The litmus test has always been that Disney owns Miramax, which put out Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill.
Disney owns ABC which had NYPD Blue on for twelve years (granted, it's pretty tame compared to The Shield but still)
Disney owns the Muppets, but you don't see them whoring those properties out with Mickey Mouse and shit.
I'd bet money that Iron Man 2 comes out as planned with a PG-13 rating and no mention of Disney whatsoever.
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