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The Mouse House is getting a lot bigger.\u00a0 <\/span>At special meetings held simultaneously in New York this morning, Disney and 21st Century Fox shareholders overwhelmingly approved the $71.3 billion dollar merger deal first proposed last December. \u00a0The deal that will add numerous big-name entertainment properties to Disney\u2019s ever-growing portfolio. A bunch of Marvel Comics characters are coming home.<\/p>\n Fox had the rights for movies starring, among others,\u00a0the high-profile supergroups X-Men and the Fantastic Four, including associated supporting players and villains. Now\u00a0the already star-packed\u00a0Marvel Cinematic Universe is about to go\u00a0supernova with the possibility of debuting many of them after next year’s “Avengers 4” (May 3) wraps up Phase 3 of the MCU.<\/p>\n In addition, \u201cAvatar\u201d, \u201cTitanic\u201d and TV shows such as \u201cThe Simpsons\u201d and \u201cThis Is Us\u201d will now be owned by Disney. That adds to an already enviable content stockpile from divisions that include Lucasfilm, Marvel Entertainment and Pixar Animation Studios. The deal also gives Disney the cable networks FX and National Geographic; a controlling stake in the streaming service Hulu, which has more than 20 million subscribers; and Star, one of India\u2019s fastest growing media companies.<\/p>\n The shareholder votes brought to a close a six-month corporate showdown, waged across two continents by Disney and Comcast, for supremacy in the rapidly changing media business. Mr. Murdoch\u2019s trove represented a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to gain the bulk needed as a counterattack against the tech giants that have aggressively moved into Hollywood.<\/p>\n The merger will see the creation of New Fox and a separation agreement that transfers to the company assets Disney won\u2019t be involved with, namely a portfolio of 21st Century Fox\u2019s news, sports and broadcast businesses, including the Fox News Channel, Fox Business Network, Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox Sports, Fox Television Stations Group, and sports cable networks FS1, FS2, Fox Deportes and the Big Ten Network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Mouse House is getting a lot bigger.\u00a0 At special meetings held simultaneously in New York this morning, Disney and 21st Century Fox shareholders overwhelmingly approved the $71.3 billion dollar merger deal first proposed last December. \u00a0The deal that will add numerous big-name entertainment properties to Disney\u2019s ever-growing portfolio. A bunch of Marvel Comics characters […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4571,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-articles","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4570"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4572,"href":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4570\/revisions\/4572"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}