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MMRants: The Great Disney Conspiracy
Category: TV & Film
Duration: 00:28:28
Publish Date: 2014-09-08 10:51:18
Description: Movie Menu Rants: About the Great Disney Conspiracy!! Panelist: Dan "The Man" Muñoz, Alexander z, and Mike Stand. Rant: The Walt Disney Company taking over and changing filmmaking for the rest of the studios. Moviemenureviews.com Facebook.com/moviemenureviews Twitter.com/moviemenureviews Instagram.com/moviemenureviews YouTube Channel: Movie Menu Notes: Let’s discuss the one studio that’s fucking it up for the rest of the studios.. in the sense of changing how films are made as we know them by owning everything! The Walt Disney Company was founded in 1923 by Walt and his brother Roy, -Beauty and the Beast won Golden Globe for Best Comedy or Musical and was the first animated feature film nominated for Best Picture at the Oscars, changing the way the public viewed animation. -1995 Disney helps Pixar produce three computer animated feature films, first being Toy Story which was a box office hit changing the ways animated movies are made. -May 6, 2005 Disney buys Pixar for approximately 7.4 billion dollars. -In 2009 Disney buys Marvel Entertainment/Studios for 4 billion dollars -in 2012 Disney buys LucasFilms for 4 billion dollars and announces a new trilogy in the works as well as spin-off films that will be released between each new episode. -Pixar, Marvel, and LucasFilms are owned by Disney however are their own entities as studios. -Disney relaunched their animated feature films with Chicken Little all CG- animated movie. In 2012 Wreck-It Ralph was a huge hit reestablishing Disney animated features moving forward with Frozen another hit for them. -Disney has become a powerhouse with all their properties that they have acquired. -Marvel changed the way studios saw their properties creating their own MCU. Fox, Sony, and now WB/DC have expressed in creatING their own Cinematic Universes, a phrase first coined by Marvel. -LucasFilms- one of the biggest shockers was that Disney bought LucasFilms and new trilogy and spin-off films in the works. -Remember the day, Oct 30th 2012 -Marvel has had a great year this year, with the success of Captain America The Winter Soldier and Guardians of the Galaxy… we will see how Ant-Man goes with Edgar Wright leaving, and cast members being dropped. Marvel of course aren’t stranger to negotiations going bad, like Terrence Howard and Edward Norton, not to mention the public hold out of Robert Downey Jr and the rest of the Avengers for bigger pay raise. They still have 6 unannounced Marvel films from now to 2019. LucasFilms announces JJ Abrams as director of Episode 7 of Star Wars as JJ was still promoting Star Trek. News blew up about WB making Justice League after Batman V. Superman Dawn of Justice with Zack Snyder returning to direct and the following day LucasFilms announces Cast of Star Wars Episode 7. Gareth Edwards announced to direct spin-off. Godzilla 2 is pushed back four years. Josh Trank, director of reboot for Fantastic Four is also announced for Spin-Off… where does this leave Fantastic Four 2? Well Disney has helped change filmmaking as we see it, they are like the mafia in Hollywood. We will see where they end up next.
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