It bought Lucasfilm (owner of the “Star Wars” franchise), Marvel Entertainment (owner of a long list of Marvel heroes, including Spider-Man and Iron Man), and Pixar (which created the “Toy Story” and “Cars” franchises and other hits.)
With Disney's acquisition of the entertainment assets of the FOX Corporation in 2019, Disney became the owner of all of FOX's portfolio in the film and television realm.
Lucas had stated for years that he had no plans to produce a Star Wars sequel trilogy or hand the reins to other filmmakers, but now Disney has purchased the franchise and announced three new Star Wars movies.
Disney's purchase of Fox kept the assets, including the popular streaming service Hulu, out of the hands of Comcast or another media foe. On the most recent earnings call, Iger told analysts the company would devote less resources to making general entertainment content.
Club. Disney's $71.3 billion purchase of the film and TV assets held by 21st Century Fox — the company behind everything from the Alien movies to The Simpsons — is one of the biggest media mergers ever.
Disney will be the proud owner of the rights to Shrek. Currently the Shrek franchise is owned by Dreamworks, which is a subsidiary of Universal Pictures. Universal Pictures is a subsidiary of NBCUniversal, which is owned by Comcast.
Since Sony Pictures owns the film rights to Spider-Man, the movies have so far been available on different streaming services, which was a huge pain, especially when the vast majority of Marvel movies are already on Disney Plus.
Home Box Office (HBO) is an American pay television network, which is the flagship property of namesake parent-subsidiary Home Box Office, Inc., itself a unit owned by Warner Bros. Discovery.
Disney owns two-thirds of Hulu, while Comcast owns the rest. Under a 2019 agreement, either company can trigger a sale or purchase of Comcast's 33% stake to Disney as early as January 2024. The agreement ascribes a minimum equity value to Hulu of $27.5 billion.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, “The copyright for Walt Disney's 1928 cartoon Steamboat Willie — which introduced the world to Mickey Mouse — is set to expire and enter the public domain in three years.” The rights would include the Mickey Mouse that we saw in the film, which is different from other character ...
Does Disney own Coca-Cola & Pepsi? Um, no. These are three independent companies. Each of them own a hundred or more various brands across various industries but they're separate companies.
Following the acquisition of 21st Century Fox by Disney, the character's film rights were returned to Marvel Studios alongside the X-Men and the Fantastic Four.
McDonald's, often abbreviated as Mickey D's, is the world's largest chain of hamburger fast-food restaurants. Although not owned by Disney, it has had several promotional tie-ins with Disney films and properties since 1981.
The Walt Disney Company owns over 200 companies both directly and indirectly. They range from movie and music studios, music, TV channels, news networks, and video games. You probably know that Disney is the entertainment company that owns Lucasfilm and Marvel.
However, in line with Disney's plan to “enhance profitability" under CEO Bob Iger, the company decided against renewing the deal. “There were less than 480,000 subscribers watching HBO content on Disney+Hotstar," said a company executive, requesting anonymity.
Sony technically owns the screen rights to the Spider-Man family of characters, but the rest of the Marvel catalog is owned by…well, Marvel. So Marvel Studios and Sony struck a deal where they can both use Spider-Man, but Venom is technically still all Sony.
The film was initially released and distributed by Universal on June 13, 2008, and the company held the rights to the title for 15 years. Now, in a notable shift, the rights have reverted to Marvel Studios, leading to the film's release on Disney+.
The company was acquired by Disney, which owns Marvel, in 2019 so now Deadpool will exist within the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). Reese and Wernick are writing the screenplay for Deadpool 3, which will be directed by Shawn Levy and released in November 2024.
Shrek is not part of Disney. Shrek the film and the franchise are owned by DreamWorks Animation LLC (aka DreamWorks) which is a subsidiary of Universal Pictures which is a division of NBCUniversal which is owned by Comcast. Therefore, Comcast owns Shrek, not The Walt Disney Company.
She's one of the few globally recognized characters not owned by the Walt Disney Company, but that's not for lack of trying. As Intellectual Property of the toy company Mattel, Barbie has been licensed out to Disney a few times, most notably for its Toy Story film franchise.
