Disney & FOX Close to a Deal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXcaic0_jD8
"talks have begun to progress rapidly and both sides have gone dark"
Do they even NEED a deal? I thought the contracts said Fox had to put out an FF movie in a set number of years (was it 5?) or the rights revert.
shareBut given that Disney is eager to get the X-men, buying back the F4 as fast as they can too, allows them to pre-plan stuff for Phase 4.
Some months back Fox was "threatening" to make yet another Fant4stic movie because... reasons. No one wants that. yukk
I know this is unpopular, but I liked the Tim Story FF movies. Are they classics? No. Will they change the genre? No. But as a long long time FF reader (I mean, I remember Sue being out for maternity leave the first time!)....those movies did kind of nail the Four and their flavor. Doom and Galactus were their big stumbling blocks, but the rest was fine (even Alba as Sue)
shareI actually liked the first one- Except for the thing. Everything else worked.
The second one I got pissed about. Silver Surfer and Galactus are by far my favorite characters in the Marvel comics. And they ruined both.
It is not an unpopular position to like the Tim Story FF.:
Clobbering modest expectations and bad buzz with a healthy dose of fun in a summer of darkness, Fantastic Four spelled doom for the year-to-year down streak, stretching overall weekend business past the comparable frame in 2004.The quote is from BoxofficeMojo
Released by 20th Century Fox, Marvel Comics' superhero team blazed into the top spot with $56.1 million at 3,602 theaters, the fifth highest-grossing start ever for a comic book movie and a return to form for the brand after the disappointments of Elektra, Blade: Trinity and The Punisher. The opening was in the same league as the debut of Marvel's other superhero team, X-Men, on the comparable July weekend five years ago, although it trailed Pixar's Fantastic Four-inspired The Incredibles.
"I had it called for the mid-$30 million range, and no one had us in the $50 million range," Fox's head of distribution Bruce Snyder told Box Office Mojo. "It's just a romp, it looks like fun, it plays like fun," Snyder said of Fantastic Four's appeal. "It does not have the seriousness or the pedigree of Batman Begins or War of the Worlds. It's for the whole family. You look at the top five movies, the only thing that's universally for everybody is Fantastic Four." The studio's exit polling was unavailable.
It wasn't groundbreaking but it was a fun movie that performed well enough for the Fox Wheel of Fortune to get a sequel. They flamed out with their poor presentation of Doom, the Silver Surfer and Galactus. share