Only 52 billion? Guess I am too used to the crazy overdone buyouts in the tech world.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-42353545 reckons they also have 13.something billion in debt as well that Disney is taking on which brings it closer to what I imagined, especially if most of the "fox" branded TV shows that people would think of when they think that are staying with them.
Also from said article "Fox shareholders, who include the Murdochs, will get a 25% stake in the larger Disney." is all I have (not that I have looked) for the breakdown of cash and shares. Speaking of shares I wonder where each of those will go, even pending antitrust/mergers rulings.
I also await news on the fate of Sky in the UK (one of the big two paid TV services at some 12.7 million in the UK, the other being Virgin at some 5.8 million earlier this year
http://www.virginmedia.com/corporate/media-centre/press-releases/virgin-media-q1-2017-results.html , UK population is 65 million) as Fox is waiting on another mergers ruling to see if they can buy all of it from their present 39%.
[minor aside as the deal does not include them] People actually like Fox news? If you want your news to dictate your views or have commentators align their views with yours then bit silly from where I stand (much prefer facts to make my own conclusions, and some analysis also based in such things and history if it is likely to be too complex) but to each their own. Are Fox news considered good at anything like that though? Even ignoring their troubles with facts, stats and logic then what gets dubbed conservatism in America (often radically different philosophies and talking points from both the historical US and present rest of the world) does not seem that well aligned with what fox news does in what I have seen from them (either the crazy stuff that makes the slightly comedic news, or the run of the mill stuff I occasionally watch in the hopes of seeing the crazy stuff as it is broadcast). I could see the loss of a partisan news source if such a setup is valuable for whatever reason (might be good for story selection if the concerns of the conservatives being your concerns where a more general/relevancy or otherwise leaning source might skip it in favour of something else) being troubling but fox news?
Would Disney be likely to kneecap a cash cow though?
Something I have not seen discussed so much is Star India and Tata Sky (a satellite TV distributor in India) also being part of this. With India on track to beat China's population in the not too distant future (2022 by UN estimates, or kids born today will never know anything other than India as the most populous place in the world) and their rapidly developing economy (and decent number of English speakers to boot) I can see the rest of this being almost a footnote in comparison. The only cloud on that horizon being will the internet be fast enough/bandwidth be cheap enough that the internet kneecaps it before it has a chance to really take off (India is an odd place for internet things -- much of the internet there is mobile and always was so it is not like mobile can be the sort of the afterthought it is in the west).
Hopefully it also means we get some stuff out of India as well -- Bollywood is amusing enough for what it is but some of the non Bollywood Indian films (think the difference between California and New York based productions, and go a bit further still) do seriously well for me.
Interesting times anyway. Not sure how much it will trouble me (Disney under their own brand seldom do much, Marvel lost their way some time before now, and Touchstone are not so hot these days either, 20th Century Fox does more that appeals but only slightly) if it does all come to pass but hey.
Wonder if it means when potentially formerly Fox Studios try some TV sci fi that they give it a chance.
Edit. Apparently several other posts happened in the meantime.
Re: Antman. Is was forgettable enough fluff but better than most Marvel efforts which I have seen in recent times. I am not likely to watch it again (most marvel efforts I don't) but unlike say putting on Thor 2 I would not be bored at the prospect.
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