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kupo88 t1_ixu2y65 wrote

Reply to comment by Radulno in Was the fox buyout worth it for Disney? by CardiologistOwn5612

My comment had nothing to do with "what Reddit claims". I was simply adding my opinion, since big corporations these days tend to just buy out smaller companies who have what they want. Fox had Marvel properties and Disney wanted them so they bought Fox.

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Radulno t1_ixu3iwh wrote

> Fox had Marvel properties and Disney wanted them so they bought Fox.

Except it's wrong, Disney didn't buy Fox for a few Marvel right, that would be a disastrous purchase to pay 71 billions for that. They bought it for the whole studios and the catalogue of movies/TV they got to launch their streaming service and because Fox was selling anyway and they'd prefer to be the ones to get it. It also wasn't a big company buying a small one. Fox was almost as big as Disney.

As I said, the purchase would have been made exactly the same if Fox didn't have Marvel rights

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kupo88 t1_ixu3vrs wrote

I understand what you're saying, but everything I'm saying is my opinion on the primary reason for their purchase. I was obviously not in the room when the decision was made so all I can provide are my thoughts and opinions.

If people's thoughts and opinions aren't what you're looking for I don't understand why you brought this to Reddit.

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blacktarmin t1_ixucq58 wrote

They bought Fox because they were launching a streaming service and wanted more content for it. Bob Iger said as much.

The primary reason for the acquisition was not Fox's Marvel properties.

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