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Post by hondobrode on May 18, 2015 21:19:05 GMT -5
I was reading somewhere today that in a conference call, it was mentioned by Disney CEO Bob Iger (who, I'm pretty sure, is related to Jerry Iger, Will Eisner's partner back in the early Golden Age) that Disney is possibly considering a Marvel channel as well as a Star Wars channel.
This doesn't surprise me in the least and I could easily see it happening.
The demand is there for both properties and there's enough back log of both franchises, between vintage, tv, movies, cartoons, and newer shows developed specifically for each, that they'd not only be feasible, but probably pretty profitable too.
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Post by Deleted on May 18, 2015 21:27:58 GMT -5
I'm pretty sure my wife would be on board for both. However, I Think they would likely wait to see if they could get the Netflix content for the Marvel channel before they launched, whether rerun rights or taking the original programming back after the deal with Netflix runs out.
I wouldn't be surprised though if they considered each as a streaming service rather than a cable/broadcast channel as the cable market is shrinking and sub based streaming services are growing.
-M
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Post by dupersuper on May 18, 2015 23:27:53 GMT -5
Let's see...
Agents of SHIELD, Agent Carter, Daredevil, 70s Hulk, 70s Spider-Man, 70s Captain America, 70s Doctor Strange, Blade 1 - 3, X-Men 1 - 3, X-Men First Class and Days of Future Past, Wolverine 1 - 2, Spider-Man 1 - 3, Amazing Spider-Man 1 and 2, Howard the Duck, Big Hero 6, Fantastic Four 1 - 2, Korman Fantastic Four, Hulk, Captain America '89, Captain America 1 - 2, Thor 1 - 2, Iron Man 1 - 3, Incredible Hulk, Guardians of the Galaxy, Avengers 1 - 2, Marvel movie shorts, 60s Spider-Man cartoon, 60s Fantastic Four cartoon, Merry Marvel Marching Society, 70s X-Men cartoon, 80s Hulk cartoon, 80s Fantastic Four cartoon, Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends, 90s Hulk cartoon, 90s Iron Man cartoon, 90s X-Men cartoon, 90s Spider-Man cartoon, second string Avengers cartoon, Silver Surfer cartoon, Iron Man Armoured Adventures, MTV Spider-Man cartoon, Spider_Man Unlimited, Spectacular Spider-Man, Ultimate Spider-Man, Hulk and the Agents of SMASH, Avengers Assemble, Avengers: Earths Mightiest Heroes, Disc Wars, Super Hero Squad, Stan Lees 2 reality shows and other appearances (Mallrats comes to mind), Hulk Vs., Planet Hulk, Ultimate Avengers 1 - 2, New Avengers, Iron Man animated movie, Doctor Strange animated movie, Thor animated movie, their motion comics...
soon to add AKA Jessica Jones, Power Man, Iron Fist, The Defenders, a possible Agents of SHIELD spin-off, the FF reboot, Wolverine 3, Deadpool, X-Men AofA, Avengers 3 parts 1 and 2, Black Panther, Doctor Strange, Captain Marvel, Spider-Man, Ant Man, Captain America 3, Thor 3, The Inhumans...
Even before they make anything for the channel, they`re covered.
Star Wars...
Episodes 1 - 6, 2 live action Ewoks movies, Ewoks and Droids cartoons, the Holiday Special, Star Wars: Clone Wars (movie and 2 shows), Star Wars: Rebels...that episode of the Muppets?
They may have farther to go...
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Post by Deleted on May 18, 2015 23:32:03 GMT -5
hondobrode, This would be ground-breaking news for Disney's to start up a Marvel Channel and a Star Wars Channel and that could generate big bucks for Disney period. Thanks for posting this.
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Post by Deleted on May 19, 2015 0:04:24 GMT -5
Let's see... Agents of SHIELD, Agent Carter, Daredevil, 70s Hulk, 70s Spider-Man, 70s Captain America, 70s Doctor Strange, Blade 1 - 3, X-Men 1 - 3, X-Men First Class and Days of Future Past, Wolverine 1 - 2, Spider-Man 1 - 3, Amazing Spider-Man 1 and 2, Howard the Duck, Big Hero 6, Fantastic Four 1 - 2, Korman Fantastic Four, Hulk, Captain America '89, Captain America 1 - 2, Thor 1 - 2, Iron Man 1 - 3, Incredible Hulk, Guardians of the Galaxy, Avengers 1 - 2, Marvel movie shorts, 60s Spider-Man cartoon, 60s Fantastic Four cartoon, Merry Marvel Marching Society, 70s X-Men cartoon, 80s Hulk cartoon, 80s Fantastic Four cartoon, Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends, 90s Hulk cartoon, 90s Iron Man cartoon, 90s X-Men cartoon, 90s Spider-Man cartoon, second string Avengers cartoon, Silver Surfer cartoon, Iron Man Armoured Adventures, MTV Spider-Man cartoon, Spider_Man Unlimited, Spectacular Spider-Man, Ultimate Spider-Man, Hulk and the Agents of SMASH, Avengers Assemble, Avengers: Earths Mightiest Heroes, Disc Wars, Super Hero Squad, Stan Lees 2 reality shows and other appearances (Mallrats comes to mind), Hulk Vs., Planet Hulk, Ultimate Avengers 1 - 2, New Avengers, Iron Man animated movie, Doctor Strange animated movie, Thor animated movie, their motion comics... soon to add AKA Jessica Jones, Power Man, Iron Fist, The Defenders, a possible Agents of SHIELD spin-off, the FF reboot, Wolverine 3, Deadpool, X-Men AofA, Avengers 3 parts 1 and 2, Black Panther, Doctor Strange, Captain Marvel, Spider-Man, Ant Man, Captain America 3, Thor 3, The Inhumans... Even before they make anything for the channel, they`re covered. Star Wars... Episodes 1 - 6, 2 live action Ewoks movies, Ewoks and Droids cartoons, the Holiday Special, Star Wars: Clone Wars (movie and show), Star Wars: Rebels...that episode of the Muppets? They may have farther to go... You're assuming Disney has distribution rights to all of those and they aren't held by previous distributors and/or license holders. The Netflix shows for example are exclusive to Netflix, they can't be shown on other channels until that exclusive clause expires. Fox may have rights to the X-Men and FF stuff, Sony to Spider-Man, etc. The 70s stuff may belong to production companies, etc. F/X paid Marvel a lot of money for exclusive broadcast right sto a lot of the Marvel cinematic movies, which is why they are in heavy rotation on F/X, Spike had exclusive broadcast rights on the Star Wars movies for a while (not sure if that still stands) Yes, the material is there, but Disney may not have the rights to air it without reaching agreements of paying substantial sums to use it... -M |
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Post by wildfire2099 on May 19, 2015 6:41:16 GMT -5
I love the idea, but they'd need some serious content. You can't base a network on the existing Marvel stuff... they're run through it all in a month. Star Wars more like a week. I think it more likely they re-name Disney XD and pretty much leave it as is.
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Post by DE Sinclair on May 19, 2015 8:55:00 GMT -5
Let's see... Agents of SHIELD, Agent Carter, Daredevil, 70s Hulk, 70s Spider-Man, 70s Captain America, 70s Doctor Strange, Blade 1 - 3, X-Men 1 - 3, X-Men First Class and Days of Future Past, Wolverine 1 - 2, Spider-Man 1 - 3, Amazing Spider-Man 1 and 2, Howard the Duck, Big Hero 6, Fantastic Four 1 - 2, Korman Fantastic Four, Hulk, Captain America '89, Captain America 1 - 2, Thor 1 - 2, Iron Man 1 - 3, Incredible Hulk, Guardians of the Galaxy, Avengers 1 - 2, Marvel movie shorts, 60s Spider-Man cartoon, 60s Fantastic Four cartoon, Merry Marvel Marching Society, 70s X-Men cartoon, 80s Hulk cartoon, 80s Fantastic Four cartoon, Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends, 90s Hulk cartoon, 90s Iron Man cartoon, 90s X-Men cartoon, 90s Spider-Man cartoon, second string Avengers cartoon, Silver Surfer cartoon, Iron Man Armoured Adventures, MTV Spider-Man cartoon, Spider_Man Unlimited, Spectacular Spider-Man, Ultimate Spider-Man, Hulk and the Agents of SMASH, Avengers Assemble, Avengers: Earths Mightiest Heroes, Disc Wars, Super Hero Squad, Stan Lees 2 reality shows and other appearances (Mallrats comes to mind), Hulk Vs., Planet Hulk, Ultimate Avengers 1 - 2, New Avengers, Iron Man animated movie, Doctor Strange animated movie, Thor animated movie, their motion comics... soon to add AKA Jessica Jones, Power Man, Iron Fist, The Defenders, a possible Agents of SHIELD spin-off, the FF reboot, Wolverine 3, Deadpool, X-Men AofA, Avengers 3 parts 1 and 2, Black Panther, Doctor Strange, Captain Marvel, Spider-Man, Ant Man, Captain America 3, Thor 3, The Inhumans... Even before they make anything for the channel, they`re covered. Star Wars... Episodes 1 - 6, 2 live action Ewoks movies, Ewoks and Droids cartoons, the Holiday Special, Star Wars: Clone Wars (movie and show), Star Wars: Rebels...that episode of the Muppets? They may have farther to go... A week or two ago they announced that they had decided not to go ahead with the spinoff starring the Bobbie Chase & Hunter characters. No reason mentioned. Even without that, though, that's clearly a lot of material, if Marvel could get the rights to all of it. |
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Post by wildfire2099 on May 19, 2015 11:02:01 GMT -5
It's really not that much.. what is it... 300 hours? 500? 500 hours is just over 2 weeks worth... call it 4 if you don't care what's on late night/early morning. That's not really a network. That'd need at least a 1/2 dozen new shows to anchor it.
And that's assuming they could get it all... which they might not. The old cartoons are probably no probably, but I'm sure they have the movies licensed out for at least a little while. The Stan Lee shows probably belong to Sci-Fi (which I THINK is in the ABC/Disney family, but I'm not 100% sure how taht works).
The netflix stuff I'm sure has to be on netflix first... and probably at least for a while... if they were truly planning this, they would have held that stuff for the new network, I'd think.
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Post by hondobrode on May 19, 2015 12:45:59 GMT -5
hondobrode, This would be ground-breaking news for Disney's to start up a Marvel Channel and a Star Wars Channel and that could generate big bucks for Disney period. Thanks for posting this. Of course MG. Not fact, but speculation based on observation. You're welcome fellow Seven of Cups / Green Lantern  |
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Post by Deleted on May 19, 2015 13:39:16 GMT -5
It's really not that much.. what is it... 300 hours? 500? 500 hours is just over 2 weeks worth... call it 4 if you don't care what's on late night/early morning. That's not really a network. That'd need at least a 1/2 dozen new shows to anchor it. And that's assuming they could get it all... which they might not. The old cartoons are probably no probably, but I'm sure they have the movies licensed out for at least a little while. The Stan Lee shows probably belong to Sci-Fi (which I THINK is in the ABC/Disney family, but I'm not 100% sure how taht works). The netflix stuff I'm sure has to be on netflix first... and probably at least for a while... if they were truly planning this, they would have held that stuff for the new network, I'd think. SyFy is an NBC subsidiary, not ABC. -M |
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Post by wildfire2099 on May 19, 2015 14:11:42 GMT -5
Is it? I get the giant conglomerates mixed up at times  . Good to know. |
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Post by richardwrite on Jul 11, 2015 9:41:09 GMT -5
Maybe they can team with Hanna-Barbara and produce 1000 hours worth of FRED AND BARNEY MEET THE TH8ING. ("Thing Ring, Do Your Thing!"
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. Good to know.