Board Thread:Movies/@comment-3048593-20170411234907/@comment-29908830-20171214182808

About the Infinity War thing: I'm okay with not showing them in marketing, but are we not going to announce who's playing them? Because at this point I fear it's just going to be Terry Notary running around in mo-cap with no lines whatsoever. Also, Spidey could very well die, but he obviously won't STAY dead. Given the Infinity Gauntlet's powers, that could be the way he and others are resurrected, even if they only die for shock value.

LoveWaffle wrote: KalKent wrote: Nurdboy42 wrote: Hello monopoly...

If one ignores there are now a total of 5 major movie studios in Hollywood right now, therefore not making Disney a monopoly (a specific person or enterprise who is the only supplier of a particular commodity). And who knows, maybe a new one will rise from Fox's ashes soon enough. But they do now have like a 30% market share, Paramount's shrunk to an almost irrelevant 5%, and Sony is also looking to be bought out. So it's technically more of an oligopoly, but an oligopoly isn't much better than a monopoly. And is also colloquially referred to as a monopoly.

It's actually even worse than that. Disney on its own has a 26.09% market share on the film industry, while Fox has a 12.92% market share. Simple math will show that the deal will give them a 39.01% share (given that Disney is buying the entire film catalogue), which makes them twice as big as their nearest competition, Time Warner's 16.86%. Also, was it really confirmed that it would be the Skrulls instead of the Shi'ar? That makes zero sense - especially since they don't even really have the rights to the Skrulls, minus Super-Skrull. Oh, and FYI - Paramount actually has 7.5%, which is still the lowest of the six major studios.