Board Thread:Movies/@comment-3048593-20171206004220/@comment-29908830-20180207002630

Comcast bought NBCUniversal in 2012, making them the biggest media conglomerate in the entire world. In numbers, they make over $80 billion a year, while Disney makes about $55 billion, and Fox makes around $27 billion. So by simple math, Comcast buying Fox would make them almost twice as big as Disney, while Disney buying Fox will make them slightly smaller than Comcast (the number won't be the simple addition of $84 billion, as TV is often the most lucrative business and Fox is retaining a good portion of it). There may be a dominance in the film market, but people have to realize there's a lot more at stake here than just movies.

As for Black Panther, hot damn those reviews are good (though they'll probably go down). Given that it's supposed to be the most Ryan Coogler film yet, I wouldn't be surprised (though a tad saddened) if it ends up being the year's best reviewed superhero movie instead of Infinity War. One thing I hope doesn't happen, though, is a Wonder Woman situation, where people judge a movie more by what it does for cast and crew members that aren't white males rather than judging the movie - as a movie. Like, as a minority myself I fully support more representation, but don't use a good movie as some kind of statement, because then it's put on a pedestal it might not necessarily deserve. That ultimately led Wonder Woman - a pretty good movie, mind you - to be incredibly overpraised in my honest opinion (THE highest-rated superhero movie of all of Rotten Tomatoes? Come on!), and I've been fearful of similar movies such as Black Panther and Captain Marvel falling victim to this.