Bring Back 20th Century-Fox by getting Disney to sell it back to Fox Corp.

Bring Back 20th Century-Fox by getting Disney to sell it back to Fox Corp.

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March 20, 2022
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Started by McCrae Cook

My Name is McCrae Cook and Disney,I know you're one of the greatest entertainment companies in history and brought so much magic to everyone for 98 years, But one of the most infamous choices you have made under Bob Iger’s leadership is that you made a decision in 2017 to acquire the assets of 21st Century Fox,which assets include the huge entertainment/movie studio,20th Century-Fox(and it's parent company,21st Century-Fox and it's other assets such as FX,Blue Sky Studios,Fox Searchlight Pictures,and National Geographic,with Fox Broadcasting Company spinning off into Fox Corporation by Rupert Murdoch),which you have made the acquisition from December 14th,2017 to March 20th,2019 3 years ago.

Not only Fox was a big movie empire and had been an iconic name for 83 years(thanks to it's art deco logo and fanfare),it ended up shortening the number of big movie studios from six to five and brought an end to Fox as a major movie/television studio for 83 years,which had devasted most of everyone,including Fox's employees which you had laid off 200 of them(along with shutting down Fox's 200 films in production and closing down it's VFX/Research Library).

After the buyout,you even renamed Fox to 20th Century Studios and Fox Searchlight Pictures to Searchlight Pictures to avoid confusion with Rupert Murdoch's Fox Corporation. Because of your buyout of the studio and it’s assets in 2019,everyone is heartbroken because people have known the iconic name and logo for 83 years and Fox is a movie studio that been a huge Hollywood business on it's own and doesn’t deserve to acquired just because to gain access to it’s film library for your streaming service, Disney+. I know you bought Fox just to gain access to it's library for Disney+ and Hulu,but you could've just negotiated and made a deal with them to use it's library for Disney+ and had them made original films and stuff for the service instead of buying the whole studio and it's parent company,which is just not out of greed and power,but for a stupid choice. Also,you could've just convinced Fox to give up the rights for Marvel’s X-Men,Deadpool, and Fantastic Four movies if you didn't buy the studio to bring them into the MCU and Blue Sky Studios should've been alive if you didn't buy Fox and shut the whole studio down because of the pandemic last year,which the animation studio was my childhood,we could've gotten Nimona and a sixth Ice Age.

While 20th Century Studios did produce a few recent good films such as Call of The Wild,Ron's Gone Wrong,Free Guy,West Side Story,and Death on The Nile,I still miss 20th Century-Fox as a iconic movie/television studio since it gave us some of the best franchises such as M*A*S*H,Home Alone,The Simpsons,Buffy The Vampire Slayer,Alien,Predator,X-Men,Fantastic Four,Ice Age,Rio,and Deadpool,iconic movie stars such as Shirley Temple,Gregory Peck,and Marylin Monroe and some of the greatest movies such as The Sound of Music,The King and I,Speed,Titanic,Star Wars,Cast Away,Moulin Rouge,Miracle on 34th Street,The Grapes of Wrath,The Robe,Fantastic Voyage,The French Connection,The Rocky Horror Picture Show,Independence Day,and The Robe,and many more. I also wish we could've gotten Fox movie franchises in the future like Flash Gordon and The League of Ordinary Gentlemen when you cancelled Fox's films in production upon your acquisiton of the studio 3 years ago. 

While I do think Fox should've made more money and continued as a studio if you didn't acquired it for your streaming service and made negotiations with them to use it's film library and joint ventures with them by having Marvel and Lucasfilm collaborate with them on future films,also,I miss how you made your own older Disney films under the Touchstone Pictures banner,since you disbanded the label in 2016 because of the failure of Strange Magic in 2015,but you should've just brought the label back and continued to make Touchstone films,mostly horror and adult-oriented films and keep moving on.

After 3 years,I think it's time you should just sell 20th Century Studios(along with it's assets you acquired such as 20th Television,Searchlight Pictures,FX,)back to Rupert Murdoch's Fox Corporation,so Fox can rise up and rebuild itself again as a major independent movie and entertainment company with it's former iconic name and glory,20th Century-Fox restored(and most of the 20thCF/20th Century Studios films from 2019-2022 would revert back to Fox Corporation,now branded as 20th Century-Fox films),then they would make negiotations with them to still use their library for Disney+ and Hulu since it's back as 20th Century-Fox and as a huge entertainment studio once again,still headquartered at Fox Studios. I don't care Rupert Murdoch sold off most of 21st Century-Fox's assets to Disney to focus more on sports and news,we need to convince Fox Corporation and Disney(and get them to change their minds) that we need 20th Century-Fox back as a major movie studio and iconic name and brand and told them Disney should've negotiated with them to use it's library for Disney+ and Fox Studios should make more money on it's own if Disney didn't buy Fox,along with 20th Century-Fox apologizing to Marvel for screwing over and messing up their movies at the studio due to executive meddling and interfering(X3, Daredevil, Electra, the 2nd Fantastic Four film, X-Men Legends: Wolverine, The Fantastic Four reboot, X-Men Apocalypse, and Dark Phoenix)and collaborating with Disney,Marvel, and Lucasfilm on future films(but sell the Electra,Daredevil,Fantastic Four,X-Men,and Deadpool back to Disney and have them welcome into the MCU),reopen Blue Sky Studios in Greenwich,Connecticut and reunite the animation team back,have the studio not be a money pit and not only bring back the studio to make money,but show them they care about making movies to earn money,give people creative control,not mess and interfere with the movies,and learn to make great movies,so they can be successful and become box-office hits to earn the studio money and keep it alive,and still make a deal with Disney to still include it’s library on Disney+ and Hulu and have it make original films and series for it’s service,as well as Apple TV,Netflix,Tubi TV,and HBO Max.

So I think it's time we should convince Disney to sell 20th Century Studios back to Fox Corporation and Murdoch and Fox Corp. that we need Fox back as a major movie studio since it already has a huge library of stuff(movies,tv shows) on it's own and have Disney give it up and bring back and start making new films under the Touchstone Pictures label(with a new logo and theme)since Disney has already has it's own huge library of films(along with Touchstone,Marvel,ABC,The Muppets,and Lucasfilm/Star Wars).

So let’s get together and stand up to Disney by showing them they are not the one who can own everything in the world and learn what the company is named for(since Walt Disney and Michael Eisner never cared about buying content,and relied more on creating it and what Walt Disney wanted for the company:entertaining people,cared more about movies,television,theme parks,and cartoons more than money,and not bigger it.) and save 20th Century-Fox and have it sold back to it’s former owners and revert to it’s former name,so it would be revived and rebuilt as a major entertainment company again. After 4 years, It's time for Disney's ownership of 20th Century Studios to end and sell them back to Fox Corp. so It can revert to it's former name and glory by showing your help to making this happen and report this to both The Walt Disney Company and Fox Corporation by not letting 20th Century-Fox be a part of Disney forever by proving them they are already a major corporation and big movie studio and can make movies and entertainment on it’s own to earn money and keep it’s studio alive and have it sold back to Fox Corporation.

 

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Decision Makers

  • The Walt Disney Company
  • Rebecca CampbellThe Walt Disney Company
  • Bob IgerThe Walt Disney Company
  • Lachlan MurdochFox Corporation