10 Reasons Why Disney's Fox Takeover Is Terrifying

Even if the Fox deal gets stopped at the eleventh hour, in 2019 Disney will launch a Thanos-style assault on the box office, with Frozen 2, The Lion King, Avengers 4, Dumbo, Captain Marvel, a Spider-Man sequel and Star Wars Episode XI all teaming up to vacuum the spare cash out of our wallets.

There are estimates that Disney and Fox currently represent around 40% of total box office revenue, all of which will now be going to one parent company

In a nutshell, this means squeezing out other companies by minimising their market share since there are only so many people with so many hours and so much money to go the cinema. There is too much product for too small an audience, which means something’s got to give, resulting in smaller distributors like StudioCanal and production companies like Aardman not having a chance of competing, because cinemas will need these massive Disney blockbusters to stay afloat.

With seven major films already planned out for 2019, this could go one of two ways: The first is that Disney releases a new big franchise movie every seven-and-a-half weeks, pulling in a steady stream of revenue all year.

The second is an even more worrying prospect, and that is Disney releasing some of these movies simultaneously to absolutely annihilate any box office competition at peak times like during the summer. Now that imagine that kind of film slate with an X-Men or Simpsons movie added on to it.