Fox's film business was a weight on Disney this quarter, thanks largely to the box-office failure of the big-budget 'X-Men' movie, 'Dark Phoenix.'
of its theatrically released movies and straight-to-Disney-Plus TV shows, which it called"Phase 4." Characters previously owned by Fox — like the X-Men, Deadpool, and Fantastic Four — weren't part of the presentation, but they still loomed over it.Marvel's big movie and TV reveal this weekend was only a taste of its plan to dominate for years to come
There's clearly something for fans to look forward to, we just don't know what it will look like or when it will arrive. But the Marvel Cinematic Universe's track record so far is encouraging. Perhaps the best testament to what Marvel could do with the X-Men lies in its take on Spider-Man, whose big-screen ambitions went through similar headaches as the X-Men before making his MCU debut.
The good news is that Disney CEO Bob Iger has expressed an openness to R-rated movies after the Fox merger as long as they are branded accordingly. But that could mean we won't see Deadpool as a major player in the MCU.
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