MGM looks like it might be the virtual garage sale as the future of each franchise it holds the rights to are all being called into question. Seems it is business as usual for The Hobbit, however this is the first news we have heard about Bond, the “other big name” that MGM owns.
“A source close to the dealings has let We Are Movie Geeks know that Bond is alive and well, and will be settling into his new domicile for marketing and distribution at 20th Century Fox.”
I am waiting for the fanboy rage to kick in and comments drooling how “Fox will ruin the franchise” start spewwing, but this is just distribution and marketing rights. It isn’t like the franchise will no longer be produced by MGM, just that the financial burden of advertising and distribution will be left to someone else.
Should MGM fold, I would think this puts Fox in a solid position to make a bid on the franchise, but I still don’t think that would ruin it.
Of course this is just a “source” and no official announcement has been made.
Funnily enough i got around to watching daredevil the directors cut last night and honestly with the whole extra sub plot of coolio’s trial it added something extra that was missing the first time i say all in all its not that bad at all… Any who.. the reason i dont like fox is simply Mr Murdoch and the Fox News Channel out foxed being a good example why, however in terms of movies though they are the same as most studios, hits and misses. I just hope the lions roars for another 50 years somehow
Didn’t Sony/Columbia have a finger in the distribution of one or both of the Daniel Craig movies? I would have thought they were the natural choice to be doing something like this.
That’s what I was thinking. Hell, they pushed for it long enough, and even currently share production/distribution costs. If anything, it would go to them. It would make them happy.
My thoughts exactly. Sony fought so hard to get Bond, first by trying to make their own series based on the character (actualy based on the single movie Thunderball, but that’s another story) and then winning the bid to distribute the franchise when MGM started collapsing. They recently repackaged the whole series on DVD and are knee deep into relasing it on Bluray. The last 2 Bond films under Sony have made more money than it’s previous outings. Though to that point, Bond has never really been a box-office giant. The first couple did well when they were released but over time it has not grown exponentialy. It was not until Pierce came into the roll that it started to make the top 10 $$ list each year and with Daniel it has continued that trend. One would think that Sony would fight pretty hard to retain the franchise at this point.
They can still fuck up the marketing as they have for plenty of films and that’s a huge aspect if a film gets a huge opening week-end or a lousy one.
Well, I’m one of the only people who actually liked Daredevil,like John, and remember, Fox distributed the first two X-men movies, and those were pretty damn good. So, if Bond goes to Fox, I think of this as in the same boat as the Marvel being bought by Disney event. Has Fox ruined Bond yet? No. Has Fox saved Bond yet? No. Can you see into the future? No. Can I see into the future? No. Has anything good or bad happened with this deal yet? No. So, as far as I’m concerned, this is not something worth worrying about. The most involvement they’d do is if Daniel Craig leaves is that they will cast the star of Lie to Me in his place, and I don’t think that he would be a bad candidate for the role if Craig were to step down.
I hate Fox’s TV station, but I have no problem with their Movie branch. I’ve enjoyed many of their movies and have loved almost as many. As Rodney said, they don’t make any more bad movies then any other company does, its just popular to hate on them so people focus on their bad movies more then any other company’s.
Because most of their comic book adaptations and sci-fi flicks in general have sucked. They don’t hire top talent for comic book flicks and rush them out with 90 minute run time.
Hell X3, F4 & F42, Daredevil, AVP, AVPR, Eragon, Dragonball, wolverine.
Bottom line is that they don’t handle fanboy driven franchises properly.
Also, Chud, AICN and several movie websites absolutely hate Tom Rothman who is responsible for churning out shitty flicks.
Personally I think they are okay studio. Yes they have fucked up comic book flicks but hopefully in the future they won’t repeat the same mistakes. The chances of that happening are low.
That’s just it… people focus on the negative. Fox does nothing different than any other studio, its just fashionable to hate on them for it.
Every studio “gets in the way” of properties. Some for their own benefit and some not.
Fox has more hits than misses.
Yeah, but Fox do like to bugger stuff up and they are run by a complete and utter mentalist. This would not be good for Bond in any way, shape or form.
The Broccoli-family have complete creative control over the franchise, much like Lucas and Star Wars
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I really don’t get the big deal is. Fox isn’t going to change the Bond movies. However, I have a question I’ve wanted to ask for a long time. Why is there so much hate towards FOX. Can anyone tell me?
Good point. Also, it wasn’t my argument. I was just supplying information towards his question of why people hate FOX. Although, not the film division.