This is just another in a long line of Misney punching themselves and fans in the balls to hurt Fox.
What does cancelling these, changing t-shirts, altering the comics and blocking cartoons realisticly do to hurt Fox?
X-Men Days of Future Past became a hit without the aid of toys on shelves, so that has proved that Misney screwing over their own comic franchises and declining themselves money in cancelling things won't affect the box office of X-Men movies.
Marvel owns everything except the movie rights to the X-MEN.
And Marvel solely owns and controls merchandise on everything except movies, including this. So this does not profit Fox, only marvel.
That is the issue... The rights are split.
No only the Movie Merch rights are split
This is crazy stuff getting canceled left and right all because of movies marvel ****ed up from selling the movie rights let's face they will never get them back.
It's Marvel destroying their own franchise to (not) spite Fox.
Yes, but if Marvel doesn't allow XMen Marketing they pressure Fox to sell back or at least split the merchandising rights.
There is no pressure. Fox gets nothing from these or from any other comic-based merchandise that marvel makes. As long as Fox continues to make profitable X-Men movies they have the rights, that's the deal Marvel agreed to.
Never say never. Spider-Man's movie rights belonged to Sony. Misney was able to negotiate a portion of the pie with Sony over Spidey's movie rights. They are looking to do the same with Fox for the X-MEN and FF. Until they do, fans of those characters will have to play the waiting game.
Spider-Man was in decline with each movie. X-Men isn't.
Obviously there is bad blood between Marvel and Fox...
More accurately it's bad blood from Marvel to Fox. Fox haven't done anything to hurt Marvel, whereas Marvel have, repeatedly.
IMHO the center of the dispute between Marvel and Fox stems from an old Marvel TV show called Mutant X. Fox wound up suing Marvel because the Mutant X concept was "too similar" to X-men and infringed on Fox's Live TV license . The two sides wound up settling, but the damage was done. Marvel produced Mutant X in a joint venture with a company named Tribune Entertainment. So while Marvel did settle with Fox, Fox continued their litigation against Tribune. Tribune wound up suing Marvel for fraud and breech of contract. If anyone ever watched Mutant X you know it was a straight up X-men rip off.
So basically Marvel sold the TV rights to X-Men then breached contract by trying to make a show and just change the names. They rightfully were surged and are pissed because of their own fraudulent behaviour.
Secondly the success that Marvel Studios has enjoyed since 2005 is not based on those old licensing agreements..
Indirectly they did, without Fox, Sony, New Line and Universal starting the marvel movies trend and reviving the superhero genre after Batman & Robins it's unlikely there'd be a market for Marvel to join so easily.
