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Originally Posted by FlaBat

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1 The Dark Knight WB $533,345,358 4,366 $158,411,483 4,366 7/18/08
2 Spider-Man Sony $403,706,375 3,876 $114,844,116 3,615 5/3/02
3 Spider-Man 2 Sony $373,585,825 4,166 $88,156,227 4,152 6/30/04
4 Spider-Man 3 Sony $336,530,303 4,324 $151,116,516 4,252 5/4/07
5 Iron Man Par. $318,412,101 4,154 $98,618,668 4,105 5/2/08
6 Batman WB $251,188,924 2,201 $40,489,746 2,194 6/23/89
7 Men in Black Sony $250,690,539 3,180 $51,068,455 3,020 7/2/97
8 X-Men: The Last Stand Fox $234,362,462 3,714 $102,750,665 3,690 5/26/06
9 X2: X-Men United Fox $214,949,694 3,749 $85,558,731 3,741 5/2/03
10 300 WB $210,614,939 3,280 $70,885,301 3,103 3/9/07

Of that top 10 of comic grosses. Marvel is slots 2,3,4,5,7,8,9.
Only 1 (heath ledgers death induced this, it won't be repeated), 6 and 10 are DC.

Marvel is a very lucrative property, and no, not even thor will be effected by this. The plan for avengers is already in the contracts as well since ironman and hulk were made. So the monetary issues behind that are already corrected too. Just any new cast would be the question if they would sign that contract too. Thor's actor has.

The only sad thing here honestly is instead of Marvel growing into becoming one of the new age media giants, they are now part of the big 6 who own 90% of hollywood as is. Probably more like 91% of hollywood now. Short of that though, nothing will change cept a few channels that shows are on. And potentially a wider array of media down the line as well.

This could potentially lead to more live action spin offs, like an academy X live show to go alongside wizards of waverly place or aaron stone. Among other things like that, but I don't see disney messing with the marvel juggernaut as is. The hype ball on avengers is already rolling. To interrupt that now would just be shooting themselves in the foot.

Now the problem with those grosses that they don't factor in. Is dvd sales. DVD sales make up a good chunk of disney's money too when you look at their vault and so forth. And the recent disney hulu deals could mean more marvel properties on there as well.

The other question to ask, what does this mean for Marvel Toys (formerly toy biz) who makes curious george merchandise. What's their future now since they are owned by disney? In one fell swoop, Disney has added themselves a toy company, film company, animation, and even comics and magazines. Besides the 5000+ characters marvel owns that have proven as iconic as mickey mouse. (And almost as old! they just did have their 70th anniversary.)

And what will this mean for the malibu comics properties marvel has? Now they have an even bigger spectrum to tap as well. This can open a lot of doors, the only thing it prevents is marvel being free to shop around networks for its shows, and Marvel itself growing into a larger entity. Now all marvel success instead of making marvel bigger, will make disney bigger. But in that same notion disney can in turn make marvel bigger just because they have the bank roll.

Now the only potential newage media giant is Hasbro. Mattel still hasn't changed their company type. Hasbro on the other hand has changed their image rights, and have a large library to tap from transformers to gi joe, and other 80s toons, to even the milton bradley game lineup. Disney has effectively negated hasbro from absorbing marvel into the fold to bolster that library too, but I fear that may not be the end the of their plans. I wouldn't put it past them to attempt to absorb hasbro at one point down the road as well. It's not like the extra channel would hurt them, most networks have 10 as is, disney only has 4 so far. What's a 5th one to them if it means an outlet for all their media that's not on air like ducktales, and darkwing and other classics? So that worries me a shade at the rate disney is going. They have so much media but not enough channels to air it all. So that actually sounds like a reasonably smart move, and helps cement some of they wayward marvel rights too. =/ They've already got several Mickey Formers to port over too.

This makes me wonder about the future of hasbro, if disney will play nice, or absorb them too. This could lead to a bright future for hasbro though if disney decides to play nice. Disney formers coming stateside, hasbro keeping the marvel toy license, and more.