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Marvel Shareholders Approve Disney Merger

So Mickey and Spidey are going to be friends after all! Marvel just reported this is a fact!
Here's what Marvel.com has to say:

Marvel Entertainment, Inc. (NYSE: MVL), a global character-based entertainment and licensing company founded in 1939, announced that at a special meeting held this morning, Marvel stockholders approved the adoption of the Agreement and Plan of Merger entered into by Marvel and The Walt Disney Company ("Disney"), which provides for a merger in which Marvel will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Disney. Marvel anticipates that the merger, which, based on the closing price of Disney's common stock on December 30, 2009, has an estimated value of approximately $4.3 billion, will be completed today after the close of the market.

The completion of the merger is subject to satisfaction of remaining conditions disclosed in the definitive proxy statement/prospectus filed by Disney with the Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to Rule 424 on December 2, 2009.

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25 Comments

Cool, since Disney is probably the most powerful corperation in the world they might be able tyo buy back the rights of all characters from Sony, Fox and allow characters like Spidey and X-Men to join the Marvel Movie Universe, obviously keeping the universe we've got now...RDJ as Iron Man etc but re-casting those other franchises non-Avanger related and brining them into Marvel. That'd be great.
Ryden - 12/31/2009, 11:09 AM
yeah ryden and you know the animated marvel movies are goin to be alot better and appear more frequent.....Im wanting a CIVIL WAR MOVIE!!
cbsmitty2 - 12/31/2009, 11:12 AM
Look at Pixar when Disney acquired them!
Bigger and better yet still the same
personification they had as a solo company!

Yeehaaaawww! Iron-man ride that Mousey!!!! lol
DDD - 12/31/2009, 11:23 AM
MARVEL HAS CLOUT...BECAUSE BIG BROTHER DISNEY WILL BACK THEIR EVERY ENDEVOUR. NYAH NYAH NYAH NYAAAH NYAAAAH DC...
GUNSMITH - 12/31/2009, 11:43 AM
Can Marvel use the animated versions at their whim or is Spidey locked up with Sony on that too? Same for FF & X-Men
DogsOfWar - 12/31/2009, 11:52 AM
DOGS- YOU KNOW WITH THE MONEY MARVEL HAS NOW WITH DISNEY, ITS ONLY A MATTER OF TIME BEFORE THOSE FRANCHISES GET BOUGHT BACK, THEN WE'LL GET THE CHARACTERS THE WAY THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO BE PORTRAYED.
GUNSMITH - 12/31/2009, 11:56 AM
@ gunsmith UM WB OWNS DC AN NOW THEYRE THEYRE FINALLY ACTING LIKE IT WB/DCE INC!!!
SuperkaL27 - 12/31/2009, 12:10 PM
I'm excited to see if there will be a lot of Marvel TV shows. An Ant-Man movie done by Pixar would be interesting as well.
batcavepwnsphonebooth - 12/31/2009, 12:22 PM
Shouldn't it be the other way around. I think WB should own Marvel and Disney should have owned DC, since DC heroes are more kid friendly minus The Dark Knight. Stupid Disney should have bought DC, then we would have gotten our movies, like the Flash, Wonder Woman and more Superman movies. WB is so tight with their money. You know they have more money than the damn government.
Timerider84 - 12/31/2009, 12:27 PM
Well, at least people here are looking at this intelligently and aren't acting like the sky is falling. Marvel will continue to operate as status quo, only they now have more money and clout to back them up.
Ranger14 - 12/31/2009, 12:27 PM
Well here we go
Nightwing09 - 12/31/2009, 12:35 PM
This merger is going to take Marvel to new heights on all levels.

Macksimus - 12/31/2009, 12:53 PM
What is up with this Spider-Mouse logo thing everywhere. I know it's disney merger-but has everybody already forgot about the Spectacular Spider-Ham! And Captain Ameri-cat? And Hulk-Bunny! And what about Goose Rider?!
ScionStorm - 12/31/2009, 1:35 PM
I really dont think that this will turn out to be a bad thing - Disney havent gotten this far and this successful by by screwing up and they sure as hell wont be so dumb as to mess around with Marvel chararacters by "Disney-fying" them after the success the characters currently constantly achieve in the comic books and movies like Iron Man!!

In fact, I think we should all be glad that Marvel will now have the financial backing of a huge company like Disney - that fact alone will almost guarantee things will get better! :)
joshw24 - 12/31/2009, 1:57 PM
Josh24@ I agree 100%. Disney is a power house of mouse and will do marvel nothing but good. I just hope they keep the movies going the same. That is the only thing that worries me. I don't know what they got planned after the paramount deal is over.
TheRealEnrico - 12/31/2009, 2:10 PM
THEN WHY ISNT DC PUMPING THEM OUT LIKE MARVEL SUPER?
GUNSMITH - 12/31/2009, 2:32 PM
I like that this time nobody is freaking out and going "WTF!"...

This is good!
SoratheKey - 12/31/2009, 3:25 PM
KEY@ I THINK EVERYONE'S FIGURING OUT WHY MARVEL AGREED IN THE FIRST PLACE...
GUNSMITH - 12/31/2009, 4:35 PM
a civil war film will be awesome but it will be awhile before that happens they are focusing on the avengers right now.i cant wait for them to get the right back on their other properties,and a namor film,inhumans,silversurfer,x-first class1,2,and 3,x-4x-5,spiderman 4 if lizard is in it,ironman 2,and 3,captain america,avengers,and a hulk sequel.
1chris2 - 12/31/2009, 4:50 PM
@gunsmith unfortunatel Dc learned by a swift kick in the ass with the exception of dark knight which did great(but i thought was crap!) Wb has own DC for decades they could have made a justice leauge movie YEARS ago! now that disney owns marvel they wanna step up? sheesh!!
SuperkaL27 - 12/31/2009, 6:03 PM
The freaking out over the merger was growing pains!

Now comes the real GROWTH!!!
I truly and humbly love it!!!
DDD - 12/31/2009, 7:21 PM
Fu&king; disney needs to Fu^king die

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luffycapri - 12/31/2009, 7:30 PM
You should read another board in which I am going to less and less. Half the people posting are freaking out and crying about it. Were going to see Mickey Mouse and Wolverine together in movies. The sky is falling....

I am glad I joined up here. More knowledgeable people and more mature...well...for the most part ;-) A little immaturity and banter is fun!
Ranger14 - 12/31/2009, 8:22 PM
shit, people now will think marvel movies are for kids
brazilianbatman - 1/2/2010, 11:52 AM
DDD@ i knew it wouldn't be long before i found something we agree on!! haha. you hit the nail on the head with both your comments.
on IGN.com people were having a cow over this so i wanted to come and see what you guys were saying and im gald everyone is of sound mind on here and realizes this will be great for biz!
SuperAlex - 1/4/2010, 10:52 AM

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