The mother of all film studio acquisitions just went through with Walt Disney Studios now owning 20th Century Fox when. With it, Disney now owns a plethora of film franchises, such as X-Men, Fantastic Four, Deadpool, Avatar, Alien and Predator, Die Hard, Ice Age, Night at the Museum, The Chronicles of Narnia and Percy Jackson. We know there are more Avatar films coming out, and Disney would be foolish to not blend the MCU with Fox’s comic franchises at some point, but every other franchise is in question as to their future.
Disney also now owns every aspect of the Star Wars franchise, as Fox held on to the home-video rights to the original films when Disney purchased Lucasfilm. Newly formed Fox Corporation will retain the rights to entities such as Fox Sports, Fox News and the Fox Network, but Disney gets just about everything else. Here is the list of franchises Disney now owns:
Avatar
Star Wars
Indiana Jones
Die Hard
X-Men
Fantastic Four
Deadpool
Kingsman
Planet of the Apes
Alien
Predator
Independence Day
Fight Club
Home Alone
Night at the Museum
The Maze Runner
Ice Age
Red Sparrow
The Martian
Artemis
Alvin and the Chipmunks
Doctor Dolittle
Percy Jackson
The Chronicles of Narnia