At the beginning of this entire Marvel/Disney debacle Disney insisted that they would not be meddling around with the already existing details between Marvel and who distributes their films. All that has changed according to IESB:
"That began to change when Disney CEO Robert Iger, according to Fox Business News, said back in September that he would like to end those distribution deals once the Disney/Marvel deal was complete.
IMHO when Disney purchased Marvel for 5 billion dollars, they bought a well-dressed up pig. While Marvel does own a ton of characters (approx. over 5000), a few of the most well known and successful characters such as Spider-Man, The Fantastic Four and the X-Men have homes at other studios. Sony of course has Spidey and 20th Century Fox, besides having the entire X-Men Universe also controls for perpetuity Daredevil and the Fantastic Four (includes the Silver Surfer and Elektra)."
Yep! You guessed it, Fox owning all those A-List characters pisses the Marvel Mouse right off.
"Actually, if you take a look at what Fox controls it's pretty amazing. For example, the Deadpool character who is having his own feature film developed currently is part of the X-Men universe. Pretty much a freebie and a big middle finger to Marvel and Disney."
A big middle finger? That's for sure. If Fox is giving Marvel the big middle finger over distribution then they are sticking that said middle finger up the fans a^% with how they go about story rewrites and charecter development liberties that they have recently taken (Barakapool). Come On Man!!!
Paramount is set to distribute Iron Man 2 and 3, Thor, Captain America and The Avengers but according to IESB that all might change:
'So what's the big news? Apparently, there is nothing short of a tug of war going on between Disney and Paramount over the properties Par had already lined up and contractually committed to distribute with Marvel. Sadly, it appears that the Mouse may have found a loophole.
How certain are we of this? Certain Disney publicists have already been telling members of the press that Iron Man 3 will definitely be distributed and branded with the Walt Disney logo. Ask the lawyers for details."
It is also being reported that Marvel and Disney are letting the Paramount teams do their jobs in the marketing department. Man that's shiesty!
IESB did say that: 'One thing is for certain, Disney does not want any help from Paramount on Captain America and The Avengers. We are hearing Disney would consider allowing Paramount to distribute Iron Man 3 but that there is no way in hell a Paramount logo would be seen on either the Cap or Avenger films. Disney is spending 500 billion pretty pennies to own Marvel and they want to make sure the Walt Disney brand is all over those films.'
What does this mean to us? Other then Disney already going back on their word that they would not medal with the distribution deals that are already in place, and us catching the lie, not to much. The only negative factor here is, the possibility of the above mentioned films getting pushed back. How many times has that happened to a promising property only to be delayed or scrapped by political/business red tape, in other words, bullsh*t? Too many times.