In the ever-changing media landscape, the Mouse House must fight to survive. We first saw this in November 2017 when they announced they made a bid to purchase the majority of 21st Century Fox's entertainment assets; this granted them access not only to the highly coveted X-Men and Fantastic 4 properties for Marvel, but also to a majority stake in Hulu, TV channels like FX and Fox News, and such profitable media franchises like The Simpsons, Alien, and the distribution rights to Star Wars: A New Hope. Likewise, the dominance of Netflix and other streaming services as a business model has motivated Disney to create their own streaming service, announced in September 2017. Known as Disney Plus and slated for a November launch, the service is expected to play host to a variety of original content based on Disney's franchises, as well as already released media. Recently, a meeting was held for investors detailing exactly how the service would work, as well as what would be released on launch and later on. Marvel-As Disney's major moneymaker, it stands to reason that the service would place most of its focus on the House of Ideas. And sure enough, executive producer of the MCU Kevin Fiege, announced a whole slew of shows based on Marvel Comics characters, as well as additional information on already known shows.
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