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FOX/Disney deal

https://variety.com/2019/tv/news/gi...ury-fox-tv-distribution-president-1203325177/

Disney has removed Gina Brogi from 20th Century Fox.


Twentieth Century Fox Television Distribution president Gina Brogi is leaving the company, Variety has learned.

The exit marks another departure in the wake of Walt Disney’s acquisition of 21st Century Fox’s entertainment assets, and follows last week’s news that Disney had laid off nearly 60 employees in its Media Distribution division. That move had impacted staff at both Disney and Fox, including 20th Century Fox TV Distribution’s worldwide marketing executive vice president Greg Drebin and 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment’s worldwide marketing and strategy senior vice president Jennifer Chai.

An initial wave of layoffs occurred earlier in the year, not long after Disney’s $71.3 billion deal with Fox closed in March. At 20th Century Fox TV Distribution, president Mark Kaner was along those let go. Early estimates from March put the total number of possible layoffs around the 4,000 mark.
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https://deadline.com/2019/09/rupert...-fiscal-2019-fox-corp-disney-deal-1202742858/

In fiscal 2019, a period when the shape of the Murdoch media empire was transformed due to the sale to Disney of most of 21st Century Fox, Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch saw their total compensation decline.

According to a proxy statement filed by Fox Corp. with the SEC, chairman Rupert Murdoch collected $42.2 million in salary and bonuses in the fiscal year ending June 30, down nearly 17% from $49.2 million in 2018. CEO Lachlan Murdoch, meanwhile, took in $42.1 million, a 17% falloff from $50.7 million in the prior year.

The $71.3 billion Disney-Fox deal closed in March, and made Fox Corp. a much smaller and more focused media entity centered on the Fox broadcast network, Fox News, Fox Sports and a local TV station portfolio. After 21st Century Fox faded from the scene, a new publicly held entity, Fox Corp., took its place.
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RadioPatrol said:
https://variety.com/2020/film/news/disney-dropping-fox-20th-century-studios-1203470349/

Disney has renamed 20th Century Fox to 20th Century Pictures as a result of the Disney/Fox Deal.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/disney-drops-fox-20th-century-searchlight-logos-1270685

Also mentioned that Disney has renamed Fox Searchlight Pictures to Searchlight pictures.
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sounds like "new Fox" wanted all Fox branded divisions now owned by Disney to rename to avoid confusion to them.
 
Will_H_69_9 said:
sounds like "new Fox" wanted all Fox branded divisions now owned by Disney to rename to avoid confusion to them.
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So far the Fox Brands change is only affecting 20th Century division of Disney. However outside the USA Disney still holds the the rights to Fox Broadcasting Company and Fox Sports brands. My Guess here is that these areas that Disney is using the Fox Name are not competing against the Murdoch owned outlets like in the United States though.



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_Networks_Group

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_Music


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_Sports_International


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_(international)
 
https://venturebeat.com/2020/01/22/...s-foxnext-games-maker-of-marvel-strike-force/

Here is a New one Scopely gets another Disney divested brand called "FoxNext" games the group behind Marvel


This acquisition comes on the heels of Scopely’s recent $200 million round of funding it is the first example of how the company is using its strategic financing for acquisitions with the focus on expanding its already diverse portfolio of games across new genres and intellectual properties.

As part of the deal, Scopely has agreed to buy the Los Angeles studio of FoxNext Games, which made Marvel Strike Force, and Cold Iron Studios in San Jose, California. In an interview, Scopely’s chief revenue officer, Tim O’Brien, said that Cold Iron Studios will be put up for sale as the company finds a more appropriate home for its upcoming Alien first-person shooter game for consoles and the PC.

“When we first sat down with them last summer, it was pretty clear there were a lot of synergies and over time it became undeniable this was the perfect asset for us to acquire,” O’Brien said.

FoxNext Games Los Angeles has 200 employees, while Cold Iron Studios has 50. Scopely itself has 800 employees. Scopely did not purchase FoxNext’s Fogbank Entertainment studio in San Francisco, which Disney did not include in the sale. Fogbank made the StoryScapes mobile game.

FoxNext Games Los Angeles released its debut title, Marvel Strike Force, in March 2018, and it has become a strong performer on iOS and Android, bringing in more than $150 million in its first year. The studio is also developing Avatar: Pandora Rising, a massively multiplayer strategy game based on James Cameron’s Avatar film. O’Brien also said that Marvel Strike Force generated $180 million in 2019, and it had grown for seven quarters in a row since it launched
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https://deadline.com/2020/02/disney-channels-worldwide-head-of-marketing-john-rood-exit-1202859225/

Now John Rood Leaves Disney.

EXCLUSIVE: John Rood will be leaving his post as SVP Marketing for Disney Channels Worldwide after three and a half years — and a 14-year combined tenure at the Walt Disney company — to pursue new ventures. Gary Marsh, President and Chief Creative Officer of Disney Channels Worldwide, announced Rood’s departure this morning in a company memo. (you can read it in full at the bottom of the story.) Marsh is expected to start a search for Rood’s replacement, looking at internal and external candidates.

Initially, Rood’s attention will be focused on supporting Formidable Joy, the non-profit organization founded by his wife Cindee, which has provided clean water to over 100,000 people across Malawi in schools, villages, hospitals and refugee camps.
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