Disney does a dubious deal with OpenAI
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This week The Walt Disney Company announced it’s making a roughly $1 billion investment in OpenAI and signing a three-year character licensing deal that lets OpenAI’s Sora video generation tool use more than 200 beloved characters from Disney, Pixar, Marvel and Star Wars.
Over the summer, we learned that Disney had pulled the plug on popular documentary series Marvel Studios: Assembled on Disney+. Now, a new report takes a deep dive into why exactly the show was cancelled.
Marvel’s lone new release to come close, The Fantastic Four: First Steps, has earned a respectable $521.8 million globally — $274.3 million domestic, $247.6 million foreign. Those numbers would’ve been top-ten locks through most of the MCU’s peak years. Now they barely clear the top twelve.