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'Multiple Fox Films Getting Axed at Disney'
Since Disney's $71.3 billion acquisition of Fox assets closed March 20, film studio chief Alan Horn has jettisoned a number of Fox projects from his development and preproduction slate, including the $170 million tentpole Mouse Guard, the Tom Hanks starrer News of the World (to Universal) and an adaptation of Angie Thomas' best-seller On the Come Up (to Paramount).Also poised for curbside pickup, The Hollywood Reporter has learned, is Ted Melfi’s mental-hospital-set dramedy Fruit Loops, which has Woody Harrelson starring (that project is still officially in the Disney fold but likely will be put in turnaround).
This is just an absolute bummer.
Like I said before, there’s another edge to that sword which brought the MCU back together, and it’s going to harm the Hollywood landscape for a bit. Hopefully, another studio can find a way to flourish in the aftermath.
Wednesday April 24, 2019