Back on the subject of the movies, Variety add some detail in an article about rebooting the Fantastic Four movies this morning:
"Though Marvel Entertainment owns and finances properties like “Iron Man” and “Thor,” Fox controls “Fantastic Four” in perpetuity — as long as it continues making the films. Fox has the same arrangement on Marvel Comics properties “X-Men,” “Daredevil” and “Silver Surfer.”"
That doesn't shed much light on the Runaways situation, but it does mean that Disney won't be able to directly control movies of those franchises, unless they buy the rights back. I don't know whether the Fox deal extends to X-men movies only or whether it extends to the cartoons as well, but I suspect the former since Marvel produced the Wolverine Vs. direct-to-DVD cartoon movies, Wolverine and the X-men's probably a stand alone deal.
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"Though Marvel Entertainment owns and finances properties like “Iron Man” and “Thor,” Fox controls “Fantastic Four” in perpetuity — as long as it continues making the films. Fox has the same arrangement on Marvel Comics properties “X-Men,” “Daredevil” and “Silver Surfer.”"
That doesn't shed much light on the Runaways situation, but it does mean that Disney won't be able to directly control movies of those franchises, unless they buy the rights back. I don't know whether the Fox deal extends to X-men movies only or whether it extends to the cartoons as well, but I suspect the former since Marvel produced the Wolverine Vs. direct-to-DVD cartoon movies, Wolverine and the X-men's probably a stand alone deal.