Ben Gilbert: evaluation

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…Interesting. All right, should we move on to what would have happened otherwise. What would have happened otherwise, yeah. So, I think Marvel was going to get acquired. We’re in an era of consolidation where distribution was buying content, and I don’t know who else it would have been– 20th Century Fox, Sony. It seems like actually there’s a lot of places they could have landed. It’s kind of shocking to me that with the Pixar pickup in 2006 that someone else didn’t see this coming and try to make a play for it sooner. Maybe other people, other studios or I guess other– Well, I wonder if the other studios maybe were a little bit lazy and they’re thinking because they were kind of having their cake and eating it too in that they were getting Marvel movies and Spider Man and X-Men, without having to actually buy the company and it was only when Marvel started making movies on their own that it became a really valuable company as itself.…

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