Dirhams & Dollars

What’s your favourite mashup? Homer and Mickey? Or Deadpool and Wolverine? Because after last week’s announcement that Disney has acquired 21st Century Fox, both are now a possibility. (By the way, if you’re confused, Disney actually bought 21st Century Fox, which also owned the Fox Television Network, who in turn owns 20th Century Fox, who make all the movies. For $51.4 billion, of course you’d get the whole package. And, no, Fox News was not part of the deal.) Disney was already the world largest entertainment company with a wealth of franchises in its stables, including Disney theme parks, Marvel Comics – with and its extremely lucrative MCU film series -- and that little space opera no one seems to have heard of, called Star Wars. THAT series by itself is why Scrooge McDuck can go swimming in a pool of gold coins. Now, it will add the Simpsons, X-Men and Avatar. Can a media company be too big? The Disney of today is not the Disney that Uncle Walt knew. Granted, it’s no longer destroying classic litera