With this deal, Disney will receive an impressive volume of properties from 21st Century Fox, including the X-Men, The Fantastic Four and Deadpool, each a popular facet of the Marvel comic book canon.
Today, 21st Century Fox announced that the $71.4 billion deal with Disney has reached completion and will become effective at 12:02 a.m. on Wednesday, March 20, 2019.
Of course, whether Disney will eventually phase out Fox properties that do not fit with their particularly family-friendly image remains to be seen.
Beginning in late 2017, it was reported that the Walt Disney Company was in talks to purchase parts of its competitor, 21st Century Fox.