Disney wraps up US$71.3B Fox deal

BURBANK, CA and NEW YORK – The Walt Disney Company officially closed its $71.3 billion acquisition of 21st Century Fox (21CF) on Wednesday.The deal will see Disney gobble up film production businesses including Twentieth Century Fox, Fox Searchlight Pictures, Fox 2000 Pictures, Fox Family and Fox Animation; Fox’s television creative units, Twentieth Century Fox Television, FX Productions and Fox21; FX Networks; National Geographic Partners; Fox Networks Group International; Star India; and Fox’s interests in Hulu, Tata Sky and Endemol Shine Group.It excludes 21CF’s news, sports and broadcast businesses, including the FOX News Channel, FOX Business Network, FOX Broadcasting Company, FOX...