Who Owns You?
Let’s talk about everyone’s favorite thing, PARENT CORPORATIONS!!!!!!!!!
DC Comics was a subsidiary of Warner Communications, and is now owned by the corporate monolith Time-Warner. Fun fact: For those who don’t know, a shockingly small number of companies own huge numbers of our entertainment corporations. Like, my chosen field of study is Film and Television, and the number of Disney-owned entertainment corporations alone is terrifying.
Speaking of great segues, Marvel Comics is one of those Disney-owned subsidiaries. The difference here is in the way both companies treat their comic book companies. Disney bought Marvel after the Marvel Cinematic Universe experiment was already a success. So their approach to the movies specifically was incredibly hands-off.
They pretty much hit on a keep doing what you’re doing, it’s working well, it’ll be cool vein, and just rode it to success. However, DC has been owned by Warner since before the beginning of the huge superhero movie boom. So their film properties have always been funnelled through a huge studio system, which hurts the results. Marvel Studios was founded to avoid that whole thing.
DC steered into the curve.
