A THR report is saying that Disney are cleaning house and have been axing Fox projects left and right ever since they acquired its assets back on March 20th (for a reported $71.3 billion).
The biggest victims seem to be adult dramas such as the Tom Hanks starrer “News of the World,” an adaptation of Angie Thomas' best-seller “On the Come Up,” and Ted Melfi's mental-hospital-set, Woody Harrelson-starring dramedy “Fruit Loops.”
Of course, this being Disney, they had absolutely no problem in keeping the Matthew Vaughn-directed Kingsman prequel “The Great Game.”
"We are now just only beginning to see how all this consolidation will change how movies get greenlit and made," says a producer involved with a Fox-developed movie. "They are looking at everything."