All the major franchises that Disney now owns after buying Fox – Alien, The Simpsons, Avatar and more

This was a major missing piece for Disney – now it owns the X-Men, which offers potential for a cross over into the MCU. It has announced that this is indeed the plan.

As well as the X-Men ensemble films, Disney of course gets other X-Men, including Deadpool and Gambit. Don't worry, Disney has promised the merc with a mouth will stay R-Rated.

Disney now have the rights to a franchise that began with the highest-grossing movie of all time. No small potatoes. James Cameron promised at least four more movies, (and then admitted that might not happen if the next two don't deliver the bucks).

Ridley Scott had plans for more Alien movies following Covenant but recently suggested the franchise may have run its course. But that was before Disney got its paws on it. We wouldn't be hugely surprised to see an Alien resurrection before too long.

Fox also passes the Predator franchise to Disney. There's a new instalment directed by Shane Black due out in 2018 called The Predator – what happens to the franchise moving forward will no doubt depend on how it's received. *Please no more Alien vs Predator films*.

This spy spoof series based on a comic by Mark Millar has a third part in the works being developed by Matthew Vaughn and Jane Goldman. This franchise has a hard-R rating and isn't exactly 'classic Disney' so it'll be very interesting to see what they do with it. Maybe a Kingsman/Deadpool crossover, who knows?

Another Marvel property which now joins the rest of its stablemates. The 2015 movie was a massive flop but there's no reason Disney wouldn't reboot this with a new angle.

We're not saying Disney is going to churn out more Chipmunk movies, we're just saying they could.

After delays due to star Dylan O'Brien's on-set injuries, the next Maze Runner movie, titled The Death Cure, will arrive in 2018. It's not clear whether there'll be further films, though there are two more books in the series.

Yes we know Disney already has Lucasfilm and therefore all new Star Wars movies, but Fox owned distribution rights to A New Hope. Now Disney has them back we can expect a boatload of boxsets and re-releases.

The show called it almost 20 years ago, but yes, now The Simpsons is also owned by Disney. Marge as a Disney Princess! Futurama also goes with it. Leela as a Disney Princess!

The Simpsons' ruder and more mean-spirited cousin goes along too. As does Seth MacFarlane's other shows American Dad and The Orville.

This series is obviously finished now but the show will belong to Disney if they ever fancy a spinoff.

Oh how we would love more Buffy! Not a remake though. Never a remake. Other Whedon-verse shows like Angel and Firefly will also transfer to Disney.

Oh, did we mention that by acquiring a further 30% of US streaming service Hulu, Disney now has a controlling share?

Oh, and did we mention they already own 80% of sports network ESPN?

…Aaaand it owns TV network ABC (home of Grey's Anatomy and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D, among others) and ABC studios, who produce all those Marvel shows for Netflix.