It may be a Bank Holiday, but someone out there is still working, because it's been announced today that Disney has bought Marvel Entertainment for about $4 billion dollars.
DC, of course, has long been owned by Warner Bros., so this potentially gives Marvel a similar studio partnership. The details of the deal have not yet been made public, and have to be confirmed under an antitrust review and by Marvel's shareholders, but there could be an eventual end to the deals with multiple studios that Marvel has made in the past. At the very least, expect to see new Marvel rides in Disney theme parks instead of their rivals.
Whether this is all a good thing or a bad thing remains to be seen. The current deals with multiple studios has allowed Marvel to plan several movies a year over the last couple of years, which might not have been possible had the whole library been based at one studio (given how much big comic-book franchises cost to make). We'll bring you more on this as we get it. Unless what we get is Mickey Mouse in a Spidey suit, cause we're totally keeping that for ourselves.