What if News Corporation bought Carolco Pictures in 1996?

Carolco agreed to sell its assets to 20th Century Fox for $50 million. But when Canal+ made a $58 million bid for the library in January 1996, Fox, which by then lowered their purchase price to $47.5 million, dropped their deal in 1995 but what if News Corporation actually bought Carolco Pictures in 1996?

Here's what might have happened.

This theory is interconnected to What if Paramount kept the rights to Buzzy the Crow, Herman and Katnip, Little Audrey, Modern Madcaps, Casper the Friendly Ghost, Baby Huey, Tommy Tortoise and Moe Hare?

## Changes

* Carolco Pictures would become a division of 20th Century Fox.
	+ As a result Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer would sell Theatrical distribution rights to Carolco Pictures library to 20th Century Fox, Live Entertainment would sell Home video distribution rights to Carolco Pictures library to 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment and Worldvision Enterprises would sell Television distribution rights to the Carolco Pictures library to 20th Television in 1996
	+ Sony via TriStar Pictures would sell North American distribution rights to Cliffhanger (1993) to 20th Century Fox in 1996.
	+ C2 Pictures wouldn't exist.
* News Corporation would acquire Lucasfilm on December 21, 2012 instead of Disney.
	+ The acquisition would be announced on October 30, 2012 and completed on December 21, 2012.
	+ Dave Filoni would be nominated as the head of Lucasfilm with George Lucas now being chairman.
	+ The Star Wars sequel trilogy now focuses on a take on Jacen and Jaina Solo, although having Adam Driver and Daisy Ridley playing them like how they played Kylo Ren and Rey.
		- The Sequel Trilogy would be supervised by Rian Johnson rather than Kathleen Kennedy with George Lucas remaining as a creative consultant, although with limited powers to avoid the events that contributed for the Prequel Trilogy's mixed reviews.
		- The Legends continuity would still be separate, but more elements from it are incorporated to the main trilogy.
		- Theme park attractions based on Star Wars and Indiana Jones would move from Disney Parks to 20th Century Fox World.
		- Live-action television shows would air on FX while family-friendly animated television shows would air on Fox Kids and Fox Family.
		- Seeing the potential of LucasArts, Fox opted to keep the studio active in order to take advantage of its resources, keeping future Star Wars games developed and published in-house, being a subsidiary of the Fox Interactive, also allowing future games based on Fox's IPs to be developed and published in-house.
			* Fox would bring back several of LucasArts' old video game IPs, including Maniac Mansion and Monkey Island.
		- A The Simpsons television movie parodying the series would be produced.
		- Star Wars Detours wouldn't be cancelled.
		- Several media in the Star Wars franchise would be closely connected to make the Star Wars universe seem more compact and together.
		- Phineas and Ferb: Star Wars wouldn't likely exist as a result.
		- Paramount would co-own the rights to Indiana Jones with Fox.
			* As a result, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023) would be co-released by Paramount Pictures with 20th Century Fox.
* New World Entertainment would be remain open after 1997.
	+ New World Entertainment would keep it's The bulk of its film and home video holdings after 1990.
	+ Four Star International would be remain open after 1997.
	+ Ronald Perelman's MacAndrews & Forbes Holdings would still acquire New World Entertainment in 1989 before selling it to News Corporation in 1997.
		- As a result New World Entertainment would be become part of Fox Entertainment Group in 1997.
			* New World Pictures would be separate studio from 20th Century Fox in 1997.
			* New World Video would be separate home video distributor from 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment in 1997.
* Fox Atomic would remain open after 2009.
* Fox 2000 Pictures would remain open after 2021.
* THX would've never been separated from Lucasfilm and became an independent company in June 2002.
	+ It would expand into gaming and car audio systems.
	+ On the professional front, THX planned to continue expansion of its theatrical certification programs as it became more involved in digital cinema.
* Fox-Paramount Home Entertainment joint venture would remain open after 2020 in Nordic territories.
* News Corporation would keep Sky plc after 2018.
* Fox International Productions would remain open after 2017.
* Fox 21 Television Studios would be remain open after 2020.
* HarperCollins would be still owned by News Corporation after 2013.
* Fox Kids will continue after 2002, and Xploration Station wouldn't exist.
* News Corporation wouldn't sell Fox Family Worldwide to The Walt Disney Company.
	+ In addition, Fox Family wouldn't air Angela Anaconda and wouldn't have its ratings decline.
	+ Fox Family will retain its name instead of being rebranded to ABC Family (2001-2016) and Freeform (2016-present).
	+ In 2003, Fox Kids would launch a preschool block called Fox Junior.
* After the success of Space Goofs and Oggy and the Cockroaches, Xilam began to partner up with 20th Century Fox, starting in 2002.
	+ Starting with Cartouche: Prince of the Streets, all of Xilam's animated children's shows would air on Fox Kids.
	+ Oggy would be the mascot of Xilam.
	+ Jean-Yves Raimbaud would never died before the premiere of Oggy and the Cockroaches in 1998.
* Haim Saban would have permanently retired from entertainment industries by selling his stake of Saban Entertainment to News Corporation on July 23rd, 2001, absorbing it fully into Fox Family Worldwide and rebranding it to Fox Family Entertainment alongside Saban International Paris to Fox Europe Animation and the anime position to Fox Anime Studios, keeping the rights to Power Rangers and Digimon.
	+ The sale was completed on October 24, 2001.
	+ The Power Rangers shows would be now outright produced by 20th Century Fox Television and given a slightly larger budget, allowing the shows to shine.
		- New seasons would air on the Fox Family Channel.
		- The Super seasons wouldn't exist due to being considered redundant/just a way to be less creative.
		- The 2017 film would be distributed by 20th Century Fox instead of Lionsgate Films.
	+ As a result, Fox Anime Studios will serve as a joint venture between Fox Family Entertainment and 4Kids Entertainment.
		- The English dub of the Digimon anime will be handled by 4Kids instead of Saban.
	+ The 700 Club eventually gets moved to Fox News
	+ FoxBox still exists as a weekday afternoon block on the Fox Family Channel without getting sold to 4Kids Entertainment and rebrand into 4KidsTV, The CW4Kids, Toonzai and Vortexx.
		- Kids' WB would still continue after 2008.
	+ The 2003 Star Wars: Clone Wars series (produced by Lucasfilm Animation instead of Cartoon Network) and the first five seasons of the 2008 series would have aired on the Fox Kids and FoxBox instead of Cartoon Network since 20th Century Fox distributed the original and prequel trilogies of the Star Wars films.
		- The 2008 film would be distributed by 20th Century Fox instead of Warner Bros. Pictures.
* Saban Films wouldn't likely exist, with its films being produced and distributed by 20th Century Fox and Fox Searchlight Pictures.
* Fox Interactive would remain after 2006 and not be bought by Vivendi Universal Games.
* 20th Century Fox World Malaysia would be opened in 2016 instead of 2021 and wouldn't rename as Genting SkyWorlds.
	+ 20th Century Fox World Florida would be opened in 2003.
	+ The Fox Studios Las Vegas Backlot theme park would be open in Las Vegas on December 18, 1993.
	+ The Fox Studios Australia Backlot theme park would be more successful in this alternate universe.
	+ In this alternate universe, Fox Studios Australia Backlot never closed permanently.
	+ Fox Studios Australia Backlot would still be open in this alternate universe.
	+ Fox Studios Las Vegas Backlot and Fox Studios Australia Backlot would be renamed to 20th Century Fox World Vegas and 20th Century Fox World Australia respectively in 2004.
	+ The Funtastic World of Fox Sunday Night would have opened at Fox Studios Las Vegas Backlot and Fox Studios Australia Backlot on November 1, 2001. This ride incorporates a traditional 3-D movie dark ride with a motion simulator. Passengers boarded rockets on a journey through the worlds of The Simpsons, King of the Hill, Futurama, and Family Guy to help Brian and Stewie rescue Meg from Mr. Burns and Smithers. The ride involved a number of stops where windows on the vehicle would open allowing the occupants to look out at special effects along the route.
	+ Brian and Stewie's Animation Domination Blast would have opened at 20th Century Fox World Vegas, 20th Century Fox World Australia, and 20th Century Fox World Florida on December 11, 2005 replacing The Funtastic World of Fox Sunday Night. Brian and Stewie's Animation Domination Blast incorporates a traditional 3-D movie dark ride with a motion simulator. Passengers boarded rockets on a journey through the worlds of The Simpsons, King of the Hill, American Dad, and Family Guy to help Brian and Stewie rescue Meg from Mr. Burns and Smithers. The ride involved a number of stops where windows on the vehicle would open allowing the occupants to look out at special effects along the route.
	+ An updated version of Brian and Stewie's Animation Domination Blast would have opened at 20th Century Fox World Vegas, 20th Century Fox World Australia, and 20th Century Fox World Florida on January , 2010, replacing the King of the Hill segment with a segment based on The Cleveland Show.
	+ An updated version of Brian and Stewie's Animation Domination Blast would have opened at 20th Century Fox World Vegas, 20th Century Fox World Australia, and 20th Century Fox World Florida on April 24, 2011, adding a Bob's Burgers segment to Brian and Stewie's Animation Domination Blast.
	+ An updated version of Brian and Stewie's Animation Domination Blast would have opened at 20th Century Fox World Vegas, 20th Century Fox World Australia, and 20th Century Fox World Florida on December 6, 2013, removing The Cleveland Show segment from Brian and Stewie's Animation Domination Blast and replacing Brian with Vinnie due to Brian's death in Life of Brian (the attraction would also rename to Great Meg Rescue). This would have been the final update to the ride.
	+ Brian and Stewie's Animation Domination Blast would have closed in 2016 due to the cancellations of The Simpsons, Family Guy, and American Dad.
* Stranger Things would be produced by 20th Century Fox Television for FX instead of Netflix.
* News Corporation would keep Star China Media.
* A restaurant chain titled 's Kitchen would have opened in 2005.
	+ Character vignettes would have been placed throughout 's Kitchen featuring characters from The Simpsons, King of the Hill, Family Guy, American Dad!, . Menu items would have included . The kids meal equivalent would have been the Meal, complete with a toy.
* The Simpsons would manage to keep rather fresh after the Golden Age and managed to keep some of the quality humor it had during its Golden Age while Family Guy and American Dad! would handle their qualities by trying to keep them similar to the earlier seasons.
	+ While still rather oafish, Homer would be less of a jerkass.
	+ Bart would not be used as a sympathy bait.
	+ Lisa will be changed to be less of a SJW and used more often as a positive role model.
	+ Flanders' religious fanatism is taken off.
	+ Moe's suicidal thoughts and obsession with Marge are removed as well.
	+ Burns' evil side will have more focus than his old age.
	+ Stewie's matricidal tendencies are taken off, focusing more on his softer side and his genius skills.
	+ Meg, Steve and Klaus wouldn't be constantly abused just for jokes, although Meg would occasionally suffer with her high school life for drama.
	+ While still a pervert and implied to be a rapist, Quagmire would have its limits and not be a potential pedophile.
	+ While still rather idiotic, Stan acts less of a man-child, aside from being rather more caring for his family.
		- His hatred for Hayley never happened.
		- The Stan vs. Roger plots wouldn't be that overused.
	+ Francine would act less neglectful and more like a caring mother.
	+ In the post-Golden Age The Simpsons era:
		- Celebrity and trends cash-ins would be removed unless the celebrity episode has purpose.
		- Political plots would avoid any bias, considering Democrats and Republicans would be equally mocked, independent of who'd be the President at the time.
		- Treehouse of Horror attempts to tell more original stories again instead of countless horror movie and TV shows spoofs.
			* Kang and Kodos would have larger roles rather than just reduced to cameos depending of the plot.
		- The infamous Family Guy crossover episode still happened, although as a The Simpsons episode, keeping the characters loyal to how are they're portrayed at the series and [likely keeping tamer Stewie, but making Peter how he was before becoming a retard and Brian more of the voice of the reason]
		- Family Guy Video Game! would have been released on the Wii on November 19, 2006 as one of 22 launch titles for the Wii.
		- An American Dad! crossover episode would happen in January 2015.
		- American Dad would have been in a format similar to Animaniacs, The Ren & Stimpy Show, and Rocky and Bullwinkle, with short interludes appearing in between episodes.
		- The Futurama crossover episode happens during the show's original run on Fox rather after the show's second cancellation.
		- After Phil Hartman's murder, the crew opted to go the same way they went with Futurama by using Billy West, who replaced him as Zapp Brannigan when the series started, as Lionel Hutz and Troy McClure.
			* However, unlike Hartman, he's credited as a supporting cast member rather than a guest star.
		- Marge, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie would have been part of the angry mob in The Simpsons Movie.
		- Hank Scorpio would be the main antagonist of The Simpsons Movie.
		- The HD opening introduced in Season 20 would remain mostly the same, although slightly modified to feature Lionel Hutz, Troy McClure and some of the new characters while the sequence before the couch gag is the same as the previous opening.
		- New characters will be introduced, yet, like the old ones, they will mainly be used for comedy. Those would include:
			* Kitrina Davis, a beautiful and vain teenage girl who is part of an clique where people are TBD and becomes enamored with Bart, even if he's three years younger, as she tries to keep him as her "Barty-Warty" forever, even if he doesn't want to be with her. Voiced by Nancy Cartwright.
			* Gabriella Vasquez, a romantic but overdramatic Hispanic soap opera actress who is now playing a new damsel in distress in Krusty's show. Voiced by Tress MacNeille.
			* Darlene Spade, a lusty secretary to Mayor Quimby who has a crush on almost every adult guy she meets. Voiced by Pamela Hayden.
			* Lena Rulls, a tough lesbian bodyguard who often shows men that TBD. Voiced by Tress MacNeille.
			* Hiro, a serious Japanese new assistant to Fat Tony often gives long metaphors with no reason. Voiced by Harry Shearer.
			* Edwin Edwardson, a narcissistic bodybuilder who often brags about his insane exercise methods and even forces some men to try them. Voiced by Hank Azaria.
			* Jacques Resque, a French chef who owns a French restaurant and who Homer often tries to foil to eat there for free. Voiced by Harry Shearer.
			* Sofia Jefferson, the leader of a conservative group who is TBD. Voiced by guest star Alyson Hannigan.
		- The Cleveland Show would never exist, although several elements would be incorporated into Family Guy.
		- Cutaway gags are only used when the plot requires it in Family Guy and American Dad!.
		- Futurama's first revival (2008-2013) would air on Fox rather than Comedy Central.
			* Attack of the Killer App would be an hour long episode with the second half of the episode focusing on Fry, Leela, and Bender trying to save the world from Mom after she turned New New York's population into zombies.
		- American Dad! will have less drama and more comedy, staying on Fox rather than moving to TBS.
			* The shock humor is toned down while the incest jokes and animal abuse are taken off.
			* Rogu would debut in Season 7.
		- The Simpsons would end on Season 27, with a second movie being released a year later, allowing Fox to invest more in newer animated shows, with Bob's Burgers becoming its current flagship animated show as Family Guy and American Dad! would end in the same year with a crossover film as well.
			* This also results on the Apu controversy not becoming that strong since the show would end up by then.
		- Disenchantment would be aired on Fox instead of Netflix.
		- Theme park attractions based on The Simpsons would move from Universal Studios to 20th Century Fox World.
* Fox Animation Studios would remain open after 2000.
	+ Cancelled films like Betty of the Jungle, Dracula, Barlowe's Inferno, Rhapsody, Africa, The Little Beauty King, etc. would actually be released.
	+ Titan A.E. was successful at the box office.
	+ Fox Animation Studios would have released an animated musical film titled The Babes in the Woods in 2004.
	+ Fox Animation Studios' film The Babes in the Woods would have been an animated remake of the 1917 Fox Film Corporation film of the same name.
	+ Fox Animation Studios' adaptation of Babes in the Wood would have included a wicked witch and a house of candy, elements borrowed from the Hansel and Gretel folk story.
	+ Fox Animation Studios' The Babes in the Woods film would have provided a happy ending for the children, with Robin Hood and his company rescuing them in the end.
* Blue Sky Studios would remain open after 2021.
	+ Scrat would still be the mascot.
	+ Nimona would have finished production and kept its theatrical January 14th, 2022 release by 20th Century Fox and Blue Sky Studios like intended instead of becoming a Netflix-exclusive 2023 one by Annapurna Pictures and DNEG Animation.