Disney-Sony Standoff Ends Marvel Studios & Kevin Feige’s Involvement In ‘Spider-Man’
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Greedy Disney is back too! Sorry, I just wanted to use the arrogant Sony meme :v
That's my thinking. Disney made an aggressive first offer. Sony gave it the finger. Both of these are standard first steps in the process, but I find it odd that Sony didn't come back. Pretty sure they're negotiating from a position of weakness, and I can't believe that Disney wouldn't want to negotiate, considering the merchandising.
This feels like it's almost too stupid to be a thing.
From what I remember with marketing and production costs amazing spiderman 2 did not make that much money. There was a reason they went to Disney in the first place
My first takeaway as well. Seems like a decision with the potential to disrupt long term plans for Spidey in the MCU as much as his standalone films and crossover aspects, and yet he's been set up front and center all the same.
that could happen. they could just give the license to anyone, but we dont know the current deal. marvel games is not the mcu and maybe insomniac/sony are contracted to do a trilogy.
The good thing is, He isn't really set up or connected to future Phase 4 or even Phase 5 currently. So if there is a severing, right after end game would be a good time.
Giving up 50% of the revenue from one of their most valuable movie properties would be dumb. I get people want their comics movie connected movie universes at any and all costs, but these are billion dollar companies making decisions based solely on money, not on what will make for cool movies. Sony turning down a 50% split might suck for you as a fan, but it's absolutely not "dumb".
If MCU ties are severed, I mean they could write around the holes I guess but it wouldn't stop the big gaping holes being there.
I'm sure once Bob Iger leaves the next CEO will scramble to fix this.
Iger is in the "make as much cash before I bounce" mode without a care for anything long term.
Iger is in the "make as much cash before I bounce" mode without a care for anything long term.
Yeah especially when that someone made you a ton of money that you likely wouldn't have made from that franchise.
This is his biggest role and he won't walk away from Spider-Man. The new movies might stilll be good. His Spider-Man is good because he's perfectly cast
Venom made bank in spite of being godawful because people really wanted a Venom movie that fucking badly.
If Sony thinks Venom's a sign that folks are interested in fucking Silver & Black then they're out of their fucking minds.
It may very well prove to be if they end up driving the franchise into the ground a third time. Then their getting 100 % of the take will matter a lot less.
What? Venom is a steaming pile of garbage. Sony has made 3 good Spider-Man movies out of 7 attempts, they don't have a great track record here.
This will never stick. There is too much to be gained by having Spiderman cross-over with the MCU. If anything, the solo movies will be produced solely by Sony, and the big team-up Avengers style ones will be agreed up on a case by case basis.
To all the people crowing over this, can I just remind you quite succinctly;
- Venom's success was commercial, not critical, and they will run it into the ground with far less iconic Spidey villains
- Spiderverse was ONE (admittedly amazing) movie, which they will also run into the ground
As someone who was completely bored by Homecoming, and disappointed by Far From Home(barring the Mysterio illusion scenes). I'm actually pretty happy with this. But then again, maybe it's cause I just saw Spider-Man 1&2 recently, and haven't seen the the rock bottom of Spider Man films(ASM2) yet.
95-5 is the original deal, I believe?
I mean, the current contracts still hold, so I don't see anything different unless there's a stipulation that Holland can appear in Marvel films outside of Sony-produced ones...
I don't think that's actually in the article. I saw something that said Marvel wanted 50:50 co-financing. That's not the same as gross, is it?
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