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Sony Pictures Entertainment has not had a good 2014, by any means. The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (Sony’s only franchise hope) backfired horribly in the face of it’s predecessor, and the vast majority of their slate for this year has been an exercise in mediocre film-making – as usual. But things really went south last week.
The Bad Boys Mike Lowrey (Will Smith) and Marcus Burnett (Martin Lawrence) are back together for one last ride in the highly anticipated Bad Boys for Life.
With Disney and Sony fighting over Spiderman rights, let's take a look at how the Marvel Cinematic Universe will deal with Spideys' absence...
Marvel/Disney have failed to extend their Spider-Man licensing deal after negotiation with Sony went south. Tom Holland won't be returning as Spidey in MCU.
It isn't Sony's IP. Sony has the film license for Spider-Man. Marvel still owns Spider-Man so if anything Sony is holding Spider-Man film license hostage.
Nah that's LITERALLY not how it works or business in general ... lool Disney fucked this one up!
Sony owns the film RIGHTS to Spider-Man. There’s no hostage taking. Marvel sold it to them. They own it.
@Ace326 Were you born yesterday? Sony has held the rights for this film IP for more than 15 years now..
Why are people down voting Ace326 they are the only person that said it correctly . They have timed license agreement and if they do not make Spider-man in a set amount of years they lose the license. This is what happened back in the 90s a studio rushed to make a Fantastic Four film so they would not lose the license.
" Why are people down voting Ace326 they are the only person that said it correctly . They have timed license agreement and if they do not make Spider-man in a set amount of years they lose the license. This is what happened back in the 90s a studio rushed to make a Fantastic Four film so they would not lose the license."
All Sony has to do is prove they have a movie in development and they retain their license indefinitely though. With Spiderverse 2 already in development, Venom 2 and all the other Spiderman characters like Black Cat, Silver Sable movies in development already there's ZERO chance Sony will lose Spiderman.
Disney has no power in these negotiations. Same with why there are no solo Hulk movies because Universal has those rights. Disney wants more to go from taking 5% to 50% when Sony's movies make the same worldwide compared to Disneys Spiderman movies why would Sony agree to that?! Amazing Spiderman made almost as much as Homecoming did worldwide so there's no reason to believe they can't again.
Does this count animated movies? Because I think they can go on forever with those. There's absolutely endless possibilities.
Essentially never. The rerelease of Far From Home will start the 5 year cycle over. Venom 2 is in development and I believe that also counts towards the license.
They also have Silver Sable/Black Cat and Spiderverse 2 already in development too.
unfortunately as long as they make one even if trash they have it forever essentially :(
Replies(1)Replies(1)Yeah because clearly Sony are intelligent and not going to deal with Disney's crap....Sony 100% financed the Spider-man films, and gave Disney 5% of the box office....Disney also got 100% of the films merchandising rights and 100% of the money that the merchandise makes.....
There is no universe where Disney deserves 50% of the profits, when they put in ZERO dollars, let Sony finance it all yet give them nothing for the merchandise and, nothing for the MCU films that Spider-man has appeared in....Greedy Disney looking to be greedy again....
Just like how they change things in Star Wars to avoid paying Lucas royalties, and refuse to make a solo Hulk film because Universal has to be atleast asked IF they want to distribute it.....Gotta love Disney can't make all the money for something so they would rather make nothing....
Disney's other properties make so much money, that's why they can afford to try and make moves like this, come out with nothing, and still be ok. Kinda sucks, but I already know where Sony is gonna go with this. Gonna do a Venom-Spidey film for sure now. I'd be surprised if that doesn't go down.
Yeah, but without Morpheus (Laurence Fishburn) Neo can't hold the complete movie alone without Morpheus.
actually, morpheus isn't needed as much now all things considered.
Neo believes he is the one. Morpheus character arc of finding, training and making him believe he is the one to make peace between man and machine is complete.
would be nice to have him in the movie though but its not a make or break thing.
Edit: i would rather be hoping that Hugo Weaving makes a return.
Seems they really don't have much love for the Adam Sandler movies. I can;t honestly say I hold much blame to them on that though. Sony Pictures seems to be reeling right now.
Movies like Moneyball and Captain Phillips are greatly appreciated though. They might not make lots of money but they are truly great films.
Now my question is: what is "spe"?