The DailySuperHero.com: Sony is in trouble to the point where they might sell off their entire entertainment division due to a lack of profit. According to NY Post insiders, Sony could sell off assets even though their CEO is fighting these rumors.
Which brings up one of the biggest questions regarding their assets. So what happens to their Spider-Man movie rights?
if that ever happens expect to see some major changes in the avengers 2 script just to even include spiderman in it
that or set it up in a way it includes him in avengers 3
Sony isn't struggling....their TV market is, but look at their movies. just the other week they had what 2 or 3 movies in top box office? Spider-man is also a big hit for them and brings in tons of money, not just through sales, but licenses.
I love marvel, but i'm glad he isn't with them at the moment. Their stand alone movies are always nothing but action with some random thing to tie it to Avengers. Thor is really the only exception....
i say marvel just open their wallets a bit and pay Sony to work some cross over with them. Its Sony not Fox, so its possible.
Spider-Man still has a chance of being in The Avengers even if he's Sony's property. Sony actually gave Marvel the go-ahead to use the "Oscorp" building in the Avengers movie but due to time it was scraped.
I can see Sony leasing the character to Marvel in order to make some quick $$$.
I doubt they would sell their entire entertainment division. It contains so many properties that they can integrate with their gaming and computing operations just in terms of marketing. I think they would want to keep control of that.
Amazing Spider-Man just made Sony over $500million in profit and there is profit from DVDs, BR, PPV, SKY and Cable amongst other things. Why would Sony sell the rights to a potential Golden Goose?
Sony has been doing great in the cinema division. Girl with a Dragon Tattoo, Total Recall, Hotel Transylvania and Amazing Spider-Man all made Sony a good profit and Skyfall already has had a huge opening of $77million from a couple of days and not including the USA.
This article is very poor even for an opinion piece. It has barely taken any facts into consideration and if anything should be called a biase piece of writing.