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Kasz216 on 27 April 2014
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pezus said:
Kasz216 said:
OttoniBastos said:
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I'm not sure why Sony movie licensed games appear on nonsony platforms in the first place.

 

Sony have the rights for spiderman movies;

Activision have the rights for spiderman games.Even if the game is based on Sony's movies their have the right to release even on a tamagoshi.

That.. doesn't make any sense.

 

You'd think the company that makes the movies would have the rights to the liscensing of those movies... at LEAST for a limited time.  Espiecally in the modern age where movies pretty much never make back everything in theatres and have to rely on DVD + Merch.

Spider-Man movies make a lot of money back and then some at the theaters, though

I'm not sure thats exactly true.

People tend to make the mistake of looking a Production Budget and comparing it vs the Box Office and thinking that's all there is it.

Marketing budgets are highly expensive.  The current one being nearly ~200 M itself.

Then distribution costs.

Then Movie theatres take 30% off the top...

Then up until 2011, Marvel actually got a percentage of theatre gross.  Which apparently is why Sony makes no money off Spiderman movie games or any spiderman merchandise including anything movie related.

Pure Box Office wise seems like the Original Trilogy Spiderman movies lost money overall past the first.

http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2014/03/16/the-key-question-for-sony-can-the-spider-man-movie.aspx