JRPGfan said: You read it WRONG :P
Basically Sony does all the hard work, makeing the entire movie, putting in the risk (capital/funding) and production ect. This isnt about the MCU, but the Spiderman movies that Sony themselves make.
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Sony doesn’t own anything.
This isn’t a shared ownership or Pokémon-like construction, Spiderman is fully owned by Marvel, which is fully owned by Disney. Spiderman is Disney’s property. Similarly, EA doesn’t own Star Wars. Sony owns a licence to make Spiderman movies, left-over from when Marvel, who were handing out licences like candy, was independant, like how Fox owned a licence to make X-Men movies. Or Universal a licence for theme park attractions. Obviously Disney wants that all back, to redistribute as they see fit. This also means I doubt Sony gets anything from merchandising or anything else regardless, but that’s another thing.
Sony probably has a much better deal with the Spiderman movie licence than say, EA has with the Star Wars game licence though, and that’s their luck.
Generally speaking, not directly aimed at you, JRPGfan;
I think some of you are jumping to conclusions. So Spiderman made over a billion at the box-office. Sure this is a plus, but I highly doubt this is the prime motivator for Disney to tighten the strings. A billion in movie gross is nothing special for Disney anymore. Pretty much everything they touch reaches that nowadays. The Lion King is far past that already. Spiderman isn’t that special, even in the MCU. Ignoring Avengers of course, even Captain Marvel beat it. An Iron Man and a Captain America are above it. Black Panther has run a circle around Spiderman. I’m positive some of the upcoming MCU movies are going to easily beat Spiderman as well, and this is all with a surely inflated number for a modern Spiderman movie because of it’s connection to the MCU.
Secondly, I see comparisons with the Raimi Spiderman films, about how Sony can make a more successful Spiderman film than Disney/Marvel can. But that’s not a good comparison. Those movies are old now, and had little competition in the superhero genre. I’d say the fact that the Raimi films all easily beat the new Spiderman films, adjusted for inflation, actually bodes pretty badly for a stand-alone new Sony Spiderman film, if even the Marvel backing couldn’t do it.
Finally, I see people being pissed about supposed Sony blaming here in this thread. However, meanwhile I’m seeing a whole lot more Disney bashing in here, which seems to be fine. Comes across as a bit hypocritical, but whatever I don’t know.
And before this statement gets me being accused of defending Disney or being a Disney-fanboy, a Sony-hater or whatever, don’t bother, it’s not like that, I’m Switzerland.
Last edited by S.Peelman - on 21 August 2019