NS: Sony and Disney make up, Spidey back in the MCU

[cyberghostface]

So after the messy breakup Disney and Sony have patched things up and Spider-Man will be back in the MCU.

Per Variety:

The new deal was signed late on Thursday night. Negotiations involved top players from both studios, including Sony Pictures chief Tom Rothman, Feige, and Walt Disney Studios head Alan Horn. In exchange for lending Feige’s producing prowess, Marvel and Disney will receive roughly 25% of the profits, according to insiders. Disney will retain its merchandising rights. As part of the arrangement, Spider-Man will also appear in one future Marvel Studios film.

Not too surprising but a relief nonetheless.

In related news Sony is making a Madame Web film. Yep.

Comments

[bmaryott]

Kind of surprising. Sony does seem happy to make damned fool decisions or allow some exec to screw them the Spider-Franchise.

Eventually, Sony will try to make another Spider-move and it'll bomb and they'll sell the rights back to Marvel. This just means they get money without the outlay of money to make a movie.

[cyberghostface]

Sony is never going to sell Spider-Man back in its entirety. They have almost nothing else in terms of a successful franchise and certainly nothing on par with Spider-Man.

[bmaryott]

We never thought Spider-Man would join the MCU, or that the X-Men would be owned by Marvel again, but...

[cyberghostface]

Yeah but that's not the same thing as Sony just selling Spider-Man because of a flop. IIRC they offered ten billion dollars for it way back which Disney refused. I don't see Disney buying out Sony like they did with Fox either. At least not for a while.

[obsidianwolf]

yeah spiderman isn't going back to Marvel/Disney unless Sony decides to get out of the movie business/or goes bankrupt. And while that theoretically could happen at some point since it has nearly happened before it probably isn't on the horizon any time soon.