Sony Is "Disappointed" About Spider-Man Dispute With Marvel

It must be frustrating for such a big company to not have everything go its way. I'm not a fan of Sony by any stretch, but I have to take Sony's side in this.

Once again it's all about money. And do they care that while they're arguing the world is waiting to be saved? Of course not.

Disney is the EA of Movies. Makes documentaries with fake shit, ignores the truth... The best Spiderman movies were the originals with Tobey Maguire.

This is all Disney's fault actually, Sony would be the one to supply the entire budget and they own the rights, so therefore it should be on their terms. Despite Disney being the one to make Spider-Man good again, them making 100% off the merchandise which is way more than movies and then asking Sony for 50% from 5% of the movie rights they don't own is pure greed. Despite Sony Pictures making many trash movies, it's sad that they're getting all the blame by fans and media outlets who haven't actually read what's going on. I'm fairly certain this was leaked to the press by Disney so Sony could concede by the backlash they'd get.

Anyway I hope they both just get a deal going, Sony was perfectly fine with continuing until Disney proposed that shitty deal. This would throw a monkey wrench into the entire MCU.

i love having marvel characters under the same house. the problem is that house is disney. a mega house that seems to expand and devour all media

this is necessary. for us to have any hope of having some independent movies in the future. shake disney before it can really dig in

im not too big fan of holland but now i have to support it. yes sony isnt exactly super responsible either but in this contest its like a butterfly against a bear. and thats what makes disney scary. it makes even sony look like a nuisance

I mean to be fair, Disney did make Spiderman great and having it go over 1 billion in sales but Disney only gets a small portion. I think instead of 95/5 it should be 80/20.

sony may be rigid sometimes, but they're good people and hardly greedy. whereas disney.. rofl they're completely awful. I'm with sony on this. And the way IGN made a huge deal about this anti sony thing, you can tell they're desperate for corporate cash.

What's the movie rights situation regarding the other spider-people? Miles, Gwen, Mayday, Caine, etc? Even if Peter disappears from the MCU, I'm sure there's a suitable replacement in the wings.

Been turned off of Spiderman since Spiderman 3. They ruined a good Venom story by trying to combine 2 movies into one. It felt like a cluster F.

This is actually a fantastic outcome, from my perspective. Separating Spider-Man from the Marvel Cinematic Universe is great, the MCU is already quite "busy" with established characters and the others slated to premiere. Spider-Man, as a "popular" comic character, has enough lore, villains, and supporting characters to support a franchise on his own. On a similar note, while Disney/Marvel has the rights to the X-men again, they would be unwise to combine those characters and concepts into the existing MCU. It actually worked out quite fortunately for them and for Fox - the X-men, and the notion of "mutants," is more than enough to support a setting on its own, without the addition of the various other tech/magic/radiation/alien based heroes.

Similarly beneficial, Sony is now free to insert the established Holland Spider-Man into their other related "Spider" properties, such as Venom and Morbius. Yes, it may seem a bit odd that there will be no further crossovers with characters like Nick Fury or explicit references to films like Civil War or Avengers, but it's not altogether different from how the Marvel Netflix shows initially made vague reference to "the incident," the New York alien invasion seen in the first Avengers, and later made little reference to any subsequent MCU films, as the Netflix shows went their own direction and focused on their own stories.

Having a bit of background in the MCU now may help "legitimatize" subsequent Spider-Man films, as well as titles like Venom and Morbius, while encouraging the MCU to expand its horizons, reaching towards characters that haven't already received media over saturation, as Spider-Man has.

While comic book settings are essentially a melting pot of genres, and completely "catch all" in tone and content, there's no need for cinema to follow the same structure.

Disney asking for way, way too much here if what I have read is true.

MCU needs Spidey more then Spidey needs MCU. I don’t see why the deal needs to be tweaked at all, it seemed to be working well for everyone, fans included.

It would be nice to see some Spider-Man stand alone films at the same level as Homecoming though. Dr Octopus, Venom, Carnage, Green Goblin.

Actually what we NEED is a real villain movie. I want DR DOOM!!! Make it happen!

Doesn't Marvel still own the character, though? Can't they do with Spider Man what they did with the Hulk? I'm not seeing much clarification on that point.

Sony pictures is a disgrace. They have been shown by Marvel that they and they alone have been the problem with all their previous movies, and they cannot handle it.

Back to crappy Spiderman movies.

I’m fine with it. Didn’t really care for MCU’s version of the character, anyway.

Can't Google IGN without "ignorance" showing up in suggestions.

Licensing gets in the way again, oh well.

GJ Sony, not bending over for Disney.

50/50? LOL, NO!. 5/95% as it was.

Sony movies are always hit or miss, no in between and more misses than hits lately. Lots of 5/10 movies these days. I wouldn't sweat not being able to work with them for one second. It's annoying that they have the Spidey IP in the first place. Work around them, make the final MCU with Spider-Man a good one and move on.