This afternoon the American medium Deadline reported a possible departure between Marvel Studios and Sony, due to a monetary disagreement over the upcoming Spider-Man films. The rights to the arachnid’s film adaptations remain held by Sony, which had reached an agreement with Disney to include it in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (and vice versa). The popular character played by Tom Holland joined the Avengers franchise in 2016 with Captain America: Civil War, following an internal crisis that forced Sony to seek a long-delayed deal. The following arachnid films were intrinsically related to the MCU’s main storyline and featured the production of Kevin Feige, the mastermind behind Marvel Studios’ grand narrative plan.
The dream of all the fans came true when Spider-Man joined the MCU in the film directed by the Russo brothers
Despite the success of Spider-Man: Away From Home and its ties to the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), Feige’s departure as creative producer of the Spider-Man franchise has been rumored for months. The latest film starring Peter Parker has already grossed $1.1 billion at the box office and has just become the most successful of all time for Sony Studios, surpassing Skyfall’s previously set record for the franchise James Bond.Disney considers that this agreement does not favor it and called for the upcoming Spider-Man films to be split equally between the two studios as both funding and earnings. This request could be extended to other films in the franchise, such as Venom (which already has sequel confirmed with Andy Serkis’ direction).
Venom was a box office hit and presented the first glimpse of the cool animated feature film Spider-Man: A New Universe
But Sony is unwilling to give the arm to twist with its most successful product and rejected the proposal, keeping the same terms that had been handled so far: 5% of the proceeds. According to Sony’s internal sources, the studio also offered other benefits, but Disney (owner of Marvel Studios) would not be willing to negotiate for less. Now that Disney also controls the rights to the X-Men and Deadpool following the acquisition of Fox in May this year, it seems that Kevin Feige has enough work. To all this, it is in the midst of the development of Phase 4 of its cinematic universe, which involves new connections of the film premieres with the original series produced for the Disney+ streaming platform.
Kevin Feige produced all the MCU films over eleven years, which grossed more than $26.8 billion in total
Meanwhile, Sony already has two upcoming Spider-Man films in development, with Amy Pascal as producer and Jon Watts directing. Tom Holland will continue to star in the franchise, whether they reach an agreement with Disney or not. In turn, the studio has several spin-offs with characters such as Morbius, Black Cat and Silver Sable, which would allow them to make movies every two or three years to maintain the rights and prevent them from falling into the hands of Disney.According to other sources, negotiations between studies continue, though they seem to have reached a stalemate. To all this, after these rumors were known, Sony’s actions fell dramatically, while Disney remains stable and growing. There was no official announcement yet by the studies, but everything seems to indicate that both remain inflexible in their positions. In this note:
