Movies SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME ($1.9 billion worldwide gross; Returns to Theaters on Sept. 2)

[HenryFlower]

https://variety.com/2019/film/news/sony-marvel-tom-holland-spider-man-1203351489/

"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."

retaining merch rights is massive.

 

[raty tat tat]

Update: September 27, 2019

Marvel Studios/Disney and Sony Pictures Striking a Deal for One More SPIDER-MAN Movie

Spider-Man is back in action. After publicly parting ways over a deal gone south, Disney/Marvel and Sony are back at the table and have struck a deal that would see Marvel produce one more Spider-Man film for Sony.

The new film even has a release date: July 16, 2021.

"I am thrilled that Spidey’s journey in the MCU will continue, and I and all of us at Marvel Studios are very excited that we get to keep working on it,” said Marvel topper Kevin Feige. "Spider-Man is a powerful icon and hero whose story crosses all ages and audiences around the globe. He also happens to be the only hero with the superpower to cross cinematic universes, so as Sony continues to develop their own Spidey-verse you never know what surprises the future might hold.”

In 2015, Marvel and Sony unveiled an unprecedented intra-studio partnership that produced not only two well-regarded and massive hits with Spider-Man: Homecoming and this summer’s Spider-Man: Far From Home, but it also took the character, whose movie rights are owned by Sony, and put him into the Marvel Cinematic Universe where the character became one of its key players.

But the co-parenting deal fell apart not too long after the release of Far From Home, spilling into the open in August.

Terms of the new deal were not revealed but it will allow Marvel and its chief Feige to produce and run creative point on one more movie that would star Tom Holland, the actor who is the current incarnation of the web-slinging superhero.

According to 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.

The partnership between Sony and Marvel has been fruitful at the box office. Homecoming made $880.1 million and featured Marvel character Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.), while Spider-Man was a key part of 2018's Avengers: Infinity War and had a small but powerful role in this year's Avengers: Endgame. Both films grossed more than $2 billion, with Endgame standing as the top film of all time, not adjusted for inflation. Far From Home was also a billion dollar player, grossing $1.1 billion and is Sony's highest grossing film ever.

There was plenty of incentive to drive the two sides to return. Shared revenue of box office receipts notwithstanding, the success of Spider-Man also drives other lanes. Sony, for example, has a slate of Spider-Man-centric characters that are in the early stages of getting their own movies, with Venom already a hit and a sequel to start shooting in November. Morbius, another title based on a Marvel character, is in post-production with a release set for 2020. The slate has benefitted from Spider-Man’s popularity. There is also Sony’s Spider-Man video game franchise, which is one of the more popular games currently in circulation.

Marvel, meanwhile, gets to capitalize on merchandizing. But perhaps more importantly, it gets to keep creative control over its most popular character, something it did not have during the years that saw the studio, then run by Amy Pascal, make critically-maligned movies, and thus protect the brand.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/h...r-disney-sony-striking-deal-new-movie-1243777

 

[Horse Style]

Fans: MCU has The Avengers, Guardians, X-Men, Deadpool. All of which can hang out with Spider-Man. What you got?

SONY: Uh well, we have a Madame Webb solo movie coming up

Fans:

SONY: Yea, well, uhm...uhh Feige can we talk?

 

[dissectingaorticaneurysm]

retaining merch rights is massive.

How big was the merch for Spiderman? I don't really remember seeing it anywhere, at least not to the extent of Star Wars merch. Does this include video game licensing? That's probably more significant than toys or apparel these days.

 

[Dragonlordxxxxx]

Fans: MCU has The Avengers, Guardians, X-Men, Deadpool. All of which can hang out with Spider-Man. What you got?

SONY: Uh well, we have a Madame Webb solo movie coming up

Fans:

SONY: Yea, well, uhm...uhh Feige can we talk?

Feige: "We have the Avengers, Black Panther, Captain Marvel, Blade, Guardians of the Galaxy, The Eternals, Dr. Strange, Fantastic Four, X-Men and many more."

Sony: "We have Madame Web coming up. Checkmate"

Feige: "... We will accept the 25/75 deal."

 

[Protectandserve]

Holy shit just saw this.

Fuck yeah!

 

[emceeGRENDEL]

<{monica}>

 

[minute bull]

(MCU still looking for a suitable Face of the MCU replacement.)

 

[0verlord]

wait... I'm only realizing one thing now (and I've watched Far From Home a while ago).

Wtf happened to the post-credit thing in Homecoming? Did they just let that Scorpion/Sinister 6 die off and give us just Mysterio (a horrible, holographic one), wasting an awesome actor doing so??

 

[TKing]

I'm glad so we can stop hearing marvel bitch about money and being entitled to the character and all that. I'd just like to see spiderman actually be spiderman and not Ironman jr.

 

[Magooglie]

Finally Tom Rothman pulled his head out of his butt.

 

[MixMartialFarts]

Far from Home sucked. Aunt May is not supposed to be hotter then Mary Jane.

 

[SaiWa]

Sony needs Marvel's help more than Marvel needs Sony's character. Too much money to be made.

lol. to make a good spidey movie... it doesn't hurt.. to make money? yeah okay... they woulda been fine without marvel... Marvel needs Spidey almost as bad. Spidey is the face of Marvel and arguably their most beloved iconic character. to have him and lose him woulda have been a huge loss for marvel.

Feige: "We have the Avengers, Black Panther, Captain Marvel, Blade, Guardians of the Galaxy, The Eternals, Dr. Strange, Fantastic Four, X-Men and many more."

Sony: "We have Madame Web coming up. Checkmate"

Feige: "... We will accept the 25/75 deal."

That's a very fair deal though. I was thinking 20-30% and half of the financing woulda worked and it's practically that. 25% of the profits and 1/4 of the financing cost.

The only issue I am seeing is that this deal is only for 2 movies? the 3rd Spidey movie and then an appearance in a MCU movie... Am I reading this wrong? That's not a long contract. Are they planning on re-negotiating again soon? or is that rumor about Sony being sold to Apple and all spidey rights going back to Marvel a real thing?

 

[chrisdiaz]

I have a feeling the negotiations had to include getting a cameo in the new venom movie. This last thing by Feige seems to indicate it and they're just about to start filming Venom 2.

"He also happens to be the only hero with the superpower to cross cinematic universes, so as Sony continues to develop their own Spidey-verse you never know what surprises the future might hold

 

[LEWIS540]

I look forward to another bland 6.5/10 film which will make $1billion+ and have grown adult men ejaculating.

(Myself included, maybe).

 

[KnightTemplar]

Now bring me Norman Osborne and his Dark Avengers!

 

[Woodstock99]

I'm over this latest batch of Spidey movies, Homecoming was good but Far From Home was really bad

 

[KONG-D'SNT-TAP]

Who didn’t see this coming? For real. We knew this would be worked out

 

[Woodstock99]

Dont get excited yet, looking at the way things are going Disney is probably going to kick Tom Holland out the door and replace him with Brie Larson because why should it be SpiderMAN

Yeah it will be released alongside X-Women starring Jennifer Lawrence and other woke actresses.

 

[minute bull]

You chicks should scissor.