Whereas Stan Lee and Steve Ditko created Spider-Man whereas working for Marvel Comics, and Marvel holds the rights to Spidey on the earth of publishing, Sony really controls the rights to make Spider-Man films. (You possibly can blame Marvel’s dangerous decade within the Nineteen Nineties for that; they had been so laborious up for money on the time they bought the rights to Spidey films and exhibits to Sony for simply $7 million. That’s it!)
So long as Sony retains pumping out Spider-Man films — good or dangerous, hit or flop — they maintain these rights in perpetuity. And so they may make Spider-Man spinoff movies, that includes characters who originated in Spider-Man comics, which is how we wound up with movies like Venom, Morbius, and now the new (and fairly horrible) Madame Net.
Should you’ve seen these films, : Numerous them ain’t nice! And Sony has extra coming, together with one other Venom sequel and a Kraven the Hunter movie starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson. That’s even supposing Madame Net was so dangerous, that at the very least one movie show chain reportedly watched “advance buy gross sales declining in actual time as patrons had been refunding their tickets” as the excitement obtained worse and worse concerning the movie. So these films aren’t simply dangerous now, they’re arguably hurting Marvel’s model identify within the market.
However what can Marvel do about that? In our newest video, we focus on the Marvel Sony Spider-Man cope with an lawyer (and Spidey tremendous fan) to see what their contract entails, and what Marvel can legally do if Sony retains making disappointing movies. Might Marvel even sue Sony to get Spider-Man again? Watch the video beneath and discover out.
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It began with Iron Man and it’s continued and expanded ever since. It’s the Marvel Cinematic Universe, with 33 films and counting. However what’s the most effective and the worst? We ranked all of them.
