Thread:Marvel-US/@comment-43580585-20190914191339

As we all know the marvel comics character Spider-man created by Stan Lee is undoubtedly marvel's most popular character. In the early 2000s rights to the marvel characters were still being shared to big studios, the first ever live action spider-man film was produced by Colombia studies it became an amazing trilogy directed by Sam Raimi and starring Tobey Maguire but it sadly ended with spider-man 3 being the weakest of the 3. With that the rights to spider-man were bought by Sony pictures a growing Studio at the time they made The amazing spider-man series directed by Marc Webb and starring Andrew Garfield it was an overwhelming mess with no doubt. After the poor attempt of making a Spider-man film Sony and Marvel studios(under Disney) made an agreement to showcase spider-man in the marvel cinematic universe as long as Sony still kept his rights and most of the profit from his screentime. The MCU is a franchise mega machine holding off the best movies and most successful franchise. Sony and Marvel made the deal successfully and a fresh faced Tom Holland potrayed the character in the mcu. Spiderman first appeared in Captain america civil war in 2016 becoming one of the movies most memorable characters. He also appeared in the two most successful movies in the world Avengers Infinity War(2018) and Avengers Endgame(2019) respectably. Spider-man even got his own stand alone film in 2017 Spider-man Homecoming becoming a fan favourite film and in 2019 immediately after Avengers Endgame, Spider-man Far From Home was released and was a massive success with a 92% of rotten tomatoes being a fan loved film and earing 1.1 billion US dollars at the global box office. Sony and Marvel successfully made an amazing film but thats when the conflict begun. Aftet the massive success of Spider-man Far From Home Marvel studios(Disney) had decided to have a discussion with Sony about the legal rights of Spider-man. Marvel Studios(Disney) offered a 50 50 share for the rights and profits for the character of Spider-man since Far From home brought in more than enough. Sony pictures declined this offer and had a fallout with Marvel Studios(Disney) but still trying to push in more negotiations. Ending of negotiations have not been yet confirmed but for now we still have our fingers crossed. DIFFERENCES BETWEEN SONY PICTURES AND MARVEL STUDIOS (DISNEY): As we all know Disney kinda of owns everything now and it owns Marvel Studios. Will be looking at the individuals of each studio. The president of Marvel Studios is Kevin Feige, he is a guy who simply loves marvel comics,characters and wants to make movies on them, BUT is also a man who is in it for the business cause he also needs to put food on the table, he handles all character adaptations with sure passion and hiring people who also love marvel so that the movies can come out of sincerity now lets look at Sony. The head of Sony Pictures in 2012 when The amazing spiderman was Micheal Lyton, a successful guy looking for an amazing business opportunity to venture in and Spiderman was that chance but it failed because he lacked the passion for buliding up the characters and handling him well. In 2016 Sanford Panitch was the CEO of Sony and was the one who came to the agreement with disney he was the guy trying to make spiderman a success agaim and didnt know how to handle the chaarcter so he seeked for help from Marvel Studios as long as Sony still had the upper hand. And now currently Tony Vinciquerra is the CEO of Sony as of 2017, he still kept the deal for Spider-man between Sony and Disney from Panitch until Disney decided to ask for a higher price. As we can see from this discussion we have learnt 3 things. Firstly we have learnt that specifically Marvel studios and not Disney clearly has the passion for the characters they own but has to abide to the laws of Disney in order to be kept funded, secondly is that Sony Pictures is just in it for the money but thats okay cause it's business and they have no other choice and thirdly Marvel Studios is simply under Disney,they are independent but they do have limits so Marvel is just financially funded by Disney and that Disney gets some of the profit from the mcu movies but it doesn't make it Disney, let me make it clear Marvel Studios is NOT Disney, Disney simply is a shareholder of Marvel Studios by owning it but not being it. So in my conclusion it's fair for me to say that neither Sony Pictures nor Marvel Studios are at fault BUT Walt Disney Studios is the one to blame. Disney has more than enough to be asking Sony for a higher price by how much Spider-man Far From Home has grossed, whatever Sony Pictures earns in a year is the spate change Disney gets. Sony Pictures were did well to decline that offer but if it was simply Marvel Studios asking for some of the rights it would be understand le cause they would mostly just want the rights for the character just for the screentime in the mcu and not only for the cash.

I rest my case 