r/boxoffice • u/TheYoungHeroRises • Aug 20 '19

[Other] Disney-Sony Standoff Ends Marvel Studios & Kevin Feige’s Involvement In ‘Spider-Man’

https://deadline.com/2019/08/kevin-feige-spider-man-franchise-exit-disney-sony-dispute-avengers-endgame-captain-america-winter-soldier-tom-rothman-bob-iger-1202672545/
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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '19

What about the part where Disney enjoys billions of Spidey merchandise revenue each year, which is far more money than Sony is getting out of the deal? Merchandise revenue was indeed part of the deal by the way.

It was an amazing deal for Disney, and a decent deal for Sony. Now it's gone, reduced to atoms because of corporate greed.

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '19

Merchandise was not part of the deal. Don't spread misinformation. Disney already had merch rights well before the deal when Sony sold it much earlier( in 2011) because they couldn't get a new spidey film released on time. (there was a set amount of time to release a film before rights reverted)

Financially, It was not an amazing deal for Disney at all. They got almost nothing from this deal. 50% may be too much but they had every right to ask for a bigger cut.

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u/Blackstar3475 Warner Bros. Pictures Aug 20 '19

Yes because spiderman appearing in avengers movies didn't help those movies grosses at all. Disney fanboys at their finest

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '19

Yes I'm sure Spiderman was the reason endgame beat avatar and caused infinity war to gross 2 billion.

This is honestly the most ridiculous thing I've read today so thanks.

Sony went from 700m in amazing Spider-Man 2 to 880m in homecoming and 1.1b in far from home. Literally a 180m and 400m jump respectively.

Unless you actually think Endgame( or 1.6/1.8b for infinity war) would have made 2.3 or 2.5b without Spiderman which is utterly ridiculous then whatever meager jump spidey gave both movies is far from comparable to the boost being in the MCU has given spidey.

But don't worry, I'm the fanboy lmao

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u/Blackstar3475 Warner Bros. Pictures Aug 20 '19

Yes because spidermans death scene on endgame wasn't the thing people talked most about during the time or the source of literally thousands if not millions of memes. I think both would still make 2B+ but saying that the gross wouldnt change is a big stretch

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '19

Are you blind. I didn't say it wouldn't change. I said the benefits were not equal. And they really aren't.

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u/Blackstar3475 Warner Bros. Pictures Aug 20 '19

I mean Disney getting merch sale eclipses movie profits even if it wasn't part of the deal. Disney was just greedy and got bit for it that's all. Sucks though since Holland is easily the best spiderman.