No, he's right. You're wrong.
Spidey OUT of MCU
- Thread starter Flying Spaghetti Monster
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No, he's right. You're wrong.
Not according to everything that the major Hollywood trades reported when the original deal fell apart.
In theory, sure. But in practice I'm not so certain their creative input actually counts for much. I mean what are they going to do? Not let Disney make money for them?
Honestly though, I'm more leaning towards the notion that Sony being likely to be bought out in a few years is the real reason for the limited scope of the agreement.
Everyone has got parent companies.
WB is owned by AT&T.
Universal is owned by Comcast.
Paramount is owned by Viacom.
Disney owns Marvel studios, Fox (although Comcast made a competitive bid for it, before a judge ruled in favor of Disney), Lucasfilm.
The Sony film division is own by Sony Corporate. The same people who make TVs, Playstation, cameras, etc. Sony has talked about shuttering their film division after GB 2016. As their only bread winners were Spider-Man and James Bond. James Bond under performed the year previously and is now back with MGM. Spider-Man they share the profits with Disney. While getting none of the toy sales, TV show sales, merchandise, marketing or theme park revenue based of Spider-Man.
Yet... they're staying with Disney because they know their licensed property has greater value that way. So you point is moot.
I figured they mean between the two.
Disney are likely the ones who decided to come back to the negotiating table because Sony was fully prepared to - and confident that they could - end the partnership and go back to the pre-2015 'status quo' while still retaining as much of the full Homecoming/Far From Home cast and crew as possible.
Yeah, that's a misleading headline. What Deadline reported:
It's the 50/50 split that Sony walked away from. Disney had to back off that in order to get a deal.
The Mouse blinked.
That's a crazy idea in this day and age!
There's no way the government is going allow Disney to buy any more competitors. There was already a lot of question if the Fox purchase was going to be allowed, so at this point I'm pretty sure any other purchase wouldn't be, unless they sold off one of the studios they already own.
You always go into a negotiation asking for more than you're willing to accept. That's basic stuff.
Every car salesman knows this.
And so do you.
Burr: You got more than you gave...You always go into a negotiation asking for more than you're willing to accept. That's basic stuff.
Every car salesman knows this.
And so do you.
Hamilton: And I wanted what I got. When you got skin in the game, you stay in the game.
The timeline given in reports was contradictory to begin with. The same source that broke the 50% claim turned around a few days later and said Disney was originally asking for 30% and upped their demands to 50 after Sony refused, which makes no sense. And other sources (then and now) claimed Disney's original proposal was 25% and the whole 50% story was total bs, just like the "Feige doesn't have time" story.
We don't actually know what happened.
We don't actually know what happened.
I'm just glad that Spidey is back.
"Right! This calls for immediate discussion!"
Seriously. Neither side got totally pwned, and a mutually beneficial relationship continues. It's okay to leave it there.
Looks like Spidey might be returning just to be written out of the MCU properly. Just 2 more appearences in the MCU before Sony takes over.
