Finally, our long national nightmare is over. 2014 The Amazing Spider-Man 2 arrives at Disney +. In what Chuck Saftler, head of commercial operations at ABC, Freeform, FX Networks and Disney’s media and entertainment distribution acquisitions, calls a “multi-year, platform-agnostic deal,” Sony will license Spider-Man and other Marvel properties ”at Disney + from 2022.
The deal will run through Sony’s 2026 theatrical board and “calls for Sony’s titles to run across Disney’s line of linear and streaming platforms.” Presumably, that means you can finally see Tom Hardy get into a lobster tank Venin or Andrew Garfield searches for Bing by his father (or whatever happens in that movie) on any of the networks or platforms owned by Disney, including Hulu, FX, ABC, and Freeform. This will also give Disney access to Sony’s other theatrical releases, though they will still be released first on home video, VOD and Netflix.
The six-year agreement — more the similar licensing agreement Sony recently made with Netflix—He will direct the Japanese home music equipment company for about $ 3 billion and allow viewers to see several different versions of Uncle Ben achieved by a fighting thief. But really, Sony and Disney are doing it for fans, Saftler says in a statement posted to The AV Club: “This is a win for fans, who will benefit from the ability to access the best content from two of Hollywood’s most prolific studios through a multitude of viewing platforms and experiences.”
Spider-man’s license rights have been one complicated web to untangle for the last 20 years. Originally owned by Sony, which released the first five Spider-Man films during the 2000s and into the 2010s, Disney signed a partnership agreement with the company, which allowed Spider-Man to Man entered the MCU in 2015. The character has been the subject of some complicated public negotiations, as Marvel and Sony are struggling to control the character and the billions of dollars. In 2019, when he renegotiated the deal, Sony left with an amount of money contributed by Spider-Man: away from home after Disney tried to make a 50/50 split to make a profit. Seeing how Far from home was the largest release in Sony ‘s history, they were attracted a few months later by Sony Spider-Man himself, Tom Holland, who reportedly appealed to then-Disney CEO Bob Iger and Sony Pictures president Tom Rothman. But now, it looks like everything is “water over the dam, or under the bridge or wherever you want,” to quote a Sony Pictures Spider-Man movie.
Ugh. For a second there, it really looked like 2021 was going to be a mistake, but now there’s hope that someday viewers can see Morbid and FX.
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