Sony owns the Spider-Man live-action rights in full. They don't have to keep making movies to retain them (unlike the X-Men rights or Fantastic Four rights when they were at FOX, because those contracts were done differently at different times). But in any case since the first Spider-Man they made in 2002 Sony alone (ignoring the MCU movies, but not the Sony Holland movies) has made 11 movies off the Spider-Man rights. That's an average of one every two years. Take out the two Venom movies and Morbius because they stink and add in the MCU appearances - which certainly would have counted toward retaining the rights, if Sony had needed them to - and it's still 11.
>I also assume the Rock also had this type of deal with Black Adam before falling out with Warner Brothers
No, he signed on in 2007 for a Shazam movie. But then the script they sent over to him he or someone at the studio didn't like and in early 2008 Warner Bros pulled the plug on New Line, the studio they owned that was making Shazam, because New Line was doing shady shit and it was costing WB big money (basically New Line were denying that the Lord of the Rings trilogy made any money, and apparently withholding royalties to the actors for their likeness rights being used in merchandising as a result, and that was holding up production of the Hobbit movies which is why everyone's old as shit in those movies).
After New Line became a banner (a non-studio that still has its name in the titles, like a brand within the company) a lot of its projects got shitcanned along with a lot of its employees and by the time they had space to make a Shazam movie, the Rock was making big money from disaster porn and faster more furious movies. Then he was doing Jumanji remakes, and finally he found time.
He said they were scamming him out of money but he was also paid 20 million dollars to make Black Adam, and was looking for another 5 million from the gross because he said it was profitable. But as a general rule if your star got 20 million as an appearance fee and has a points agreement on top of that, 400 million worldwide is not profitable. It's why the Terminator movies keep failing.
why are they doing this
it's funny
they're building their own MCU but with spido man
gay sex with Hollywood producers
Retain Spider-Man rights without making an actual Spider-Man movie.
If they were smart they'd be making Spider-Verse movies: Miguel and 2099 would be a massive fricking draw over El Muerte.
To make money
Shouldn't that be Xl Muertx?
Ay ay ay
jajaja
I still don't understand the desperate attempt to make Bad Bunny into some kind of super celebrity.
Cumbacks (homosexual Mexicans) love him (platonically and sexually).
How is a male rapper named Bunny? Is he gay?
yes
Yes
>some luchador bullshit
I thought we were getting a new tokyo train movie for a second.
I hope she's okay
How do the rights work? Are they really just trying to avoid brand confusion or is Disney the only one allowed to use the name right now or something?
Sony owns the Spider-Man live-action rights in full. They don't have to keep making movies to retain them (unlike the X-Men rights or Fantastic Four rights when they were at FOX, because those contracts were done differently at different times). But in any case since the first Spider-Man they made in 2002 Sony alone (ignoring the MCU movies, but not the Sony Holland movies) has made 11 movies off the Spider-Man rights. That's an average of one every two years. Take out the two Venom movies and Morbius because they stink and add in the MCU appearances - which certainly would have counted toward retaining the rights, if Sony had needed them to - and it's still 11.
He really is in only 2 issues, uh?
>I also assume the Rock also had this type of deal with Black Adam before falling out with Warner Brothers
No, he signed on in 2007 for a Shazam movie. But then the script they sent over to him he or someone at the studio didn't like and in early 2008 Warner Bros pulled the plug on New Line, the studio they owned that was making Shazam, because New Line was doing shady shit and it was costing WB big money (basically New Line were denying that the Lord of the Rings trilogy made any money, and apparently withholding royalties to the actors for their likeness rights being used in merchandising as a result, and that was holding up production of the Hobbit movies which is why everyone's old as shit in those movies).
After New Line became a banner (a non-studio that still has its name in the titles, like a brand within the company) a lot of its projects got shitcanned along with a lot of its employees and by the time they had space to make a Shazam movie, the Rock was making big money from disaster porn and faster more furious movies. Then he was doing Jumanji remakes, and finally he found time.
He said they were scamming him out of money but he was also paid 20 million dollars to make Black Adam, and was looking for another 5 million from the gross because he said it was profitable. But as a general rule if your star got 20 million as an appearance fee and has a points agreement on top of that, 400 million worldwide is not profitable. It's why the Terminator movies keep failing.