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Final Fantasy2389 posted...

With how much those movies make (even still), Sony should let them do whatever they want with spidey and rake in the cash.

The problem is, corporations don't actually think this way.

They're not satisfied with some of the money, if they can potentially have all of the money instead. Even if all of the money winds up being less than some of the money. And they'd often rather have no money at all than being forced to split some of the money with someone else.

Basically, greed on both sides kind of ruins things.

At one point, Disney was demanding half the profit from Sony's Spider-Man movies, while Sony was pointing out that they were actually making more money from Venom than they'd make from a potential 50-50 split with Marvel over Spider-Man (on the argument that the MCU crossover was dramatically increasing the gross profit of the Sony films), and Sony was basically ready to tell Disney to go fuck themselves and just go back to making Spider-Man movies as part of their own separate universe (because Venom made over $800 million without any MCU tie-in at all). It came very, very close to Sony not letting Marvel use Spider-Man in Infinity War/Endgame, and Far From Home would basically have been removed from the MCU entirely.

As is, the second Venom film actually outperformed all of the actual MCU films this year. So they're not likely to back down the next time Disney starts swinging their dick around either. But at the same time Disney isn't likely to stop being egotistical assholes any time soon, so we're probably constantly a hair's breath away from a behind-the-scenes argument that shuts down all cooperation. Which means Disney is never going to be super-keen on making Spider-Man the entire centerpiece of the "New MCU". Even if it would eventually make sense in the context of the ongoing story.
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