Upon reading of Bryan Singer's "sneaky" move to "steal" Quicksilver away from Whedon and the MCU it got me thinking about the characters movie rights and the studios that own them.
A few days ago I read that Sony may be selling off their entertainment division so the rights to Spider-Man would be up in the air for Marvel to grab, but upon writing this a few news outlets are saying otherwise. Same with Marvel only just acquiring back the rights to Daredevil, Ghost Rider and Blade.
Now, I'm not an expert on the ins and outs of the movie industry so forgive me if I come off as a tad naive, but, since all these films are released under Marvel Productions doesn't that make them Marvel properties regardless of the studio? The Avengers and Captain America were put out through Paramount does that make it a Paramount property? Doesn't seem like they are.
With the petty squabbling between studios and to a lesser extent fans (no offence intended) is it really a bad thing to cross characters over to give the appearance of an enormous universe?
Or if it's really that nasty, why don't Marvel just buy them back using the Disney money if necessary but still release the movies under the studios as intended like Fox for X-Men, Sony for Spider-Man and so on. It would certainly please the fans having connections like that to have the nice surprise of seeing in upcoming movies and then attendance will go up (as we are a vocal group of people when we see something awesome), and sales of merchandise would go up and so forth, everybody wins!
This is just a fan wanting to see a united universe.