Before any of you get too excited about the prospect of Marvel Studios reacquiring the rights to Spider-Man, I don't think Sony will be in that desperate a financial position any time soon. However, having experienced some massive losses (the numerous reasons for which you can find by clicking on the link below) the company have now sold the merchandising rights to Spider-Man. Here is an excerpt from the report over at
Forbes.
You know things are bad when Spider-Man – who not so long ago made a literal deal with the Devil in his comic book adventures to restore his ailing Aunt May to health – heads out of the door. However, the ¥21.4 billion ($278 million) sale of of Spider-Man merchandising rights was a rare bright spot in Sony’s Q2, announced today (Wednesday). The outperformance of ‘The Smurfs’ was another bright spot, for Sony if not for civilisation as a whole.
So, what does this really mean for Spidey? In all honesty, probably not that much. The last three Spider-Man movies were commercially very successful for Sony, and it's unlikely that they'd ever get in such a dire financial situation that they'd have to relinquish the rights. And with
The Amazing Spider-Man looking so good, would we even want them to? Marvel Studios have a pretty decent amount of characters already on their hands. Of course, should the 2012 movie not perform that well at the box office (highly unlikely) then who knows what might happen?
STARRING:
Andrew Garfield as Peter Parker/Spider-Man
Emma Stone as Gwen Stacy
Rhys Ifans as Curt Connors/The Lizard
Martin Sheen as Uncle Ben
Sally Fields as Aunt May
Denis Leary as George Stacy
RELEASE DATE: July 3rd, 2012.
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