Story here:
BWHAHAHAHA!!!
Sorry but you can’t help but laugh. They just set him up as new center of the MCU…
Really dumb decision by Sony, if this is really going down like this. The MCU will be fine without Spidey. Spidey probably loses half his box office revenue without the MCU. My wife and I probably wouldn’t have seen either of the recent Spiderman movies if they weren’t in the MCU, barring absolutely stellar reviews.
Eh, he should be with the mutants over at X-land anyway.* 
Don’t give me your “a radioactive spider bit me” BS. You’re on The List, mutant boy.
*especially if he has biological web spinners
I’m the same. I haven’t seen any of the non-MCU Spiderman movies. My interest in the character is solely based on his place in the MCU series.
Yeah, about that…
There seem to be conflicting reports about how final this decision is, so hopefully this is all just negotiation and things get worked out. Spidey seems like an important character to continue things after Endgame.
That article links to one at Deadline.com, which explains the reason, “Sony did not want to share its biggest franchise.” Disney has plenty of franchises but Sony does not. Wikipedia lists Sony franchises including, “The Karate Kid, Ghostbusters, Spider-Man, Jumanji, Stuart Little, Men in Black, Underworld, Robert Langdon, The Smurfs (via Peyo), Sniper, Hotel Transylvania, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs”.
Basically a pretty weak selection. So I can well understand that they want to hang onto Spiderman.
Tony: “Congratulations, kid, you’re an Avenger.”
Well, at least until the end of the next movie…
How many movies were included in the previous deal?
They’ll be back to negotiating in a week or two.
According to CBR.com, negotiations are in fact still ongoing. Reports of the death of Spider-Man in the MCU have been greatly exaggerated.
Suits ruin everything.
I guess the next film will be entitled Spider-Man: Home Alone.
Honestly, I am kinda glad. Disney owns almost everything now so it’s a little heartening to see them not own something substantial. And Sony is coming off of Into the Spider-Verse, which got them a friggin Oscar, so they probably figure they can handle the character fine on their own.
Sony shouldn’t kid themselves that Spider Man is irreplaceable. The MCU was going strong before he entered it. And it would only take Disney one Prowler origin movie to recover from his loss.
Of course the character isn’t irreplaceable. The point is that Sony can write and produce stand-alone Spider-man stories without needing anything else from the MCU. And remember Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse was a successful movie independent of the MCU.
It was and it was a great movie. It wouldn’t have worked as live action, though.
And Venom, while it did ok overseas, was a terrible movie.
Good. Now that Tony’s dying delusion from from being killed in Afghanistan has reached its conclusion, Spidey ain’t needed/
I wasn’t all that impressed with Spidey in End Game. Pretty sure I saw him shoot his web into thin air (and hoist himself up) at least once.
Dude is worthless unless he’s fighting someone downtown.