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In 2021, Sony's boss said people won't miss Spider-Man in its Spider-adjacent movie. Turns out, they do
It's time Sony get versed on the Spider-Verse.
It's easy to forget how big of a deal Spider-Man is. Especially, it seems, for Sony Pictures, which keeps forgetting that one simple fact. And then remembering.
As we wake up here on a Monday morning after what appears to be a three-year bender culminated by the paltry theatrical receipts of Kraven the Hunter, Sony Pictures appears to be (once again) coming to terms with what it actually owns. It owns the exclusive movie rights to Marvel's Spider-Man as well as 900+ associated characters, but it didn't buy the rights to 900+ standalone Marvel characters; it bought Spider-Man, and whatever came with it. Somehow, they forgot that.
You won't believe it, but they did.
“We don’t really think of our 900 characters as the Spidey-verse,” Sony Pictures' motion picture group president Sanford Panitch told Variety in 2021. "We have a
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