There’s a lot riding on Spider-Man: Far From Home for Marvel Studios for if it fails to make $1 billion it will lose the right to have creative control over the third film.
That’s according to a new report delivered by the entertainment industry newsletter The Ankler, which claims to have details regarding Sony’s deal with Marvel Studios.
“The original Sony/Marvel/Spidey deal to co-produce these movies stipulated that if this Spidey cleared a billion, Marvel would get to oversee a third,” Richard Rushfield writes.
“If it hadn’t, full control would have reverted back to Sony.”
Luckily the Spider-Man sequel has already made over $600 million in its first week of release which means it is pretty much guaranteed to top $1 billion by the end of its theatrical run.
what determines a film's theatrical run length
yeah, plus disney locks theaters into longer runs.
not quite a billion? what if they pull a Endgame and re-release it with some extra footage?
Presuming a $710 million cume by tonight, it'll be right between Amazing Spider-Man 2 ($709 million) and Captain America: The Winter Soldier ($714 million) as it continues to attempt to be the first Spider-Man movie to top $900 million and (presumably at this juncture) $1 billion. If, and this is a big "if," Far From Home continues to earn triple its domestic figure overseas, a $280 million 14-day domestic cume could give Spider-Man 2 version 3 a $875 million global cume by Sunday night.
More appropriate for Star Wars, no doubt, but close enough related to comics that I'm not going to bother finding the other thread.
Today I learned that JJ Abram's co-writer for SW:TROS also wrote (and this is true) - Batman v Superman Dawn of Justice and Justice League. Ooof, hopefully the space battles are cool at least.
Ugggh. Didn't want to know that. Should have stuck with Rian Johnson.