Time Network News Disney and Sony's "breakup" drama has just ended successfully, "Spider-Man" has gone through the ice and fire in more than a month, and finally was able to stay in the Marvel MCU universe. The biggest hero turned out to be "Spider-Man" himself. "Little Spider" Tom Holland played a key role in quelling this dispute.
According to the "Hollywood Reporter", Tom Holland has communicated with Disney boss Bob Iger and Sony Pictures boss Tom Rothman many times and saved "Spider-Man" at the "last minute".
In fact, the root cause of the breakdown of the previous negotiations between Sony and Disney is nothing more than "money." According to sources, Disney initially sought a 50-50 co-financing agreement. In January this year, it became a more moderate 25-25 split proposal, but in the next six months, Sony did not respond. Later, Disney co-chair Alan Horn suddenly interrupted the negotiation in June of this year, before the release of "Spider-Man: Far From Home".
On August 20th, the negotiations between Sony Pictures and Disney on the next Spider-Man movie broke down, and it is expected that Marvel will no longer participate in the "Spider-Man" series of movies in the future. But less than a month and a half later, the two parties announced on September 27 that they would continue to cooperate in the third "Spiderman" movie, and directly announced the schedule as July 16, 2021.
In this division, "Little Spider" Tom Holland once appeared in the Disney Comic Exhibition D23 conference to promote the new Disney animation "1/2 the magic", and publicly expressed his opinion on the comic Wei MCU was reluctant, when he quoted Iron Man's line in the movie "I love you three thousand". According to the description of the "Hollywood Reporter", that is, after the end of the D23 conference, the Dutch brother began his good offices. He contacted Tom Rothman, CEO of Nepal Pictures, and Bob Iger, CEO of Disney, who miraculously agreed to restart negotiations.
In the new agreement between Sony and Disney, Marvel and Disney will receive 25% of the proceeds from the next "Spider-Man" movie, Disney will retain the right to sell peripheral derivatives, and Spider-Man will appear in a future MCU In the movie.
Although on the surface, Sony may have suffered a bit, but in fact Sony can still continue to develop their Spider-Man universe, which means that "Spider-Man" has become the only superhero that can appear in different universes. "The Amazing Spider-Man" series restart, so Sony will even get more benefits than before the negotiations.
