Comments on: With Rumors Of A Delay For ‘The Amazing Spider-Man 3,’ Is Sony’s Biggest Franchise In Trouble?

By: Mecha

Mecha — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:18:30 +0000

Actually Disney owns the merchandising rights to Spider-Man.

By: MFD

MFD — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:18:30 +0000

A movie grosses $700 million-plus internationally and is still termed a disappointment. Here is the profound corruption of today's filmmaking world writ large — in giant, blinking, neon, 3-D letters.

By: Sebastian O' Connor

Sebastian O' Connor — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:18:30 +0000

Good. Webb's Spider-Man films are a POS. I'd be happy if the franchise just died.

You think Sony isn't trying to bring back Electro and the Lizard for the awful sounding Sinister Six movie? The question is how much money they're willing to throw Foxx's and Ifan's way.

I'm guessing of the 2015 summer movies you listed at least 3 get pushed back or are never made. Much like Amazing Spider-man 2, X-Men DOFP underperformed and Cap will likely move to avoid the Batman v Superman's Timer Warner media onslaught.

By: kitcon

kitcon — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:18:30 +0000

They could use the favorite franchise saving tool — time travel, and resurrect Emma Stone. Then make ASM3 all about her and Spidey. I'd watch that.

By: Bobblahblah

Bobblahblah — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:18:30 +0000

Doesn't disney and marvel own the merchandising rights?

By: Rob

Rob — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:18:30 +0000

Sony's CEO's all recently had to take a pay cut… so yeah. And good riddance. Sony's screwed it up twice now.

By: KT

KT — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:18:30 +0000

Word on the street is Spider-Man will be appearing in Avengers 3… Sony talks a good game but they'll need the cash.

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:18:30 +0000

These idiots at the studios… They should've hired better writers and a different director. They literally had the perfect cast.

By: sc

sc — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:18:30 +0000

The author fails to realize that Sony parted ways to the merchandising rights to Disney in 2011. This means they only profit from the film's success.

By: SC

SC — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:18:30 +0000

Losers and pussies ruined the box office by revealing Gwen's death and then people didn't wanna see it.

By: Bailey Potts

Bailey Potts — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:18:30 +0000

Sony doesn't really care about, spider-man, he's just being used to by sony, if they give him back they loose all the chances of getting money, spider-man is just a money machine for sony, marvel will do the character justice, marvel shouldn't have even given sony spider-man to begin with, the poor web head might never return home to marvel, instead he is another slave for sony to beat, they should have given spider-man back after the 3rd film was made, that film was damaging, but I have know someday that sony will mess up and they will have no choice but to let him go, in fact marvel should own the rights to all it's characters, when that day happens the world will rejoice.

By: CR

CR — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:18:30 +0000

I haven't seen it, and won't until it costs me $1 to rent. I've been a Spidey fan since I was a kid and Sony has shown that they haven't known what to do with the characters since the 2nd Rami film. My personal boycott is on for the awful sounding spin offs and current direction of the films until they let Marvel/Disney take direction of the franchise and include it in the broader arc with Avengers. It pains me to think that this will never happen and they keep pounding this character into the ground with awful sequels and spin offs because they can make a buck.

By: Me

Me — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:18:30 +0000

The delay seems good in a business perspective but I sincerely hope they take this extra time to really make the third film truly amazing. I mean, I didn't find the first or the second as bad as some people make it out to be but they were, without doubt, extremely flawed. I'm sure we all want a Spider-Man that turns out to be at the same calibur as The Avengers, Nolan's Batman and the recent X-Men. This is what I want from Spider-Man and I hope they utilise the extra time to make the film truly memorable. As my favourite superhero, I believe this is the least that they can do for the hero and his fans alike.

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:18:30 +0000

Sony should scrap their crappy "reboot" and bring back the spiderman timeline created with the Raimi films. There is still life in them and much better set up than anything they have done. Sony has ruined what was the benchmark of super hero films. Now DC, which has been far less successful than marvel, is trying to take their time. Meanwhile, Sony can't wait to become the Disney channel of cinema and force feed us predictable scripts, manufactured stars, and canned laughs.

By: Shark

Shark — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:18:30 +0000

Can I say this,ASM 2 makes Spiderman 3(raimi's) a rather good benchmark to achieve and for those who think that I like Spidey 3 then that would be a misjudgment because it was the 4th worst marvel movie ( I would say, Daredevil, Iron Man 2 and Hulk) but No, Sony has to be just a going massive dickhead about it.

By: OTT.norm

OTT.norm — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:18:30 +0000

Marvel/Disney own the merchandising rights to the character, so Sony's profit has to come from the movies and DVD sales.

By: Picard

Picard — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:18:30 +0000

Actually Sony isn't making a profit from the merchandise since Disney has the rights to that.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:18:30 +0000

I think in spider man 2 there's weapons for the sinister six at the end ,where mr. fierce is actually norman osborn.

By: Kyle

Kyle — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:18:30 +0000

The movie rights need to go back to Disney and Marvel Studios !