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WhiskeyDisk posted...

"Why make billions when you can make millions?"

--Sony

"Why bother making some money if you can't make all of the money?"

--Disney



Or, for a less pithy, more accurate summation:



"Why make billions if you have to share it, when you can make different billions you don't have to share? Sony can go fuck themselves and we'll play with our shiny new toys. We'll only play ball if we get a huge chunk of the profit for very little investment."

--Disney



"Why make the movie with you at all if you're going to try and gouge the shit out of us? Especially when you get 100% of the merchandising profits and we can only recoup via film returns? We can shit out a worse movie and still make more money than we would if we did things your way. Fuck, we made more money off Amazing Spider-Man 2 than we did from Homecoming. We'll just crank out a Spider-Man 3 with Tom Holland and his entire supporting cast, and we'll introduce Miles or Spider-Gwen or something, and make more money than we ever would if we bent over and grabbed our ankles for you."

--Sony



Word seems to be that Disney decided they didn't really give a shit about Spider-Man or co-operating with Sony, because the influx of all the Fox properties (specifically the X-Men, but also the Fantastic Four stuff to some degree) means that Kevin Feige is going to be way too busy to be loaned out to work on a film Disney will only get SOME money from. Supposedly, they were already reconsidering if they wanted to maintain the relationship before the Fox merger (and had set an ultimatum of dropping the agreement entirely unless Far From Home made more than a billion dollars), but after the Fox merger they became even less willing to work together, and apparently only made their offer as an extortionate power-politic tactic because they didn't care if Sony said no. Sony, on the other hand, rightly saw the offer as the insulting BS it was and walked away from negotiations because they understood Disney was no longer willing to deal in good faith.

Sony actually made more money off Amazing Spider-Man 2 than they did from Homecoming. And yes, Far From Home is the most successful Spider-Man film ever, but if the deal Disney wants for the next film had been in place for Far From Home, it would have been their least successful Spider-Man film ever. Sony would have to be literally insane to accept the deal Disney wanted.

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