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pokedude900 posted...

I don't know. A character that has that little to work off of could make for a nice original story while still technically filling their Spider-Man quota. Granted the real wise decision would be to cut their losses and just give the rights back to Marvel. Seriously, is the IP THAT valuable in relation to how much they're losing on these terrible movies?

I mean... it probably is. Imagine how much Disney would charge Sony today if Sony wanted perpetual rights to one of the biggest Marvel draws with the only condition being they use those rights every 5 years. Then compare that number to the amount Sony has lost on using said license. Most of those movies, even though they're bombs, still technically made money. Morbius eventually made 167M on an 80M budget. Madame Web is around 50M on a budget of 80M, which is a loss of 30M, but Morbius' profits more than make up for it. There are enough people in the world that will go see any old crap that as long as Sony keeps the budgets lower going forward, they're at least going to make more than they lost.