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refmon
02/19/24 3:36:57 PM
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https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/madame-web-bomb-killed-sony-franchise-1235829471/

Why the fuck aren't you watched female led super hero flicks?

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UnholyMudcrab
02/19/24 3:37:42 PM
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Sony never had any hopes for a franchise to begin with because they're dogshit at making movies.

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Background_Guy
02/19/24 3:38:53 PM
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If only every single person told them that this Spider-Man cinematic universe was a bad idea back when they first announced it back in 2013.

Wait, they did.
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s0nicfan
02/19/24 3:39:23 PM
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It doesn't matter because Sony has 5 years from the theatrical release of Web to release another movie or they lose all their spider-man movie rights. And since the contract they cut with Marvel has no actual end date you can pretty much guarantee at least 2 shitty spider-man spin off movies a decade until someone buys Sony.

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McMarbles
02/19/24 3:40:47 PM
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Yes, but I bet the Kraven movie will be the biggest box-office success of all time! /s

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garan
02/19/24 3:41:15 PM
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The people who made the movie have a track record of making dogshit, so can they really be surprised?
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Evolician
02/19/24 3:41:32 PM
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Is the Kraven movie still happening?

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Nukazie
02/19/24 3:41:47 PM
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where's morbius when you need him

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Jagr_68
02/19/24 3:42:36 PM
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s0nicfan posted...
It doesn't matter because Sony has 5 years from the theatrical release of Web to release another movie or they lose all their spider-man movie rights. And since the contract they cut with Marvel has no actual end date you can pretty much guarantee at least 2 shitty spider-man spin off movies a decade until someone buys Sony.

Only 5 years? I thought it was like 3 which is becoming unsustainable now that people care less and less for capeshit.

Man Sony Pictures fucking sucks they can't pull off an easy expectation like one Spiderman project per 5 year timeframe lol

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GrandConjuraton
02/19/24 3:42:44 PM
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Nukazie posted...
where's morbius when you need him
He's busy morbing!

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s0nicfan
02/19/24 3:43:13 PM
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Jagr_68 posted...
Only 5 years? I thought it was like 3 which is becoming unsustainable now that people care less and less for capeshit.

Man Sony Pictures fucking sucks they can't pull off an easy expectation like one Spiderman project per 5 year timeframe lol

IIRC it's 3 years from release to announce a new project and 5 years from release to actually put it out in theaters.

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Dakimakura
02/19/24 3:44:23 PM
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All they had to do was make Sweeney the featured person and have her show more skin then they would have a hit on their hands.

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UnsteadyOwl
02/19/24 3:44:38 PM
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s0nicfan posted...
It doesn't matter because Sony has 5 years from the theatrical release of Web to release another movie or they lose all their spider-man movie rights. And since the contract they cut with Marvel has no actual end date you can pretty much guarantee at least 2 shitty spider-man spin off movies a decade until someone buys Sony.
The article just says they were planning a bunch of Madame Web sequels and now that's not going to happen. They're almost certainly going to keep making movies about Spider-Man side characters.

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apocalyptic_4
02/19/24 3:44:58 PM
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Sony holding spiderman hostage until the end of time.

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Hornezz
02/19/24 3:47:53 PM
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Remember when there was a rumor about an Aunt May solo spin-off movie?

Make it happen, Sony!

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Jagr_68
02/19/24 3:48:25 PM
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s0nicfan posted...
IIRC it's 3 years from release to announce a new project and 5 years from release to actually put it out in theaters.

Still pretty reasonable for other studios that hire new talented faces instead of the Morbius guys every time

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Punished_Blinx
02/19/24 3:48:33 PM
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I outright don't understand what the logic even was for Madame Web. What did they expect and what were they hoping for?

It's like those 2000s superhero movies but those at least had actual superheroes.

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orcus_snake
02/19/24 3:49:47 PM
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refmon posted...
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/madame-web-bomb-killed-sony-franchise-1235829471/

Why the fuck aren't you watched female led super hero flicks?

I did but it was fucking lame tbh.

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Tyranthraxus
02/19/24 3:49:47 PM
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Guys there's still hope. I'm sure Spider Gwen will save everything.

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AngelsNAirwav3s
02/19/24 3:55:22 PM
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Surely once Sony gets around to the highly anticipated Sinister 6 movie it will be a huge hit!

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Punished_Blinx
02/19/24 3:55:25 PM
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Tyranthraxus posted...
Guys there's still hope. I'm sure Spider Gwen will save everything.

Are they even making that or are they gonna make a movie about Silver Sable instead

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neverwin
02/19/24 4:03:43 PM
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Tyranthraxus posted...
Guys there's still hope. I'm sure Spider Gwen will save everything.

This would be better than everything else they've done at this point

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havean776
02/19/24 4:05:37 PM
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McMarbles posted...
Yes, but I bet the Kraven movie will be the biggest box-office success of all time! /s
Bigger than Morbius?

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Axiom
02/19/24 4:07:12 PM
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No one liked the main actress's acting in it so sounds like it's on them
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s0nicfan
02/19/24 4:09:59 PM
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havean776 posted...
Bigger than Morbius?

If you think "it's morbin' time" got the kids hyped, just wait until "I'm kravin' violence"

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TomClark
02/19/24 4:10:58 PM
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Hornezz posted...
Remember when there was a rumor about an Aunt May solo spin-off movie?

Make it happen, Sony!

Honestly, at this point why the fuck not?

Unironically, Sony's best play now would probably be to just acknowledge that everyone is laughing at these terrible Spider-Adjacent movies and lean into the meme. Go so ridiculous that people will have to see it to believe it.

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PowerOats
02/19/24 4:14:30 PM
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Not gonna lie, the small amount of ads I've seen of it make it seem like a cool movie

What about it makes it bad
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Northlane
02/19/24 4:16:19 PM
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In reality Sony didn't care about this movie

They just gotta pump a movie out to keep the license every so often

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MabusIncarnate
02/19/24 4:17:26 PM
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Sony needs to stop hanging onto their superhero thread and sell it off to Disney already. Clutching onto Spider-man and making shit tier content is getting old.

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lolife67
02/19/24 4:19:11 PM
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So I take it the Holland movies don't count towards keeping the license? Or what about the Spider-verse films? They don't have to keep trying to make films with these supporting characters/villains.
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action52
02/19/24 4:19:42 PM
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Punished_Blinx posted...
Are they even making that or are they gonna make a movie about Silver Sable instead
Neither idea would be terrible. Spider Gwen could definitely be good, and Silver Sable could work if it focuses on her being connected to / allied with Peter Parker or some other Spider-Man incarnation.

The problem, which most of these executives don't get, is that generally comic book villains are only interesting as villains who create conflict for the heroes. Even Joker, the most successful villain-centric movie we've seen so far, was a mediocre story that only worked because they filled it with great actors and shamelessly copied Martin Scorcese to make the movie look beautiful.

In any case Sony's instincts with the Spider-Man franchise are so bad, any movies they put out that are actually good are sheer luck.

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Jupiter
02/19/24 4:22:03 PM
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refmon posted...
Why the fuck aren't you watched female led super hero flicks?
I did. I watched The Marvels and enjoyed it completely. Madame Web however did not look interesting.

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Punished_Blinx
02/19/24 4:26:26 PM
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Aunt May marries into the Parker family. She works at a major corporation with Norman Osborne and they discover inhumane and illegal experiments within the corporation. She asks her husband Ben on what she should do and they go to Richard and Mary Parker for help as they are Government agents. The villain is loosely tied with some Spider-man villain. Lets go with...Vulture. The villain kills Richard and Mary but they successfully expose the scandal. The movie ends May and Ben adopt Peter to try and make amends for getting his parents involved. Post credits scene involves Norman Osborne being promoted to chairman and rebranding the corporation as Oscorp. He discovers super soldier and spider experiments that are still under wraps within the company. He decides...to proceed.

Sony Pictures Presents May: An Origin Story.

If I can get this pitch to Sony I think they'll hire me.

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Zeeak4444
02/19/24 4:29:01 PM
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Tyranthraxus posted...
Guys there's still hope. I'm sure Spider Gwen will save everything.

tbh I never understood why they didnt go hard in this direction from the start.

a standalone spider Gwen would have been perfect and you still could have built in venom or whatever around her.

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Prismsblade
02/19/24 4:30:06 PM
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I still cant believe somebody at sony saw the script for this and greenlit the thing....

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Euripides
02/19/24 4:30:32 PM
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Sony would have made more selling the Spider-Man rights to Disney than they have with all these flops

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UnsteadyOwl
02/19/24 4:31:11 PM
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They should do a Rhino movie that's a comedy where a guy gets stuck in a rhino suit and it's about how hard it is for him living his daily life stuck in a rhino suit.

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pokedude900
02/19/24 4:33:58 PM
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Weren't they also working on a movie about a super obscure wrestling villain that was only in like 1 comic or something?

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RchHomieQuanChi
02/19/24 4:35:05 PM
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FFS Sony, just do a 2099 movie. It's the easiest money ever and you don't have to even acknowledge Peter Parker.

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Aristoph
02/19/24 4:36:14 PM
#41:


refmon posted...
Why the fuck aren't you watched female led super hero flicks?

Because they aren't making any good ones.

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RchHomieQuanChi
02/19/24 4:36:41 PM
#42:


Aristoph posted...
Because they aren't making any good ones.

Wakanda Forever

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Hornezz
02/19/24 4:40:41 PM
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pokedude900 posted...
Weren't they also working on a movie about a super obscure wrestling villain that was only in like 1 comic or something?
El Muerto starring Bad Bunny. Seems to have been canceled. Probably wise decision.

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Nasty_Nitro
02/19/24 4:43:28 PM
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Why not do Venom vs Carnage vs Spiderman???

Tom Hardy, Woody Harrelson and hell! just dont have him take off the mask. Focus on Tom Hardys Venom wanting Spider Man and Woody Harrelson is hunting Venom

rated R

Just a 90 minute action flick.

call in Daredevil & Punisher from MCU bing bing bing BIG BUCKS

Spider-Man Meets Carnage

or a Sinister Six movie!

but no

lets do the outrageously obscure Madame Webb and try to make that pop smfh

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pokedude900
02/19/24 4:43:41 PM
#45:


Hornezz posted...

El Muerto starring Bad Bunny. Seems to have been canceled. Probably wise decision.

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?

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s0nicfan
02/19/24 5:39:40 PM
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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.

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Punished_Blinx
02/19/24 5:49:04 PM
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I don't think it's a case of them doing these movies solely to keep the license. It's also because they don't really know what else to fund as a tent pole blockbuster every year.

They've got Zelda from Nintendo so they've been looking for something else. Hopefully that'll make them slow down with this crap and do something else.

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Kim_Seong-a
02/19/24 6:34:25 PM
#49:


refmon posted...
Why the fuck aren't you watched female led super hero flicks?

Still waiting on a dark, urban fantasy Zatanna flick

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MangaBroski
02/19/24 6:38:50 PM
#50:


MabusIncarnate posted...
Sony needs to stop hanging onto their superhero thread and sell it off to Disney already. Clutching onto Spider-man and making shit tier content is getting old.
Spider-Verse films>MCU
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