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The amazing spiderman 2 series#
The deal Disney and Sony reached in early 2015 allowed for a new Spider-Man series within the MCU, while also turning Andrew Garfield into the George Lazenby of the series. This can only be an issue because Sony was successful in launching four well-received, commercially-successful and (save for Venom) well-reviewed Spider-Man or Spider-Man-ish comic book superhero flicks. Yes, Into the Spider-Verse was a singular franchise and the Sony Marvel flicks won’t just be about Spider-Man, but heck, calling it “Sony Pictures’ Marvel Characters Universe” would at least get folks to (unofficially) call it “Sony’s MCU.” Which, especially if Michael Keaton’s Vulture is showing up in Morbius, is probably an accurate assessment. As Iron Man taught us 12 years ago, a ridiculous word salad (Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division) only works when it can be shortened to something snappy (S.H.I.E.L.D.).
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I don’t think folks are going to be using “SPUMC” either. The “ Sony Pictures Universe of Marvel Characters” feels like a name created by an algorithm meant to clog headlines and never be spoken by anyone outside of the industry or the media. It rolls off the tongue and it reminds folks of one of the best superhero movies ever made. **ALL IMAGES ARE PROPERTY OF SONY PICTURES ENTERTAINMENT INC. Columbia Pictures and Sony Pictures Animations' SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE. Miles Morales (Shameik Moore), Peter Parker (Jake Johnson) and Spider-Gwen (Hailee Steinfeld) in. That’s what we’ve all been calling it for the last year or two anyway. Nonetheless, why the hell they didn’t just call this the “Spider-Verse” is beyond me. Shock of shocks, Reuben Fleischer ’s Venom turned out to be an entirely stand-alone superhero origin story with only a standard mid-credit sequel tease, so it seems that Sony is learning the Iron Man lesson (happy 12th birthday to the first Iron Man, which opened May 2, 2008) of making stand-alone movies that work on their own terms. To be fair, a dumb name for a cinematic universe isn’t going to be a deal breaker if the movies work on a case-by-case basis. The bad news is that they’ve settled on an inexplicably terrible title for their franchise/brand. So the good news is that Sony may just get the “Spider-Man cinematic universe” they’ve been chasing for years. Venom: Let There Be Carnage (starring Woody Harrelson as Carnage) will now open on June 25, 2021. A sequel has now been slated for October 23, 2022. Oh, and Sony’s animated Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse brought Miles Morales into the fold, earned rave reviews, earned $190 million domestic/$375 million worldwide (great for a superhero toon) and won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature over Pixar’s $1.2 billion-grossing Incredibles 2.
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Jared Leto’s Morbius was supposed to open this July but will now debut in March of next year. More importantly, Tom Hardy’s Venom overcame years of dismissal to score an $80 million domestic debut on its way to $214 million domestic, $279 million in China and $854 million worldwide on a mere $90 million budget. Spider-Man: Far From Home was sold as an epilogue to Avengers: Endgame and earned $390 million/$1.128 billion on a $165 million budget, passing Skyfall ($1.108 billion) as Sony’s biggest global grosser. That’s one reason why Amazing Spider-Man 2 was a “flop” at $709 million but the $170 million-budgeted Captain America: The Winter Soldier was a “blockbuster” at $714 million in the same year. Spider-Man: Homecoming, featuring Tom Holland as a young Peter Parker palling around with Robert Downey Jr.’s Iron Man and the rest of the MCU, earned solid reviews and $334 million domestic/$881 million worldwide on a $175 million budget, which is frankly what the Amazing Spider-Man movies should have cost. Six years later, Sony seems to have discovered the gold at the end of the rainbow which they were pursuing with Marc Webb’s doomed Spider-Man reboot.
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Alas, when the film was met with mediocre reviews and shockingly poor domestic legs, it meant that A) audiences were not jazzed for The Amazing Spider-Man 3 and B) audiences were certainly not jazzed for various spin-off movies ( Venom, a young Aunt May spy flick, etc.). Moreover, the film pandered to the hardcore fan base by killing off its female lead (Emma Stone’s Gwen Stacey) which also removed both the new franchise’s most popular character and the new series’ most unique element (the romantic chemistry between Garfield and Stone).
The amazing spiderman 2 movie#
While the movie itself was mostly stand-alone, save for a needless subplot involving Peter’s dead parents and a mid-credits tease for a potential Sinister Six movie down the road, the marketing and in-studio expectations set the film up as a backdoor pilot for a whole new world of Spider-Man heroes and Spider-Man villains.