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Originally Posted by Nadal Fan
At this point Disney needs Spider-Man a lot more than Sony/Spider-Man need Disney. Venom and Into the Spider-Verse along with the Raimi trilogy prove Sony can make good Spider-Man content. Spider-Man is one of a few comic book properties (X-Men, Batman, Superman are the others IMO) where you could build a cinematic universe around it given how great his villains and supporting cast is.
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Not sure this is true - honestly the real answer is that neither party really need one another.
Disney has turned the entire marvel universe into gold - Black Panther, GotG, Thor, Captain Marvel, etc are all just as big of box office hits as Spider-Man at this point.
Plus Disney also has the X-Men and Fantastic Four they need to incorporate to the Franchise now, so not like they are lacking for characters to work into the Universe.
If anything Sony would probably be the one's benefiting more if Disney is going to let them use X-Men characters and other MCU characters in the Sony universe.
Sony doesn't need Disney either because history has shown that even horrible Spider-Man movies can likely make $800M internationally.
The biggest concerns for Sony would be it's not that clear how they would really move forward with the Tom Holland Spider-man without having that linkage to the MCU. Plus while Spider-Verse was amazing, it's not like Venom was critically acclaimed. It did well at the international box office but was destroyed by critics.
At this point from a critical perspective Sony is only batting about .500 on Spider-Man movies. 1, 2, and Spider-Verse were great. Spider-man 3, Amazing 1, Amazing 2 were no good and Venom is kind of "cult" good in that people liked it but critically it was hated.
The last Live Action Spider-man movie that was managed by Sony to get over 75% on Rotten Tomatoes was in 2004 - that's not really a great level of success.