In Sony's entire box office history they have the following
Spider-Man (which they have limited overall rights to)
Bond (which they no longer have distribution rights to)
Jumanji
Venom (see Spider-Man)
Da Vinci Code (no longer has any value)
Men in Black (no longer has much value)
That's about it for their IP. They have Smurfs and Hotel Transylvania, but those also have limited range. Same with the Karate Kid.
Compare this to Disney, Warner, or even Universal... they have considerably more IP. Not sure what you were confused about here.
Perhaps because Emma Stone was not available or not interested? Considering the direction of Morbius and Madame Web, and that she just won an Oscar... It's just possible she's not interested. I know I wouldn't, but that's me.
Of course we can't know all the details that aren't publicly available, but that's definitely you. Most people don't turn down the chance at leading big box office movies that can gross hundreds of millions of dollars, if not a billion plus.
But for context, she did sign up for Amazing Spider-Man and she did sign up for Cruella. This would easily be her best opportunity to become a bigger box office star. I'd be stunned if she would turn this down.
Your assumption is entirely wrong. Sony has negotiated with Marvel on a new Spider-Man - as reported by many trades - and have agreed with Marvel to produce SM4 with Tom Holland. It's also been reported that Sony wanted another Multiverse adventure and Marvel managed to convince them on having a "street" level SM movie.
Not sure if you knew, but Tom Holland had a mini-hiatus from SM, and Sony and Marvel had to agree on terms for the new movie.
Did you know the difference between negotiating a movie and announcing it? They haven't announced it yet, so the SOONEST it could come out would be next summer, which is my point. When this movie comes out it will not be a part of the Sony Netflix deal. You're also ignoring the demand for Raimi Spider-Man 4 and Amazing Spider-Man 3. Either would do above 500 million at this point and make way more sense than madame web, morbius, or kraven.
Tom Holland never took a hiatus from spider-man he took a hiatus from acting for a year. That doesn't explain this sizeable gap in announcing a movie. Again... No Way Home came out in 2021. Normally a 4th movie would be out two years later. So let's add a year to that, you would still expect a movie within 2024, and we don't even know if there will be a movie in 2025, it certainly isn't likely. So if something comes out in 2026, that would be a 5 year gap in between movies. That's a lot of time to not make potentially a billion dollars at the box office.
That's literally what a box office bomb means, I'm not making these terms up. You, on the other way, are trying to make it seem like Morbius and Madame Web were anything but bombs.
There is a difference between a box office bomb and a financial loser.
Not sure if you're being sarcastic or not, but I mean it. I don't give two fucks about being right or wrong, shit either happens or not.
At the end of the day it doesn't matter about being right or wrong. It's all speculative, but on this site especially, people seem to make really shitty arguments that aren't based in any logic. That's worse than being wrong, at least in my book.
No one is right about everything when it comes to speculation, but the value of their speculation to me is based in the thought process and the logic.
I generally have you on ignore, so I already knew what I was getting into responding to you, but I generally continue to give every the benefit of the doubt in discussions, especially if they're worth talking about.
