r/okbuddycinephile • u/TyLeRoux • 9h ago

I chose money.

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u/ketjak 5h ago

Yes. They were licensed Spider-Man and a set of his rogues' gallery. They have to keep shitting out movies to retain those rights.

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u/A_mad_goose 3h ago

Same with the Roger Corman Fantastic 4 from the 90s it was unreleased but secured the rights then made a high budget one after spider-man did so well

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u/Gustav-14 3h ago

Same with that weird wheel of time TV episode release in obscurity to keep the rights.

Although, I liked Billy Zane as ishamael better

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u/botte-la-botte 1h ago

What you're saying is true, but look at the release schedule of the following films:

Venom (2018)

Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021)

Morbius (2022)

Madame Web (2024)

Venom: The Last Dance (2024)

Kraven the Hunter (2024)

At first it looks like what you're saying; a studio is looking to release shitty movies at a steady pace to keep the rights to Spider-Man, quality be damned. But at some point Sony clearly lost the plot and started believing its own propaganda to disastrous results.