Sony Pulling Spidey From The MCU? Not So Fast

Sony Pulling Spidey From The MCU? Not So Fast Dec 6, 2018 17:27:20 GMT taylorfirst1 likes this

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Post by Rey Kahuka on Dec 6, 2018 17:27:20 GMT

Dec 6, 2018 16:05:06 GMT charzhino said:

Dec 6, 2018 15:46:27 GMT havenless said:

Nothing he said was incorrect?

1) The ''smart'' thing to tie Venom into the MCU wasn't actually smart, because they made bank without it. This just comes off as arrogant. ''Other studios need MCU help, without it they would fail''. So regarding Venom he was wrong.

2) Venom had no relation to the MCU, and is currently at $845M. Homecoming, with heavy involvement from MCU poster boy Tony Stark, finished at $880M. So his statement of ''The solo Venom flick for instance, would automatically sell more tickets and DVD's if it has at least some relation to the MCU, even if that is vague and undefined, than if it had no connection whatsoever.'' is false. Venom had no relation to the MCU and still got on par with an MCU spiderman film.

I hate to defend a statement by the dearly departed Arch, but there's no way to prove it wouldn't have made more with a connection to the MCU. Three quarters of its total gross was accumulated in foreign markets, where it's quite possible they thought it was connected to the MCU, anyway. Regardless, its domestic total sits at $212,341,986 . Not a bad haul at all, but Homecoming made over $100M more than that domestically; can you honestly say Venom wouldn't have made more money if it actually featured Spider-Man or other MCU characters?