Sony's 'Spider-Man' Movies Of All Eras Have Started To Swing Onto Disney+
Sony's 'Spider-Man' Movies Of All Eras Have Started To Swing Onto Disney+
It begins the fulfillment of an agreement from April 2021
Spider-Man, Spider-Man, enacting a new streaming plan. Can he stream on Disney+? Soon he will so end your fuss. Look out, here come the Spider-Men. Five of Sony’s Spider-Man films, including at least one of each iteration of Peter, plus 2018’s Venom, are slinging their way to the streamer, the first patching up of holes in its Marvel Cinematic Universe collection.
The entire Raimi-directed Spider-Man trilogy, the first The Amazing Spider-Man, and Spider-Man Homecoming, and even Venom are part of the first crop of Sony films to come to Disney+ under an April 2021 deal that expanded Sony’s FX carriage of library titles to Hulu, Freeform, ABC and even the Disney-branded channels. The trilogy and Amazing are arriving tomorrow, while Homecoming and Venom will arrive on May 12.
More titles from Sony Pictures’ film and television library, and yes that includes the missing Spider-Man titles and non-Marvel titles, are expected to premiere on Disney+ in the United States later this year. It’s a deal that also gave Disney second window rights for 5 years of Sony’s theatrical films, just a little bit after Netflix got the pay-1 window. These films are from the 2022-2026 slate. considering Disney’s films’ pay-1 window would last 18 months there in the days before Disney+, Morbius isn’t due until next March, having arrived to Netflix in September 2022. As for Spider-Man: No Way Home and Venom: Let There Be Carnage, they’re 2021 films, and therefore still on that Starz/(FX on?) Hulu path, but something is sure to be worked out
If there’s a serious Marvel priority, that might mean the Ghost Rider films could be leading the pack. As for Sony’s television library, Spider-Man led the way there too, when The New Animated Series and The Spectacular Spider-Man were added to the service in October. When the full Tom Holland-starring trilogy does hit Disney+, the only MCU film missing will be Universal’s The Incredible Hulk.
Source: Variety