SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA – JULY 02: South Koreans wear Spider-Man clothes during Seoul premiere of ‘Spider-Man: Homecoming’ at Yeongdeunpo Times Square on July 2, 2017 in Seoul, South Korea. (Photo by Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images)
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SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA – JULY 02: South Koreans wear Spider-Man clothes during Seoul premiere of ‘Spider-Man: Homecoming’ at Yeongdeunpo Times Square on July 2, 2017 in Seoul, South Korea. (Photo by Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images)
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Spider-Man: No Coming Home became the highest-grossing film in the Spider Man franchised so far. But the road to this latest Spider-Man movie has been a bumpy one for the filmmakers, Marvel Studios and Sony Pictures.
When Marvel gave the Spider-Man movie rights to Sony Pictures in the 1990s, the deal made sense – Marvel wasn’t making movies yet, and their business was mostly creating comic books and toys. Years later, however, the deal would come back to haunt Marvel, and it would spark a long tussle between Sony and Marvel over who had creative cinematic control of Marvel’s most popular superhero. Today, we’re breaking down all the off-screen dramas that have become as entertaining as the movies.
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