It’s No Longer Morbin’ Time: Sony CEO ‘Doesn’t Know’ if There Will Be More Spider-Man Spin-Off Movies
Back in February, Sony Pictures Entertainment Motion Picture Group CEO Tom Rothman implied during a conversation with Matt Belloni that Sony’s Spider-Man Universe, home to such beloved films as Morbius, Madame Web, and Kraven the Hunter, would be getting a reboot with new talent. Now, it seems as though even that might be wishful thinking. In an interview with Variety, Rothman was blunt about the prospects of more Spider-Man-adjacent films.
- ▪Back in February, Sony Pictures Entertainment Motion Picture Group CEO Tom Rothman implied during a conversation with Matt Belloni that Sony’s Spider-Man Universe, home to such beloved films as Morbius, Madame Web, and Kraven the Hunter, wo
- ▪Now, it seems as though even that might be wishful thinking.
- ▪In an interview with Variety, Rothman was blunt about the prospects of more Spider-Man-adjacent films.
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Back in February, Sony Pictures Entertainment Motion Picture Group CEO Tom Rothman implied during a conversation with Matt Belloni that Sony’s Spider-Man Universe, home to such beloved films as Morbius, Madame Web, and Kraven the Hunter, would be getting a reboot with new talent. Now, it seems as though even that might be wishful thinking. In an interview with Variety, Rothman was blunt about the prospects of more Spider-Man-adjacent films. “Ultimately, the audience wasn’t satisfied enough with [Sony’s Spider-Man spin-offs],” Rothman said. “Whether that’s a fair assessment of those movies, who knows. That’s howling into the wind. The audience is the boss, and they didn’t respond.
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