Basically, Sony is in charge of making and distributing standalone Spider-Man universe movies, and then Disney's Marvel can "borrow" the characters for films in its own Marvel Cinematic Universe. Spider-Man, as a character, derives from Marvel, but Disney's Marvel has a complicated license-sharing deal with Sony for the Spider-Man characters on film. Not anytime in the near future, unless Disney and Sony strike a new bargain. Is Spider-Man: No Way Home going to stream on Disney Plus?
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Sony Pictures is the distributor releasing No Way Home, and it put the movie exclusively in theaters. HBO Max just started streaming The Matrix Resurrections last month, but it isn't streaming Spider-Man: No Way Home.Īnd even though actor Tom Holland's Spider-Man appears routinely in Disney's Marvel movies, that doesn't mean the latest Spider-Man movie is coming anywhere near Disney Plus for a long time.
HBO Max, in particular, has become synonymous with the practice. Last year saw an unprecedented number of new theatrical movies released on streaming services the same day they hit cinemas. Spider-Man: No Way Home is the first film in the pandemic to hit $1 billion in global box office receipts, and its streaming strategy surely helped pack fans into theaters - because the movie hasn't been streaming at all. Spider-Man: No Way Home opened exclusively in theaters in December.