They killed Spider-Man. The superhero Spiderman will no longer appear in the successful Avengers saga: all due to the non-renewal of the agreement between the Japanese multinational Sony, which holds the rights to the character Peter Parker, and the Marvel, an American film company specializing in superhero films, purchased in 2009 by Disney. At the time of the acquisition by Disney, Marvel delivered all the package of Marvel Comics comic book heroes to the Mickey Mouse house, except for some that had in the meantime been sold to third parties, in previous agreements.
Among these was one of the best known, Spiderman, taken over by Sony in 1999 to produce the successful trilogy starring Tobey Maguire. The rights were confirmed to Sony in 2012 with the release of The Amazing Spider-Man in which Peter Parker had the face of Andrew Garfield this time. The film and its sequel, The Amazing Spider-Man 2 – The power of Electro, did not have the audience response hoped for and so Sony signed an agreement with Disney in 2015: while maintaining the rights to the character, it would have allowed that Spiderman appeared in ensemble films of the Marvel universe.
From there a completely different Spider-Man was born: the young, carefree and curious one embodied by Tom Holland, who appeared for the first time in Captain America: Civil War, in two films dedicated to him signed by Sony and then again for Disney in Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame. A modernized Spiderman, which brought Sony results never seen before (the latest, Spider-Man: Far From Home, surpassed Skyfall to become Sony's biggest box office success) and a young and human point of view in the Avengers (compared to multi-billionaire Tony Stark or the god Thor, teenager Peter Parker awkward with girls is definitely the character closest to the viewer).
It was precisely the strong box office results that led to the breaking of the agreement between Sony and Disney. The Mickey Mouse house, which received only 5% of the over one billion dollars collected by Spiderman: Far From Home, wanted to review the contract and get to produce future films in perfect collaboration, financing them at 50% each. According to reports from Deadline, Sony has not accepted the proposal, pushing to keep the conditions unchanged, and so Kevin Feige, head of Marvel Studios, has dissolved the agreement. Now the "clash" has moved to the Stock Exchange, where investors evidently did not like the choice of the Japanese house, which lost almost 3% in the last session.
