The Spider-Man movies could be coming to Disney Plus, in the US anyway.

The Spider-Man movies could be coming to Disney Plus, in the US anyway.

Sony and Disney have reached an agreement that could make Spider-Man a reality on the Disney Plus streaming service, but only in the United States. Disney and Sony Pictures Entertainment have signed a multi-year deal that grants broadcast and TV rights to the studio's new theatrical releases from 2022 to 2026. It also covers older movies: Disney touts a "solid" collection of Spider-Man movies that you can run on your platforms. Hulu will release a number of old Sony movies starting in June, and other old titles included in the deal include the Jumanji and Hotel Transylvania series. There's no specific mention of Spider-Man coming to Disney Plus, but since the press release mentions the streaming service and the Spider-Man movies separately, the hope is that this is the reality Disney is heading towards. The two films Tom Holland Spider-Man, as well as The Incredible Hulk, are the Seoul MCU films that you can't diffuser on the service - it means that you should watch or get the Spidey films if you decide to look at the Marvel films in the order. . Disney will get new movies from Sony after Netflix US, which announced its own deal with the movie studio last week. The Tobey Maguire Spider-Man movies were previously available on Hulu in the United States. Other Disney-owned networks covered by this new agreement include ABC, Disney Channels, Freeform, FX and National Geographic. It doesn't help much if you're a UK viewer, but there's good news if you're a UK Spider-Man fan: Spider-Man: Far From Home is coming to Netflix UK on May 25th.

Why aren't the Spider-Man movies on Disney Plus?

In short, while Disney owns Marvel and thus the Spider-Man character, Sony has the continuing rights to make movies based on the character, not to mention his villains, like Venom. This means that Disney Plus has always had to do without standalone character movies, which is a minor inconvenience. It's also why Sony can co-produce the canon MCU movies with Disney, while also creating non-canon elements. The Incredible Hulk, meanwhile, has its distribution rights in the hands of Universal, which has surely turned out to be lucrative for video-on-demand sales, following the growing popularity of the MCU. Basically, that means you'll probably never see a full slate of Marvel movies on Disney Plus, unless Disney manages to license all those movies from different studios at the same time. The best Disney + deals of the day