Has Venom: The Last Dance’s trailer drawn Spider-Man: No Way Home’s sting?
Hollywood giant Paramount Global braces for new era as bidders circle
March 2024
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After the Madame Web disaster, where does Sony’s Spider-Verse go from here?
Rather than concentrate on niche side stories, perhaps Marvel should start making films about the webslinger himself once more
November 2023
Guardian strikes TV and film deal with company behind The Crown
Collaboration will give Sony Pictures Entertainment exclusive first-look rights to Guardian’s global journalism
September 2022
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Is it time to put Sony’s Spider-Man Universe out of its misery?
Sony still holds rights to the Marvel characters connected to Spider-Man in the comics, but there is little sign it can make entertaining use of them
April 2022
Pop star Bad Bunny takes lead in Sony Marvel movie El Muerto
Puerto Rican rapper and singer to play superpowered wrestler after his recent WWE wrestling appearances
March 2022
Jumanji rides coming to theme parks as Sony strikes global deal with Merlin
Exclusive: first experience based on hit film franchise will open next month at Gardaland in Italy
January 2022
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Wider web: has Sony created a whole new world of Spider-Men?
With a new ownership deal settled and the dazzling success of No Way Home, could Andrew Garfield and Tobey Maguire reprise their starring roles?
December 2021
Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City review – unpretentiously gory horror-game reboot
The long-running franchise is back with a reasonably entertaining 90s-set story of the emergence of a zombie virus
May 2021
Sony Movie Channel has been renamed Great! But how? And why?!
Sony’s Freeview TV staple has a new name, with an exclamation mark to show how exciting it is! What’s the thinking behind the rebrand? And who’s watching?
September 2020
Story of ‘bloodthirsty unicorns’ brings debut author record publishing deal
Annabel Steadman’s fantasy series Skandar and the Unicorn Thief has won a seven-figure book contract, with film rights also sold to Sony Pictures
March 2020
HBO to make TV series based on apocalyptic video game The Last of Us
Chernobyl creator Craig Mazin will work on the adaptation with the game’s creative director Neil Druckmann
January 2020
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Morbius: has Sony brokered a deal for part of Marvel's Cinematic Universe?
Jared Leto’s new film may look like another comic-book origins story – but it gives a glimpse into the thorny corporate politics behind Hollywood’s most marketable franchise
October 2019
The muzzling of Michael Winterbottom: how Sony censored Greed
His fashion tycoon send-up, starring Steve Coogan with alarming teeth, was meant to end with shocking figures about workers’ pay. But the studio said no. The director relives a six-month spat
August 2019
Stan Lee's daughter condemns Disney over Spider-Man split
‘No one could have treated my father worse than Marvel and Disney’s executives,’ says Joan Lee as she backs Sony in studio bust-up
Miley Cyrus: I was fired from Hotel Transylvania over penis cake photos
Actor-singer says Sony let her go from family animation after seeing images of her licking a phallic gateau bought for her then-boyfriend Liam Hemsworth
Can Spider-Man survive outside of the Marvel universe?
Spider-Man out of Marvel Cinematic Universe after Disney split with Sony
The Angry Birds Movie 2 review – another fun-filled flutter
March 2019
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Marvel shouldn't rush to introduce the X-Men to its cinematic universe
They caught Sony’s Spider-Man in their web, but the merger of Marvel’s parent company Disney with 20th Century Fox shouldn’t let mutants overpower their MCU superheroes
