Marvel films to lose Spider-Man as Sony deal breaks down
与索尼的协议破裂后，漫威影业将失去蜘蛛侠这一角色
Marvel’s superhero films could be left without their most famous character after talks to "share" Spider-Man broke down between the Disney-owned studio and rival Sony, Hollywood media reported Tuesday.
The Marvel movies have together grossed $22 billion at the global box office, and British actor Tom Holland’s Spider-Man has become an increasingly central figure in the most lucrative franchise in film history.
But while the teen web-slinger has for decades been the "crown jewel" of the Marvel comic book empire on which the films are based, Sony owns the character’s movie rights.
He only began appearing in Marvel’s "cinematic universe" after an almost unprecedented, and still highly secretive, 2015 deal struck between the Hollywood giants, with the two studios co-producing and splitting profits across the films.
That partnership has now broken up following Disney and Sony’s failure to agree on financial terms for future films, multiple Hollywood media outlets said Tuesday.
好莱坞多家媒体周二表示，由于迪士尼与索尼未能就后续电影的利润分成达成一致，这一合作关系现已破裂。
Marvel Studios boss Kevin Feige -- widely credited with the phenomenal boom in comic book movies of the past decade -- will no longer produce Sony’s standalone Spider-Man films, according to Deadline, which broke the news.
This makes it "almost certain" that the character Spider-Man will be absent from crossover appearances in future Marvel films too, according to Hollywood Reporter journalist Graeme McMillan.
"Ultimately, this is far more of a problem for Marvel than it is for Sony," he wrote, noting how Spider-Man had become "the face of the Marvel Cinematic Universe" by the franchise’s most recent movie.
