
(Note: This episode originally ran in 2022. Help support Planet Money and get bonus episodes by subscribing to Planet Money+ in Apple Podcasts or at /planetmoney. The update was produced by Emma Peaslee, with engineering by Maggie Luthar. This episode was originally produced by Nick Fountain with help from Taylor Washington and Dave Blanchard. Today, we break down all of the off-screen drama that has become just as entertaining as the movies themselves. Years later, though, the deal would come back to haunt Marvel, and it would start a long tug of war between Sony and Marvel over who should have creative cinematic control of Marvel's most popular superhero. When Marvel licensed the Spider-Man film rights to Sony Pictures in the 1990s, the deal made sense - Marvel didn't make movies yet, and their business was mainly about making comic books and toys. But the story leading up to this latest Spider-Man movie has been its own epic saga.

) This past weekend, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse had the second largest domestic opening of 2023, netting (or should we say webbing?) over $120 million in its opening weekend in the U.S. Sony and Marvel and the Amazing Spider-Man Films Rights Saga : Planet Money (Note: This episode originally ran back in 2022.
