cultshock

Out of those I only saw Aquaman 2 and it was pretty much dog shit (I have no desire to see the others). And for gods sake, Kraven is a film that no one asked for or wants to see, and the constant delays won't make it any better. But Sony apparently loves pissing away money.

RocShemp

Is perhaps Uwe Boll an executive at Sony. Because it feels like Sony is trying to pull off the scam from The Producers, much like what Use Bill used to with his movies.

DJariya

The official excuse according to the trades for the delay is there are putting it in Karate Kid's release date since that got pushed to 2025.

But, Sony has already blown so much money in marketing on this movie. It's been delayed multiple times over the last year. I can't see this being a "hit" during the holidays. This isn't Tom Holland's Spider-Man.

Runaway

I'm not trying to defend Sony since I didn't like the Spidey-Spin Offs that much, but they made 4 so far, Venom was very successful, Venon 2 was succesful, while Morbius and Madame Web could have made money, since the budget wasn't that big. The movies weren't good enough, but it's not like Sony's strategy isn't reasonable, it worked two out of four times

cultshock

This isn't even Nicholas Hammond's Spider-Man.

GuessWho

For the record

Yes, yes, yes, no, yes, no

DJariya

Here I thought DVD Talk was the place where everyone was an expert comic book film pundit

Josh-da-man

The Marvel ones I can keep track of since they're all pretty much "event" movies. The DC and Sony ones just kind of seem to limp out into theaters with little fanfare or notice.

And it also doesn't help that the release schedules are so wonky. I grew up at a time when a movie was released. Six months later it came out on VHS/DVD. Six months after that it as on HBO or Showtime.

Now, post-pandemic and with the streaming landscape, stuff comes out in the theater, a month or two later it's available for digital purchase, a few weeks after that it hits a streaming service, DVD/Blu/UHD, and a bit later it comes out on cable tv. The release schedules seem to float a lot and I really can't keep track of what's coming out in the theater, when it's coming out on disc, or when it's available for streaming.

SNL even mocked this idea on a game show sketch where one of the questions was "Name three movies that came out in the last five years."