Spider-Man Swings Over To Disney Plus, But It's Missing No Way Home
Spider-Man is the world’s most popular superhero, and that means the battle for his film rights never wears down. This is especially true now that it’s been confirmed that 5 Spider-Man films will be making their way to Disney Plus UK, although No Way Home and a few other Peter Parker cinematic adventures won’t be joining them anytime soon.
Despite extending its corporate grasp over to Fox and its X-Men, Deadpool, and Fantastic Four properties, Disney and Marvel Studios are unlikely to ever ascertain the same control over Spider-Man, a perpetual Sony property as long as the studio continues making a new Spidey flick every five years or so. Thus, because Sony lacks its own streaming service, Spider-Man fans have often had to scramble through several platforms in order to rewatch the films starring Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield.
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Still, that won’t stop Disney Plus UK from adding some Spider-Man movies to its own collection. Starting June 17, Spider-Man, Spider-Man 2, The Amazing Spider-Man, The Amazing Spider-Man 2, and Spider-Man: Homecoming will accompany the service’s vast MCU library. Noticeably missing from that list are Spider-Man 3, Spider-Man: Far From Home, and perhaps most crucially, Spider-Man: No Way Home, since the latter is expected to land on Starz over the coming months.
As it often happens, the streaming rights landscape varies greatly depending on the specific region, and this split only accounts for the state of Spider-Man in the United States. For example, in most of Latin America, Netflix is the current home to all three of Sam Raimi's Spider-Man films, The Amazing Spider-Man, and Homecoming. However, it does not house the sequels to the latter two,
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