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Sony officially announced their new shared universe—based on various Marvel Comics properties and characters commonly associated with Spider-Man—in May 2017, with the title "Sony's Marvel Universe". [2] By August 2018, it was being referred to as "Sony's Universe of Marvel Characters" internally at the company. [3]
Marvel Studios, LLC, formerly known as Marvel Films, is an American film and television production company.Marvel Studios is the creator of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), a media franchise and shared universe of films and television series produced by the studio, based on characters that appear in Marvel Comics publications.
This is a list of Marvel multiverse fictional characters which were created for and are owned by Marvel Comics.Licensed or creator-owned characters (G.I. Joe, Godzilla, Groo the Wanderer, Men in Black, Conan the Barbarian, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, RoboCop, Star Trek, Rocko's Modern Life, The Ren and Stimpy Show, etc.) are not included.
In 1999, Sony and Columbia Pictures bought the rights to "Spider-Man" and other characters from Marvel Entertainment, which was still facing financial difficulty after filing for bankruptcy in 1996.
As of 2025, Marvel has film licensing agreements with Sony Pictures via Columbia Pictures (for Spider-Man films) and theme park licensing agreements with IMG Worlds of Adventure and Universal Destinations & Experiences (for specific Marvel character rights at Islands of Adventure). [3]
When he was approached about starring in the film, Tom Hardy was already interested in Venom due to his son's love for the character. [20] In March 2016, Sony revived the Venom film, being envisioned as a standalone film launching its own franchise unrelated to Sony and Marvel Studios' MCU Spider-Man films. [21]
He has been Marvel's most successful character in the American film industry ever since. After selling the Spider-Man motion picture rights to Sony, Marvel eventually founded its own film studio, developing the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) based on the characters they still held the rights to
Scarlett Johansson’s Black Widow doing a crotch-throat grab in black leather and Natalie Portman, Hayley Atwell and Gwyneth Paltrow as supportive girlfriends on the sidelines to the big-league ...