Rumor - Sony and Marvel have reached a Deal in Principal

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I am going to start with a discussion on my sources, I am two or three steps down the food chain here.  I read a series of Marvel Themed Asia Blogs / Bulletin Boards.  So far two of the posters on these sites have a pretty solid track record, I haven't been keeping track but they have to be batting .700 or so in what they post.   That being said the usual cast of characters are all posting the same details so either their source is wrong or feeding them bad information and in the rush to be first they are all jumping on the same bone.
 
You can thank the embarrassment of Sony's hack for this one.  Sony's board is not very happy with how poorly Sony and Columbia are appearing in the current rumors and the CEO of Sony stepped in and made the decision that they have no choice but to accept what Marvel is offer, and whats worse it is a pretty good deal.   It is not clear but it sounds like they are ready or aware that a lawsuit from Avi Arad is coming.
 
Rumor - Sony and Marvel have agreed upon a framework of a deal allowing Spider-Man to appear in multiple movies in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
  • TASM 3 will have a release date of November 24th 2016. 
  • TASM 3 will be a conclusion and soft-reboot of the current Spider-Man story arc.
  • A Spider-Man Comic writer - John Michael Bendis maybe - will be brought on board to write the script.
  • Production of Spider-Man movies will be transferred to Marvel Studios from Avi Arad Productions and Matt Tolmach Productions.
  • Distribution of the Film and Advertising are still handled by Sony.
  • Marvel Studios will provide 60% of the Financing of Spider-Man Movies under this agreement, Sony the other 40%.
  • Sony will make 75% of the profit up through $850 Million in Revenue and 25% of the profit of all Revenue over $850 M with Marvel making the reverse.
  • Andrew Garfield will reprise his role as Peter Parker / Spider-Man.
  • Shailene Woodley will star as Mary Jane Watson
  • Emma Stone, if they go done the clone road, would reprise her role as Gwen Stacy.
  • The fate of other actors is not known.
  • Marc Webb will be considered for directing TASM 3, however Marvel is interested in bringing in new blood.  Adam McKay is still out there.
  • Production of The Sinister Six will be halted or reworked to be a climax crossover of all the Spider-Man films.
  • Venom will be worked as a stand alone film.
  • Spider-Girl (Silk) and or Spider-Woman will appear in women of Spider film being written by Joy Nolan.
  • Spider-Man will appear in an extended Cameo in Avengers: Age of Ultron.  
  • Spider-Man will appear as a full blown cast member of Captain America: Civil War
  • Spider-Man may appear in up to two additional movies in the phase 3 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe
  • Spider-Man may appear in both of the Avengers: Infinity War films
  • Villains from Spider-Man may appear in multiple Phase 3 films.
  • Sony VFX studio (imageworks) will see a good deal of Visual Effects work (lead for the Spider-Man Films and regular contributor for the rest of the MCU films.)
It is not clear if MIB franchise is also included in this discussion or not.   Cough MIB/GOTG crossover Cough?

I should point out that Marvel has offered a similar structure to 20th Century Fox and you can be damned sure they are watching what is going on with Fantastic Four and the X-Men.

This is very detailed for a rumor so it has problems, but it from a source that usually appears in the know.

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