#No Way Home Is Now Sony’s Biggest Movie Of All Time

Outside of the raw numbers, this all gets to a point on the business side of things and should curb a longstanding discussion the internet likes to have every once in a while. Let’s be crystal clear about this: Sony is never giving up the rights to the “Spider-Man” franchise. Period. End of discussion. No matter what rumors crop up in the near future or have cropped up in the past, this is the single most valuable superhero asset on the planet, and thanks to Marvel’s desperate need for cash more than two decades ago, the movie rights for Spidey and his entire surrounding cast of characters (which allowed for “Venom” to become a box office smash) were sold to Sony. The rest is history — and Sony, not Disney, will continue to write that history.

It remains true that Disney and Sony have a deal in place which allows Tom Holland’s Peter Parker to appear in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but Sony still gets most of the money from these solo movies. And the studio can make as many spin-offs, like the upcoming “Morbius,” as it pleases. As much as Disney would surely love to have the rights to arguably its biggest character outside of Mickey Mouse back, the incredible returns from this movie all but solidify (barring a catastrophe none of us can predict right now) that Sony is going to hold on to these rights indefinitely. As it should.

“Spider-Man: No Way Home” is in theaters now.