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Sony Pictures is vowing to carry on the 'Spider-Man' franchise without Marvel Studios’ involvement, placing the blame on Disney for cutting the successful inter-studio cooperation short.

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00:00Spider-Man is officially being booted from the Marvel Cinematic Universe and now

00:13Sony is coming out saying Disney is to blame for the fallout. It was reported on

00:17Tuesday that Sony and Disney have parted ways on the revived Spider-Man movie

00:21franchise. Disney and Sony had previously entered into a rather unique partnership

00:26that allowed Marvel to produce the new Spider-Man movie starring Tom Holland. This

00:30complex arrangement also allowed the hero, whose movie rights are controlled by Sony, to

00:34appear in the MCU such as Marvel's Captain America Civil War and two of the Avengers

00:39movies. Many reports have suggested that the fallout was due to studio chiefs Tom

00:43Rothman at Sony and Alan Horn at Disney not being able to agree on a financial

00:48arrangement to continue the collaboration. But now in a statement obtained exclusively by

00:52The Hollywood Reporter, the studio says the decision was ultimately up to Disney and

00:57noted that they're disappointed that Marvel president Kevin Feige will no longer act as

01:02the lead producer on the film franchise. A Sony spokesperson released a statement regarding

01:06the news and noted that the Marvel president may just have too much going on, saying,

01:11"...we hope this might change in the future, but understand that the many new responsibilities

01:15that Disney has given him, including all their newly added Marvel properties, do not allow

01:19time for him to work on IP they do not own." Sony Pictures is, however, still vowing to carry

01:24on the Spider-Man franchise, but unfortunately it'll just have to be without Marvel Studios'

01:29involvement. Sony just announced on Monday that Far From Home had surpassed Skyfall to become

01:34the studio's most successful release, with a worldwide haul of $1.109 billion and counting,

01:40and the film will be getting a re-release over Labor Day weekend with four minutes of additional footage.

01:45For more updates to this story head over to THR.com and until next time, for The Hollywood

01:49Reporter News I'm Neha Joy.

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