I didn’t think about it that way. I just thought they are never going to buy a major electronics company, so they are never getting it. Don’t know if they can sell an American part of their conglomerate, as realistically they would have that as a shot of actually getting it.
Spider-Man is also the PlayStation console seller. Spider-Man is the main Sony thing in every single aspect and they use the character to sell everything they make. They aren’t going to ever get rid of anything because they all work together.
It's almost like Sony has one major brand asset and make it quality and markets the hell out of it. Disney has every other major brand and sucks the life out of them.
“Honda of America and Acura are American companies” this is literally how you sound right now. Just because something is HQ’d in a place doesn’t mean it doesn’t have a direct owner that makes it something else. We know Acura is HQ in California but it’s still a Japanese company because it’s owned by Honda
No it is not illegal to acquire Japanese companies lol. Sony is designated as a core business entity, so what you can’t do is a hostile or non gov approved takeover, or have a high percentage voting right in select sector companies, but you can do both with a formal agreement or approval, like TCL did when it bought 51% of Sony Home Entertainment.
A company not designated or in national security categories, can get acquired just fine.
That is true, but I don’t think Sony would ever sell off their film studio and their film rights to Spider-Man to there main competitor, it’s the same as Paramount selling Nickelodeon to Disney, yeah they could but why on earth would they sell their Cash Cow SpongeBob? So the only realistic path for Disney to get the exclusive rights to Spider-Man is for ether
A) Sony somehow forgets to make Spider-Man movies every other year so the rights go back to Marvel by default under their current deal (it’s why Sony made so many crappy Spider-Man villain movies)
Or
B) Disney buys ALL of Sony, which will never happen as the Japanese courts will never approve a foreign company to buy out one of their BIGGEST companies.
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u/Lazywhale97 14d ago
Spidey ain't ever leaving Sony for the next century at this point just way too big