News & Reviews:   MCU

Today, the news of Disney+ launching in Malaysia is finally coming true. As expected like our neighbour, Singapore, the name will be Disney+ Hotstar and will start streaming on 1 June 2021. Besides the huge library collection of Disney movies, Star Wars and the Marvel Cinematic Universe, there will be local contents as well such as J2 J Retribusi, Ejen Ali and more. 

By now, most of you Spider-Man and MCU fans have heard the good news. In this short announcement - it was announced that the Spider-Man / Peter Parker character movie license has swung back to the Marvel Cinematic Universe just before the end of Friday. With this, a third installment of the 'Homecoming' series which will be guided by Kevin Feige once again, is set to hit theatres on 16 July 2019. 

It was truly a piece of heartbreaking news for all movie and MCU fans around the world. In cased you missed it, we reported that Disney, on behalf of Marvel Studios, couldn't reach a partnership conclusion with Sony on sharing Spider-Man on the big screen due to profit sharing.

Since then, both parties have gone separate ways and of course, the Internet was quick to point fingers at Sony for taking away web-slinger out of MCU. Sony was quiet for a while until they finally responded on its Twitter page.

So what's the story and why is Spider-Man swinging out (pun intended) out of the Marvel Cinematic Universe? Well, it has to do something with money (obviously) and here's the breakdown of the dispute between Marvel (or rather Disney) and Sony who still has the license over the superhero.