Starting with the 2012 reboot of the popular Marvel Comics character and superhero franchise developed by and on the behalf of Sony Pictures, The Amazing Spider-Man saw rising British actor Andrew Garfield take on the role Peter Parker/Spider-Man to considerable acclaim and respectable box office returns.
I was still young enough to struggle with the value system, I suppose, of corporate America really, it’s a corporate enterprise mostly.
However, its immediate sequel from 2014, The Amazing Spider-Man 2, opened to mixed reviews and became the lowest grossing feature-length installment starring the famous web-slinger thus far.
Following the dissolution of The Amazing Spider-Man series at the hands of Sony, a deal was struck between the studio and Marvel Studios to share the movie rights to the Spider-Man character.