2. Releasing The Spin-Offs First - The Amazing Spider-Man 3
This summer saw the release of The Amazing Spider-Man 2. Conventional movie wisdom would suggest the next film in the series would be The Amazing Spider-Man 3 in a couple of years. Well not only is the threequel not going to be released until 2018, but we'll get two films set in the Spider-Man universe (is that even a thing) before then. 2016 will see the release of The Sinister Six hit because The Avengers and 2017 will bring us a female-led superhero flick because The Hunger Games. Ignoring the problems these individual films face (despite the series having four established villains, only two of those will be in the Sinister, making so much foreshadowing pointless) this can only hurt the proper Spider-Man films. Peter Parker is conventionally the big draw of the whole series (that's how the character was conceived in the first place). Andrew Garfield is unlikely to appear in either spin-off due to contract limitations (unless Sony take another u-turn), which means he's going to go unseen for two whole movies. Yikes. It could end up not mattering. Spider-Man came third in the superhero box office fight this year, losing out to a time-travel X-Men and a conspiracy-laden Captain America, so come 2018 Sony may just baulk and do another reboot.
