10 Reasons Why An Avengers Movie Crossover With X-Men And Spider-Man Won't Be Happening

5. €And The Non-Disney Studios Aren€™t Giving Up The Rights to The Characters Anytime Soon

After two poorly received movies, 2003€s Daredevil and 2005€s Elektra, Fox ultimately decided to give up its plans to reboot the character. Shortly afterward, Disney announced that a Daredevil series would premiere on Netflix in 2015. Three other characters that had movies made by other studios, Ghost Rider, Blade and The Punisher, have also had their rights return to Marvel Studios in recent years. The short version of how this works is this: if a studio doesn€™t start production on a movie featuring that character in a contracted period of time, the rights revert to Marvel. Read more at http://whatculture.com/?p=721986&preview_id=721986/6#lJMO3m6R41jBdd67.99 After two poorly received movies, 2003€s Daredevil and 2005€s Elektra, Fox decided to let their Daredevil movie rights expire and revert back to Marvel Studios. Three other characters that had movies made by other studios, Ghost Rider, Blade and The Punisher, have also had their rights return to Marvel Studios in recent years. The short version of how this works is this: if a studio doesn€™t start production on a movie featuring that character in a contracted period of time, the rights revert to Marvel. So if the studios won't collaborate, why can't Disney just wait until all the rights to these characters revert to them? However, nobody should expect that Fox or Sony will do the same with their marquee characters anytime soon. Fox let Daredevil go because its $179 million gross was more than $100 million less than their lowest-grossing Fantastic Four or X-Men movie. They decided to pour its resources in the two franchises that made more money instead. As long as those marquee movies keep making money, Sony and Fox will keep making them and never let the rights expire. In fact, Amy Pascal, who is the co-chair of Sony Pictures Entertainment, has gone as far as saying that Sony will "never ever ever" let go of the Spider-Man franchise. You can't help but think it€™s the second €œever€ that seals it.