There's a fundamental lack of understanding of the actual problems that Sony Pictures has. It's not that their losing money, because they aren't. Their two basic problems are that they don't have any blockbuster level franchises outside of Spider-Man, and that they've had a really hard time for the past few years both making blockbuster-level movies without the budgets getting too big, and making those movies any good. Sony won't fuck with the mainline Marvel movies because they actually solve both problems (SM:H budget is something like 60-80 million less than ASM2, and that's just production and not marketing, and already delivered a level of critical acclaim they haven't seen since the Raimi years). There are reasons to be worried about the spin-offs, but Sony isn't going to do anything to piss of Marvel right now, and if the spin-offs are bad Sony themselves will probably distance them themselves so as not to damage the brand.
