When the next films in the
Spider-Man,
Jumanji series leave theaters next year, they’ll be heading to a new streaming home.
Variety reports that Netflix has won a nearly two-year auction for the exclusive U.S. streaming rights to Sony Pictures’ theatrical releases, starting in 2022. Yes, MCU fans, that means you can watch
Spider-Man: No Way Home as many times as you want without having to shell out on an Amazon Prime Video rental or signing up for a Starz subscription.
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Since it looks like the U.S. is one step closer to safely opening movie theaters across the country, this won’t be a similar setup to what Warner Bros. and its corporate cousin HBO Max worked out: The movies will head to Netflix during what’s referred to in the industry as the “pay-one window”—a period of time that traditionally begins nine months after a theatrical release, but has been getting shorter in recent years because of, well, situations like this and the one that put