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Sony
Dominique Olivier
How Sony fumbled the bag with Kpop Demon Hunters – and Netflix picked it up
Sony Pictures went into the summer of 2025 hungry for a blockbuster. What it got instead was a bruising reminder that timing, contracts, and a little bit of bad luck can rewrite the rules of Hollywood. This is the story of megahit KPop Demon Hunters and a tale of how different risk cultures at Sony and Netflix led to this outcome.
Dominique Olivier
Sony’s stuck in a Spider-Man spiral
Sony, once a post-war electronics wunderkind best known for pioneering devices like the Walkman and the Trinitron TV, now finds itself tangled in a web of its own making - one spun not from copper wire or silicon wafers, but from red spandex and Hollywood contracts. Dominique Olivier explains the complicated IP ownership around Spider-Man.
