They also appear to be having trouble with Ghostbusters, they barely own that franchise as a whole. Also there's no company mad enough to let go of merchandise rights in 2015.
I've consulted the emails, and Sony are all over the place. They're not making any money from the merchandise from Angry Birds, Smurfs, Spidey or Mattel (they get some tiny money from Mattel, but only on toys from the movies). And all the Mattel movies must have a budget of $50m+
That means they're making a Barbie movie for $50M+. For goddamn Barbie!!!!
Is it one of those "hey guys, remember all this 80s stuff you've seen 1000 times before in other movies and tv shows?", or is their actually something new here?
I Just don't understand how such a good concept falls into the hands of Adam Sandler.
How could Sony fuck up that bad? I'll have to go and study some more leaked email to find out.