I wonder how these movies get made, and who is asking for side/minor characters to get their own movies.
This all sprung from the massive (financial) failure of Amazing Spider-Man 2. The movie cost Sony something like $75 million when The Avengers made over $1 billion. So Sony went to Marvel Studios to produce the live action Spider-Man movies.
In the deal, Marvel Studios and Kevin Feige would produce the movies with Amy Pascal at Sony through her shingle Pascal Pictures. Avi Arad and Matt
Tolmach would not be involved at all as the blame for the Amazing Spider-Man series fell on them:
Instead of selling the rights to the web-slinging superhero back to Marvel, Sony eschewed the quick cash in return for the benefits of free exposure to a younger, rebooted Spider-Man franchise.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
In addition to Garfield finding himself on the outside of the franchise, director Marc Webb will not be back to complete a third Spider-Man (the studio originally envisioned its Amazing Spider-Man oeuvre as a trilogy with Webb and Garfield aboard for all three). Amazing producers Matt Tolmach and Avi Arad have been downgraded to executive producers, with no real say in the creative direction of the franchise.
Too keep Avi Arad happy, Sony created the Sony Universe of Marvel Characters (Venom, Venom Let There Be Carnage, Morbius, Madame Web, Venom the Last Dance, and Kraven).
Avi Arad also produced Borderlands and is producing The Legend of Zelda. With the villain's universe dead, time for him to kill Link.