Marvel Studios
The next film licensed from Marvel Studios was "Spider-Man" by Columbia Pictures, directed by Sam Raimi and starring Tobey Maguire as Spider-Man. The film was released on May 3, 2002, grossing $403,706,375 in the United States and Canada and $821,708,551 worldwide. The early success of "Spider-Man" led the film's studio to issue a seven-figure advance for a sequel. Arad spoke of the deal, "Movies make sequels. Therefore, it's a big economic luxury to know that a movie's going to get a second and third. This is a business of precedence." According to a Lehman Brothers analysis, the Studios made only $62 million for the first 2 Spider-Man movies. Marvel was making more from half the consumer product licensing fees while making relatively little from the movie, but was enough for Marvel to regain its financial footings. In October 2002, Marvel Studios announced deals for Sub-Mariner and Prime with Universal Studios.
Web of Scarlet Spider
Web of Scarlet Spider is the name of a short-lived comic book series starring the Scarlet Spider. The series was published by Marvel Comics for four issues between November 1995 and February 1996. It was a direct continuation, in terms of creative teams and storylines, of the previous "Web of Spider-Man" series in the same way that the other three primary Spider-Man series ("The Amazing Spider-Man", "Spectacular Spider-Man", and "") were replaced by "Amazing Scarlet Spider", "Spectacular Scarlet Spider", and "Scarlet Spider" respectively during this period. While those series each reverted to their original titles after two issues (the quarterly "Spider-Man Unlimited" was similarly redone for one issue as "Scarlet Spider Unlimited"), "Web" remained a Scarlet Spider title for two additional issues before the series was cancelled entirely.