‘Spider-Man: Homecoming’, ‘Despicable Me 3’ & More TV Rights Acquired By FX

By Nellie Andreeva, Deadline

Published Aug. 19, 2017, 9:36 a.m. ET

Spider-Man
Actor: Tom Holland
Last Seen In: Captain America: Civil War (2016)
In The Movie: Spider-Man is, well, Spider-Man--except this time around he lives in an apartment in Forest Hills and spends a lot of time in high school (or trying to figure out ways to get out of high school).
In The Comics: Spider-Man and high school are inextricable. While Peter Parker actually graduated high school really early in Amazing Spider-Man's run (1965's issue #28), plenty of writers have gone back to that status quo time and time again. In fact, the Spider-Man series in the alternate "Ultimate" reality spent over ten years telling stories about a high school age Peter Parker. ©Columbia Pictures/courtesy Everett Collection

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Spider-Man: Homecoming

FX continues to stock up on big movie titles as theatrical films more and more deliver stronger ratings for basic cable networks than off-network series, making them a good investment.

FX, which was an early adopter of the strategy, has picked up another 17 2017 movies over the past seven months from Fox, Universal and Sony. They include most of the biggest grossers of the year to date outside of the Marvel and some other Disney titles that are locked into existing TV deals and Warner Bros. films that go to sibling Turner.

FX’s latest acquisitions include Sony’s Spider-Man: Homecoming ($309.8 million domestic box-office to date), Universal’s Despicable Me 3 ($249.7 million), Fox’s Logan ($226.3), Uni’s The Fate of the Furious ($225.8) and Get Out ($175.5), Fox’s The Boss Baby ($174.9) and War for the Planet of the Apes ($138.9 million), Uni’s Split ($138.1 million), TriStar’s Baby Driver ($100.8 million), Uni’s Girls Trip ($100.1 million) — which just became the first comedy this year to cross the $100 million mark — and The Mummy ($80.1 million), Fox’s Alien: Covenant ($74.2 million), Fox’s Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie ($73.2 million), Sony’s The Emoji Movie ($67.4 million), Focus’ Atomic Blonde ($45 million), Fox’s Snatched ($45.9 million) and Sony’s The Dark Tower ($37.9 million).