Earlier this year, Warner Bros.’s new CEO Ken Tsujihara forced film chief Jeff Robinov–a man who had been considered for the CEO position before Tsujihara got it–out of the company, in spite of years of success at building both franchises and relationships with directors like Zack Snyder and Christopher Nolan who proved key to Warner’s recent success.Shortly thereafter, it was widely reported that Robinov and new partner Graham King could end up with their own film shingle at Sony Pictures, providing funding and guidance for big budget films at the studio in a way not entirely unlike how Thomas Tull and Legendary worked with Robinov and Warner for years (Legendary also split up with Warners in 2013, and headed to Universal).Robinov, an executive with an artsy sensibility who was willing to take chances on filmmakers like Christopher Nolan and Gravity‘s Alfonso Cuarón, hasn’t settled into a new role yet, but the Sony rumors persist, according to Deadline‘s year-end wrap-up, and we wondered: what are the odds that somebody with a long history of luring hot filmmakers into Warner Bros. to work on unexpected projects, often to massive financial success, would be asked to play a similar role in the planned expansion of the Spider-Man brand at Sony?
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