User blog comment:FerbFlecher151/P&F Movie faces new competition/@comment-4037231-20120209020544/@comment-406459-20120210010558

That's actually not true- as far as the Paramount deal was concerned, Paramount received an 8% distribution fee, meaning that Marvel- and thus Disney- got 92% of the profits. Disney bought out Paramount's contract after acquiring Marvel, and will start distributing Marvel films through Disney starting with this summer's The Avengers. Marvel's royalties on the Fox and Sony films are much smaller, however, though they do receive some money (though the studios get the lion's share in these cases). The contracts with those two studios (which were signed before Marvel was bought by Disney and at a time when Marvel was in the dumps in the mid-'90s) stipulate that they retain the film rights to the characters so long as they release a film featuring those characters within a set period of time. Marvel (Disney) apparently has wanted to buy back the Spider-Man and X-Men film rights, but since the franchises are so lucrative, they've failed to.