Over at Cinematical they have their thinking caps on. They’ve noticed that in Hasbro’s press release for their new Marvel comics license, the text states that the rights regarding Spider-Man related properties “would be paid upon the closure of the deal and the rest when the two Spiderman movies are released. The agreement will commence in late-2006.” This seemed to jibe pretty strongly with the rumors of a fourth movie already being in development, even if the players at Sony are being hush-hush about it so I took a closer look at the press release we had discussed earlier this week, and it’s spelled out even more blatantly, pretty much making Spidey 4 more of an inevitability than a rumor.

The license guarantees Marvel $205 million in royalty and service fee payments. Of that, $70 million would be payable upon the theatrical release of “Spider-Man 3,” which is scheduled for May 4, 2007, and $35 million at “Spider-Man 4″’s release.

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