UPDATE (September 6, 2026): Spider-Noir won five Emmys two days after the cancellation, and Nicolas Cage has reacted.
Spider-Noir is canceled. Eight episodes and done.
The show has a 92% critics score and a 90% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes. It has 11 Emmy nominations, more than anything else on Prime Video this year. Nielsen counted 2.6 billion minutes viewed in its first six weeks.
Just weeks ago, Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group boss Tom Rothman took his Brand New Day victory lap and declared “the audience is the boss.”
The boss just told you what it wants. Where’s Season 2?
The Studio That Greenlit Morbius
Let’s talk about Rothman’s record with Spider-Man characters when Marvel Studios isn’t in the room.
Morbius. A movie so bad it bombed twice — Sony actually re-released it after the memes and it bombed again.
Madame Web. Barely scraped past $100 million worldwide and was a punchline before it opened.
Kraven the Hunter. Couldn’t crack $65 million worldwide and killed the whole spinoff universe on the spot.
You can argue the Venom sequels belong on this list too. They made money. Nobody calls them good.
That was the plan for Sony’s 900 Marvel characters. It cratered so completely that Rothman himself confirmed nothing is in development on the movie side anymore.
And the one Sony Spider-Man project everybody actually loves? Beyond the Spider-Verse was supposed to open in March 2024. It’s now parked in summer 2027.
Rothman’s response to all of it has been to keep taking victory laps. At CinemaCon this year, he lectured theater owners about ads and windows. He quotes himself about the audience being the boss. Out of touch doesn’t begin to cover missing what the audience is saying about your own franchise.
Then Something Actually Worked
Spider-Noir was the first show out of Sony’s TV deal with Amazon, and it did everything the garbage movies didn’t.
It took a real swing: Nicolas Cage, 1930s New York, and every episode watchable in black and white or color. Nobody else is making that.
Fans showed up. It hit No. 2 on Nielsen and outstreamed The Boys with eight episodes.
Critics showed up. Emmy voters showed up — 11 nominations, with the ceremonies starting this weekend.
That’s the show that’s dead.
Amazon Isn’t Off the Hook
Amazon made the call, and it made it while sitting on a reported billion-dollar commitment to Rings of Power — a show that has never earned the kind of fan love Spider-Noir pulled in eight episodes.
It’s also the same Amazon that canceled Martin Gero’s Stargate series after greenlighting it.
Fans have spent months fighting that one. They flew a banner plane over Amazon MGM Studios in Culver City, lit up a Times Square billboard, and pulled in cast members from all three shows.
Michael Shanks, who was set to play Daniel Jackson again, fired back at Amazon in August after the studio said it welcomes any conversation about IP.
Amazon still hasn’t budged. It’s looking for a new writer on Stargate while it moves ahead on RoboCop.
One show canceled before a frame was shot. One canceled after 11 Emmy nominations. Same studio.
Per Deadline, the Amazon-Sony partnership rolls on, with a new series close to an order and the concept “under wraps.”
So the known hit is canceled, and the mystery box lives.
Rothman is right about one thing: the audience is the boss.
The boss watched 2.6 billion minutes, scored the show 90%, and asked for more.
If Sony believes a word of its own slogan, it should be shopping Spider-Noir Season 2 to another buyer tomorrow. Fans are already pointing at Disney+.
