Around four minutes of footage from Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse surfaced online, and unlike most leaks it's clean HD video — not a shaky phone recording of someone's laptop. Sony is aggressively issuing takedowns across every platform, including X, but the clip keeps reappearing faster than it can be scrubbed.
The footage looks like a convention package, most likely prepared for CinemaCon, and it ends with a confirmed release date: June 18, 2027. It opens with a proper scene set immediately after the cliffhanger ending of Across the Spider-Verse — alt-Aaron and Prowler-Miles squaring off against our Miles Morales in a dialogue-heavy exchange — then cuts to a montage of fight sequences and quieter character moments before showing the familiar Spider-Man team assembling for a rescue. No major plot reveals, just a strong reminder of what the series does better than almost anything else in animation.
Across the Spider-Verse ended in 2023 on one of the more abrupt cliffhangers in recent blockbuster history — Miles gets stranded on Earth-42, a reality without a Spider-Man, where his alternate self has become the Prowler. Gwen Stacy and the Spider-Society are left to mount a rescue. The film was always intended as the first half of a two-parter, with Beyond the Spider-Verse completing the story, but a four-year gap between the two halves made that creative choice feel increasingly punishing for audiences.
Sony's takedown campaign is understandable in principle, but the footage is already widely circulated and, by all accounts, makes the movie look fantastic. Trying to suppress it at this point is a losing battle — and given the overwhelmingly positive reaction online, just uploading it officially would do more good than the current whack-a-mole approach.
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