Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. (commonly known as Sony Pictures or SPE, and formerly known as Columbia Pictures Entertainment Inc.) is an American entertainment company that produces, acquires, and distributes filmed entertainment (theatrical motion pictures, television programs, and recorded videos) through multiple platforms. Through an intermediate holding company called Sony Film Holding Inc., it is operated as a subsidiary of Sony Entertainment Inc., which is itself a subsidiary of the Japanese multinational technology and media conglomerate Sony Corporation. Based at the former Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot in Culver City, California, it encompasses Sony's motion picture, television production and distribution units. Its group sales in the fiscal year 2017 (April 2017 – March 2018) has been reported to be $9.133 billion. SPE is a member of the Big Five and the Motion Picture Association (MPA). Some of Sony Pictures' film franchises include: The Karate Kid, Ghostbusters, Spider-Man, Jumanji, Stuart Little, Men in Black, Underworld, Sony Pictures Universe of Marvel Characters, Robert Langdon, The Smurfs (via Peyo), Sniper, Hotel Transylvania, Bad Boys, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, and Charlie's Angels.
Gwen Stacy becomes Spider-Gwen in *The Amazing Spider-Man 3* and helps defeat Agent Venom. Dr. Lyla Bennett, now leading Curt Connors' clone tech post-*TASM 1*, blames Spider-Man for her husband's Sinister Six-related death, intensifying her cloning experiments. Clones, including one of Peter Parker, begin haunting Gwen, leading to chaotic encounters. During a date, an explosion at Gwen's apartment results in Peter's death by an incendiary bullet. In her grief, Gwen nearly kills former police chief Stan Carter but is stopped by another Spider-Man, her emotional outburst causing a destructive shockwave. She finds her father at a lab, where he tries to kill her for her own good, but she webs him up. Gwen faces clones of friends, including MJ in a dark Spider-Woman suit, who taunts her about Peter's death, only for Gwen's father to reveal Aunt May's body, pushing Gwen into darkness. This was all a test by Lyla for the Spider-Man 2099 group; Gwen, nearly broken, saves Peter from an inferno and defeats Lyla.
