Spider-Man is being added to the Marvel Cinematic Universe

Spider-Man is now officially going to be added into the future Marvel Cinematic Universe. 

The official statement from Marvel stated "Under the deal, the new Spider-Man will first appear in a Marvel film from Marvel's Cinematic Universe (MCU). Sony Pictures will thereafter release the next installment of its $4 billion Spider-Man franchise, on July 28, 2017, in a film that will be co-produced by Kevin Feige and his expert team at Marvel and Amy Pascal, who oversaw the franchise launch for the studio 13 years ago. Together, they will collaborate on a new creative direction for the web slinger. Sony Pictures will continue to finance, distribute, own and have final creative control of the Spider-Man films.Marvel and Sony Pictures are also exploring opportunities to integrate characters from the MCU into future Spider-Man films."

This means that all of Sony's planned Spider-Man films like The Sinister Six, Amazing Spider-Man 3, etc. are all scrapped. Marvel will likely recast the role of Spider-Man to distance themselves from The Amazing Spider-Man franchise, so sadly Andrew Garfield will probably not have the opportunity to reprise the role. The MCU Spider-Man movie doesn't currently have an official title just a release date. In the press release it does state that Spider-Man will be featured in other Marvel Cinematic Universe movies, likely Captain America: Civil War and Avengers: Infinity War Part 1 and Part 2. I am very excited for this and can't wait to see how this new Spider-Man will develop. However this pushed back four of Marvel's movies Thor: Ragnarok, Black Panther, Captain Marvel, and Inhumans. Here is the updated release schedule for the rest of Marvel's films. 

Marvel's Updated Release Schedule

Phase 2

Avengers: Age of Ultron May 1, 2015

Ant-Man July 17, 2015

Phase 3

Captain America: Civil War May 6, 2015

Doctor Strange November 4, 2016

Guardians of The Galaxy 2 May 5, 2017

Untitled Spider-Man film, July 27, 2017

Thor: Ragnarok November 3, 2017

Avengers: Infinity War Part One May 4, 2018

Black Panther, July 6, 2018

Captain Marvel, November 2, 2018

Avengers: Infinity War Part Two May 3, 2019

Inhumans, July 12, 2019