Osmosis Global has taken rights to Stan Lee: The Final Years, the documentary built from hundreds of hours of footage shot by Lee's former assistant Jon Bolerjack, which makes the distribution deal inseparable from the question of who gets to narrate a creator's decline. [1]

The Hollywood Reporter says the film will screen June 27 at Dances With Films in Los Angeles while Osmosis works out a release plan, giving the project a distributor before it has a public rollout and giving the festival showing a commercial shadow. [1]

That order matters because the film is not just another fan object: THR describes a project about Lee's fraught final years, legal risk, estate pressure and footage that Bolerjack says he kept because he felt a responsibility to document what was happening. [1]

Searches for Stan Lee, The Final Years, Osmosis Global and THR did not produce a verified X /status/ URL after three passes, so the mainstream frame remains a distribution exclusive while the platform frame, if it coheres, will ask whether memory is being protected, monetized or both, and who gets custody of the last footage of an American mascot in decline on camera.

-- MAYA CALLOWAY, New York