Spider-Man News

With Turn off the Dark and The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Spidey has had a rough time of late in other mediums outside of comics. Have you been solicited for advice about the character’s big-screen future? Yeah, I’ve gone in before. They’ve asked me in to be the deciding vote on some stuff, which is an…

Sam Raimi, director of the original Tobey MaGuire Spider-Man trilogy, was a guest on the Nerdist Podcast this week. Part of the conversation turned to Spider-Man 3, which is regarded among fans as the weakest of Raimi’s Spider-Man movies. Turns out, he agrees!

Yesterday it was reported that Sony and Marvel are still in talks about a Spider-Man deal, and if Marvel did produce the new movies, they’d recast Andrew Garfield. But new leaked documents released this morning from the Sony hack seem to imply that Sony isn’t happy with Garfield, and will recast him regardless if they…

Marvel wants to share the rights to Spider-Man in a 60/40 split (with Marvel getting the larger part). In that deal, Marvel would gain creative control and Sony would handle distribution. Latino Review continues with more details: “IF the Marvel/Sony deal were to go forward, Andrew Garfield would no longer be Peter Parker and any…

Hackers got into Sony Pictures’ network and stole over 100TB of private data at the end of November, and it’s slowly being leaked online. New emails obtained by The Wall Street Journal reveal that Sony and Marvel had discussions in October about a potential scenario that would see Marvel produce a new trilogy of Spider-Man…

JHFM: So The Amazing Spider-Man was quite unusual for you, it was probably the director’s personality that brought you to this project, because he had a different vision for this film? JH: He was very inexperienced and he and I had a very good relationship and the producers had their own opinion. And they didn’t…

Why are some studios making Hunger Games, Harry Potter, Twilight – and we are considering movies like Moneyball, Steve Jobs story, Captain Phillips Story, Evel Knievel story, etc. Are you aware that SPE only has 1 franchise – Spiderman. Yet, it took 5 years to generate a sequel? Spidey 3 was released in summer 2007,…

Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone are up for “Favorite Movie Duo” and The Amazing Spider-Man 2 is up for “Favorite Action Movie”. Head on over to the People’s Choice website to vote for Spidey! Watch the 2015 People’s Choice Awards on January 7th to see if Andrew, Emma, and The Amazing Spider-Man 2 won!

Marvel have a much greater presence on the big screen, so it makes sense that they’re winning the war with DC in terms of licensing revenue. However, while The Avengers might be the biggest superhero movie of all-time with a box office haul of $1.5 billion, it’s Spider-Man who is bringing in the big bucks…

Latino Review reported that Sony is considering a movie about a young Aunt May, without Spider-Man, in an espionage story in the vein of AMC’s Mad Men. Sounds crazy, right? Thankfully, a Sony representative told CBR that the Aunt May spinoff news is just a “silly rumor” with “with “no validity whatsoever”.