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We Watched The ’70s Spider-Man TV Show And It’s Pretty Weird
Getty Image The fact there was a ‘70s era, made for television, kind of low rent version of the MCU (MTU?) is fascinating. It’s mostly fascinating because no one today really ever talks about any of...
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Let’s Break Down The Awful And Infuriating Basketball Scene In ‘The Amazing...
There is some history when it comes to terrible basketball scenes in superhero movies. Precedent, if you will. The motivation behind them is understandable, I guess, if we’re in the mood to give them...
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Andrew Garfield Says Working On ‘The Amazing Spider-Man’ Was ‘Heartbreaking’
Sony Pictures Following the cancellation of Sam Rami’s Spider-Man 4 in January 2010, Sony was quick to get a new director and Spidey established. When The Amazing Spider-Man began filming later that...
View ArticleTwo New Clips From 'The Amazing Spider-Man' To Add To The Other 25 Minutes Of...
“I know this. I know what this is! This means something. This is important.” If you haven’t seen every minute of The Amazing Spider-Man yet from all the previous clips we’ve posted (like these and...
View Article'The Amazing Spider-Man': What'd You Think?
C’mon, you saw it yesterday if you didn’t catch it Tuesday. And The Amazing Spider-Man is a movie worth seeing. We won’t go into the plot too much: suffice to say there are few surprises, one of the...
View ArticleLet's Speculate about 'Amazing Spider-Man's Ending
OK, we’ve all seen The Amazing Spider-Man, right? Specifically, we’ve all seen the ending cookie. If not, we’ll discuss it below. Heavy, heavy spoilers from this point onwards, folks. Everybody who...
View ArticleSpider-Man Might Try To Imitate The Avengers
The guys at Super Hero Hype recently spoke with Matt Tolmach and Avi Arad, the producers of The Amazing Spider-Man, and they offered a lot of insight as to why Sony Pictures was willing to re-launch...
View ArticleThe Amazing Spider-Man Is Getting At Least Three Movies And Six Villains
The Amazing Spider-Man made 35-million on its opening day (the best Tuesday opening ever) and will likely end up raking in 120 – 140 million by Sunday, so, surprise surprise, we’re getting an Amazing...
View ArticleWeekend Movie Guide: Reboots And Regrets
Opened Already: The Amazing Spider-Man, Katy Perry: Part of Me Opening Everywhere: Savages Never Heard of It: Crazy Eyes FilmDrunk Suggests: Before Vince left, he told me very clearly that he strongly...
View ArticleBox Office News: America Hates Katy Perry
On Friday, I begged America to take a step in the right direction toward financial responsibility, and for the most part people listened. Katy Perry: Part of Me opened to a colossal fart noise, earning...
View ArticleNever Seen Sam Raimi's Spider-Man Trilogy? Here It Is in Six Minutes
Hey kids! Based on box-office receipts it seems you’re really enjoying the new Spider-Man film, but did you know there were other Spider-Man movies before The Amazing Spider-Man? It’s true! Way back in...
View ArticleThe Free Market Has Spoken — The Cover To Amazing Spider-Man #328 Is The Most...
Pop quiz comics nerds — what’s the most valuable single piece of comic art in the world? Probably a page from Action Comics #1 or maybe some early Jack Kirby Fantastic Four or Steve Ditko Spider-Man...
View Article‘The Amazing Spider-Man’ Has Found Its Mary Jane
Aside from a few details – like the Lizard being the villain instead of Green Goblin, Emma Stone >>>>>>>>>>> Kirsten Dunst and Macho Man Randy Savage – I didn’t see...
View ArticleMore Cute Girls And Dorky Villains For ‘The Amazing Spider-Man 2’
So, The Amazing Spider-Man was pretty solidly alright I thought. Its main asset was Emma Stone adorable-ing it up as Gwen Stacey. Its main flaw was relying on the rather uninspiring Lizard as villain....
View ArticleShailene Woodley Officially Signed For ‘The Amazing Spider-Man 2’ And More...
Shailene Woodley is following up her Indie Spirit Award win for best supporting actress in The Descendants with another big role. As we reported earlier, she was in talks to play Mary Jane Watson in...
View ArticleHonest Trailer: The Amazing Spider-Man
The Amazing Spider-Man receives the “honest trailer” treatment, and it is predictably hilarious. Previous honest trailers: Paranormal Activity, Prometheus, The Avengers, The Hunger Games
View ArticleJamie Foxx May Play Electro In 'Spider-Man 2'
In a strange twist, Vince and I actually agreed that The Amazing Spider-Man wasn’t just a lousy film, as it was also the same exact story as the original Spider-Man retold and simply filmed with a few...
View ArticleJamie Foxx And Director Marc Webb Are Dropping Hints About 'The Amazing...
Ain’t nothing but an ohm resistor. Yesterday we reported Jamie Foxx was in talks to play the villain Electro in Marc Webb’s The Amazing Spider-Man 2. Now we have an update, as both Jamie Foxx and Marc...
View ArticleHonest Trailers: The Amazing Spider-Man (Morning Links)
[via Screen Junkies] MORNING LINKS Christoph Waltz And The Muppets? Yes Please! |Film Drunk| John Hyams, a for reals filmmaker, joins the Frotcast to talk MMA, and share JCVD and Dolph Lundgren...
View ArticleYour Mid-Week Guide To DVD And Streaming: The Amazing Spider-Man Is Not This...
If you were -justifiably- waiting for home video to check out The Amazing Spider-Man, well, this is your week. If you’ve already seen it (or simply don’t want to) this is still your week. Why?...
View ArticleThe Absolute Very Worst Movies Of 2012
After last year’s Worst Movies feature, I received feedback from some readers and Twitter folk about me possibly being “too negative” and “mean” when it came to criticizing films that I chose to watch...
View ArticleThe Best And Worst Of Geek Culture 2012 (Part 2)
2012 was a big year to be a geek, nerd and/or poindexter. This is the year geek culture went mainstream. Like, really, really mainstream. It wasn’t all roses though — there were still plenty of...
View ArticleJames Franco Saw ‘The Amazing Spider-Man’, States The Obvious
This is not what I meant when I searched for James Franco with a bear. James Franco was recently questioned by an interviewer for MTV about Spider-Man, because James Franco really hasn’t done anything...
View ArticleBad Lip Reading: The Amazing Spider-Man
The Amazing Spider-Man gets the always entertaining Bad Lip Reading treatment. Previously from BLR: The NFL, Presidential Inauguration, The Hunger Games, Edward & Bella
View Article‘The Amazing Spider-Man’ Gets A Hilariously Suggestive Edit (And Other Mashups)
(Video is NSFW) Good afternoon you princes of Maine, you kings of New England, you stalkers of Bruce Campbell. Here are all the mashup and parody videos I didn’t get a chance to cover, thrown in your...
View ArticleJamie Foxx Rocks A Sweet Combover In ‘Amazing Spider-Man 2’ Set Pics
We’ve already watched as Jamie Foxx blue himself as Electro in The Amazing Spider-Man 2. Now director Marc Webb has tweeted the first photo of Foxx as Max Dillon, the electrical engineer who gains...
View Article'Amazing Spider-Man 2' Set Video and Pictures: Lookin' Good, Jamie Foxx!
We have a new batch of set pictures from The Amazing Spider-Man 2 to add to the ones where Jamie Foxx blue himself and director Marc Webb introduced us to the nerdy non-blue version of Foxx. The video...
View ArticlePictures Of Emma Stone From The ‘Amazing Spider-Man 2’ Set May Drop A Huge...
Another batch of set pictures from The Amazing Spider-Man 2 is here to add to our burgeoning collection. This batch is different in two key ways. It features Emma Stone (Yay!) and it potentially offers...
View ArticleHaters Gonna Hate: Sony Announces Two More ‘The Amazing Spider-Man’ Sequels
We already knew The Amazing Spider-Man was being set up as a trilogy, but Sony now says in a press release that four films are planned. They’re also “planting a flag” on two release dates. The Amazing...
View ArticleJames Franco Dissed 'The Amazing Spider-Man' Again, Praises 'Man Of Steel'
That’s a burn. James Franco wrote an editorial for Vice yesterday about attending the Man Of Steel premiere. We’ll get back to his review of Man Of Steel in a moment. What caught our eye — and made us...
View ArticleDid Sony Announce Its Spider-Man Plans To Force Disney To Eventually Pay Up?
As Vince wrote on Tuesday, Sony Pictures announced this week its plans to remain in the Spider-Man business for a long, long time, with the current Andrew Garfield Amazing series expected to release it...
View ArticleTwo Extra Spider-Man Movies Means One Less Cute Girl For 'The Amazing...
“Ugh, less of this, more Jamie Foxx combover” — Marc Webb As you may have heard, Sony recently announced they’re going to be doing around a million sequels to The Amazing Spider-Man. Well, okay,...
View ArticleSarah Gadon Joins 'The Amazing Spider-Man' Franchise, But Is She Mary Jane...
After Sony announced two more The Amazing Spider-Man sequels, director Marc Webb also pushed the introduction of the Mary Jane Watson character to the third movie. Unfortunately, this meant cutting...
View ArticleHere’s The First Video Of Jamie Foxx As Electro In ‘Amazing Spider-Man 2’
“I’m afraid I just blue myself.” Sony released the first footage from The Amazing Spider-Man 2 earlier tonight. In it, we get to see Jamie Foxx as Electro (Max Dillon). It’s a short teaser for Sony’s...
View ArticlePICTURED: Dane DeHaan is Spider-Man’s new James Franco
Sony (under their Columbia Pictures banner) originally, hilariously billed their first Marc Webb Spider-Man movie as “The Untold Story,” though nothing we’ve seen so far has convinced me that the...
View ArticleAn Ohio Man Sold His Copy Of The Amazing Spider-Man No. 1 To Pay For His...
Normally, if a guy sells a few antiques or vintage knick-knacks from around the house, it’s not that big of a deal, at least not big enough to make news on every outlet from the Cleveland Plain Dealer...
View ArticleSHOTS FIRED: Willem Dafoe Disses 'The Amazing Spider-Man'
Willem Dafoe is still throwing shade at Spider-Man reboot The Amazing Spider-Man, much like James Franco has. Last year, Dafoe expressed polite apathy toward the reboot when asked whether or not he’d...
View ArticleSony Pictures Is Turning ‘Spider-Man’ Into An Annual Franchise
Spidey of Duty. Gamers are very familiar with annualized franchises that pump out new entries year after year like clockwork, but up until now we’ve been allowed at least some room to breath between...
View ArticleHere's The Dancing Spider-Man Baby Because The World Needs More Dancing Babies
Evian has treated us all to a sequel of their Baby And Me ad and this time they’ve brought Spider-Man along for the strange ride. In case you missed the other ad, the premise is that folks are apt to...
View ArticleAndrew Garfield Wants Ultimate ‘Amazing Spider-Man’; No One Else Does.
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 hits theaters today, so naturally people are starting to wildly speculate about the future of the franchise! Which villains will be in the Sinister Six movie? Is Folk-singer...
View Article‘Community’ Fans Finally Spotted The Donald Glover Easter Egg In ‘The Amazing...
The below image is from the first Amazing Spider-Man movie starring Andrew Garfield as the neighborhood web-slinger (despite the internet’s #Donald4Spiderman campaign pushing for Donald Glover to be...
View ArticleSony’s Female-Led Spider-Man Spinoff Movie Might Be A Team Endeavor
Sony is, as we’ve noted, in a pretty tough spot with Spider-Man. Every movie makes less than the last, The Amazing Spider-Man 2 did not live up to the “amazing” part, and generally everyone seems sick...
View Article‘Amazing Spider-Man’ Composer Bailed On The Sequel Because ‘It Was Just...
To recap from a previous post, Sony is having a hard time wrangling their one big franchise, Spider-Man. The Amazing Spider-Man 3 and Venom are plagued with shuffling release dates, a star who’s only...
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R.I.P., ‘The Amazing Spider-Man’ And ‘The Amazing Spider-Man 2’
Late Monday night, Marvel and Sony announced that they’ve agreed to what is essentially joint custody over arguably the most popular cinematic comic book character, Spider-Man (Batman may still stake...
View ArticleThe Funniest Internet Reactions To Spider-Man Returning To Marvel
Now that Spider-Man is back in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, we’ve learned a lot. Andrew Garfield will be recast, prompting us to eulogize both The Amazing Spider-Man films. We learned the new Spidey...
View ArticleMark Millar Threw Shade At ‘Iron Man 2,’‘Thor: The Dark World’ And Recent...
I can’t say I’m a huge fan of most of his work, but there’s no denying Mark Millar can sometimes be a refreshingly honest voice in the world of comics and superhero movies. The upcoming Captain...
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Denis Leary Shared An Insane ‘Amazing Spider-Man 3’ Rumor At Comic-Con
Getty Image / Marvel The world of The Amazing Spider-Man film series is no more. We’ve gotten Marc Webb’s take on its demise, but others still seem to be talking about it for reason (most likely...
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Andrew Garfield On ‘99 Homes’ And Leaving Spider-Man Behind
Getty Image ƒ When you talk to Andrew Garfield, it’s hard to get a grasp on just how he feels about the whole “not playing Spider-Man anymore” situation. At times, it sounds like he’s happy to have the...
View ArticleSally Field Does Not Mince Words About ‘The Amazing Spider-Man’ Or Its Sequel
Sally Field held nothing back while talking about playing Aunt May in The Amazing Spider-Man and its sequel while on The Howard Stern Show on Tuesday. Our favorite part was when she likened it to...
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Andrew Garfield On Working With Mel Gibson And Martin Scorcese, And How He...
Getty Image This is a big couple of months for Andrew Garfield. With both Mel Gibson’s Hacksaw Ridge and Martin Scorsese’s Silence coming out, in a way, it almost feels like a comeback for Garfield....
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