Spider-Man 2 by Corona's Coming Attractions (Thu 07-01-2004)
Genre:Action/Superhero/Comic Book Adaptation/Sequel.Studio:Columbia Pictures.Production Company:Unknown.Project Phase:In the Can.Who's In It:Tobey Maguire (Peter Parker/"Spider-Man"); Kirsten Dunst (Mary Jane Watson); Alfred Molina (Dr. Otto Octavius/"Doc...
Sitting in Stage 27 on the Sony lot, a webshoot away from the actors and filmmakers of the upcoming Spider-Man film, I`ve been continually humming to myself that jazzy song from the 1967-1970 animated TV series Spider-Man. `Spider-Man, Spider-Man, does w...
Last time, we examined Spider-Man's universal appeal through the eyes of his many creators. Now the really fun part - we ask these talented guys to pick their favorite Spidey issues ever! Every Spider-fan has his or her own list of their favorite moments ...
Spider-Man 3 opened on Friday to mixed, yet mostly positive reviews. It also opened to record-breaking box office receipts, making it the biggest opening weekend in history. Effectively, more people saw Spider-Man 3 in a single weekend than any ...
Spidey cast his web and captured more box office cash this weekend with a 60.0 million box office take here in the States. I’d have to say though there was no doubt whom I would be writing about this weekend. No, it was never a question of if Spider...
For decades, Spider-Man fans have waited not-so-patiently to see a movie based on their beloved webhead's adventures waited through lawsuits, bankruptcy, endless script development and director switches, until it seemed the project was doomed never to ha...
Due out this November from the Marvel Comics Spider-Man line: SPIDER-GIRL #40Cover by Pat Olliffe and Al WilliamsonWritten by Tom Defalco; art by pat Olliffe and Al WilliamsonIt's time for "A Death in the Family," as a member of our colorful cast ends up ...
Spider-Man 3 by Captain Gordon Edward (Mon 05-07-2007)
Well another Spider-man release indicates that we have another Spider-man game on the shelves to eat up like candy. In the third movie we see Spider-man dealing with Venom, Harry Osborn / Green Goblin 2, and Sandman. Since this is a game base on the movie...
One of the biggest films of 2007, Spider-Man 3, hits DVD this Tuesday so it’s time to take a second look at the film, and the wide range of extras on the two disc special edition. Have you noticed how the directors of superhero films cannot res...
Sitting on a United Airlines flight on the way back from an Activision event, I'm watching/listening to the new Dashboard Confessional music video, Vidnicated, the big song to come out of the new feature film, SPIDER-MAN 2. The event in San Francisco gave...
...cter like Spider-Man based in an even poorer interpretation of what "manga" are supposed to be?Kaare Andrews seems to think so, judging from LEGEND OF THE SPIDER-CLAN, a new miniseries set in that most derivative of universes. The story introduces Feli...
None of us ever had the character to ourselves - not really. From early in his illustrious crime-fighting career, there was a steadily increasing number of avid fans thrilling to his tragedy-tinged adventures. But sometimes, sitting alone with a stack of ...
The CGI SPIDER-MAN TV series coming to MTV has landed the writer many SPIDER fans have been hoping for: Brian Michael Bendis. According to a report on the Comics2Film website, Bendis is high on the series, keyed to make its premiere a few months after thi...
25-year-old Jeevan Kang is living one of his dreams: he gets to create a new spin on one of his beloved childhood characters, Spider-Man. Kang is the writer/artist working on SPIDER-MAN INDIA, the Indian counterpart to Marvel's Manhattan-based wall-crawle...
Spider-Man nuts around the world still have two long months to wait before their favorite wall-crawler officially arrives on the big screen in May, but one famous fan of ol' Webhead is already giving director Sam Raimi's take on the character the thumbs-u...
SPIDER-MAN 2 is a hit. That surprise to no one was obvious from the weekend box office ticket receipts; Sony's $200 million dollar budgeted sequel ignited theater screens and took in an impressive $115 M over the Friday to Monday Independence Day long wee...
Here's a story that's causing us (and probably a lot of others) to blink in surprise: according to a just published Latino Review SPIDER-MAN director Sam Raimi is quoted as saying that Sony Pictures Vice Chairman Amy Pascal has told Raimi to wrap things u...
I've just spent an entire day sitting in a room with pizza, chips, brownies, Mountain Dew and a copy of SPIDER-MAN 2 for the Xbox. While it's somewhat disappointing to have spoiled the movie story for myself, the gameplay may be the closest any game has e...
...m Raimi's SPIDER-MAN motion picture to the 6-inch toy world. Covering the main characters in the film (Mary Jane, Norman Osborn, the Green Goblin, J. Jonah Jameson and umpteen Spider-Man variations), this line's pretty much set up to let kids recreate ...
Amazing Spider-Man #546, the first issue of Marvel’s controversial Brand New Day has finally landed. You likely know the story by now – Peter Parker reset his world and sacrificed his marriage to save dear Aunt May, with whom he now lives...
Straczynski knows how to tell a story, but then we already knew that. With a few short issues of AMAZING SPIDER-MAN, he's managed to reinvent the character by returning him to his determined roots as a fighter who refuses to quit even when the odds are no...
The Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films handed out their 31st Annual Saturn Awards on May 3 and two films dominated the accolades for the evening: SPIDER-MAN 2 and KILL BILL: VOL. 2 SPIDER-MAN 2 walked away with a total of five Saturn ...
The ABC Family Channel has come up with one of the cooler SPIDER-MAN tie-in events with a three-day marathon of the best episodes of the four animated SPIDER-MAN cartoon series. The series, which at various times have run from the 1960s all the way until ...
Marvel Comics and Gotham Entertainment Group have announced plans to release a new comic book series that takes one of America's most-recognized crimefighters and transplants him to become an Indian superhero.SPIDER-MAN INDIA will be released to stores to...
SPIDER-MAN 2 is one of those happy sequels (for the audience the characters are as angst-ridden as ever) that builds on rather than merely repeats the original. 2002's SPIDER-MAN was a very good and spiritually faithful adaptation of the Marvel comic boo...
The Spider-Man handbook won’t give you super powers or make you a hero, but it is a fun, quirky read (appropriate since it is from Quirk Books) that does have several bits of practical information for the hero wannabe. The book is part fantasy,...
Just when I thought Ron Zimmerman's writing couldn't get any more obnoxious, repulsive, or dumb, SPIDER-MAN: SWEET CHARITY comes along and shows that, given enough ballast, even the lowest can sink even lower. Rarely have I come across such a complete cro...
...heroes?If SPIDER-MAN #1 had been written in 2002 instead of 1963, perhaps it would have looked like this - but back then the Marvel Universe wasn't nearly a big enough place for Spidey to visit other heroes and get their opinions on his career; and whi...
Marvel Comics has released the covers to three SPIDER-MAN books shipping in August. ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN #25 will arrive in stores on Aug. 7. The issue is written by Brian Michael Bendis, with art by Mark Bagley and Art Thibert, and pit Spider-Man versus ...
As most readers know by now, this particular issue of AMAZING SPIDER-MAN is not the original installment planned for this week. Following the tragic events of September 11, writer J. Michael Straczynski was charged with a seemingly impossible task sum up...
The comic book website Newsarama reports that an ongoing fourth Spider-Man comic book series will launch next spring from the creative team of writer Mark Millar and artist Terry Dodson. Millar and Dodson last collaborated on the first title released by M...
...ling that SPIDER-MAN INDIA is going to be deeply disappointing at worst and merely an interesting variant on a well-known theme at best. Plot-wise, the story follows the same major beats, albeit to a lesser degree, as the original AMAZING FANTASY story...
Sometimes you need comfort food. After all the Mangaverse this and Ultimate that and upcoming film version the other, it?s nice to get back to the Spider-Man we remember from our old fogey youth. You know, the original ? the one who stars in the core titl...
Last December, the Marvel Universe went silent throughout many of its mainstream superhero titles, but AMAZING SPIDER-MAN did not. Due to the schedule-shifting that occurred when AMAZING scribe J. Michael Straczynski decided to make #36 a tribute to the m...
It looks like history is about to repeat itself: Columbia Pictures reports that the opening day for SPIDER-MAN 2 set a new record for the highest-grossing opening ever for a movie. According to preliminary results issued by the studio, SPIDER-MAN 2 took i...
Two independent sources have sent us word that, before the end of next month, SPIDER-MAN 2 will be formatted and be playing on IMAX theaters screens. Both sources have told Coming Attractions that Sony Pictures is about to make an announcement about the I...
Raimi on SPIDER-MAN 2 by Christopher Allan Smith and Arnold T. Blumberg (Wed 05-01-2002)
Sam Raimi is talking about both SPIDER-MAN and SPIDER-MAN 2 in an exclusive interview with CINESCAPE, carried in two parts on our website today.He confirmed for us he's beginning work on the sequel, even though the first film in the series centering on Ma...
ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN writer Brian Michael Bendis announced upcoming plans for the title to coincide with the release of the SPIDER-MAN movie in May.First of all, ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN #22 will be double-sized."It will be the return of the Goblin, who just ha...
...untmen in Spider-man suits climbing up a wall while obviously filmed sliding down a wire and run backward, now filmmakers can achieve anything on screen they can imagine, freeing them to create movies based on comics that show everything that happens i...
With the release of the brilliant SPIDER-MAN feature film, it was a given that Marvel would start flooding the market with Spidey-related stuff in such quantities as we haven't seen since the early ?90s. But just as back then, the quality is variable at b...
... KNIGHTS: SPIDER-MAN is the same reason many of my friends used to give me back in the 70s for not reading PETER PARKER: THE SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN and MARVEL TEAM-UP: if the stories didn't take place in the main SPIDER-MAN title, then they had no bear...
Nothing too shocking there since he's said it many times since SPIDER-MAN 3 hit theaters. Still, Sam Raimi gave his take on the development of SPIDER-MAN 4 while talking to our good friends over at Wizard Entertainment. He confirms that developing the fir...
Comic Continuum reports that Toy Biz has announced plans to release a second series of Spider-Man Classic action figures this spring, around March. The figure list for the second series this time around includes Classic Spider-Man, Battle Ravaged Spider-M...
Sam Raimi talked to Chuck the Movie Guy about how the story for SPIDER-MAN 2 came together, and said that he's ready to direct SPIDER-MAN 3. Raimi's decision that Peter Parker needed to lose his powers in the second film was influenced by the comics thems...
...he recent Spider-Man 3 release to correspond with my box office report. Here’s the actual numbers.
Spider-Man 3 stats:
Screens: Over 10,000 screens.
Locations: At 4,252 theaters
Domestic Total: 151 million
Foreign Total: 230....
Having signed onto a SPIDER-MAN sequel a few weeks ago (more than a month before the release of the first film in the series), director Sam Raimi is already talking about SPIDER-MAN 2."I've just signed on to do SPIDER-MAN 2 actually," Raimi said. "We have...
Christopher Young fans had good news and bad news last weekend. The composer had two films open in wide release – Curtis Hanson's gambling drama Lucky You (score CD out June 5th from Varese Sarabande) and Spider-Man 3, for which no additional descri...
Straight from a smash summer run at the box office (where it still remains in the top ten), Columbia TriStar Home Video has announced a November 30 release date for SPIDER-MAN 2 on VHS and a two-disc DVD -- but you'll have to choose from five different D...
With SPIDER-MAN still breaking records even after it's huge weekend, big artists and writers who have worked wonders on the webslinger in the past are being tracked down by reporters for their reactions to Peter Parker's big screen debut.While most of the...
In a press release dated today, video game developer/distributor Activision announced that it has secured an agreement to make and release a game based on the SPIDER-MAN 3 movie, slated for release in May 2007. While that may be some distance away in the ...
SOTA Toys presents the ultimate Spider-Man collectible, the Spider-Man Deluxe Pewter Chess Set. This dynamic, original chess set features 16 different characters (plus 8 Spider Tracers and 8 Spider Killers) and a sculpted chess board that recreates a roof...
Peter uses his Spider-Man persona (and a little bit of help from his friends) to ease the pain of a young girl who's dying of cancer. Then he combats Slyde, an old enemy who's gotten a new origin, new costume, and new modus operandi - none of which helps ...
MASSIVE SPOILER WARNING: There's simply no easy way to review this watershed issue of ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN without discussing the last few pages, so if you don't want to know the events of this installment, STOP READING NOW!All right then. We've waxed eloq...
When we last heard from SPIDER-MAN director Sam Raimi about the latest on the third Spidey movie last month, Raimi still hadn't decided on what villain he would be using in the second sequel. It still looks like Raimi hasn't made up his mind, but at least...
... over the Spider-mantle while Alfred feeds our favorite wall-crawler some chicken soup? Or have I stumbled into the wrong title?As this issue makes painfully clear, none of this is any real concern, since surprise! the entire neck-snapping business t...
Over the course of his storied 40-year career, Spider-Man has had no greater adventure then that which brings him to local theaters this summer in the form of a live-action, CG-effects spectacular. Need more proof? Then just look at the toll the project h...
Marvel Comics has announced that it is cancelling its SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN comic series as of the March 2005 issue, slated to be issue #27. Jenkins will end his run on the book after a fill-in issue from writer Samm Barnes and penciler Scot Eaton."Paul ...
Odds are that the latest offering from the Marvel Collector's Club is tying in with the excitement generated by SPIDER-MAN 2; still, it's still one nifty treat for fans of Marvel's web-head. The company is now taking orders for a 1/6th scale cold cast sta...
Yesterday at ShoWest, the annual meeting of theater owners and movie studios, Sony Pictures unveiled its big SPIDER-MAN 2 presentation which included the film's new trailer. Reports from movie websites that had members from their staff in attendance (Comi...
...f turning Spider-Man into a prattling, insult-hurling jackass. That would be Ron Zimmerman at the wheel, and the less said about him the better.No, all things considered, Smith's new Spider-Man/Black Cat "team-up" seems to be picking up steam - and not...
... slice of Spider-Man continuity that's been with us since 1973 and I'm so stunned by the results that I couldn't care less that he did it. This story, the way JMS tells it, is worth the fact that the facts have been changed.No, really what JMS has do...
Bendis - what more can I say? The series that finally won me, the old Spider-phile, completely over in the last year, keeps going from strength to strength, and most recently has been focusing on a mysterious second Spider-Man who has been exploiting the ...
For the better part of a decade the movie rights to SPIDER-MAN were in a legal limbo. This tangled web was eventually ironed out by the courts and Sony Pictures emerged as the winner, going on to earn almost a billion dollars worldwide from the first SPI...
Submitted for your approval this Wednesday morning: an Australian reader of the Sunday Telegraph found a story in the newspaper concerning SPIDER-MAN 2. What caught the attention of the scooper were the three photos accompaning the story as well as two st...
...e writing SPIDER-MAN 4, that he will not be directing the next installment and that his involvement is basically as a producer watching over the project. Still, in this latest interview with Comic Book Resources, Raimi did update us about his desire th...
Earlier this summer, CINESCAPE reported that Alfred Gough and Miles Millar (SMALLVILLE's executive producers) had been tapped to write the sequel to SPIDER-MAN. Now, however, it appears that another thread has been woven into the proverbial web. VARIETY ...
Marvel Comics has released covers and solicitation information about three more Spider-Man titles in August. Following is a rundown: SPIDER-MAN: QUALITY OF LIFE #4 will arrive in stores on Aug. 7. It is written by Greg Rucka, with art and cover by Scott...
On June 30th SPIDER-MAN 2 opened nationwide. SPIDER-MAN 2 is a fun movie, full of action, romance, and adventure; just watching Spidey fly from building to building is awesome. Alfred Molina is a wonderful villain and those metal tentacles make him a...
...h AMAZING SPIDER-MAN, much the same way the original version of PETER PARKER lacked those links way back when, it feels less like a book capable of standing on its own and more like a lesser book trying to harken back to earlier times. And even then it...
It seems while the rest of us were doing whatever we were doing last weekend, a few lucky fans were invited to four special screenings of Sam Raimi's SPIDER-MAN.So, according to those who were there, what can we expect a few short weeks from now? Keith Ba...
Variety is reporting that Daniel Gilles has won the role of Mary-Jane Watson's new boyfriend in THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN, a.k.a. SPIDER-MAN 2. But for those of us familiar with the litany of Spider-Man's supporting cast members, the name of MJ's new beau w...
...n AMAZING SPIDER-MAN back in the 70s, so finding out that she was coming back in ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN didn't strike me as the best of news. Of course, I should know by now that if Brian Michael Bendis puts his mind to it, he could make me like ice cream...
Some more, admittedly spotty, information is beginning to come out of the production for the SPIDER-MAN follow-up, now known only as SPIDER-MAN 2. According to ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY, Kirsten Dunst has indicated Dr. Octopus will be menacing Spidey in the se...
The highly anticipated feature film version of SPIDER-MAN opened nationwide last Friday and the hordes of fans that packed theaters gave their favorite web-swinger the highest opening box office weekend of all time. After years of legal wrangling, movie-g...
How's this for fanboy heaven: spend your days writing and running the most critically acclaimed SUPERMAN series ever to hit the air and nights banging out the script for SPIDER-MAN 2.That's the task charged to Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, who created WB...
In a quick interview with the CALGARY SUN, SPIDER-MAN star Toby Maguire and director Sam Raimi thankfully side-stepped the normal boosterism of creatives hyping their next film, and let us in on how directors sometimes mess with the heads of actors to get...
Marvel Comics has released the first three covers and solicitation information for SPIDER-MAN: BLUE, the Marvel Knights mini-series by Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale. "The title's not blue like the color -- it's blue as in sad, as in jazz music, as blue in love,...
...ally cool Spider-Man and an awesome Wolverine. If helmets are not your forte then these Subcast Polyresin Figures will make unique editions to your collection.
None of us ever had the character to ourselves not really. From early in his illustrious crime-fighting career, there was a steadily increasing number of avid fans thrilling to his tragedy-tinged adventures. But sometimes, sitting alone with a stack of S...
It seems the makers of the SPIDER-MAN soundtrack have torn a page form the STAR WARS EPISODE I DVD and planted on the disc a browser that allows owners of the CD exclusive access to a SPIDER website for the film.Those who listen to the soudntrack on their...
Few writers have emphasized the "man" part of "Spider-Man" quite as well as J. Michael Straczynski has. Off the top of my head, I can only think of two who brought out Peter Parker's human side just as well: Stan Lee and Gerry Conway. The latest issue - a...
...st became Spider-Man? And what if Mary-Jane, or just Mary, was already his best friend in high school and he couldn't stand dissing her anymore to run off and play hero? What if, like a normal human being (albeit with the abilities of a humanoid spider...
...ecognizes Spider-Man and offers to keep her out of the charity ward for as long as he can. Apparently, Spider-Man saved his uncle’s life years ago and he wants to return the favor. Peter decides to turn to Tony Stark for help, in a desp...
OK, so we all agree that Straczynski's arrival on AMAZING SPIDER-MAN was indisputably one of the highlights of the comics year 2001. His scripting revitalized a character most of us never expected would languish as much as he did. With a fresh and clever ...
Even if they turn out to be not true, rumors have a nasty habit of having a negative effect on a project. One rumor that Tobey Maguire's people are trying to shoot down fast is that the star won't be returning to play Spider-Man in the sequel because of ...
Scooper JMJ recently emailed me saying that he had seen a bunch of Spider-Man footage which he believes to be the first 30 or so minutes of Spider-Man 3.Please note, there ARE spoilers here, so proceed at your own peril!JMJ writes:
It’s anyone gues...
Brian Michael Bendis is setting the record straight about how his involvement with the upcoming CGI animated SPIDER-MAN show on MTV. While talking directly about how the media (and, admittedly, sometimes this news reporter) have pegged him as the power be...
Yes, that's Wolverine flirting with Mary Jane Parker on the cover of SPIDER-MAN 13. And yes, Wolvie and Spidey fight. But, that's about it. I don't think we'll be seeing any little Logans with red hair running around Stark Tower anytime soon, so don't ...
This will come as no supprise to anyone, but Marvel's new CEO Kevin Feige recently told MTV that the SPIDER-MAN franchise will be continuing for the foreseeable future."There will be many more Spider-Man films to come. We already have stacks of ideas for ...
Superherohype.com reports that composer Danny Elfman will follow in the footsteps of John Dykstra (who left SPIDER-MAN 3 earlier this year) and take his leave from the SPIDER-MAN franchise. Elfman has cued up much work for 2007 (the year of SPIDER-MAN 3'S...
After his additional music credit on SPIDER-MAN 2, Christopher Young has been hired to compose the original score for SPIDER-MAN 3, to be released on 7 May, 2007. Shooting began on earlier this month, once again under the direction of Sam Raimi. Tobey Mag...
... style to Spider-Man, with a far lighter tone than those previous two books-and it works! It's a real shame that Marvel doesn't tend to do one-shots in the way that DC does: this issue of SPIDER-MAN'S TANGLED WEB is stand-alone material. It features so...
In an interview with SFX magazine, director Sam Raimi talks briefly about his experience in working on The Gift and what he would like to take from it to apply to his latest endeavor of filming Spider-Man. Here is what he had to say:`Spider-Man won`t be ...
A wanderer at the annual SIGGRAPH convention took a photo of a SPIDER-MAN 2 promotional poster said to be at the Sony Imageworks booth and sent it to Superhero Hype. The image is Spidey swinging over a city street appears to be made strictly for the SIGGR...
This is quite a weighty week for Spider-fans. Over in the "Ultimate" line, Brian Michael Bendis has dropped a bombshell - see our review of ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN #25 for more on that - and here in SPIDER-GIRL #50, the series we have fought so steadily to sa...
SPIDER-MAN didn't have to do whatever a spider could to get audiences scrambling for copies of his video and DVD release. He merely had to show up on the shelves at your local video store. VARIETY reports that more than $125 million was spent buying and r...
...n AMAZING SPIDER-MAN, J. Michael Straczynski had Peter reveal that our heroes have always watched each other closely for signs of weakness, just in case there should ever come a time when those weaknesses needed to be exploited. Here, Brett Matthews ta...
Marvel Studios head and SPIDER-MAN executive producer Avi Arad is all but revealing the villain in next year's SPIDER-MAN 2."We're just starting to write the script, but Dr. Octopus might make a good villain,"Arad said to the CHICAGO SUN TIMES' Cindy Pear...
Marvel Comics announced yesterday that their SPIDER-MAN: TANGLED WEB comic book series was being suddenly cancelled. The TANGLED WEB series gave different writers and artists to try eclectic and unusual Spider-Man stories not presented in the character's...
ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN TEAM-UP will go on a month long hiatus this May in favor of the ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN SPECIAL, a project writer Brian Michael Bendis says has been in development for six months and is "an all-new star-studded Spidey story like you've nev...
According to ComingSoon, Kirsten Dunst let it slip in a news conference that she felt the Spider-Man franchise needed to take a break."Well, I think [director] Sam [Raimi] has dedicated so much of his life, like more than 10 years, to the Spider-Man ...
With Kevin Smith set to appear on NBC'S THE TONIGHT SHOW WITH JAY LENO on June 24 to promote his upcoming Marvel mini-series, SPIDER-MAN/BLACK CAT: THE EVIL THAT MEN DO, more art is coming out from the books. "I'm as proud of my work in comics as I am of...
The screenwriters of SPIDER-MAN 2, among others, are talking about what fans can expect in the sequel to Marvel Comic's biggest film to date. The writers, replacing SPIDER-MAN's David Koepp who decided not to return for a second outing, are Alfred Gough a...
Things are looking up for SPIDER-MAN fans, and the big screen version of the webcrawler's adventures hasn't even hit theaters yet. According to a report in Variety, Toby Mcguire has already signed to do two sequels to Sam Raimi's SPIDER-MAN, and Son...
With shooting underway, tons of set pictures from SPIDER-MAN 3 are showing up on the web. I have attached one and will link to a few places at the end of this article.In a bit of related news, Superhero Hype! reported that the teaser for SPIDER-MAN 3 is ...
According to an interview with The Courier-Mail, Tobey Maguire might be done with the Spider-Man franchise."To me it seems like this is a natural point for the team to break up because we have a lot of story conclusions that were going along fo...
Alvin Sargeant will earn a seven-figure paycheck for writing the screenplay for SPIDER-MAN 3. Columbia Pictures has closed a contract with the writer, who had sole screenwriting credit for SPIDER-MAN 2 and also contributed (but received no on-screen credi...
...s head of Spider-Man, Inc., a corporation built around his superhero persona. Parker is a despicable tyrant, lording it over his employees, including former Daily Bugle editor J. Jonah Jameson! But when fate decrees that Spider-Man must appear one more...
Sony Pictures has kicked the doors open on its website for SPIDER-MAN 2, giving fans some new treats to see. You can download wallpaper, screensavers, buddy icons and watch "webisode" showing highlights from the SPIDER-MAN 2 presentation at San Diego Comi...
The world is in danger, and Spider-Man is the only one who can save it. Problem is, he's stuck in his own past, and with Doctor Strange's help, he must move forward through his own personal history to the moment at which the decision which saves or destro...
...ing a new SPIDER-MAN adventure for Marvel Comics. Dini made the announcement at last weekend's Wizard World convention held in Texas and where Comic Book Resources's David Michael Wharton was in attendance."I will say that there is a special project I'...
Spider-Man meets Daredevil again in August in the appropriately named SPIDER-MAN/DAREDEVIL, a Marvel Knights one-shot arriving in August that features two creators new to Marvel. The book is written by Brett Matthews, with art by Vatche Mavlian. "Brett ...
With SPIDER-MAN blasting away through the nation's box office, more news is coming out about MTV's SPIDER-MAN series. Onetime DOOGIE HOWSER Neil Patrick Harris has signed to voice the erstwhile web-slinger, while songstress Lisa Loeb has been confirmed as...
In an interview with CINESCAPE's Paul Zimmerman, SPIDER-MAN star Kirsten Dunst talks about how she has higher hopes for this comic book movie than others fans have seen, and been burned by, in the past. "Everybody seems to be really be ready for it," she ...
In an exclusive interview with CINESCAPE Managing Editor Michael Tunison, Stan "The Man" Lee, creator of Marvel Comics' most memorable superheroes, let loose his rather favorable opinion on the upcoming live action adaptation of SPIDER-MAN."Boy, it looked...
According to Spider-Man Hype, sketches drawn by the one and only Alex Ross will be featured during the opening credit sequence for SPIDER-MAN 2. The website states that Ross' illustrations will "rehash the events that happened in SPIDER-MAN", serving as a...
...tation of SPIDER-MAN, has a well-reasoned answer to the eternal question."I didn't grow up reading them," says Dafoe. "My only memory is that there was a period that I would go and visit my brothers and sisters who were going to school at the Universit...
Activision has announced that it will delay SPIDER-MAN 2 for Playstation due to concerns of the New York setting.Due to the recent attack on the World Trade Center, Activision has postponed the November 18th release of SPIDER-MAN 2 ENTER: ELECTRO. Th...
Video game publisher Activision announced today that the company has shipped more than two million units of its latest console and computer game, SPIDER-MAN 2, to retail stores nationwide. It's a staggering number considering that the game just went on sa...
In a recent article by EW.com, a few juicy quotes surfaced from Sam Raimi regarding The Hobbit, as well as from various others regarding Spider-Man 4."Peter Jackson might be the best filmmaker on the planet right now," said Raimi when asked abou...
Sam Raimi has been talking about what he knows regarding the posibility of further SPIDER-MAN movies, though he, as yet, is not involved in them.While talking to Spider-Man Hype, Raimi spoke of what he knew about potential sequels, saying, "I assume and I...
...USE OF M: SPIDER-MAN stands as the first character-specific HOUSE OF M miniseries of the several planned, and it is very, very good. In the HOUSE OF M world, Peter Parker couldn't be happier. As one of the richest mutants in the world (yes, in this wor...
The Imax Corporation and Columbia Pictures made it official today and confirmed that SPIDER-MAN 2 will be distributed globally to Imax theaters beginning July 23. The movie is being digitally re-mastered to suit the Imax screen and sound experience.In a p...
Columbia Pictures is in talks with Bryce Dallas Howard to play Peter Parker's love interest Gwen Stacy in SPIDER-MAN 3. She joins a cast that already includes Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, James Franco, Topher Grace and Thomas Haden Church. The character ...
According to the Danny Elfman web site, Music for a Darkened People, Elfman may in fact write the music for Spider-Man 3, despite the stunning controversy behind-the-scenes on Spider-Man 2 that forced Elfman to leave the picture, with John Debney and Chri...
According to the Irish Examiner, the cast of SPIDER-MAN 3 has been called back to do various reshoots after complaints from test audiences."The next thing I'm shooting? Re-shoots on Spider-Man... Probably next month," said James Franco. (Director Sam Rai...
In the third quarter of 2007, Sideshow Collectibles will release their Venom Statue - Spider-man 3.
The polystone figure will stand 16 inches high and weigh approximately ten pounds. It features a menacing looking Venom han...
A week after Disney announced the dvd release date of "At World's End" this December, Sony has now revealed that SPIDER-MAN 3 will hit the shelves on October 30, 2007. According to Variety, the trilogy box set will also be available in both form...
Sideshow Collectibles has announced they are taking pre-orders one of Medicom's most limited products, the 12-inch RAH Symbiote Spider-Man. In Japan, this figure is a mail order exclusive, but Medicom has graciously allowed Sideshow to import a small numb...
Director Sam Raimi told Cinescape that he has enlisted Danny (Sleep Hollow) Elfman to compose the score for his Spider-Man feature film. `He is [perfect for the film]. He`s a great composer,` said Raimi, during an online chat Friday. `I really have enjoye...
When the spider changed its mind the monster hunter took its place. Columbia Pictures has announced that the release of its much-anticipated sequel to last year's SPIDER-MAN has been pushed back two months from May 7, 2004, and is now slotted for July 2/...
While appearing at last weekend's WizardWorld convention in Chicago, SPIDER-MAN special effects supervisor John Dykstra (STUART LITTLE, STAR WARS) spoke of the challenges of making a CG Spidey look like a real living being, saying, "The toughest thing abo...
... old-time Spider-Man fan, it just doesn't get any better than this! And the artistic team of Romita Jr. and Hanna know exactly what they're doing too - this is one of those rare occasions when I didn't mind in the least that a battle sequence segued in...
In today's Variety there's a quick mention that Columbia Pictures plans on releasing the first trailer for SPIDER-MAN 2 this coming November. No info was given as to which film(s) the SPIDEY 2 trailer may run with or when in November we'll get to see it. ...
Available in comic shops across the continent starting today is the latest in superheroic bookshelf swag: Spider-Man vs. Green Goblin bookends. Recreating the classic fight between the wallcrawler and the Goblin atop the Brooklyn bridge, where a kidnapped...
...Pictures' SPIDER-MAN films, Universal Pictures' HULK and Lions Gate Films' THE PUNISHER. Even though Lee was not involved in the creation of some of these characters (such as The Punisher or Elektra), his contract with Marvel Enterprises does states th...
In September, Diamond Selects will release the twelve-inch statue featuring Spider-Man’s genemy – Venom. This detailed scene was created utilizing SPIDER-MAN 3’s digital production files by Gentle Giant Studios and features th...
Just the interest of SPIDER-MAN director Sam Raimi caused a seven figure bidding war over the rights to the vampire comic 30 DAYS OF NIGHTS. The story is one of the projects Raimi is contemplating after finishing SPIDER-MAN 2, which starts shooting in Jan...
SPIDER-MAN 3 has broken the one-day record for box office gross in North America by pulling in $59 million worth of tickets yesterday. It broke the record previously held by PIRATES OF THE CARRIBEAN: DEAD MAN'S CHEST, which had $55.8 million in its f...
This fall the Tonner Doll Company will release the Spider-Man Tonner Character Figure.
The figure will be dressed in his red and blue spider-suit, which has a zipper on the backside for easy dressing and undressing. The body of the figure stands app...
Thanks to our friends in the southern hemisphere, we've been given confirmation regarding yesterday's SPIDER-MAN 2 scoop. The Melbourne Telegraph did indeed publish three new photos from SPIDER-MAN 2 as well as report that the stars have signed for three ...
OPINION: Wow, talk about varied opinions! After my extended review of SPIDER-MAN 2 a couple of weeks back, I got people agreeing with me, people disagreeing with me, people kinda disagreeing with me, and people strongly disagreeing with me. (I even got on...
The final trailer for the upcoming film Spider-Man 3 is now online, you can find it over here.In the film, Peter Parker has finally managed to strike a balance between his devotion to M.J. and his duties as a superhero. But there is a storm brewing on the...
According to ComingSoon, A new trailer for the upcoming film Spider-Man 3 will be shown with 300 when it releases next Friday.The trailer is reportedly 1 minute and 38 seconds long.Spider-Man 3 opens wide May 4th.KJ's Take: As if we all didn't have ...
SPIDER-MAN star Tobey Maguire is putting on his producer's hat once again for a movie based on the novel EVERYTHING CHANGES. Maguire, who also had producer credits on SEABISCUIT and THE 25TH HOUR, will make EVERYTHING CHANGES at Columbia Pictures with Wen...
Sideshow Collectibles has revealed the new 12-inch, 3-lbs Venom figure for the upcoming film Spider-Man 3.The figure, which is expected to ship out sometime in the 2nd quarter of 07', can be pre-ordered via their website.Spider-Man 3 is scheduled for rele...
...r AMAZING SPIDER-MAN's landmark 500th issue in seven months? Kind of sucks that we live in this one, then, where we'll only be on issue 59. Oh, well, at least we have J. Michael Straczynski writing ours, and it's getting better all the time. This issue...
According to ComingSoon.net, tentative dates have been released as to when the trailers for SPIDER-MAN 3, GHOST RIDER, CASINO ROYALE:CASINO ROYALE's trailer will be launched on September 15 with the upcoming film GRIDIRON GANG.GHOST RIDER's trailer is set...
More of the features of the SPIDER-MAN DVD release have been revealed, and it looks like Sam Raimi and Kirsten Dunst will be giving commentary on the film, along with producer Laura Ziskin and co-producer Grant Curtis. Also along for some commentary is le...
Just before Christmas decended upon us, an anonymous sender sent in this scoop about alleged reshoots happening to SPIDER-MAN 2..."Just a heads up, but the Sony and SPIDER-MAN 2 production crew are working hard to RE-ASSEMBLE the humongous dock/bridge tha...
Sony Pictures has sent us the new teaser poster design for SPIDER-MAN 2, which should start being spotted in theater lobbies starting this coming Saturday. The poster design is similar to the one we saw used in the first SPIDER-MAN movie publicity campaig...
...t a black Spider-Man shaped suit. How could they do it?Ah, naive youth. Of course the whole thing was orchestrated - or at least retroactively orchestrated when the suit failed to have enormous appeal, hard to say which - as part of a story arc in whic...
As promised by Sony Pictures last week, the teaser trailer for SPIDER-MAN 2 has hit the web. Make your way here and you too can see a preview of Peter's next adventure as the amazing Spider-Man plus what the nasty Doctor Octopus looks like in action!Got a...
Sony Pictures is asking for help from you for its plans for the SPIDER-MAN 2 and SPIDER-MAN Special Edition DVDs. The company wants feedback from consumers about what kind of special features you would like to see on the DVDs, and to get that information,...
Sony has put the new trailer for SPIDER-MAN 2 on the film's official website and it's worth the wait. Not only do we get to see more action from the upcoming sequel, but the shots that they show would suggest that the second movie is going to have even mo...
Even though SPIDER-MAN will probably be the biggest hit of the year, screenwriter/producer David S. Goyer seems to indicate for us not to expect a script he wrote for a SPIDEY villain film, VENOM, to be hitting screens anytime soon. The film, which he wro...
It's hard to remember as the May 3 release date for Sam Raimi's SPIDER-MAN rushes at us, but the famous web slinger's first big screen adventure has been in development for over 10 years. Why? Because with Marvel Comics 1990s bankruptcy and more legal hur...
It seems Hollywood insiders are anticipating and tracking the coming of SPIDER-MAN with as much interest as the fans who have been waiting almost 40 years for it.According to a report in THE NEW YORK TIMES, an "envious producer of a rival summer film [say...
Looking forward to seeing the SPIDER-MAN movie trailer? If so, you'll be glad to read that the trailer will be hitting the Internet a day earlier than initially planned.According to Comics2Film, the trailer will be launched on the evening of Thursday, Jul...
The official SPIDER-MAN movie website has posted two short film clips from the coming SPIDER-MAN movie. One clip shows Spidey in action as well as Tobey Maguire in the suit, while the other shows the sinister Green Goblin in action. Check out the cl...
Joe Kubert draws Spider-Man for the first time in his more than 60 years as a comics professional in a 10-page story in PS MAGAZINE, THE PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE MONTHLY #592. PS MAGAZINE, a periodical devoted to properly maintaining Army e...
It looks like Sony is getting crazy serious about getting SPIDER-MAN 2 to the big screen, possibly as early as the holiday 2003 movie season. According to a story in VARIETY, not only has the studio already signed director Sam Raimi (see related news item...
Sony has released a new SPIDER-MAN 3 via superherohype.com.The film stars Tobey Maguire (Peter Parker/"Spider-Man"), Kirsten Dunst (Mary-Jane Watson), Bryce Dallas Howard (Gwen Stacy), Topher Grace, Thomas Haden Church and Theresa Russell.It hits theaters...
While the majority of people were taking it easy and enjoying the Easter long weekend, that wasn't the case with Sam Raimi and the cast and crew of SPIDER-MAN 2. The production was filming scenes involving Spider-Man swinging above city streets -- and wi...
...tallment, SPIDER-MAN 4. Apparently, that meeting has taken place and first on the agenda is getting a writer attached to flesh out the details for the story. He did not address whether he would direct the film.
Here's what he told Empire;
"I wan...
...he world, Spider-Man 3, as she did with Spider-Man 2.
Since first gaining recognition for her score to Joe Nussbaum’s cult classic, George Lucas in Love, Lurie has quickly become a strikingly versatile and critically acclaimed rising voic...
Kirsten Dunst has been talking about acting in the SPIDER-MAN... and how physically involved that work was.While talking to Zap2it.com to promote CRAZY/BEAUTIFUL, Dunst explained, saying, "I was hanging from wires and being dropped and doing all that kind...
A new trailer for Sony's upcoming film Spider-Man 3 has been released online.You can find it over here at IFILM.In Spider-Man 3, a strange black substance bonds with Peter Parker and causes inner turmoil as he contends with new villains, temptations and r...
SPIDER-MAN: SWEET CHARITY is a 64-page one-shot, written by Ron Zimmeran, with art by Darick Robertson and Rodney Ramos, cover by J. Scott Campbell and Tim Townsend. Here's how Marvel describes the book: "Thanks to a star-studded celebrity fundraising ...
In fall 2007, Sideshow Collectibles will release the 12-inch tall SPIDER-MAN 3 - Peter Parker figure. It features Peter Parker in street clothes with the black Spider-man outfit on underneath. Parker will have adjustable arms along with a jacket that actu...
It's official: Aunt May knows her beloved nephew Peter is Spider-Man, the vigilante she's always regarded with fear and loathing. This time, there's no blackouts, no eleventh-hour explanations, nothing that Peter can say that will convince the one family ...
Spider-Man 3 by Captain Gordon Edward (Wed 03-21-2007)
Plot:
Spider-Man 3 allows players to experience the actions of heroic red-suited Spider-Man, and for the first time ever his darker more mysterious black-suited persona. Set in a larger dynamic free-roaming New York City, the game gives players the fr...
Sam Raimi hinted that he may be ready to return for a fourth Spider-Man film to the movie magazine Premiere. "I love Spider-Man and I love working with Kirsten, Tobey, James," said Raimi, "I have to make sure that when I'm done with this p...
Tobey Maguire has made it known recently that he may be done playing Spider-Man on the big screen.He says, "This might be a good place to stop--I am not tied contractually to anymore Spider-Man movies.Maguire recently became a dad and wants to spend ...
The official Spider-Man site has released some new images, one of which features a young Harry Osborn in some Green Goblinesque gear. You can see the image to the left. There are also more images at the site which you can find here. In the fi...
Sony/Columbia has finally released their new one-sheet poster for the coming SPIDER-MAN movie.The previous poster was quickly pulled out of the market after the tragic events of September 11th. Spidey's eyes showed reflections of the now gone World Trade ...
Both Sony and Sam Raimi are said to be feeling pretty good about the potential for a sequel to their coming SPIDER-MAN movie.According to Variety, Sony and Raimi are said to have already begun to make preparations to fast-track a sequel for the comin...
Fans of SPIDER-MAN have been wondering who exactly was going to be penning the sequel to this summer's blockbuster hit. Would it be SMALLVILLE's own dynamic duo of Miles Miller and Al Gough, or would it be David Koepp, the writer of the first movie? In an...
It looks like fans high off the quality of Sam Raimi's SPIDER-MAN movie will have to wait awhile longer. It looks like MTV's computer animated version of the movie smash won't be hitting the airwaves this fall as originally projected, but sometime in earl...
The wife of SPIDER-MAN crew worker Tim Holcombe has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Columbia Pictures. The suit was filed in Superior Court on Wednesday and is said to seek unspecified damages. In addition, equipment manufacturer Ingersoll-Rand was...
Not a whole lot is known about the specifics yet, but it appears November 12 will be the DVD release date for Sam Raimi's massive hit, SPIDER-MAN. According to various trade reports and soundings in the video community, the film will be presented in a two...
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #36, the World Trade Center story that arrived in stores on Wednesday, will be reprinted as part of a collection book in December.The issue, along with INCREDIBLE HULK #34 (first issue for writer Bruce Jones), DAREDEVIL #26 (the first i...
As expected, Thursday night saw the SPIDER-MAN trailer pop up online on a number of sites. The trailer, which looks to feature material may not be in the movie itself, can now be seen on the film's official website. Click on the Source link above and foll...
Sideshow Collectibles is taking pre-orders for their Black Suited Spider-man Mini-Bust which will be released in July.
The polystone bust stands eight inches high and is priced at $49.99.
...ting than SPIDER-MAN, which has exactly the same story as SUPERMAN does: nerd becomes hero by putting on a fantasy costume, as you know. That's the way it goes, that story."Our movie is about politics. Our movie is about what it's like to live in the r...
