Alfred Molina is returning to the Spidey-verse. The actor, who portrayed the evil Doctor Octopus in Tobey Maguire’s 2004 “
Continue readingBenedict Cumberbatch will cast spells — not webs — as Doctor Strange in the next “Spider-Man” movie with Tom Holland, Variety has confirmed.Cumberbatch’s casting marks the third major crossover between the films produced by Disney’s Marvel Studios and Sony Pictures’ “Spider-Man” movies with Holland, after Robert Downey Jr.’s Tony Stark appeared in 2017’s “Spider-Man: Homecoming,” […]
Continue readingTom Holland is reacting to the news that his Spider-Man character will return to the Marvel Cinematic Universe by letting Martin Scorsese’s “The Wolf Of Wall Street” do all the talking. The 23-year-old actor uploaded a famous scene from Scorsese’s 2013 black comedy in which Leonardo DiCaprio’s Jordan Belfort addresses his employees and passionately screams […]
Continue readingSony Pictures has reached a deal with Disney for Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige to produce a third “Spider-Man” film with the studio, it announced on Friday morning.“I am thrilled that Spidey’s journey in the MCU will continue, and I and all of us at Marvel Studios are very excited that we get to keep […]
Continue readingIt appears that Marvel-Sony deal really did work wonders for the Spider-Man franchise. While 2017’s Spider-Man: Homecoming was a box office success, outgrossing every previous Spider-Man movie except for Spider-Man 3, this summer’s sequel Spider-Man: Far from Home is a genuine box office smash to the tune of $1.109 billion worldwide. In fact, that figure […]
Continue readingThe long-in-the-works big-screen adaptation of the role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons just took a mighty leap toward actually happening, as Deadline reports Paramount has its eyes on Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley to direct the project. The duo recently co-directed the comedy Game Night, which rules, and also wrote the script for Spider-Man: Homecoming, […]
Continue readingSony’s second weekend of “Spider-Man: Far From Home” is dominating North American moviegoing with around $45 million, taking in more than the combined totals of the next three titles — “Toy Story 4,” “Crawl” and “Stuber.”Should Saturday estimates hold, “Spider-Man: Far From Home” will wind up the weekend with $275 million in domestic grosses in […]
Continue readingSony/Marvel Studios’ “Spider-Man: Far From Home” is showing that even after “Avengers: Endgame,” interest in the Marvel Cinematic Universe hasn’t faded in the slightest. The film added $32.6 million from 4,634 screens on Friday, and is now estimated for a six-day opening of $188 million.By comparison, 2017’s “Spider-Man: Homecoming” earned $154 million in its first […]
Continue readingWe know that Miles Morales, the half-black/half-Latino kid who will one day become Spider-Man, exists in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. In Spider-Man: Homecoming, Donald Glover’s low-level criminal Aaron Davis obliquely references Miles during an interrogation scene, saying that he doesn’t want weapons on the neighborhood streets because his nephew lives around there. Miles was introduced […]
Continue readingSony’s “Spider-Man: Far From Home” is dominating North American moviegoing, soaring to $27 million on Wednesday — a record for a Marvel Cinematic Universe film.The 23rd Marvel movie, starring Tom Holland, topped the previous Wednesday mark set two months ago by Marvel’s “Avengers: Endgame” with $25.3 million. “Spider-Man: Far From Home” has earned a dazzling […]
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