Tag: Spider-Man
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Sony Does Marvel Better Than Marvel
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, similar to its predecessor, gives us a new high standard for what we can get from a superhero film. As the years have passed and the MCU has gotten more homogenous and formulaic, Sony’s approach to their own Marvel stories seems to have taken an opposite trajectory. Sony is willing to…
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Miles Morales Swings Into ‘Spider-Verse’ Short Film at Annecy Film Festival
With Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse crushing our universe’s box office and earning itself the bragging rights of being Sony’s highest-grossing animated film of all time, the studio used its platform at the Annecy International Film Festival to unveil its short, The Spider Within: A Spider-Verse Story. Harnessing its own superpowers of reaching out to a…
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‘Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse’ Global Box Office Reaches New Heights
It looks Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse’s new global box office total is $390 million dollars through Sunday, officially overtaking its predecessor’s global box office lifetime total of $377 million. The film slipped from the top of the box office, however, falling behind Transformers: Rise of the Beasts on its inaugural weekend. But it certainly put…
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All the Times Spider-Man Has Been a Spider-Villain
Editor’s Note: The following contains spoilers for Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse”With great power, there must also come great responsibility.” Those words have fueled Peter Parker, aka the Amazing Spider-Man, for 60 years. It’s provided the bedrock for a variety of stories, from comics to video games and most recently Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse. It’s even…
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‘Transformers: Rise of the Beasts’ Domestic Box Office Makes an Impression
The noise of clanging metal is set to drown out everything else in theaters this weekend, but not if a certain friendly neighborhood superhero has anything to say about it. Paramount’s Transformers: Rise of the Beasts won the Friday box office with a $25 million debut, including $8 million from Thursday previews, setting it up…
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‘Across the Spider-Verse’: Who Is Peter B. Parker’s Daughter, Mayday?
Editor’s Note: The following contains spoilers for Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse.Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse introduces a number of new Spider-Men to the multiverse, including fan-favorites like Miguel O’Hara/Spider-Man 2099 and Ben Reilly/Scarlet Spider to more outlandish choices like Spider-Cat and Spider-Rex. Yes, the biggest animated movie of the year has a cat and Tyrannosaurus Rex…
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If You Like Shameik Moore’s Miles Morales, You Should See Him in This Movie
It’s been a few years, but we finally reunited with Shameik Moore’s Miles Morales in
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‘Across the Spider-Verse’: Miles & Gwen’s Comics Relationship Is Different
Editor’s Note: The following article contains Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse spoilers.The first big-screen animated adventure for Miles Morales in his journey as Spider-Man in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse was a major success and won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature in 2019. Now, its sequel, Sony Pictures’ Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, has quickly become…
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It’s Time We Appreciated the Gwen Stacy That No One Ever Talks About
Gwen Stacy is having a moment, and rightly so. Ghost-Spider is the moment, actually, thanks to her astoundingly successful Marvel Comics run and her increased presence in Sony’s new animated masterpiece Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse. Before Hailee Steinfeld donned the mask, Emma Stone brought Gwen to vivacious life alongside Andrew Garfield in The Amazing Spider-Man.…
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‘Transformers: Rise of the Beasts’ Gathers Modest Box Office Preview Total
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts has the task of bringing the spark back to the nearly twenty-year-old franchise and its mission began with a modest return at the domestic box office in Thursday previews. The seventh installment in the live-action adaptations of the beloved Hasbro action figures grossed $8.8 million across 3100+ locations. Rise of…