Tag: Spider

  • Marvel, We Miss Your Mid-Budget Projects!

    Marvel, We Miss Your Mid-Budget Projects!

    The 2018 book The Big Picture: The Fight for the Future of Movies by Ben Fritz dedicates a lengthy chapter to breaking down the history of Marvel Studios. Such history observes how, thanks to the limited financial resources at the disposal of Marvel Studios when it started to make original in-house movies, early Marvel Cinematic…

  • Beyond The Spider-Verse: 10 Characters Fans Want To See, According To Reddit

    Beyond The Spider-Verse: 10 Characters Fans Want To See, According To Reddit

    If there’s one thing the Spider-Verse movies have become rapidly known for, it’s the cavalcade of cameos in each one. With a multiversal story surrounding a character who’s been adapted and re-adapted and re-re-adapted countless times, there’s a ton of room to fit in just about any Spider-person or Spider-affiliate one can name. Across the…

  • Why This ‘Spider-Man’ Character Is the Same in Every Universe

    Why This ‘Spider-Man’ Character Is the Same in Every Universe

    Spider-Man movie veteran may have escaped your notice. A few different times in the film, we hear the familiar voice of J. Jonah Jameson, voiced by none other than J. K. Simmons, who first played the role back in 2002’s Spider-Man (Nic Novicki), Spectacular Spider-Man from the PlayStation 4 video game (Yuri Lowenthal) — and…

  • Murder Is Afoot in ‘Inspector Sun and the Curse of the Black Widow’ Trailer

    Murder Is Afoot in ‘Inspector Sun and the Curse of the Black Widow’ Trailer

    Fresh out of the 2023 Annecy International Animation Film Festival, Collider is eager to share a new trailer for Inspector Sun and the Curse of the Black Widow, an animated mystery film from Viva Pictures. Appearing amid a stellar lineup that included a new Spider-Verse short and Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget, the children…

  • ‘Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse’ Global Box Office Reaches New Heights

    ‘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…

  • ‘Across the Spider-Verse’ Domestic Box Office Swings Toward Major Milestone
  • ‘Across the Spider-Verse’: Spider-Gwen Needs Her Own Movie

    ‘Across the Spider-Verse’: Spider-Gwen Needs Her Own Movie

    Editor’s Note: The following contains spoilers for Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse.One of Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse’s greatest strengths is the character of Gwen Stacy (Hailee Steinfeld), also known as Spider-Gwen. No longer just a supporting character in Miles Morales’ (Shameik Moore) story, Gwen is a full-fledged protagonist in Across the Spider-Verse, giving us two compelling…

  • ‘Across the Spider-Verse’: Who Is Peter B. Parker’s Daughter, Mayday?

    ‘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…

  • ‘Madame Web’: What to Expect

    ‘Madame Web’: What to Expect

    Sony’s Spider-Verse continues to grow, as the studio seems committed to fleshing out this branching cinematic universe, and the next on their list is Madame Webb. Apart from the McU-adjacent Tom Holland Spider-Man films, which gave the studio its biggest hit in the form of the culmination of No Way Home in 2021, the response…

  • ‘Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse’ IMAX Box Office Takes Big Swings

    ‘Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse’ IMAX Box Office Takes Big Swings

    Miles Morales (Shameik Moore) is constantly proving everyone around him than he can do more than they expect him to. That premise extends into the real world, as Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse achieves yet another box office milestone. This time around, the successful animated sequel managed to earn $13.5 million in North America (11.2% of…