The Amazing Spider-Man continues to gain ground on the other big comic book movies of summer. While early on Amazing Spider-Man had seemed slow to the game against The Dark Knight Rises and The Avengers, Spidey has swung back with a vengeance.
First of all, it should be said for readers just arriving that there may potentially be spoilers here. After all, if you’re going to have predictions, then any of them might turn out to be true and ruin the surprise. Additionally, when we use the existing trailers or the comics...
While the Dark Knight rose first with a prologue before Christmas and The Avengers scored big during the Super Bowl, this past week The Amazing Spider-Man struck back. Ever since The Amazing Spider-Man was first announced, Sony has been facing an uphill battle to convince fans that this is not...
Recently there were two or three big things that got me to thinking about the culture of moviemaking and moviegoing in the 21st Century. With cell phone cameras and fans who can trace a production’s location on the Internet, filmmakers like the ones making The Dark Knight Rises and The...
With a Forbes headline that says it will “turn you into a true believer” and an MTV Splash Page post that cries, “Man, were we wrong!” to doubt the film after a ponderous and disappointing first tease months ago, one has to ask–has today’s impressive trailer silenced many of the...
The Amazing Spider-Man trailer debuted at midnight and is already burning up the Internet this morning, garnering mostly positive buzz for a project of which many fans were very skeptical going in. After a few viewings, there were quite a few positive takeaways for us here at ComicBook.com: A sense...
Early this morning, Sony Pictures released the first full trailer for their upcoming Marc Webb-directed reboot, The Amazing Spider-Man. The plot-heavy ad shows a Spider-Man whose sense of wonder at his powers and fun with street thugs is outweighed only by the angst over his parents’ death (and the burgeoning...
With all the buzz about The Dark Knight Rises and The Avengers, it’s sometimes difficult to remember that there is another major comic book superhero movie planned for the summer of 2012. Since The Amazing Spider-Man reboot was announced, Sony Pictures has been facing an uphill battle to convince fans...
Forgive us if we’ve just given away a major spoiler for the upcoming Avengers movie, but we imagine what we’ve actually revealed is a mistaken reference in an article that raises up an interesting possibility. The Radio Times just published an interview with Jenny Agutter, who is playing a role...
There aren’t many directors better than David Fincher working in Hollywood today. It’s actually hard to imagine a director better suited to adapt someone else’s material; films like Fight Club and The Social Network have demonstrated the filmmaker’s ability to retain the tone and flavor that made the originals worth...
Sony has launched an official website for the Amazing Spider-Man movie, which is due to arrive in theaters on July 3, 2012. The website goes to great lengths to assure fans that the movie will tell a “different side of the Peter Parker story” than told in previous movies. The...
When Emma Stone appeared on Saturday Night Live, Andy Samberg quipped, “Yeah, aren’t you just re-doing the exact same Spider-Man movie from ten years ago?” While Samberg was making his comment in jest, the most often heard fan complaint about the upcoming movie is that it is too soon for...
Spider-Man made a surprise appearance on Saturday Night Live last night. As Emma Stone was delivering the opening monologue, Spider-Man dropped in upside down. Ok, so it was actually Andy Samberg dressed up as Spider-Man, but he delivered some hilarious lines about the upcoming Spider-Man movie.
With Thor, Green Lantern, X-Men: First Class, Cowboys & Aliens, and Captain America being released in the summer of 2011, many thought that 2011 was the year of the comic book movie. In actuality, 2011 was just warm up for 2012, which will likely be the biggest year ever for...
Lots of internet buzz around superhero and villain costumes in upcoming comic book movies. Everyone is talking about official and leaked photos from The Dark Knight Rises, Amazing Spider-Man, Man of Steel, and even Ghost Rider 2. Here’s a look at some of the official photos making the rounds.
