Sony has wasted no time in moving forward with their relaunch of the Spider-Man franchise!  Marc Webb has been tapped to helm the new film series.  After a much publicized falling out with director Sam Raimi, who steered the course of the first three Spider-Man films, the company is looking at a grittier reboot of the series, and Webb has been tapped to lead the series in a new direction.   read more….

And things seemed to be working themselves out.  News today that hit harder than a punch from Venom, the planned follow-up to Spider-Man 3, Spider-Man 4, will NOT in fact be made, not with the current director, Sam Raimi, or franchise anchor Toby Maguire.  Multiple news sources began reporting that Raimi, who had been in disputes with the forces at Sony over the creative direction of the series going back to the last film, walked away from the project.  Pressure to meet a 2012 release deadline have been said to be a factor in the decision for Raimi’s split as well, especially with tension over the script.  That’s not the only big news that Sony laid out concerning the wall-crawler! read more….