'Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse' Getting Re-Release This Weekend Following Oscar Win
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is swinging back into theaters, following the film's recent win at the Academy Awards.
Rodney Rothman, who co-directed the Sony Pictures animated film, recently took to Twitter to reveal that it will be getting a "huge re-release" this upcoming
Let’s start from the beginning one last time: #Spiderverse is getting a huge re-release this weekend including tons of IMAX screens! Check it out on the BIGGEST SCREEN YOU CAN FIND. And spread the word!
— rodneyrothman (@rodneyrothman) February 27, 2019
The Sony animated film follows Miles Morales (Shameik Moore) throughout his origins as Spider-Man -- as well as the realization that he isn't the only web-slinger in a massive multiverse. The film also stars Jake Johnson as an older Peter Parker, Hailee Steinfeld as Gwen Stacy, John Mulaney as Spider-Ham, Nicolas Cage as Spider-Man Noir, Emiko Glenn as Peni Parker, Mahershala Ali as Aaron Davis, Brian Tyree-Henry as Jefferson Davis, and Liev Schrieber as Kingpin.
"We were working so hard, we were very late in delivering the film so we didn't really have a moment of pause before the reactions started pouring in," co-director Bob
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"It's just great that after three years of work, people are embracing it with the spirit that we hoped they would, and the spirit that we put into it," co-director Peter Ramsey added. "Because we really cared about this story. I mean we've got a crew of, what, 800 people, something like that. And everyone really so deeply cared about telling this story the way that we told it and with the heart that we feel it has. So it's great that people are actually picking up on that and it means something to them."
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