Here we are, little more than ten years on from the first Spider-Man movie and the franchise has been rebooted. A new director, new stars, and the promise of an ‘untold story’. Will The Amazing Spider-Man live up to its title, or will we be wishing they left the series alone? Read on and all will be revealed.
The first Amazing Spider-Man reviews are doing the rounds and are mostly positive, which is a good thing. It seems my apprehension towards the reboot was unfounded. So, with this happy news ringing in our collective ears, let’s check out some pics and vids as we count down to the film’s release. Read more »
The Weekly Ricochet is a round up of all the news we want to tell you about but couldn’t justify giving an entire page. First up, The Amazing Spider-Man director Marc Webb has opened a Twitter account to help market the new film, his first tweet being a link to the photo above. Yep, Peter Parker showing some good balance. Read more »
Is it fair to say that The Amazing Spider-Man is the least anticipated of this year’s superhero movies? Is it the thought of sitting through the origin story AGAIN, so soon after the last version, that’s putting us off? Or is it that it’s up against the likes of Whedon’s The Avengers and Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises which is dulling the impact of the webslinger? It maybe neither, it could be both. What I do know is that Sony is cranking up the hype machine in readiness for release and we are getting a lot of new stuff to pore over. Let’s get to it. Read more »
The Avengers, the first in a trifecta of superhero movies this summer is out (or almost out) the world over. Chris Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises has used this opportunity to release its latest trailer and air it before Marvel Studios’ behemoth, and guess what? So has Marc Webb’s The Amazing Spider-Man. Before we get to the new trailer (I like to keep you all in suspense), I thought it’d be cool to check out a series of posters, like the one above, and new pics from the film. Let’s get to it! Read more »
The Avengers is going big guns with its imminent release, but let’s not forget that there are a couple of other superhero movies this summer, not least The Amazing Spider-Man. Marc Webb’s 3D extravaganza has dropped a few brief clips of Peter Parker and his webslinging alter-ego and they are pretty bloody good. Check them out. Read more »
I haven’t had the opportunity to see Chronicle yet. From what I’ve heard it’s a fine superhero movie that isn’t a superhero movie, and does well within the increasingly over-used ‘found footage’ genre. It’ll come as no surprise then that Chronicle director Josh Trank is being circled by Sony to head up its Spider-Man spin-off, Venom. Read more »
This week’s Ricochet has a couple of trailers, a few pics, and some interesting rumours. Let’s get to it. Read more »
Things are stepping up in The Amazing Spider-Man promo stakes. Last week saw the release of the latest trailer, which was so darn good it helped change my opinion of the movie. This week the first clip from Marc Webb’s superhero flick has been released to the public via the viral site www.markofthespider-man.com. You wanna see it? Of course you do. Read more »
A brand new trailer for Marc Webb’s The Amazing Spider-Man, Sony Picture’s upcoming reboot of the Spider-Man franchise, debuted around the world last night with a well-orchestrated publicity mob to propel this semi-event to the front pages of the movie and geek press. But is it worth a headline? Fear not, feckless film fan, we were there to get the skinny on Spidey’s new threads…
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