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 »
As mentioned last week, the filming of Iron Man 3 has begun and the first pics have leaked from the set. Boy, are they HUGE. For now I have to be a giant prick-tease, but rest assured I will get the down below very soon. First… 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 »
The Weekly Ricochet is jam-packed to the rafters this week, so let’s get to it.
Rumour has it that The Dark Knight Rises has had its first showing to Warner Bros. execs. 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 »
A quick round up for the Weekly Ricochet this week. Firstly, we here at The Shootening were lucky enough to have someone at the London sneak preview of The Amazing Spider-Man, giving me an excuse to post the picture of Andrew Garfield’s Spider-Man unmasked above. Read more »
