Interview

Animator

Best of 2023: How the “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” Visual Team Created a Mesmerizing Multiverse

*It’s our annual “Best of the Year” look back at some of our favorite interviews from the year.  When Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse was released five years ago, its web of 2D and 3D animation became a box office hit and went on to win the Oscar for best animated feature. Incredibly, the return of ...

By Daron James  |  December 26, 2023

Interview

Animator

Best of Summer 2023: How the “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” Visual Team Created a Mesmerizing Multiverse

*It’s our annual “Best of Summer” look back at some (not all) of our favorite interviews from the past few months. This non-comprehensive look back includes the Barbenheimer phenomenon and the wonderful interviews that followed those two history-making films, chats with the talented folks behind Mission: Impossible, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, our profile of MPA ...

By Daron James  |  August 29, 2023
Best of Summer 2023: “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” Look of Picture Supervisor Bret St. Clair on Spider-Punk, Mumbattan & More

*It’s our annual “Best of Summer” look back at some (not all) of our favorite interviews from the past few months. This non-comprehensive look back includes the Barbenheimer phenomenon and the wonderful interviews that followed those two history-making films, chats with the talented folks behind Mission: Impossible, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, our profile of MPA ...

By Hugh Hart  |  August 25, 2023
Guillermo del Toro, Spider-People, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Welcome to the Latest Animation Renaissance

The weapon-wielding mutated reptilian darlings of New York City are back fighting crime in the newest rendition of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series. This fresh installment from director Jeff Rowe, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, will hit theaters on August 2, and the film boasts some serious talent, including Seth Rogen (he co-stars, ...

By Mary Kurbanov  |  August 1, 2023
“Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” Look of Picture Supervisor Bret St. Clair on Spider-Punk, Mumbattan & More

Not bad for a sequel. Following on its 2018 Oscar-winning predecessor, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse ranks as the best-reviewed wide-release movie of the year, boasting a 96 percent approved rating on Rotten Tomatoes while grossing $390 million worldwide since its release earlier this month (at the time of publication). Critics have hailed the film’s ability ...

By Hugh Hart  |  June 14, 2023
How the “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” Visual Team Created a Mesmerizing Multiverse

When Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse was released five years ago, its web of 2D and 3D animation became a box office hit and went on to win the Oscar for best animated feature. Incredibly, the return of Miles Morales (voiced by Shameik Moore) in Across the Spider-Verse has lived up to the hype, earning over $270 ...

By Daron James  |  June 13, 2023

Interview

Composer

“Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” Composer Daniel Pemberton Reveals a Few Score Secrets

Daniel Pemberton knows how to create energy. The composer, who’s frequently worked with filmmakers Aaron Sorkin, Danny Boyle, and Guy Ritchie, is a musician with an ear for the eclectic and electric. For proof, look and listen no further than his lush score for Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse. Pemberton scores different universes, Spider-Men and Spider-Women—and ...

By Jack Giroux  |  June 12, 2023
A 14-Year-Old Whiz Kid Animated a Scene in “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse”

This has to be one of the best stories we’ve come across all week. Dare we say we’ve been ensnared by how lovely it is? Sony’s Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse has been hailed as a masterpiece, a stunning, emotional tour de force of animation, filmmaking, and storytelling. And one of the people who count themselves among ...

By The Credits  |  June 9, 2023
“Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” Producers Tease Live-Action Miles Morales & Animated “Spider-Woman” Movies

How confident are the folks behind Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse that they’ve got another hit on their hands? How about confident enough that producer Amy Pascal told Variety the third film in the trilogy, next year’s Beyond the Spider-Verse, is but one of the Spider-Verse projects they’ve got cooking. Pascal revealed they’re also working on an animated, standalone Spider-Woman film and a live-action Miles Morales ...

By The Credits  |  June 1, 2023
“Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” Review Round-Up: Web-Slinging Bliss in Truly Epic Sequel

We are two days away from the premiere of Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse,  which means the reviews are now out, and the question of whether they could possibly top the Oscar-winning 2018 original seems to have been answered. That first film—so insanely ambitious in content, tone, storytelling, and style—set the bar extremely high. It introduced ...

By The Credits  |  May 31, 2023
“Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” First Reactions Say the Sequel is Simply Astonishing

The first reactions to Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse are spinning across the internet, and they’re definitely going to catch your attention. People are, in a word, stunned. The sequel to the 2018 Oscar-winning original is being hailed as a true work of art, darker, deeper, and even better than the first. In a film that ...

By The Credits  |  May 25, 2023
“Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” Clip Recreates Iconic Moment From Classic Cartoon

A bevy of Spider-People in “Across the Spider-Verse” made recreating this iconic moment from a beloved episode of a cartoon something of a cinch. It’s also a moment that was lovingly recreated in Jon Watts’ beloved live-action Spider-Man: No Way Home. You’ve seen it yourself in countless memes, two cartoon Spider-Men pointing at each other. Or, ...

By The Credits  |  May 23, 2023
Pavitr Prabhakar Spins His Tale in New “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” Teaser

The premise of Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse continues the multidimensional mayhem established in the 2018 Oscar-winning original, introducing Miles Morales (Shameik Moore) to a slew of Spider-People from across multiple dimensions and across multiple globes. One of those Spider-People is Pavitr Prabhakar (voiced by Karan Soni), India’s one and only Spider-Man, who makes a grand entrance in ...

By The Credits  |  May 19, 2023
“Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” Clip Finds Gwen & Miles Swinging Through NYC

Oh, to be young and in love and superpowered. Sony Pictures has just revealed a new clip from Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse revealing Miles Morales (Shameik Moore) and Gwen Stacy (Hailee Steinfeld) enjoying the bounty of their youth and superpowers. Miles is, of course, Brooklyn’s one and only Spider-Man, and Gwen Stacy is the one and only ...

By The Credits  |  May 18, 2023
Sony Unveils 14 Minutes of “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” at CinemaCon

Things are heating up in Sony’s Spider-Man Universe. At CinemaCon in Las Vegas, the annual gathering of theater owners, the studio unveiled the first look at their bloody, R-rated feature Kraven the Hunter, a new film starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson as the iconic Spider-Man villain. Then, they gave theater owners an even meatier look at another of ...

By The Credits  |  April 25, 2023
The Second “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” Trailer Pits Miles Morales Against an Army of Spider-People

Miles Morales (Shameik Moore) might be Brooklyn’s “one and only” Spider-Man, as he says at the top of the second trailer for Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, but he’s not the only Spider-Man in the universe. We learned that in the first film in the planned-for trilogy, the Oscar-winning 2018 smash hit Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, and now in the ...

By The Credits  |  April 4, 2023
New “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” Teaser Finds Miles Morales in a Sticky Situation

We’ve got a bite-sized Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse teaser for you here, with the full trailer for Sony’s hotly-anticipated upcoming film coming on April 4. The new teaser gives us the amped-up stakes in Across the Spider-Verse, which finds Miles Morales (Shameik Moore) using his Spidey-powers to stave off a slew of Spider-People. “You can’t run forever, kid!” Miles ...

By The Credits  |  April 3, 2023
“Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” Trailer Finds Miles Morales in a Spot of Trouble

The first trailer for Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is here, and Brooklyn’s friendly neighborhood Spider-Man, Miles Morales (Shameik Moore), is in a Spot of trouble. Pun intended, of course, because the Spot (Jason Schwartzman) is one of the villains Miles will be facing in this sequel to 2018’s Oscar-winning Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.  The trailer reveals Miles ...

By The Credits  |  December 13, 2022
New “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” Images Drop Ahead of Today’s Trailer

The first trailer for Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse arrives today, yet Sony has revealed a sneak peek via four new images. The images remind us of what made Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse such a revelation. Those colors! That fantastic design work! The gorgeous animation makes the world of the Spider-Verse a Spidey fever dream, but the original film ...

By The Credits  |  December 13, 2022
Daniel Kaluuya Joins “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” as Spider-Punk

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse has caught another massive star in its web. Daniel Kaluuya has officially joined the cast of the upcoming Spider-Verse sequel. The Oscar-winner will lend his voice to a cast that includes Shameik Moore as Miles Morales/Spider-Man, Hailee Steinfeld as Gwen Stacey/Spider-Gwen, Oscar Isaac as Miguel O’Hara, Jake Johnson as Peter B. Parker, Issa Rae ...

By The Credits  |  November 8, 2022