A New Spider-Man Spin-Off is in the Works
Well, this is big news. The Amazing Spider-Man 2 scribe Roberto Orci will be penning a script for a brand new Spider-Man spin-off. What’s more, this film will exist in the Spider-Verse world, enlarging Sony‘s web-slinger world, and highlighting a character from their still rather large archive of superheroes and villains. The Wrap broke the story, which explains how Orci’s ...
Nic Cage Goes “Full Cage” in Delightful Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse Video
The Oscar-winning Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse had almost an embarrassment of creative riches. A trio of talented directors. The super team of producer Chris Miller and writer-producer Phil Lord. That revolutionary animation. There was also, of course, that sensational cast. Shameik Moore was your star as Mile Morales, and his adventure as the up-and-coming Spider-Man put him into contact with ...
The 91st Academy Awards Were Packed with Powerful Moments
Wow, 2018 gave an incredible class of movies. It was a year that moved, inspired, thrilled and challenged us in innovative ways. We have been celebrating these filmmakers each day, but last night’s Oscars ceremony shone a light on the astonishing diversity and power in storytelling over the past year. BlacKkKlansman, The Favourite, A Star ...
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’s Oscar-Nominated Directors on Being Bold
*In the run-up to this Sunday’s Oscars telecast, we’re sharing some of our favorite interviews with nominees. Directors Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, and Rodney Rothman asked themselves a question: how could they tell a story and be as wild and bold as they could adapting a comic book to the big screen that hadn’t been seen before. ...
Into the Spider-Verse‘s Shameik Moore Had Auditioned to Play Lando
Shameik Moore is now on everyone’s mind after playing Miles Morales in Sony’s CGI-animated film, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. Although he’d had leading roles in the 2015 Sundance drama Dope and Netflix series The Get Down, it was the animated adventure’s success that catapulted Moore into the spotlight. The film has been nominated for an ...
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’s Oscar-Nominated Directors on Being Bold
Directors Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, and Rodney Rothman asked themselves a question: how could they tell a story and be as wild and bold as they could adapting a comic book to the big screen that hadn’t been seen before. Enter Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. Now the three are Oscar-nominated directors, and their film has ...
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse Nets a Major Opening Weekend at the Box Office
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse caught a crazy amount of moviegoers in its web this weekend. The animated sensation pulled down $35.4 million in its opening weekend, which is a superhuman feat for a December release. There’s always a crowded market that targets the holiday family crowd. We got a clue from the critics that this ...
How Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is Revolutionizing Animation
Superhero films are all, at their essence, a comic book on screen. Some make a more literal translation than others. Highly stylized films like Sin City and Watchmen are live action attempts to bring graphic novels to life and they definitely made a splash in their time. However, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse has completely rewritten ...
Miles Learns how to Sling Webs in new Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse Clip
Perhaps you’ve heard that Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is being hailed as the best animated movie of the year and possibly the best Spider-Man film ever? Yeah, people are enthused about this film. In a new clip released by Sony Pictures, you can get a fresh glimpse at the gloriously lush animation, the humor, and the joy of watching ...
Critics Call Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse one of the Best Spider-Man Films Ever
It’s already been a very good week for new superhero movies. First, we published our round-up of early reactions to James Wan’s Aquaman, in which folks took to Twitter to profess their joy at the wildly ambitious, relentlessly fun origin story. Now we’ve got a proper review round-up of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, and they are uniformly gushing. Spider-Verse is ...
Wild Web-Slingers Unite in new Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse Sneak-Peek
Everyone is excited for Miles Morales (voiced by The Get Down‘s Shameik Moore) to make his grand entrance on the big screen, yet the young Brooklyn native will be sharing the stage with a slew of wild web-slingers. Yes, Morales has a few things to learn about being Spider-Man (for example; he doesn’t wear a cape), but ...
From Hell to Space to Atlantis: Highlights From New York Comic Con
This was the 13th year that the Javits Center hosted New York Comic Con (NYCC), and it was massive. CNBC reports that this year’s NYCC was the biggest in its history, with more than 250,000 tickets sold (in NYCC’s first year, in 2006, they sold a bit more than 12,000 tickets.) This year NYCC also expanded to ...
This new Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse Trailer is Stunning
If you aren’t up to speed on Sony Pictures’ animated feature Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, this brand new trailer should set you straight. The film centers on Miles Morales (voiced by The Get Down‘s Shameik Moore) who ultimately becomes Spider-Man. As the film’s title indicates, however, this isn’t your usual origin story; Morales discovers a ...
A Grown Up Peter Parker Mentors Miles in New Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse Trailer
When we first heard about Phil Lord and Christopher Miller’s take on Spider-Man, we were undeniably giddy. After all, these are the guys who directed the 21 Jump Street movies and The Lego Movie. Lord and Miller both have comedic chops and experience working with animation. The first trailer for Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse was a burst of ...
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse Trailer Introduces new Spidey Miles Morales to the World
Sony Pictures Animation has released our first look at their animated Spider-Man movie, one that has been kept so under wraps what we knew about up until this trailer was that it concerned the adventures of Miles Morales, and that was about it. For the uninitiated, Miles Morales is the hero in a few Spider-Man comics, ...
