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Defending The Amazing Spider-Man

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As the wall-crawler prepares to make his Marvel Cinematic Universe debut in Captain America: Civil War, Henry Bevan defends 2012’s The Amazing Spider-Man… A child is trapped in a car that is hanging off a bridge. The hero swings down, takes off his mask and reassures the trapped child that everything is going to be […]

Mel Gibson to direct Andrew Garfield in Hacksaw Ridge

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Mel Gibson is looking to get back behind the camera for the first time since 2006’s Apocalypto, with Deadline revealing that he’s in talks to direct Andrew Garfield (The Amazing Spider-Man) in the World War II drama Hacksaw Ridge.The project – which has been in development for more than a decade – will tell the […]

Foursome: Bobby Bukowski talks about Rosewater, Infinitely Polar Bear, 99 Homes & Time Out of Mind

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Trevor Hogg chats with Bobby Bukowski about a busy year of collaborating with four different filmmakers who each had a separate cinematic project…One cannot accuse Bobby Bukowski of having a boring life as he went from studying Biochemistry with the intention of pursuing a medical career to a photographer’s assistant in Paris which resulted in […]

Dakota Johnson joins David Robert Mitchell’s Under the Silver Lake

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How To Be Single and Fifty Shades of Grey star Dakota Johnson star is set join the cast of the new film from acclaimed director David Robert Mitchell (It Follows).Under the Silver Lake is reportedly a “modern noir crime thriller set in Los Angeles” and is written and directed by Mitchell, who shot to fame last […]

Andrew Garfield teaming with It Follows director David Robert Mitchell for Under the Silver Lake

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Variety is reporting that Andrew Garfield has signed on to star in Under the Silver Lake, a “modern-day crime thriller set in Los Angeles”, which will be directed by David Robert Mitchell, the filmmaker behind the critically-acclaimed horror It Follows.“David Robert Mitchell is one of the great new voices in cinema and I am honored […]

Andrew Garfield and Claire Foy to star in Andy Serkis’ Breathe

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Andrew Garfield (The Amazing Spider-Man) and Claire Foy (Wolf Hall) have signed on to star in Breathe, which is being directed by Andy Serkis from a script by two-time Oscar nominee William Nicholson (Shadowlands, Gladiator). Garfield will star as Robin – handsome, brilliant and adventurous; a man with his whole life ahead of him before […]

Andrew Garfield on Spider-Man, Marvel and The Amazing Spider-Man 3

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Earlier this month we heard some comments from Andrew Garfield about Tom Holland taking over the role of Spider-Man for the wall-crawler’s upcoming Marvel Cinematic Universe reboot, and now Garfield has revealed to Uproxx that he’d petitioned Sony to strike a deal with marvel, as well as speaking briefly about the now-aborted Amazing Spider-Man 3.“I’ve […]

Marvel’s Kevin Feige explains how the new Spider-Man will differ from the previous movies

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Marvel Studios chief Kevin Feige must be exhausted this week. Having been on the press tour for the upcoming Ant-Man, he’s been talking about Edgar Wright’s departure from the project [see here], the studio’s “big plans” for The Wasp [see here], gender-swapping The Ancient One in Doctor Strange [see here], introducing an LGBT character into […]

Why Tobey Maguire is a better Spider-Man than Andrew Garfield

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Anthony Stokes on why Tobey Maguire is a better Spider-Man than Andrew Garfield…Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man Trilogy will always have a special place in my heart. I watched them as a kid, then grew up and enjoyed them even more so as an adult. The style and art direction were ahead of their time, and paved […]