Rounding up all the big superhero news from the 2017 San Diego Comic-Con International… Well, the dust has settled on another Comic-Con, and as you’d expect, we got plenty of news, trailers and other goodies from the ever-increasing slate of superhero movies and TV shows. While 20th Century Fox decided to keep its new X-Men […]
Spider-Man: Homecoming closing in on $600 million worldwide
Spider-Man: Homecoming may be slipping down the box office charts, but the film is marching towards the $600 million mark at the global box office, with its domestic and international haul this weekend pushing the Marvel and Sony blockbuster to $571.7 million. It hasn’t been completely plain sailing for the web-slinger; in its second weekend, […]
Spider-Man: Homecoming concept art shows two other Avengers who almost featured in the movie
Some early concept art for Spider-Man: Homecoming has surfaced online via Twitter, showing that Robert Downey Jr.’s Iron Man may not have been the only Avenger featuring alongside Tom Holland’s Spidey in the wall-crawler’s first solo MCU outing, as Tony Stark was originally going to call in some help during the Staten Island Ferry sequence […]
Franchise Fixer: Why Sony needs to make a Superior Foes of Spider-Man movie
Anghus Houvouras wants to see a Superior Foes of Spider-Man movie… Sony owning the Spider-Man movie franchise is like watching eight orangutans running a McDonalds. It’s difficult to understand how it happened, they continually struggle with the basic operations, and the end result of their efforts falls somewhere between ‘hilarious’ and ‘stomach turning’. Marvel Studios […]
Spider-Man: Homecoming concept art features a Scarlet Spider-influenced alternate costume
We’ve already seen a batch of unused concept art for Spider-Man: Homecoming featuring a Superior Spider-Man-influenced suit [check it out here], and now artist Ryan Meinerding has shared another early design for the webslinger featuring an alternate costume resembling Ben Reilly’s Scarlet Spider; take a look below… A young Peter Parker/Spider-Man (Tom Holland), who made […]
Spider-Man: Homecoming almost featured the “With Great Power…” line
While Uncle Ben was entirely absent from Marvel and Sony’s Spider-Man reboot, screenwriters John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein have revealed that an early draft of the script for Spider-Man: Homecoming would have featured a nod to Ben’s iconic “With great power comes great responsibility” line. “At the end when Happy [Jon Favreau] is in […]
SDCC: Check out images of Hot Toys’ Marvel, DC and Star Wars collectibles on display at Comic-Con
With the San Diego Comic-Con now underway, we’ve got a batch of images from Hot Toys and Sideshow Collectibles display, which features over 100 highly-detailed, movie accurate collectibles, many of which are being unveiled for the very first time! Here’s the Marvel collectibles, featuring Thor: Ragnarok, Spider-Man: Homecoming, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 and […]
UPDATE: Unused Spider-Man: Homecoming concept design for a Superior Spider-Man suit
Concept artist Ryan Meinerding has unveiled a piece of his unused design work for the wall-crawler’s suit in Spider-Man: Homecoming, which features a take on the Superior Spider-Man costume; check it out here… SEE ALSO: Spider-Man: Homecoming’s Tom Holland wants Tobey Maguire to play Uncle Ben UPDATE: And here’s a few more alternate designs… SEE […]
The Week in Spandex – The Pre-San Diego Comic-Con Edition
Welcome to an abridged, pre-San Diego Comic-Con edition of The Week in Spandex… Well, it’s almost that time of year again. In just a few short hours the San Diego Comic-Con International 2017 will get underway, and as usual it promises to be a huge weekend for fans of superhero movies and television. Warner Bros. […]
Jon Watts in talks to direct Spider-Man: Homecoming sequel
This probably won’t come as too much of a surprise given the critical and commercial success of Spider-Man: Homecoming, but THR is reporting that Jon Watts is now officially in talks with Marvel and Sony to return to the director’s chair for the as-yet-untitled sequel. The Homecoming sequel is already earmarked for release on July […]