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Comic Book Preview – Symbiote Spider-Man: Alien Reality #1

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Ahead of its release this Wednesday, Marvel has unveiled a preview of Symbiote Spider-Man: Alien Reality #1, which we have for you here… Peter Parker find himself entrenched in a battle with Hobgoblin! Where did HOBGOBLIN get these new powers? The original creative team from Symbiote Spider-Man return for the next installment of classic tales […]

Stan Lee was “very unhappy” with the 1970s The Amazing Spider-Man TV show

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Spider-Man has come a long way on screen. While everyone remembers Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield’s contributions, many may not recall that there was also a 1970’s The Amazing Spider-Man TV show starring actor Nicholas Hammond as the titular webslinger. The hour-long show ran for two seasons on CBS between 1977 and 1979. You can […]

The hero we deserve: Kevin Feige explains how he brought Spider-Man to the Marvel Cinematic Universe

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When it was revealed that Spider-Man would finally be returning home to the MCU, it was met with applause, and a healthy dose of disbelief. How did Marvel do it? This was something that the Marvel fan-base had seemingly accepted as an impossibility. So what happened? Well, Kevin Feige happened. In a recent interview with […]

Looking Back at James Cameron’s Aborted Spider-Man Movie

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Henry Bevan looks back at what could have been with James Cameron’s Spider-Man… James Cameron’s Spider-Man. It’s a big What If..?, up there with Kubrick’s Napoleon and Jodorowsky’s Dune. It seems like the perfect match, pairing one of Hollywood’s best action directors with one of its most action-suited characters. Just imagine what Cameron would have done […]

Spider-Man: Far From Home becomes Sony’s highest-grossing movie ever

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The Walt Disney Company has been dominating the box office this year, with five of the six movies to reach the $1 billion mark so far in 2019 coming from the Mouse House. However, the other – Spider-Man: Far From Home – has now just set a brand new record for Sony Pictures, with the […]

Spider-Man: Far From Home to be re-released with new footage

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Sony Pictures will be re-releasing Spider-Man: Far From Home with four minutes of additional footage over Labor Day weekend, according to The Hollywood Reporter. This version of Spider-Man: Far From Home will hit theatres on Thursday 29th August in the United States and Canada, as well as being available in IMAX and other large formats in select […]

Kevin Smith pleads with Sony to give Disney and Marvel what they want after Spider-Man split

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Kevin Smith isn’t taking the news of Spider-Man’s apparent departure from the MCU very well, pleading with Sony to make it right. News has broken that Spider-Man’s future in the MCU is in serious jeopardy as Marvel apparently wanted to renegotiate a few details and ensure Kevin Feige received the correct producer credits. Sony didn’t […]