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Rumour: Sony’s animated Spider-Man movie to focus on Miles Morales

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Before Tom Holland was cast as Spider-Man in Captain America: Civil War, there was a tonne of speculation suggesting that Marvel would cast a non-white actor in the role, and perhaps even go down the Miles Morales route as opposed to Peter Parker. Well, of course that never came to pass, but if Heroic Hollywood […]

J.K. Simmons hints at return as J. Jonah Jameson in future Spider-Man films

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J.K. Simmons was recently nominated for an Oscar for his role in Whiplash, but it seems that one of his previous characters remains firmly on people’s minds. Simmons of course played Daily Bugle editor in chief J. Jonah Jameson in the Sam Raimi Spider-Man movies, and during an appearance on The Howard Stern Show, he […]

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 […]