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Evan Rachel Wood Proudly Announces The Search For Broadway's Mary Jane Watson Is Over
The long-gestating Spidey!: The Spider-Man Broadway Musical—words and music by U2, puppet-villains by Julie Taymor, early closing date by completely disinterested fanboy base—has secured Evan Rachel Wood to play Mary Jane Watson, IESB.net reports:
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By SethComment by NoGrumpys: MTV could do the search for the BEST Mary Jane too... "Tom- take me out with a bong hot and a... more » | Other threads
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Partying With Dunst!
Having ended her relationship with Justin Long to pursue newer, more streamlined Macbooks, beloved Hollywood good-times gal Kirsten Dunst and friends partied Monday night away at La Poubelle—which, despite its name, Angelenos will recognize as a non-trashy hot spot on that little stretch of Franklin that mimics the look, pace, and feel of living in an actual city. With one flaccid ciggie dangling from her lips, the Spider-Man star and former Cirque Lodge resident appears to have overcome her sadness addiction, and is ready to tackle the world—and any impending, reluctantly embarked-upon tentpole sequel productions—one gin fizzie at a time. More »
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By SethComment by Old No.7: Is the L.A. Garbage Collectors Union on strike? There seems to be a lot of trash in those pictures. 1 Responses | Other threads
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Tobey Maguire Insists He Gets 'Spider-Man' Mornings And Evenings Off For Potty Training Duty
The Spider-Man franchise has a reluctant protagonist in its star Tobey Maguire, who has now lived out more web-slinging adventures than quirky leading men twice his age, and who sounds more interested in watching his baby Ruby Sweetheart take her first earthbound steps than he is chasing The Lizard up the side of a skyscraper. Among the terms of his recent negotiation with Sony to shoot Spider-Man 4 through 5, he insisted, among the expected profit-sharing perks, upon a shortened schedule to accommodate for daddy-daughter bonding time, reports The Times Online: More »
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By SethComment by tinywiener: I may be late to the boat on this one, but, "Ruby Sweetheart?" If this girl doesnt end up a... 2 Responses | Other threads
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'Spider-Man: The Musical' Open Call Seeks Vocally Gifted Peter Parker Types
A little over a year ago, we noted that celebrated director/visual-flourishist Julie Taymor would be tackling perhaps her most challenging source material yet. This project would afford no opportunities for portentous lion births, or soldiers lugging Lady Liberty across a model Vietnam in an extremely literal interpretation of a Beatles lyric. Rather, Taymor set about adapting Spider-Man into a Broadway musical. Helping to sell audiences on a hovercraft-enabled lead villain whose big showstopper, "Everything's Coming Up Pumpkin Bombs," closes the first act is none other than U2's Bono and The Edge, who came on board as composers. Now all that's left to round out this spider-shit insane idea is you, triple-threat Tobey and Kirsten types! More » -
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Paramount Preps, Fanboys Revolt as Box Office Waits for 'Indy' Windfall
Paramount interns are plucking rose petals as we speak for Brad Grey's arrival at the office tomorrow, by which time Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of Do We Really Have to Write it Out Again will be on its way to the top five — and possibly even an all-time record — for a five-day opening weekend. Most midnight screenings around the country tonight are already sold out, with at least one prognosticator firming up his tracking to reflect a $173 million opening. The number would bump the final Star Wars installment Revenge of the Sith from the number-one spot and, paired with Iron Man, give Paramount the best May in its history. More »
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By STVComment by dave the wet sprocket: fanboys have no hope of stopping this film. the fact that it sucks may make a dent, however. more » | Other threads
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Earlier today over at McSweeney's, we downloaded what's reportedly author Michael Chabon's original screenplay for Spider-Man 2. Reworked, reconsidered and rewritten a few dozen times (by three other writers; Chabon got story credit) before making its way to the screen as Sam Raimi's blockbuster, the script features some of the moody, angsty masculine hallmarks threading the Pulitzer prize-winner's novels like Wonder Boys and The Mysteries of Pittsburgh. The skeptic in us has its doubts, but while we're still torn over the overwhelmingly pranky nature of Oliver Stone's W, we don't know who the hell else would have written 252 pages of fan fiction this dynamic or, well, literary. In any case, we have our weekend reading cut out for us. [Via Videogum] -
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Jilted Spider-Man Getting Over It as Raimi Picks up Spy Franchise
Your Dad will likely be thrilled to hear this morning that Paramount plans a Jack Ryan revival starting in 2010, while the rest of us are intrigued to see Sam Raimi recruited as the studio's go-to helmer for the reborn franchise. A glorified genre director if ever there was one, Raimi's stewardship of Sony's $2.5 billion Spider-Man empire reportedly impressed the 'Mount enough to lock him in for the fifth installment of the spy series for a 2010 release. More » -
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Spider-Friends Remember Sony's Amy Pascal On Her Big Day
The weekly edition of Variety officially awards its Showmen of the Year honor, the most coveted recognition in all of showbiz trade journalism (and yes, that includes Var's Billion Dollar Director Day celebration), to Sony's Michael Lynton and Amy Pascal, an occasion necessitating the purchase of full-page tribute ads by any talent, producers, or agency ever hoping to get a movie made at their red-hot studio. While none of the ads make direct mention of Pascal's ceremonial bepenising by the publication, this minimalist, phoned-in-by-someone's-unimaginative-assistant offering by Spider-Man's trio of Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, and Sam Raimi (really, couldn't someone have thrown some spider-related clip art on there?—click the thumbnail to enlarge) nods to the co-president's honorary gender reassignment, a little in-joke that only those who've generated billions in box office grosses can get away without fear of career reprisals. More » -
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Strike Superheroes
Should the prolonged strike everyone's nervous about ever come to pass, the studios could resort to using cheap, non-union talent to keep their lucrative movie franchises on schedule and avoid the huge financial losses of production delays. In the interest of helping with their alternative casting plans, we direct any desperate producers to this thread on a Mazda owners' message board [warning: not graphic, but probably NSFW], in which a confused poster describes how he stumbled upon some Detroit-area superhero hopefuls keeping their chops sharp in case they ever get the call from Sony to step in and make sure Spider-Man 4: Spidey on Venom gets into the multiplex on time. More »
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By MarkComment by Phengsai Boonsear: what in the name of marvel is that. 5 guy's in tight! at, first the movie's supose to be super... more » | Other threads
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Paris Hilton's New Defense Team Leads Walk of Fame Freedom Rally
A heartfelt thanks goes out to the Defamer Special Correspondent on Meaningless Honors Involving Personalized Stars And Filthy Slabs of Sidewalk, who braved the throng of crazed View groupies assembled to gape in awe as Barbara Walters took her place on the Walk of Fame today to send us the above photograph. Before seeing this indelible image, we feared that the Paris Liberation Front had lost all of its momentum, its message drowned out by the voices of an unreasonable mob who won't be satisfied until they can bathe in the heiress's privileged blood. But now that we know that her noble cause has been taken up by tireless crusader for justice Guy Wearing An Ill-Fitting Spider-Man Suit In Front of the Chinese Theatre, hope has been restored that Hilton will be freed from her unacceptable persecution sooner than any of us dare dream. More » -
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Studios, Toy Manufacturers Take Turns Shaking Down Families This Summer
This summer's prolonged barrage of blockbusters with extensive toy tie-ins—Spider-Man 3, Pirates 3, Transformers, etc—provides parents with an unprecedented opportunity to divert an unhealthy chunk of their discretionary income to Hollywood, as any trip to the multiplex must be immediately followed by one to the WalMart toy aisle, lest this generation of savvy youngsters report their miserly guardians to Child Protective Services for their neglect. Today's LAT looks at the competition to see which studio/manufacturer combination can extort the most money from families with their pirate-themed televisions, robot-concealing trucks, or splooge-launching Spider-guns (now with spiral-squirting action!), offering up a brief encounter with a local dad who's losing his battle with the wallet-plundering, merchandising menace: More »
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Audiences May Finally Be Tiring Of Johnny Depp's 'Gay Keith Richards' Impression
In this trying time of unjustly incarcerated heiresses, let us not forget what's truly important: the reporting of this weekend's box office numbers: More » -
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Tomorrow, Sony Retaliates With A Six-Page Ad About The Unreliability Of Italian Preview-Screening Accounting Practices
Disney has hopefully ended the studio dick-measuring contest over Spider-Man 3 and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest's dueling claims to the record for the biggest worldwide opening (six-day) weekend, splaying its box-office inches across a two-page spread in today's Variety. While the (technically?) triumphant studio's design team was initially going to allow the huge number and curiously tiny #1 WORLDWIDE OPENING OF ALL TIME copy speak for themselves, they couldn't resist surrendering to their cruder instincts with a message taunting their rival and its humbled, slump-shouldered hero. More » -
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'Pirates' Sets Records, Sort Of, Even Though Records Are Silly And Who's Counting Anyway?
As you settle back into your ergonomic seats after a well-deserved long weekend, contemplating how a Tuesday morning could feel more hopeless than any Monday ever did, consider stirring some box office numbers into your coffee instead of that heaping teaspoon of rat poison. You'll thank us if you do. More » -
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Sun Rises, Sun Sets, Dumb Sequel Breaks Record
The Second Horseman of the Blockbuster Sequel Apocalypse is now galloping through your local multiplex, so dive behind the candy counter and pray he harvests the souls of that bickering family of four in line behind you. Your weekened box office numbers: More » -
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Peter Parker and Mary Jane Split The Chores
In time for everyone's favorite radioactive web-crawler's record-breaking return to the box office comes this authorized Marvel figurine, depicting Peter Parker's amply endowed love interest, Mary Jane—clearly not modeled on Kirsten Dunst—dutifully attending to Spider-Man's hand-laundering needs. More »
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A Tired Spidey Takes A Weekend Off From Setting Records
Welcome to the Second Official Monday Morning of Blockbuster Season! The numbers aren't quite as impressive as last weekend's, but they should hold you over until Shrek shows up on Friday to narcotize the children of America: More » -
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Lucas Not Impressed With 'Spider-Man 3'
· The man who gave us Jar Jar Binks (and who glued two hair-danishes to Carrie Fisher's head and gave Hayden Christensen a career) knows a "silly" movie when he sees one. More »
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By MarkComment by Rustic Canyon: About George's picture here. Doesn't he look like a guy that doesn't wash his hands after he uses the bathroom?... more » | Other threads
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Humble Sony Chief Taken By Surprise By Hugely Expensive Blockbuster's Box Office Success
After finding out that her mega-budgeted Spider-Man 3 had, as many expected, shattered virtually all of the opening weekend box office records anyone cares about, no one would have begrudged head Sony cheerleader Amy Pascal a little celebratory gloating when the media came calling for comment. But to her credit, it appears that she decided to play things humble rather than declare she would be dedicating a large portion of the movie's proceeds to the hunting down and killing of any critic who dared doubt the project's inevitable, benchmark-setting success: More » -
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'Lost' Writers Have Just 48 More Episodes To Figure Out What's Going On
ยท Lost's producers officially get three more years to pretend that they have any clue what's happening on that island, as ABC gives the series an advance order for three more 16-episode seasons. As currently scheduled, all loose ends involving smoke monsters, polar bears, and Jack and Kate finally getting it on should be tied up in early 2010. [Variety] More » -
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'Spider-Man 3' Vaguely Disappoints Record Number Of Weekend Moviegoers
Oh, happy day! Records have fallen, mind-bending studio expenses have been vindicated, and millions of American moviegoers have been moderately entertained on this most glorious of Monday mornings! On to the numbers! More »
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Then Again, Maybe 'Spider-Man 3' Will Be Huge
ยท After shattering a number of box office records in Asia, Spider-Man 3 is now making a mockery of European ticket-buying benchmarks. Based on this preliminary data, we now predict a $400 million opening weekend in America, kicking off an eventual $3 billion domestic run. [Variety] More » -
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Something's Gotta Flop This Summer, So Why Not Spider-Man?
With the major studios about to release roughly five-thousand big-budget sequels (among them Pirates 3, Shrek the Third, Harry Potter the Fifth, Ocean's 13, Die Hard 4, and, of course, Fantastic Four 2: We'll Just Netflix 'Into the Blue' If We Want to Ogle Jessica Alba) into a marketplace so overcrowded with product that multiplex lobbies will be clogged like the streets of Calcutta from May until August, at least one "sure thing" is bound to bring in a disappointing™ number and have its executives contemplating a suicide pact rather than suffer the humiliation of having to explain what went wrong to the media. Since Spider-Man 3 might already be The Most Expensive Movie Ever Made, Slate wonders if it might be this summer's little web-slinging underachiever even if it shatters Aquaman's opening weekend record: More »
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By MarkComment by Pope John Peeps II: Whatever. They'll make money. And if they didn't make enough money, they'll recoup when they make the Spider-Man / Wolverine crossover... more » | Other threads
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Fake Chinese 'Spider-Man 3' DVDs Delivering Poor Value For Black Market Dollar
Just in case Sony's statement dismissing a Reuters report that pirated copies of Spider-Man 3 had already hit the streets of Beijing weeks before the movie had even opened in the U.S., a follow-up report from the gullible news agency revealed that, unsurprisingly, what you see with Chinese DVD pirates is not always what you get: More » -
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'Spider-Man 3' Piracy Scoreboard Update: Chinese 0, Sony 0
Upon reading published reports that Chinese pirates have already succeeded in getting illicit copies of Spider-Man 3 into Beijing's black market, Sony's ever-vigilant PR team sprang into action to refute the story, letting China's Spidey fans know that the only way for them to enjoy the web-slinger's latest adventures—for the moment, at least—is to blow a month's salary on a family trip to the multiplex: More » -
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Trade Round-Up: Chinese Pirates Already Disrespecting 'Spider-Man 3' Copyrights
ยท Realizing that he's only played a lawyer once (Fatal Attraction), Michael Douglas quickly signs on to fill the courtroom-drama-shaped hole in his career by starring in Tragic Indifference, based on a landmark case against Ford over its "indifference to flaws in its SUVs." Scene-chewing delivery of a stirring closing statement to follow. [Variety] More »
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By MarkComment by Transuranic: From Party of Fiver to Plastic to dear God Lifetime?! You can NOT sit with us at lunch today. more » | Other threads
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Breaking! 'Spider-Man' Sequel Absurdly Expensive
Given that the first two Spider-Man movies made Sony about $1.6 billion at the worldwide box office, it probably surprises no one to learn that the studio's relentless pursuit of another huge summer run may have resulted in the third installment becoming The Most! Expensive! Movie! Ever! Made! Still, even if the $350 million number (throw in marketing and promotion and we're at half a billion) passed along in Kim Masters' Radar story on Spider-Man 3's historic, budget-busting run are, is claimed by a flack, a "complete fabrication," the real amount is still big enough to choke even its free-spending producer: More »
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By MarkComment by wundergirl: Of course the budget only maxed out at $270 mil. They had to keep at least a good $75 mil... more » | Other threads
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'Spider-Man 3' Boasts Three Times The Villains And Product Placement
The same guys who brought us a PG-rated version of 300 set in delicious Caketown are back again, this time with their plug-tastic take on the Spider-Man 3 trailer, wherein sharp-eyed viewers may be able to spot the logos of some of their favorite brands seamlessly woven into the proceedings. Still, if you are one of those tiresome comic book purists who requires their Spidey tales free of encroaching corporate interests, we'd advise you to skip the video (and, if history is any lesson, the movie itself), and simply spend the evening at home, living out your own, unsponsored webslinging adventures with the help of Hasbro's Itsy Bitsy Spider-Man. More »
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By SethComment by metroville: Love the (first) "delicious" callback; don't love the attached extended promo for Black20. Let the work speak for itself,... more » | Other threads
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Short Ends: L&O: TVPU
· The possible cancellation of the Law & Order "mothership" will just leave more room on NBC's schedule for promising spin-offs, like L&O: TV Production Unit. (Note: Some please send Gabrielle Carteris some money, right away.) More » -
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Spider-Man: The Musical!
If while flipping through the pages of a Spider-Man comic book or watching a DVD of one of the wildly successful movie adaptations starring the character, you've ever found yourself saying, "You know what? This superhero stuff would be pretty good if there were some singing and dancing involved. These people are really leaving a lot of money on the table by not putting this on Broadway," today is truly a happy day. Marvel Comics has revealed plans for Spider-Man: The Musical, which will be directed by The Lion King's Julie Taymor, and, in a true masterstroke of surreality, feature original music by Bono and The Edge. In its story on the big announcement, the LAT notes some of the the technical challenges Taymor will face on the seemingly insane quest she's about to undertake: More »
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By MarkComment by Pete the Chop: I'm having a hard time accepting the fact that Bono and the Edge are involved. It truly is a cruel... more » | Other threads
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With 'Spider-Man 3' On Its Way To Theaters, It's Time For The Pants-Crapping Over 'Spidey 4' To Begin
Following Monday's Tokyo world premiere of Spider-Man 3, Spidey-Friends™ Sam Raimi, Tobey Maguire, and Kirsten Dunst should have nothing on their minds but basking in the sweet adulation of the throng of Japanese fans who briefly assembled to cheer on their latest cinematic achievement at the Roppongi Hills Mori Tower before retiring to the temporary, movie-themed love hotels a generous Sony had set up on site for the occasion. (We're told the Venom suite, with its paint-on, edible licorice costumes, was especially popular.) Unfortunately, some pushy Entertainment Weekly questions involving director Raimi's possible inheriting of The Hobbit from Peter Jackson will now regrettably shift the focus from celebrating the current film to fretting about the future of the franchise, which a distressed Dunst modestly believes would meet with Batman & Robin-style rubber-nippled doom should the studio try and go forward on a fourth installment without her pals. Reports EW: More »
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By MarkComment by MyThighsRHot4GoatFelons: I would see a fourth installment of Spiderman five times if it didn't have her in it. more » | Other threads
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Short Ends: Maguire Possibly Tired Of Cashing Huge 'Spider-Man' Paychecks
· Breaking! Tobey Maguire done with Spider-Man! Or not! Why don't you just get off his fucking back about it, OK? More »
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By MarkComment by MyThighsRHot4GoatFelons: Oh. My. Gosh. That's the LAST time I ignore your "trust us, you don't want to see this" warning. I... more » | Other threads
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'Spider-Man 3' Reshoots To Ensure Audiences Choke On Its Action
Warner Bros. learned the hard way this summer that when audiences line up to see a movie called Superman Returns, what they expect to see is a super man returning to do super things, not a touchy-feely supermeditation on a single mom's efforts to balance work and family. Even WB studio head Alan Horn would later admit, "We should have had perhaps a little more action to satisfy the young male crowd." The Spider-Man franchise has had better success in that department, but the third installment is leaving nothing to chance: After piling on multiple love interests and villains, James Franco recently revealed to MTV News that director Sam Raimi is bringing back the cast for reshoots: More » -
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Is It Too Soon To Start Wondering If Spider-Man Is Gay?
We're not in the habit of handing out free advertising space to studios, but we kind of like Sony's balls in releasing their Spider-Man 3 teaser on the day Superman Returns begins its marathon seven-day opening weekend. Nicely played, faceless multimedia corporation with a competing superhero-based product! We've already forgotten all about the silly man in the tights and cape. More » -
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Topher Grace Totally OK With Director's Hat Choice
We at Defamer realize that not every momentary disagreement between actor and director ends with the star storming off to his trailer to call his agent, with the optional stop to gun down a smirking grip in cold blood on the way there. Accordingly, we are happy to share The Slug blog's account of the hat-related detente quickly achieved between an initially golf-cap-suspicious Topher Grace and a gently insistent Sam Raimi on the set of Spider-Man 3: More » -
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Everybody Relax, Tobey's Doing His Crunches
In response to our earlier reference to Tobey Maguire's longtime battle with poker-induced morbid obesity, an operative from the Sony lot offers an update on Spider-Man's fitness level: More »
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By MarkComment by MonkeyinDiapers: sorry aint buying it. I betcha Tobey will stay a twerp and we'll get a body double doing the heavy flexing.... more » | Other threads
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Sony Commands You To Start Caring About 'Spider-Man 3'
Late yesterday afternoon, the marketing department at Sony decided that the time had finally come to induce the painful, 14-month buzz erection in the fanboy population that must precede the opening of the next installment of The Greatest Superhero Franchise Of Them All, Spider-Man 3. Superherohype.com has been anointed to kick off the priapic odyssey by displaying the first teaser pic, which will be obsessed over as if it were carved into a stone tablet and flown down from heaven by Moses riding on Superman's shoulders. [Ed.note—You mixed DC and Marvel universes in that last sentence, are you crazy? You'll be dead by the end of this post!] The questions begin: Why does Spidey look so sad? Where's his umbrella? Oooh, has Fat Tobey been working out again, or is that black costume just really slimming? More »
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By MarkComment by Ernst Stavro Blofeld: It's Venom. Background: Venom is a symbiote alien costume Spidey picked up waaaaay back when during the Secret Wars... more » | Other threads
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