Trailers are designed to stir up excitement, the amuse-bouche that whets your appetite for the three-course meal. Occasionally, the oldest marketing trick in the book backfires. When Sony dropped a sneak peek at Madame Web, the newest addition to the company’s roster of Spider-Man–related films and another of their corporate …
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So much movie-making these days seems tragically engineered towards ginning up that one perfect shot, expression, quote, needle drop, or moment that’ll go bonkers viral and juice the box office receipts. But as any student of the extremely online will tell you, rarely can you manufacture these memes. They must …
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If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. What a tangled multiverse web we weave! Director Sam Raimi helped bring the friendly neighborhood Spidey to life with 2002’s Spider-Man before the MCU was even a glint …
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Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse was removed from its scheduled 2024 release date as Sony Pictures postponed their upcoming blockbusters to the new year in the aftermath of the Hollywood double strike. Originally scheduled to arrive March 29, 2024 — roughly nine months after the acclaimed Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse — …
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A shirtless Aaron Taylor-Johnson. Russell Crowe doing a questionable Russian accent. And a CGI lion attack that seems to result in superpowers. Judging by the official red band trailer for Kraven the Hunter, this could be a standalone Spider-Man villain origin story that brings home the bounty for Sony Pictures …
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In the span of four years, comic book writer/editor Stan Lee would create — or co-create; put an asterisk by this verb! — the Fantastic Four, the Amazing Spider-Man, the Incredible Hulk, the Uncanny X-Men, the Mighty Thor, the Astonishing Iron Man, and both a master of the mystic arts …
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Every world gets the Spider-Man it deserves. And here on Earth-1610, our webslinger is one Miles Morales: a half-Black, half-Puerto Rican teen who loves graffiti, Air Jordans, and quantum physics. Like most Spider-Folk, he was bit by a radioactive arachnid, developed the ability to crawl up walls and sense oncoming …
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Brooklyn’s best – Spider-Man himself – returns to theaters on June 2 with the release of Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse. The sequel to the critically adored animated film Into the Spider-Verse, the new film once again follows the Miles Morales version of the webhead as he deals with the trials …
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Prepare for a multiverse of Spider-Men — Disney+ has announced that six Spider-Man films will be launching on the streaming service in the U.S., giving fans access to even more web-slinging entries into the Marvel collection, all in one place. The first Spider-Man films (otherwise known as Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man)Spider-Man …
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Brooklyn’s own Spider-Man doesn’t want to be another moving piece in the universe-crossing mass of Spider-People. In the second official trailer for Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, Miles Morales (Shameik Moore) finds himself craving the acceptance and validation of the different variations of heroes but soon finds that the sacrifices they …
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