Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark Musical Tops Wicked on Broadway
Despite the array of negative press attached to Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, the musical featuring music from Bono and The Edge of U2, it still took the top spot as the highest-grossing Broadway show last week.... read more
Found in: Culture, NewsU2's Spider-Man Musical Delayed for the Gazillionth Time
At this point, there are three things in life that are certain: death, taxes and U2’s Spider-Man musical being delayed.... read more
Found in: Culture, News60 Minutes Offers First Look at U2's Spider-Man Musical
We’ve been following the developments of Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, the comic-book musical with music from Bono and The Edge, with a mixture of curiosity and terror.... read more
Found in: Culture, NewsU2's Spider-Man Musical Delayed Yet Again
At this point, Turn Off the Dark, the long-awaited U2 Spider-Man musical, has been in the works for nearly two years, and it seems like Spidey won’t be hitting the stage just yet.... read more
Found in: Culture, NewsDanger Mouse to Produce New U2 Album
Just days after U2 manager Paul McGuinness revealed that a new offering from the band would be headed our way this spring, frontman Bono announced that the upcoming record will be produced by Danger Mouse.... read more
Found in: Music, NewsRhys Ifans to Play New Spider-Man Villain
Columbia Pictures announced today that Welsh actor Rhys Ifans will play the villian in the upcoming Spider-Man reboot.... read more
Found in: Movies, NewsEight Housewives Who Would Make Kick-Ass Superheroes
According to Variety, Mad Men‘s January Jones is slated to play Emma Frost in the Matthew Vaughn-directed X-Men Origins: First Class. We can’t think of anything as satisfying as seeing the unhappy, mistreated Betty Draper finally go mutant and kick some villainous butt. That got us thinking about other frustrated housewives we’d like to see transformed into Marvel demigods, finally muscled-up and ready to take their fate into their own Kung Fu-fighting hands. Thus we’ve drawn from the far corners of both desperate housewifery and comic book ladydom to show what would happen if only Bree Hodge could fly and... read more
Found in: Blogs, List of the DayBroadway's U2-Scored Spider-Man Is Confirmed...Again
For about a year and half now, we’ve been reporting about the supposedly-forthcoming Broadway adaptation of Spider-Man, with music written by U2’s Bono and The Edge. Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark has been flirting with cancellation for the last few months, first due to financial troubles and then because of losing cast members, including Evan Rachel Wood—arguably the biggest name associated with the project and certainly for one of the biggest roles (Mary Jane Watson).... read more
Found in: Music, NewsAndrew Garfield Cast as the New Spider-Man
All of Donald Glover’s internet-fueled Spidey dreams crashed and burned last night when California-born, Brit-raised Andrew Garfield was announced as the new Peter Parker in a 2012 reboot of the series.... read more
Found in: Movies, NewsCommunity's Donald Glover Campaigns for Spider-Man Role
Twitter is a-flutter with all of the fervor of political campaigning and less of the mess. After a short-list of actors up for the role of Peter Parker in a reboot of the Spider-Man franchise came out last week, some fans inspired Community’s Donald Glover to mount a campaign to be considered for the role.... read more
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