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Marc Webb Named New Spider-Man 4 Director

After previous Spider-Man director Sam Raimi walked from Spider-Man 4, Sony revealed a complete overhaul of the fourthcoming (rimshot!) Spidey installment. Marc Webb has signed on to direct the reworked film, which will now tell the story of a younger Peter Parker. The aptly named Webb is best known for 2009’s (500) Days of Summer....  read more

Spider-Man 4 Already Slated for IMAX in 2011

With the film barely announced, the anticipated Spider-Man 4 has already been booked for IMAX showings to run concurrently with its regular theater release. In fact, it's been booked in even more IMAX theaters than its two predecessors....  read more

Sam Raimi to Direct World of Warcraft Film

Thus far, Legendary Pictures and Warner Bros. have proven to be quite the team when it comes to supporting action-filled films. They were responsible for bringing us 300, which received generally tepid reviews but was undoubtedly visually stunning. Last summer, both companies were behind the overall-impressive The Dark Knight, and their most recent joint endeavor was, for better or worse, Watchmen. Legendary and Warner Bros. have recently partnered for yet another action film, this time to be based off the popular computer game World of Warcraft (AKA: WoW, to those in the massively-multiplayer online game community). Sam Raimi, who, as...  read more

Co-star confirms Spider-Man 4 to shoot next year

After all the heat The Dark Knight and Iron Man generated last summer, the Spider-Man brand seems not only to have surrendered its credentials as our biggest comic-to-film franchise but also its place in the public imagination. Iron Man is positioned to take the escapist crown, Batman has the artistic reigns, so where does that leave Spider-Man, which had previously held a viable claim to both? ...  read more