Spider-Man

Each World in ‘Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse’ Will Have Its Own Art Style

Each World in ‘Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse’ Will Have Its Own Art Style

BY ABBEY WHITE | HollywoodReporter.ComTroy Warren for CNT #Entertainment"The idea that we'd be going to different dimensions really opened up an opportunity artistically," co-writer and producer Chris Miller said.Miles Morales will be swinging yet again into some groundbreaking visual territory when he returns to the big screen in Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Part One).In a recent interview with Collider, filmmaking duo Phil Lord and Chris Miller spoke about their ambitious approach to Sony’s Into the Spider-Verse follow-up. The writers teased that fans who loved the first film’s groundbreaking visuals will be in for yet another “ambitious” effort, according to Lord,…
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How ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’ Was “Shaped” by Its Secret Stars

How ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’ Was “Shaped” by Its Secret Stars

BY AARON COUCH | HollywoodReporter.Com Troy Warren for CNT #Entertainment Screenwriters Chris McKenna and Erik Sommers reflect on working with its mystery protagonists and dive into the biggest twists of the $1 billion grossing superhero film: "No one knows the character as well as — or gives as much thought to the character — as someone who has to then embody it and sell it." [This story contains spoilers for Spider-Man: No Way Home] Even after penning a pair of increasingly ambitious Spider-Man movies, No Way Home presented a multiverse’s worth of challenges for screenwriters Chris McKenna and Erik Sommers. The duo weaved together a script…
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‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’ Becomes Sony’s Top-Grossing Pic of All Time at U.S. Box Office

‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’ Becomes Sony’s Top-Grossing Pic of All Time at U.S. Box Office

BY PAMELA MCCLINTOCK | HollywoodReporter.Com Troy Warren for CNT #Entertainment To boot, the superhero tentpole is on the verge of crossing the $1 billion mark at the worldwide box office in a pandemic era first. Another day, another milestone for Spider-Man: No Way Home. Sony and Marvel’s superhero sensation earned $19.7 million on Christmas Eve to finish Friday with $405.5 million in domestic ticket sales and become Sony’s top-grossing domestic title of all time, not adjusted for inflation. The previous record-holder was 2017’s Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle in 2017 ($404.5 million). To boot, No Way Home is on the verge of crossing the $1 billion…
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Oscars: ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’ Team Plans Best Picture Push, Tom Holland Open to Hosting (Exclusive)

Oscars: ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’ Team Plans Best Picture Push, Tom Holland Open to Hosting (Exclusive)

BY SCOTT FEINBERG | HollywoodReporter.Com Troy Warren for CNT #Entertainment Holland, Marvel chief Kevin Feige, Sony chief Tom Rothman and producer Amy Pascal speak with The Hollywood Reporter in the aftermath of their film's strong critical and historic commercial debut. In eight films released over the last 19 years, Spider-Man has saved people falling from buildings, cars hanging from bridges and the world from any number of evildoers. But with the most recent film about the comic book superhero, Jon Watts’ Spider-Man: No Way Home, did he also save the theatrical moviegoing experience? And could he yet save the Oscars, too? No Way…
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‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’ Box Office Is Mixed Blessing for Hollywood

‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’ Box Office Is Mixed Blessing for Hollywood

BY PAMELA MCCLINTOCK | HollywoodReporter.Com Troy Warren for CNT #Entertainment The latest Spidey film enjoyed a huge Monday as it prepares to go up against Christmas weekend competitors 'Sing 2,' 'The Matrix Resurrections' and 'The King's Man.' Spider-Man: No Way Home showed no signs of slowing down as Christmas week commenced, scoring the second-biggest Monday of all time for December and the third-biggest for any time for the year with $37.1 million from 4,336 theaters despite the looming threat of the Omicron variant. That brings the movie’s four-day domestic haul to $297.2 million. Sometime Tuesday, it will become the first release of…
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Box Office: ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’ Soars to Record $253M U.S. Opening, $587M Globally

Box Office: ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’ Soars to Record $253M U.S. Opening, $587M Globally

BY PAMELA MCCLINTOCK | HollywoodReporter.Com Troy Warren for CNT #Entertainment The superhero pic scored the No. 3 domestic debut of all time as moviegoing returned to pre-pandemic levels for the first time despite omicron. But not all are celebrating: 'Nightmare Alley' found coal in its Christmas stocking. Sony and Marvel’s Spider-Man: No Way Home spun a record-breaking web in its box office debut, grossing $253 million from 4,336 theaters to secure the third-biggest domestic opening of all time at the box office despite growing worries over the COVID-19 omicron variant. Overseas — where the new variant is even more of a concern in certain markets,…
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‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’: Film Review

‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’: Film Review

BY JOHN DEFORE | HollywoodReporter.Com Troy Warren for CNT #Entertainment Tom Holland’s webslinger fights a bunch of familiar faces in Jon Watts’ third outing as Spider-director. The heroes who went clobberin’ through the pages of Marvel Comics in the 1980s were still relative kids when the mythology over at rival publisher DC started creaking under its own weight. Superman and Batman had started fighting crime in the late ’30s, for Pete’s sake, and the many iterations of their stories, not to mention those of less revered characters, had piled up in confusing or contradictory ways. The solution was a series called Crisis…
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‘Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse’ Unveils First-Look Footage

‘Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse’ Unveils First-Look Footage

BY AARON COUCH | HollywoodReporter.Com Troy Warren for CNT #Entertainment Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse fans’ spidey senses were tingling on Saturday when Sony unveiled the title to the sequel as well as the first footage at Brazil Comic Con. The sequel will be called Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Part One), with the title revealing this film will be a chapter in a two-part story. The sequel once again centers on Miles Morales (Shameik Moore), who is transported to another universe, where he comes in contact with Miguel O’hara, AKA Spider-Man 2099. O’hara voiced by Oscar Isaac and was teased in the post-credits scene of the first film. Miles…
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Marvel and Sony Planning More ‘Spider-Man’ Beyond ‘No Way Home,’ Says Producer Amy Pascal

Marvel and Sony Planning More ‘Spider-Man’ Beyond ‘No Way Home,’ Says Producer Amy Pascal

BY AARON COUCH | HollywoodReporter.Com Troy Warren for CNT #Entertainment Pascal says the studio is looking at a new trilogy, though insiders say no plans are official. Tom Holland’s Spider-Man is staying put in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, according to producer Amy Pascal. Sony and Marvel Studios are weeks away from unveiling Spider-Man: No Way Home, the latest co-production between the two studios, and Pascal says there are more plans for Holland, Sony and the Kevin Feige-run Marvel to collaborate. “This is not the last movie that we are going to make with Marvel – [this is not] the last Spider-Man movie,” Pascal said an in…
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‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’ Trailer Arrives at CinemaCon 24 Hours After Leak

‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’ Trailer Arrives at CinemaCon 24 Hours After Leak

BY AARON COUCH, CAROLYN GIARDINA | HollywoodReporter.Com Troy Warren for CNT #Entertainment Spider-Man helped kick off this year’s pared-down CinemaCon Monday night, with Sony unveiling the first trailer for Spider-Man: No Way Home to a crowd of theater owners in Las Vegas. This year’s convention, visually lighter in attendance and featuring a subdued tone, comes amid unprecedented challenges for theaters. The Spider-Man trailer also arrives under unusual circumstances, as a day earlier, a version of the No Way Home trailer leaked online, leading to Sony issuing take-down notices. Sony film boss Tom Rothman, in town from vacation on the East Coast and sporting facial hair, acknowledged the leak while introducing the trailer,…
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