Spider-Man News

Sam Raimi is probably somewhere chuckling right now. As you know, he was intended to take his Spider-Man franchise into a fourth film, but that idea was canned and it instead became Marc Webb 's The Amazing Spider-Man reboot.

Sony spent a long time trying to wrangle Sam Raimi and Tobey Maguire back for a Spider-Man 4 , getting as far as casting a villain and planning a release date before finally giving up and going for the reboot.

Rating: PG 13 Length: 127 minutes Release Date: June 30, 2004 Directed by: Sam Raimi Genre: Action / Adventure / Fantasy Stars: 3.5 out of 5 Movie sequels are really hard to pull off, as most seem to be mere shells of the first installments.

Yale Repertory Theatre has announced that Ren Augesen will play Blanche DuBois and Joe Manganiello will play Stanley Kowalski in its first-ever production of A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE, the Pulitzer Prize winning masterpiece by Tennessee Williams .

Credit director Sam Raimi for "da noive," as the Cowardly Lion might put it, to skip down the same Yellow Brick Road as one of the most beloved and iconic of all Hollywood movies.

Is it possible to make a prequel to a young girl's fever dream? The original "Oz" books by Frank L. Baum posited that the magical realm of munchkins, witches, and The Emerald City was a real, if far-flung and hard to access, place.

Blu-ray widescreen, 3D Blu-ray, DVD widescreen and digital copy, 2013, PG for sequences of action, scary images and brief mild language Best extra: "Before Your Very Eyes: From Kansas to Oz" and "Walt Disney and the Road to Oz" in HD DISNEY'S FANTASTICAL adventure, "Oz The Great and Powerful," directed by Sam Raimi , imagined a sort-of prequel to ... (more)

Disney and Spider-Man Trilogy 's Sam Raimi go deeper into the Land of Oz in the all-new epic adventure film Oz the Great and Powerful .

Though it features no super-punching, the first clip from Man of Steel is now online, and it gives us our first solid look at Laurence Fishburne 's Perry White.

He may be working on a summer blockbuster - but even Spider-Man appears to have an interest in current affairs.

Magic Mike and True Blood star Joe Manganiello will incite desire this fall when he stars as Stanley Kowalski in Yale Rep's staging of A Streetcar Named Desire , according to The Wall Street Journal .

Evil Dead and Spider-Man director Sam Raimi originally signed up to make a film based on the game back in July 2009, although the project is now being directed by Duncan Jones , who helmed Moon and Source Code.

And though it was merely just a scene for the upcoming action flick The Amazing-Spider Man 2, Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone couldn't hold back their excitement as they crossed the stage on Saturday.

Let's face it, it's hard to surprise fans nowadays. Comic book readers or fans of cult shows, books, and other such things know so many ins and outs of the material, it's not just hard to manage a twist they won't see coming, any major storyline related to the source material is bound to include major plot points they're already familiar with.

It's been three years since actor J.K. Simmons first appeared in the role of Professor Nathanial Burke, the advice-doling academic in RPA's "University of Farmers" campaign for Farmers Insurance.

A secluded cabin. An ancient curse. An unrelenting evil. The original producers reunite to present a genuinely terrifying re-imagining of their original horror masterpiece.

It's coming, kids! Faster than a demon barreling through the woods the remake of the Sam Raimi classic Evil Dead is hitting Blu-ray and DVD and we have the early word for you right here! Dig it! Sony Pictures is unleashing the film onto Blu-ray and DVD with UltraViolet on July 16th.

He may not be a paranormal expert - or an imprisoned Neo-Nazi leader, or a blind lawyer dad - but that's the great thing about being a character actor for 'Dark Skies' star J.K. Simmons.

Andrew Garfield was filming "The Amazing Spider-Man II" in New York when a bit of rain put a literal dampener on on-set activities.

So to mark this momentous occasion, we've decided to look back on 10 other film franchises that could have gotten by without their third films.