Andrew Garfield in "The Amazing Spider-Man" (Columbia Pictures)
Executives at Columbia Pictures think they have a winner with their new web-spinner.
“The Amazing Spider-Man” doesn’t reach theaters until July 3, 2012, but the studio has already locked in a May 2, 2014, release date for a sequel.
A Columbia Pictures spokesman said the scheduling move “speaks volumes” about the superhero relaunch with director Marc Webb and star Andrew Garfield, who are coming off of a winning appearance at Comic-Con International.
There was considerable fan skepticism early on about the choice of Webb, who has directed only one feature film — the 2009 romantic comedy ”(500) Days of Summer” – and arrived on this project in the long shadow of Sam Raimi, whose three “Spider-Man” films earned close to $3.5 billion in worldwide box office and keyed billions more in home video, toys, licensing and video games.
“The Amazing Spider-Man,” now in post-production, takes the Marvel Comics icon back to his high school years and makes him more of an outsider soul than the Peter Parker played by Toby Maguire. The film also stars Emma Stone, Rhys Ifans, Martin Sheen and Sally Field.
– Geoff Boucher
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no one wants to see this-its the same movie 10 years ago-hope it bombs and hollywood learns a lesson
dude why dont u shut up its nothing like the the 1st spiderman in here its way different did spiderman 1 have the hob goblin no did it have the lizard the real lizard no it had dr conor
I have looked at about ten articles on this site so far and I literally haven't seen a positive comment on anything yet!
Imagine what other comic books could have been given the big screen treatment if Spider-man hadn't been needlessly rebooted.
Did this really need to be done?? What a colossal waste of time and money..I am sure it will be a descent movie and all but the Spiderman franchise is not old enoug to warrant any kind of retooling.
Sony is obviously a bunch of idiots! It's too soon for a reboot as it is (I waited 3 movies for Sam Raimi's version of the Lizard), and the new suit sucks (in my humble opinion), and watching the trailer, the new origin doesn't look too promising. Now they're planning the sequel before the first movie fails. I hope they can spare the millions they're gonna lose. What am I thinking? Of course they have the millions they're gonna lose!
200 million in 6 days, guess u were wrong.
movie is way better than the others
Wow….Everyone is so angry….realx, it's only a movie…and it hasn't even been released yet,
I enjoyed the Sam Raimi version of spider-man. Nothing against Raimi or the original crew. I was disappointed that things were left out and changed though. The reasons why I wanted to see the Spider-man movies when Raimi did them was because I was a fan of the Spider-man Comic books and Mr. Raimi. BUT…. A down played genius, No web shooters, Gwen stacey was his first girlfriend not Mary Jane, he doesn't reveal his identity till way late in the game, Venom was mistreated as a villain and he was supposed to be 15 when he became Spider-man. Some Changes I was o.k. with. Who knows maybe even the haters will come around and like it.
i can't belive all of you.. i am being a bit bias because spider is my #1 hero…comics and all…but i'm truly looking forward to this…i want to go to los angeles for the premiere…people need to lighten up…the only thing i am kinda of doubting is this "spidey vision"…hope there is not too much of it…and i hope the movie kicks ass!
This looks to be an interesting movie, at the very least. BTW, the dumb part is releasing it so close to avengers and batman, as it will be compaired to the two, as people like to point out they're comic movies
i just seen it today and the choise for garfield was great as spiderman it turnrd spiderman into a real young male. the choice of toby m. made parker seem like a girl with no male tendencys he was just to fem , witch made the old movies to wierd like it was only made for 6 year olds ,the reboot was a definit nesesity only wish they would have corrected there mistake after the first toby m. spiderman movie , i think every one was just to excided that there were spiderman movies finaly being made they over looked the terrible choise of toby as spiderman, think about it before toby m it was that 1970s spiderman thats a long wait for such a popular caracter
Loved movie!!!!