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Spiderman
Tobey Maguire,
Kirsten Dunst, Willem Dafoe, James Franco, Bill Nunn,
'Macho Man' Randy Savage.
Written by Scott Rosenberg and David Koepp
Produced by Ian Bryce and Laura Ziskin
Directed by Sam Raimi
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Status: Released (US)
Released by Columbia Pictures
ETA: May 2002
Plot - The long awaited big-screen
outing of the webbed one. Plot details are shrouded in secrecy.
Peter Parker is bitten by a spider and develops super human
powers that enable him to climb walls and other spider-like
things.
Got or found a scoop on Spiderman? Email
me now!
Latest Updates
21st May 2002: Spiderman Update:
Two
Spiderman teasers produced for the UK market have been posted
on the films official
website. While not all that long in length, the spots
contain footage that we haven't seen over here yet. They're
available in Quicktime and you cvan download them by clicking
here
for the first and here
for the second clip.
24/4/02
Sony have released a whole batch of
behind the scenes clips from Spiderman. These you will not
see in cinemas when the film is released in two weeks. Click
on the links below to see Tobey chasing a yellow bus down
the street, Raimi and Maguire discussing a take, Raimi barking
orders through a megaphone and a lot more. The footage runs
to almost twenty minutes in length.
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16/4/02
Kirsten Dunst has been speaking to Sci
Fi Wire about an uncomfortable on screen moment in the
upcoming movie. In one of the film's steamiest moment, Dunst
had to go about kissing Spiderman (Tobey Maguire), upside
down in the rain.
"Because ... we were in the rain, and it was cold,
first of all, and Tobey couldn't breathe, because I had pulled
his mask like to there [indicates upper lip], and he was hanging
upside down soaking wet."
Tobey Maguire also had something to
add about that scene too,
It
was a challenging scene," he said. "I
was hanging upside down. It was five in the morning.
Rain was going up my nose. ... And then when she lifted
the mask up, the mask was then sitting on my nose, so
I couldn't breathe through my nose. And then she was
kissing my mouth, so I couldn't breathe through my mouth.
And there's no other places to breathe from. So I would
have to suck air out of the corner of our mouths."
Ooh, what a lucky guy. I take it that they're referring to
the scene that it pictured above. Anyway, the reviews are
starting to come in for the film, and I've listed a few sites
that carry them below. Expect a full review from us in the
next couple of days.
5/4/02
The Strokes and The Hives will contribute
tracks fro the Spiderman soundtrack. It will also feature
Sum 41, Macy Gray, Alien Ant Farm, Slipknot's Corey Taylor
and Aerosmith. The first single to be released from the album
will be Sum 41's What We're All About. The soundtrack will
feature The Strokes' 'When It Started', originally the B-side
to their mega-hit Last Nite. The Hives' contribution will
be a track named 'Hate To Say I Told You So'. The CD hits
store on May 13th.
3/4/02
Here are details from the press conference
that took place yesterday in Sydney, Australia for Spiderman.
Tobey Maguire revealed that his routine consisted of oga,
bike training, weights training, martial arts and gymnastics
for six days a week for five months in order to get into shape
for the film. In the film itself, Maguire was in the uniform
during the closeups and non-action scenes while stuntmen did
the jumping scenes that wern't CGI. Willem Dafoe did most
of his own stunts as the Green Goblin, 'when its not CG its
Willem pretty much the whole time.' said Dark
Horizons. Most of the scenes shot for the film have been
incuded, so there won't be many deleted scenes available for
the DVD release. Also, the Twin Towers will be left in the
final cut although only in background shots. Finally Sam Raimi
announced that he has signed on to return to direct Spiderman
2. Look out for a preview page in the coming weeks.
Thanks to Dark
Horizons.
1/4/02
The new Spiderman trailer has debuted
online and there are three different resolutions that can
be downloaded included on full screen! Click
here for the trailer!!!
Also, The Hollywood Reporter claims
that Sony have issued a request to National Association of
Theater Owners and the Motion Picture Association of America
to screen two two and a half minute trailers in front of Spiderman
when it hits cinemas. Usually studios are only allowed to
screen a two and a half minute preview.
"We are proposing to exhibition that it is in their
interest and ours that we try very hard to expose as much
of our summer product as possible and we need to do it during
the release of our first film up, 'Spider-Man,'"
Sony Pictures Entertainment president of worldwide marketing
and distribution Jeff Blake said.
26/2/02
The
new issue of Total Film magazine have printed a number
of different images from the Spiderman movie in their
preview of movies coming our way in 2002.
From top left, Spiderman in action, Willem Dafoe as
Norman Osborn (aka The Green Goblin), and Spidey comes
to the aid of Mary Jane
Click on any of these three images to enlarge.
Images,
Total Film, Columbia
4/2/02
Yesterdays Superbowl saw a number of
movies have commercials promoting them screened to a mass
US audience and Spiderman was one of them. Comics2Film
scooped the clip, click
here to view in Quicktime.
30/7/01 Joblo
have posted a huge article covering the Sam Raimi Q + A from
The San Diego Comic Con. A five minute finished clip from
the movie was also played to the audience at the conference
too, " The scene basically featured the introduction
of Peter Parker to the gene-manipulated spider that bit him.
I believe that it started with a shot outside of Columbia
University (I may be "off" on this fact). The next
shot is a group of students being led around a laboratory
by a teacher who is explaining the whole gene-testing process
to them. Tobey Maguire, as the young Peter Parker, is seen
walking around timidly with his camera in hand. He looks over
at the very lovely Kirsten Dunst (aka Mary Jane Watson in
the film) every now and then, but obviously doesn't know how
to approach her (he's shy, you see)."
Click
to read the full article.
25/7/01
Spiderman has already netted around
$40 million months before its release. The studio behind
the movie, Sony, have made sponsorship deals with Taco Bell
and Kelloggs plus two other deals are in the pipeline including
one with Dr. Pepper.
18/7/01
An update
on what's happening with the Spiderman movie. The teaser
is now available for you guys to download from the official
website. Director Sam Raimi has done an interview over
at SpidermanHype . Go
there to check it out. And here's a goodie, a movie
fan has just done an alternative teaser trailer for the
movie, and it;s pretty good. I suggest you click
here and check it out.
26/6/01
Wow!
Take a look at this teaser poster released a few days
ago by Sony.
22/5/01
Spiderman Hype have posted a pic of
The Green Goblin's Pumpkin bombs that appeared at the E3 convention.
Click here to check those out.
Xena star Lucy Lawless (pictured below
on 25/401) has also been talking about her cameo in the movie
with Sci
Fi Wire. "I went to New York for a fleeting thing,
and Sam Raimi, who is Rob's partner, is shooting Spider-Man,"
says Lawless, referring to Rob Tapert, her husband and Xena
executive producer. "So I ran up to St. Marks Place with
some of the wardrobe women/stylists on the movie, and we bought
all this punk-rocker stuff. So I had studs in my nose, a short
spiky wig and lots of earrings. I'm dragging on cigarettes.
So I do this tiny little blink-and-you-miss-it cameo, but
it was such fun. It was all fun and no responsibility. It
was fun to wear these clothes, these punk pants and a ripped
stocking shirt and great big black boots. It looked like I'd
stomped on a couple of hedgehogs. And I wore it all the way
home, because I wanted Rob to see my new look."
1/5/01
Some
more pics have appeared on the web, check out the two
on the right that popped up over at SpidermanHype.com. Also the site also have some information on the
CGI to be used in the film. One scooper has apparentley
caught a
glimpse
of some prototype ILM footage and said the following; "NO
ONE has ever seen effects like these!!" This guy
raves and rave about the effects and says that we'll be blown
away by them. "This is NOT a bunch of Matrix-wannabe
bullettime shots a la Singer's (wildly overrated) "X-Men."
This is stuff I've simply never seen before, and as exciting
as some of your scoops and set pictures have been I can't
stress enough how fantastically cool it is to finally witness
Spidey IN MOTION." Get yourself over to their
site to read the scoop in full!
Source: SpidermanHype.com
The
word is that the next teaser trailer for the movie will
probably turn up around about July, just in time for the
Comics Continuum International show in San Diego. For more
info visit Comics
Continuum.
Update 28/4/01 CountingDown.com
Yet more snaps are appearing from the NY set of Spiderman,
this time with Tobey Maguire swinging accross skyscraper
rooftops as Peter Parker. You can also see the Spiderman
webbing (above) plus a ton of other photos at Counting
Down.com
Update: 25/4/01
Xena
star Lucy Lawless appears in the movie in a cameo role
as a punk rocker.. Check out the pic on the right.
And if it's hot pics you're after, get along to SpiderMan
Hype. They've just posted 57 pics from the NYC set.
Also, over at TheSpidermanMovie.com,
they have a few more set pics submitted to them that
include a few close ups of the extras and some of the
actors including Tobey
Maguire
and I think that there's also one of director Sam Raimi sat
in his director's chair. Follow
this link to see them.
Woah, check
out the picture on the left. The Green Goblin costume,
close up! Pretty cool huh. Click in the image to get
a better view of it. It was taken on the Downey set
and first appeared in Austrailan mag New Idea.
In other
Spidey news, Tobey Maguire who's playing the webbed
one, has done an interview over at Cinescape
and talked about his preparation for the role "I've
done all kinds of training for flexibility. I've also
been pushing up some iron. I'm ready for anything." Source:
Cinescape
8/4/01
- You may have heard that four costumes were taken from the
Sony Pictures lot last week (Tuesday). Well, Columbia Pictures
have put up a $25,000 reward for the safe return of them.
They issued an official press release late last week, So,
go on whoever you are, do the decent thing and give 'em back.
Image (c) Sony Coming
Attractions posted the promo pics above, taken from a
slide presentation that Columbia held a few days ago. The
meeting showcased loads of movies that are coming our way
from now until 2002. Unfortunately most of the pics are of
low quality, but interesting all the same.
Images SpidermanHype.com
I've also added the pics of the Green Goblin costume that
have been knocking about the web recently. Check those out
above.
Source: Spidermanhype.com
18/3/01 -
Images (c) Popcorn,
unknown
I've found some more pics from the set of the Spiderman movie.
I think they've been around on the web for a while, but check
them out above anyway. Some pics of the Daily Bugle van and
the film's wrestling scene of which I think originated from
Popcorn.
13/3/01 - Singer Macy Gray has been confirmed to appear
in the Spiderman movie. She will perform a song in the"World
Unity Festival scene" involving a massive amount of extras.
The scene is expected to shoot this Thursday (15th March).
Source: Dark Horizons
9/3/01 - Kirsten Dunst has been pictured with her hair
dyed for her role as Mary Jane. She was attending the premiere
for her new picture, Get Over it of which opened today in
the US. Earlier on this week she was quoted in saying ' (the)
Spider-Man people don't want her showing her red hair.' Whatever,
to see the pic click
here.
7/3/01 - Added the pic of Tobey Maguire in costume
(above right)
5/3/01 - The official website is now in place as the
shoot continues. Click
here to go. The Url has apparently been hidden until now.
Feel free to check it out although there isn't a lot there
at the moment.
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