A New Spidey? It Worked for James Bond!
January, 13, 2010 12:44 pm | Comments On #Movies, Sam Raimi, SONY, Spider-Man, Tobey Maguire"With great power comes great responsibility." -- “Amazing Fantasy #15” (the first appearance of Spider-Man, 1962)
Oh, what a tangled web they weaved. After three massive hit films featuring everybody’s favorite webslinger, series star Tobey Maguire and director Sam Raimi have parted ways with Sony over “Spider-Man 4."
As a lifelong fan of the comics and, later, the movies, I was crushed. Both did an amazing job on all three films -- even the third one, which is unfairly regarded as the weakest of the series. The biggest problem with “Spider-Man 3” was that it was no “Spider-Man 2,” which is up there with “The Dark Knight,”...
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Scott Mantz ("MovieMantz") is the resident film critic and film segment producer for "Access Hollywood." Mantz is also a member of the Broadcast Film Critics Association. Mantz has his own movie page on AccessHollywood.com, where the show highlights his latest in-depth reviews, blogs and weekly box office reports. He can be seen every weekend on "Access Hollywood's" "MovieMantz Weekend Review." He has been a guest correspondent on Bravo TV's "13 Scary Movie Moments" and "30 Even Scarier Movie Moments," as well as A&E's popular "Biography" series for specials on Tom Cruise and Robert De Niro.
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