This summer there are many familiar faces on the big screen. Wonder Woman, Optimus Prime, and an entire planet of apes are waiting in the wings to reclaim their spot in the sun. However, when it comes to popularity, there may be no bigger name, face, or mask, than that of Spider-Man. At this year’s […]

Spider-Man: Homecoming is only the first step in Sony’s ambitious plan to create their own comic book movie universe, within the web that has been spun from the Spider-Man franchise. While this summer’s release is a partnership with Marvel Studios, which firmly places Peter Parker within the MCU. There are other projects, such as the upcoming […]

Sony Pictures is back in the Spider-Man business after their flagship character was given a proper reintroduction into pop culture, thanks to a formal blessing by Marvel Studios in last year’s Captain America: Civil War. Now the wall-crawler is back on his feet in Spider-Man: Homecoming, after a profitable yet underwhelming run with the Amazing Spider-Man series, that blemished the character’s […]

Sometimes when a property continually fails to catch fire, it’s best to simply go back to the basics and simplify things. After multiple failed attempts to successfully bring the Smurfs to the big-screen, Sony Pictures has decided to take a different approach. They are bringing back the Smurfs in a fully animated feature film, Smurfs: The Lost […]

Marvel Studios and Sony Pictures aren’t simply rebooting the Spider-Man series in 2017. They are attempting to take the character of Peter Parker literally from a boy to man, over the course of his MCU life, which began this year with Captain America: Civil War. They are literally building the character from the ground up, in ways that […]

Despite the current popularity of characters such as Iron Man and Captain America, Spider-Man has been the undoubted face of Marvel Entertainment for decades. The character’s popularity and influence was behind the partnership between Sony Pictures and Marvel Studios to share the character, which resulted in last month’s acclaimed Captain America: Civil War and the upcoming […]

In case you haven’t been following along, there has been a lot going on behind the scenes of Marvel Studios and Sony Pictures regarding the future of Spider-Man. After 2014’s ill-received Amazing Spider-Man 2, Sony was forced to reevaluate the future of the character at their studio, since they weren’t pleasing critics, audiences, or fans of […]

Next month fans of Marvel will get to see the brand new incarnation of the company’s most popular character in Captain America: Civil War. The early word is that actor Tom Holland (The Impossible) effortlessly owns the role of Spider-Man, which has increased anticipation for his first solo film for Sony Pictures. The upcoming movie is set […]

In 2009, Rovio struck gold when they released their game Angry Birds game on smartphones. Several years later the property is a multi-million dollar franchise with multiple spin-offs and tie-ins, endless merchandise, and a new upcoming feature film. The intuitive touchscreen game is popular from toddlers to senior citizens, due to its simplicity, sense of humor, complex yet […]

Let’s face it. Spider-Man is kind of a big deal. You have Superman, Batman, and then Spider-Man is the next most famous comic book character in the world. Ever since Marvel and Sony announced that they would be partnering to bring Spider-Man back to the big-screen, all the focus has been on who will be […]

For years, Imagine Entertainment had been trying to mount an ambitious plan to adapt Stephen King’s epic The Dark Tower book series, into long-form storytelling that would span both film and television. A couple of years ago, director Ron Howard and producer Brian Grazer got dangerously close to getting the revolutionary project off of the ground, […]

If you are going to make a mech robot movie, you should make a Robotech movie, period. Many people enjoyed director Guillermo del Toro’s giant robot versus kaiju movie, Pacific Rim. Know what would have made everybody like the movie even more? If it was a Robotech movie…  The 1980’s animated saga about a long war between humans […]