Not exact matches
She became part of a
superhero franchise when she took over the part of Gwen Stacy in 2012's The Amazing
Spider - Man, and she took a part in the period crime film Gangster Squad that same year.Stone enjoyed a very busy 2014 that involved her returning to the part of Gwen Stacy in The Amazing
Spider - Man 2, and being tapped to star in Woody Allen's period comedy Magic in the Moonlight.
He played
Spider - Man's formidable foe, The Rhino, in the latest entry of the blockbuster superhero franchise, THE AMAZING SPIDER - MAN 2, directed by Marc
Spider - Man's formidable foe, The Rhino, in the latest entry of the blockbuster
superhero franchise, THE AMAZING
SPIDER - MAN 2, directed by Marc
SPIDER - MAN 2, directed by Marc Webb.
Disney has rescheduled its
superhero film release dates following Marvel and Sony's collaboration on a new «
Spider - Man»
franchise.
In terms of years, X-Men is the longest - running continuous
superhero franchise we have right now — the first X-Men, released in 2000, predates even
Spider - Man or Batman Begins.
I'm not exactly sure why Sony would want to remind moviegoers about the original «
Spider - Man» trilogy when the studio is only weeks away from rebooting the lucrative
superhero franchise, but if you never got around to buying the films on Blu - ray, it's as good a time as any to get them now.
Enter the The Green Hornet, a big - budget
superhero film that doesn't obsess about reverence to its roots, nor in making a movie that feels it has to respect the requirements of hero drama, or the moodiness that overwhelms some
franchises (
Spider - Man 3 overdosed on it).
The Amazing
Spider - Man 2 (PG - 13 for action and sci - fi violence) Second installment in re-booted Marvel Comics
franchise finds your friendly neighborhood
superhero (Andrew Garfield) wooing Gwen (Emma Stone) while protecting New York from a few, formidable new foes (Jamie Foxx, Dane DeHaan and Paul Giamatti).
Amidst those early signs of viewer interest (Blade),
franchise launches (X-Men), moments of director / source material synergy (Raimi's
Spider - Man) and 18 or so MCU films, Deadpool is recognizable as a triumph of perseverance and (baby) hand - in - glove casting, as well as proof that R - rated
superheroing is viable at the box office (which in turn smoothed the way for more serious takes like Logan).
I understand that a lot of fanboys have visions of Spidey web - slinging alongside Captain America and the Hulk and Iron Man dancing through their heads, and that they're rooting for Sony's Spidey reboot to fail because they have some misguided notion that if the
franchise flops, the studio will surrender the movie rights to
Spider - Man back to Disney and Marvel Studios, considering their whole
superhero thing a failed experiment.
«
Spider - Man 3» may not have lived up to the hype of Sam Raimi's first two movies in the
superhero franchise, but it certainly made an impression financially.
The latest
superhero franchise to get itself a rapid fire reboot - joining
Spider - Man and The Incredible Hulk in that regard - is The Fantastic Four and while news of the previous two
franchises getting a fresh start was met...
THE AMAZING
SPIDER - MAN is a terrific first installment of a rejuvenated
franchise that aspires to be more than an excuse for action and very tight
superhero outfits.
All X-Men and
Spider - Man movies aside, the non-Marvel Cinematic Universe
franchises haven't faired so well, and the last time a
superhero character got his own standalone movie — the cinematic trainwreck known as X-Men Origins: Wolverine, it was rebooted within four years.
Sam Raimi truly assembled the prototypical
superhero movie with this first entry in the «
Spider - Man»
franchise, in 2002.
In 2015, before Sony and Marvel Studios announced Holland had won the role of the teenage
superhero, Riggs said the role «would've been awesome for me» and confirmed on Facebook he auditioned to play the character following the reboot of the Amazing
Spider - Man
franchise.
It wasn't until «
Spider - Man» came along in 2002 — and Christopher Nolan revived the «Batman»
franchise in 2005 — that
superhero movies started making cash registers ring with regularity.
Among those siding with Iron Man are Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson), War Machine (Don Cheadle), Black Panther (Chadwick Boseman), Vision (Paul Bettany) and
Spider - Man (Tom Holland), And Captain America's freedom lovers include Winter Soldier (Sebastian Stan), Falcon (Anthony Mackie), Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner), Scarlet Witch (Elizabeth Olsen) and Ant Man (Paul Rudd), Fans of the
franchise are certain to delight in seeing so many of their favorite
superheroes together in the same episode.
Since then, she has anchored her own John Hughes-esque comedy (Easy A), held her own against an all - star cast in The Help and joined a blockbuster
superhero franchise (The Amazing
Spider - Man), with the sequel coming out in May.
The film arrived at a time when the
superhero film genre was still figuring itself out, with hits coming from the X-Men and
Spider - Man
franchises and complete disasters arriving in the form of Daredevil and Catwoman.