Amazon is looking to bring the popular manga comic to the small screen in a new live-action series.

After failing to turn Jump Street into a bigger franchise, it appears Sony is rather looking to reboot it with female leads instead.

Throughout its storied comic book lifetime, Marvel Comics’ Spider-Man has seen its fair share of adjectives used in front of the titular hero’s name on comic book covers. Amazing. Spectacular. Superior. Ultimate. And now for the first time ever, across 16 years and four different on-screen iterations, we have a Spider-Man feature film that is actually fully deserving of all of those descriptions.

With the success of The Martian winning best comedy at the Golden Globes, despite the fact that it wasn’t a comedy (though did have some funny bits in it), the argument is certainly there that pursuing a movie about space and passing it off as a comedy is a great way to be in line for the big prizes. Except …

If you had told me a few years ago that a feature film remake of 21 Jump Street, starring Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill, would not just be one of my favourite movies of 2012, but would also get me to actually enjoy watching Charming Potato on-screen, I would probably have punched you in your charming potatoes in disbelief. But that’s exactly …

Although they were initially quite successful with MTV’s Clone High and Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, it was really 21 Jump Street that put co-writer/directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller on everybody’s radar. By all accounts, that movie shouldn’t have work, but Lord and Miller just seem to have the comedic Midas touch and turned a rather corny old TV series into a brilliantly …