Extras! 11 April 2014
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Roberto Orci talks SINISTER SIX, VENOM; How to make a movie about villains appealing, how to balance so many characters
Lately it seems like everywhere you look, you’ll find a shared movie universe (hell, I think I found one as a prize in my cereal this morning) and the latest addition to that group will be The Amazing Spider-Man franchise, which will be sporting two new spinoffs focusing on some of Spidey’s biggest enemies. It’s a risky move, and to pull …
Sony to develop a shared Spider-Man movie universe with VENOM and SINISTER SIX movies on the way
It feels like Oprah is running Hollywood at the moment, because right now it’s a case of “You get a shared movie universe! You get a shared movie universe! EVERYBODY GETS A SHARED MOVIE UNIVERSE!!” And the latest to adopt the game plan that Marvel Studios popularized is Sony, who have now announced that they will be developing movies based on Spider-Man …
Is the Venom movie swinging into the Amazing Spider-Man's universe?
I still don’t think I’ve gotten over the shock of seeing that spindly kid from That 70’s Show! cast as Venom in Spider-Man 3. If there had ever been a warning sign as to how bad that movie was going to turn out, that klaxon of WTF casting, should have been it. But despite the film’s (completely deserved) critical savaging, producers …
Venom movie still happening, Chronicle's Josh Trank to direct?
When it comes to Spider-Man 3, it’s kind of hard to beat the musical stylings of Tobey Maguire’s emo Peter Parker for pure cringe-inducing badness, but gosh darn it, Topher Grace as Venom sure gave it his best shot. So imagine my surprise when talk began surfacing of a Venom spin-off movie in 2009. At the time, Zombieland writers Paul Wernick & …
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