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He does whatever a Spider can and he does it extremely well. The webslinger known as Spider-Man has been a staple of Marvel Comics since 1960, thrilling readers all over the world with his exceptional talents, outlandish adventures, and genuinely lovable personality. Peter Parker is a legend among legends and that enduring appeal has seen him transcend his genre to become one of the most prominent movie characters of all time, too.

There have been many Spider-Man movies through the years, with multiple actors to play the wall-crawler to go along with them. For years, he existed as a cinematic titan all on his own, with Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield portraying him in their respective movie series; now, Tom Holland has taken over the role for the past decade, bringing the character to the Marvel Cinematic Universe to cross him over with The Avengers.

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In the "Star Trek" episode "Plato's Stepchildren", Captain Kirk (William Shatner), Spock (Leonard Nimoy), and Dr. McCoy (DeForest Kelley) beam down to a nearby planet to investigate a distress call. They find no distress, but a species of ultra-powerful hedonists dressed in classical Greek garb. They drink wine, lounge about on couches, and call themselves Platonians. They also have eerie telepathic powers that allow them to manipulate others to their will. Over the years, the power has gone to their heads, and they now operate without morals, doing whatever they please, believing that they are like the philosopher kings Plato wrote about in "The Republic."

Kirk, Spock, and McCoy will immediately become enslaved by the Plantonians, notably their leader, an arrogant a-hole named Parmen (Liam Sullivan). The Platonians will, for their own amusement, psychically force the Enterprise crew to act against their will. They force Kirk to behave like a horse.

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Netflix is one of the best places to find the best movies and TV shows you can watch on any streaming service. Every month, it adds hundreds of new titles to its content library. For instance, this month, we are getting the much-anticipated Season 4 of Love, Death & Robots and a new original comedy series titled The Four Seasons, but with that, some titles have to leave the service for a number of reasons. So, today, we are here to tell you about the best film and TV shows you should watch before they leave Netflix in May 2025.

About Time (May 1) Credit – Universal Pictures

About Time is a sci-fi romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by Richard Curtis. The 2013 film follows Tim Lake, a young man who his father tells that the men in his family have the...

Harvey Fierstein will receive the 2025 Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre.

Fierstein has won four Tony Awards, including two for Torch Song Trilogy, the 1982 play he wrote and made his Broadway debut in, which broke ground for its portrayal of gay culture, including the protaganist’s longing to have a family, and its inclusion of topics including gay marriage, adoption and bisexuality.

He also won Tony Awards for writing the best book of a musical for La Cage Aux Folles and best actor in a musical for Hairspray, where he originated the role of Tracy’s mother, Edna Turnblad.

Fierstein also wrote the book for the Tony Award winning musical Kinky Boots as well as Newsies and wrote Casa Valentina, A Catered Affair, Safe Sex, Bella Bella!, Legs Diamond, Spookhouse, Flatbush Tosca, Common Ground and more. He also revised the book for the recent Broadway revival of Funny Girl.

Zendaya on the real Mvp of Spider Man: No Way Home ( Photo Credit – Instagram )

In an interview with Marvel, she didn’t hold back: “She raised a great young man, and she’s done it on her own. She doesn’t get the credit she deserves.” For Zendaya, it wasn’t Tony Stark or any other mentor who shaped Peter Parker into the hero fans loved, it was May. “It’s important to acknowledge May in the respect that everybody is like, ‘Oh, he always has to have a mentor,’ all these father figures and all this stuff. But May has raised him. Shoutout to May!”

And honestly? She had a point.

Spider-Man: No Way Home wrapped up Tom Holland’s trilogy with nostalgia, heartbreak, and multiversal chaos. But amid the surprise returns – Tobey Maguire, Andrew Garfield, Willem Dafoe, Alfred Molina – it was May’s quiet strength that anchored Peter’s emotional arc.

When Marc Webb directed "The Amazing Spider-Man" in 2012, many audiences felt ambivalent. It had only been five years since Sam Raimi's "Spider-Man 3," so that seemed like a very swift turnaround time for a continuity reboot of a well-known superhero. Little did audiences know in 2012 that only two years would elapse between Webb's 2014 sequel "The Amazing Spider-Man 2" and Anthony and Joe Russo's "Captain America: Civil War," which featured yet another rebooted version of Spider-Man. That meant there were three mainstream theatrical versions of Spider-Man in nine years. To put that in perspective, there were only three Indiana Jones movies from 1981 to 1989.

That also meant there were three versions of Aunt May, Peter Parker's long-suffering aunt who struggles to pay the bills and doesn't know her nephew is Spider-Man. In Raimi's "Spider-Man" films, Aunt May was played by Rosemary Harris. In "Civil War," she was played by...

With this year’s Tonys coming up on June 8, the American Theatre Wing will soon be announcing its Lifetime Achievement Award recipient. The honor has gone to veteran stage performers, directors, choreographers, playwrights, songwriters, producers, and designers. In some years we get multiple recipients. Last year it was directors Jack O'Brien and George C. Wolfe.

There are several female Broadway vets, over the age of 65, who are deserving. With the likes of Jane Greenwood, Rosemary Harris, and Graciela Daniele having already received the award, here are 10 possible women who could be next in line. Vote in our poll below to let us know who you’d like to see honored.

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Jane Alexander

Tony-winning actress for The Great White Hope (1969). Additional nominations for 6 Rms Riv Vu (1973), Find Your Way Home (1974), First Monday in October (1979), The Visit (1992), The Sisters Rosensweig (1993), Honour (1998), and...

A careful balancing act between character study and romantic comedy, Joan Micklin Silver’s 1988 film Crossing Delancey strikes a beguilingly effervescent tone in spite of its main character, Izzy (Amy Irving), being so prickly and intransigent. This can largely be attributed to Silver and screenwriter Susan Sandler’s willingness to depict Izzy as a woman who lives life on her own terms, discovering herself as she discovers her power.

The film accepts Izzy in all her dysfunctional glory, understanding that we learn and grow by making often bad decisions. She’s a fascinating character for how she has complete agency but often operates against her own self-interest. And while a love triangle is at the center of the film, one never gets the sense that Izzy needs a man to fix or complete her, but rather one to complement her.

The two men vying for her affection couldn’t be...

Quick Links There Have Been Many Versions of Aunt May Through the Years Sam Raimi's Aunt May Captured a Classic Version Fans Haven't Seen in Years Some of the Movies' Most Important Lessons Came From Raimi's Aunt May

Aunt May is one of the most important aspects of the Spider-Man mythos, whether it be in comics, movies, shows, or games. Her wisdom, heart, and selflessness are why Peter Parker is such a great hero and why he's always so caring when dealing with complete strangers. While her character has undergone many shifts in looks or motivations over the years, these core values are still the backbone of her character. However, in the case of the movies, there was only one instance where the most "perfect" version of Aunt May was brought to life.

Sam Raimi's Spider-Man films, while not a 1:1 adaptation of the source material, captured the...

From Vittorio di Sica’s “Bicycle Thieves” to the films of the Safdies and Sean Baker, using non-professional actors has long been a tool filmmakers have employed to add a note of authenticity to their work. And yet, with “East of Wall,” writer/director Kate Beecroft elevates this concept to greater heights, crafting a feature docu-fiction debut that is cinematically and narratively rich, but also takes care to reflect the deeper reality at the heart of its story.

The film stars newcomer Tabatha Zimiga as…Tabatha Zimiga. Joined by her real-life daughter Porshia and a cast made up mostly of the young, motley crew that’s found refuge on her South Dakota horse ranch, Tabatha is not exactly the Mother Goose type. She wears heavy makeup, has tattoos that run down her neck, and shaves half her head to replicate the look of warriors. At the auctions where she sells...

Tobey Maguire’s Spider-Man is back...but not in the way fans had perhaps hoped. The former web-slinger, who led his own Marvel trilogy for director Sam Raimi before returning to the role 14 years later for 2021’s Spider-Man: No Way Home in the MCU, is getting his own Lego set after all these years. Maguire and Raimi’s Spider-Man sequel, Spider-Man 2, is somehow now more than 20 years old. The comic book outing is still considered one of the best ever made, with one of the movie’s best sequences now being immortalized in Lego form.

According to a post by a.clay.brick on Instagram (via brickfanatics), the new Lego set will transform the gripping train sequence, which sees Maguire’s Peter Parker do battle with Alfred Molina’s Doctor Octopus while atop a speeding train, into brick. And no doubt every Spider-Man fan will want to quickly web-sling this one into their collection.

It would actually be very easy to be cynical about Spider-Man: as the first movie to gross $100m in its opening weekend, and one of the two Marvel prototypes (along with 2000's X-Men) for the modern comic book movie, it set trends that would become ubiquitous with everything naysayers like to hate about the superhero bubble. That huge box office milestone was also the start of the race to gamify instant box office takes that has probably killed a lot of good creative seeds before they were ever allowed to blossom. But the first in Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man trilogy doesn’t really have anything direct to do with those: it’s not a cynical ploy.

Instead, Spider-Man feels almost old-school in its simplicity, relying on recognizable tropes from countless other heart-filled action movies, but injecting them into one of the most recognizable character brands in the history of media,...

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This January, Netflix is bringing you a lot of entertainment, from the highly anticipated second season of The Night Agent to an action comedy film titled Back in Action. However, for the purposes of this article, we are only including the films that are coming to Netflix this month and have a 90% or higher Rotten Tomatoes score. So, check out the seven best films that are coming to Netflix in January 2025 with a 90% or higher Rotten Tomatoes score.

Apollo 13 (January 1) Rotten Tomatoes Score: 96% Credit – Universal Pictures

Apollo 13 is a docudrama film directed by Ron Howard from a screenplay co-written by William Broyles Jr. and Al Reinert. Based on the 1995 non-fiction book Lost Moon by Jim Lovell and Jeffrey Kruger, the 1995 film follows astronauts Lovell, Haise, and Swigert as they find themselves stranded on the moon after...

Moana 2 Box Office (North America): 5th Thursday Update (Photo Credit – Instagram)

Moana 2 is still on roll as it surpasses The Passion of the Christ and Spider-Man 3 at the US box office. The Disney sequel has experienced a significant jump from last week, following the Christmas on Thursday. Although it has lost hundreds of theatres, it maintains its strong legs. Scroll below for the deets.

The Passion of the Christ was released in 2004, and it was directed by Mel Gibson. The movie featured Jim Caviezel as Jesus of Nazareth, Maia Morgenstern as Mary, and Monica Bellucci as Mary Magdalene. It achieved several accolades and new records at the box office, including being the highest-grossing R-rate film in the US. However, Deadpool & Wolverine broke that record this year. The movie collected $370.78 million in the US and $241.27 million overseas. Therefore, the film’s global total is $612.06 million.

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Bryce Dallas Howard grew up in a Hollywood family, and while that may have helped pave the way for the beginning part of her career, her standout movie and TV roles have proven that she is a capable actor in her own right, Howard surname aside. The eldest of prolific movie and TV director Ron Howard's four children, Bryce Dallas Howard has been acting since she was 8, first appearing in her father's 1989 comedy Fatherhood for a brief cameo. She later had non-speaking roles in her dad's other movies, Apollo 13 and How the Grinch Stole Christmas.

Her time on her father's sets must have inspired a love for acting because, around 2004, Howard began appearing in more than just her dad's productions, making a name for herself in small roles that became increasingly more significant over the years. In the 2020s, Howard has also shown a knack for directing, but...

The great 2004 superhero film Spider-Man 2, the second installment in Sam Raimis Spider-Man trilogy, is the rare sequel that improves upon its predecessor, Spider-Man, in every conceivable way. Like the superior Superman sequel Superman II, Spider-Man 2 achieves greatness by focusing primarily on the human qualities of its protagonist, Peter Parker, and his struggle to balance his superhero responsibilities with his desire to have a normal life.

The emphasis on character over spectacle in Spider-Man 2 is also embodied in the films villain, Dr. Otto Octavius, Aka Doc Ock, who is presented in the sequel as a good man whose ethical and gentle nature is overwhelmed by ambition and evil, after a disastrous attempt to create a self-sustaining fusion reaction killed his wife and left Octavius, played by Alfred Molina, neurologically and physically attached to four AI-generated mechanical tentacles.

One of the biggest surprises in Spider-Man 2 is how...

Some of the best villains in movie and TV history are just irredeemably evil. From Heath Ledger's Joker in The Dark Knight, to Hans Landa in Inglourious Basterds, many villains have no redeeming qualities, or chance at redemption. However, it is also often the case that the most compelling villains aren't those who are purely evil, but possess enough character depth and emotional nuance to make them worthy of a redemption arc.

Unfortunately, there are countless examples of villains in movies and TV who were never given the redemption arc they so desperately deserved. Sometimes, this may be due to narrative constraints, or an untimely death in the story. These villains are often some of the most tragic, because it is clear to audiences that they deserve redemption, but never got the chance to atone for their villainous deeds.

New Goblin Spider-Man 3 (2007) - Played By James Franco

Harry Osborn...

The Sam Raimi Spider-Man trilogy is over twenty years old now, but the vast majority of it holds up well. Audiences love it for its sincerity and earnestness, and for the way it truly believes in its characters. Spider-Man, Green Goblin, and Doc Ock may be outlandish, but the Raimi films treat them like real people.

The movies also make people cry with their poignant scenes. Characters die in the films, just like they die in the comics, and some of those deaths are absolutely tragic. The Raimi films found humanity in its heroes in a way few other superhero blockbusters had done before.

Cast List

Tobey Maguire

Peter Parker/Spider-Man

Kirsten Dunst

Mary Jane Watson

James Franco

Harry Osborn

Willem Dafoe

Norman Osborn/Green Goblin

Alfred Molina

Otto Octavius/Doc Ock

Rosemary Harris

Aunt May

J.K. Simmons

J. Jonah Jameson

Thomas Haden Church

Flint Marko/Sandman

Topher Grace

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Spider-Man is web-slinging to a free streaming home this October. The original Spider-Man film trilogy, starring Tobey Maguire as Peter Parker/Spider-Man, will soon be available to stream on Pluto TV.

Beginning Oct. 1, Spider-Man (2002), Spider-Man 2 (2004), and Spider-Man 3 (2007) can be viewed on Pluto TV. All three movies were directed by Sam Raimi and released by Sony Pictures. The first movie serves as an origin story for Maguire's titular superhero, showing how Peter Parker gained his powers and pitting him against his first villain, Willem Dafoe's Norman Osborn/Green Goblin. Spider-Man broke several box office records at the time of release, including becoming the highest-grossing superhero film.

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As if Aunt Mays Spider-Man: No Way Home death wasnt already devastating enough, some recently revealed behind-the-scenes information makes it hurt even more. The MCU took a unique approach in their adaptation of Spider-Man by significantly aging down Aunt May. Rosemary Harris and Sally Field played Aunt May in the Sam Raimi trilogy and Amazing Spider-Man franchises, respectively, while Marisa Tomei played her in the MCU. Many were skeptical of Marvels new approach to the character, especially diehard Spider-Man fans. However, Tomei quickly won people over.

Tomeis Aunt May definitely felt like the cool aunt, and her hands-on approach with Peters Spider-Man life throughout the MCUs Home trilogy gave her character a new layer of connection to her nephew. She played a big part in the events of Spider-Man: No Way Home, but it was also where she unfortunately met her end. After the Green Goblin persona retakes control of Norman,...

It was July 1994. The summer was sizzling. And so were cinemas. That’s truly no lie.

James Cameron’s action comedy flick “True Lies” opened in theaters on the 15th of the month, knocking “Forrest Gump” from the top of the box office chart in its second week. “True Lies” starred a pre-California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger as a U.S. government spy whose occupation is unbeknownst to his own family. (They think that he’s a salesman.) Schwarzenegger was one of the biggest movie stars on the planet at the time, thanks to a string of recent successes including 1988’s “Twins,” 1990’s “Total Recall” and 1991’s “Terminator 2: Judgment Day.” While “True Lies” was judged favorably by most critics, it was the bodybuilder-turned-actor’s onscreen wife Jamie Lee Curtis who received the bulk of the praise. Her nice but naive character was undergoing a midlife crisis, and Curtis injected her...

Sam Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy is finally swinging its way onto Netflix.

Per TVLine, all three of director Sam Raimi's Spider-Man feature films will be available to stream on Netflix beginning July 1. The trilogy, which stars Tobey Maguire in the role of the titular wall-crawler, began with 2002's Spider-Man, which pits the hero against Willem Dafoe's Norman Osborn, aka the Green Goblin. The film was followed up with 2004's Spider-Man 2 and 2007's Spider-Man 3.

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Gwen Stacy's big secret is out -- and the other heroes of the primary Marvel Universe have no idea what to do next to help her.

2002's Spider-Man marked a turning point for the superhero movie boom. Maguire and Dafoe starred alongside Kirsten Dunst as Mary Jane Watson and James Franco as Harry Osborn, with Rosemary Harris and...

Kelsey Grammer has been playing Frasier off and on since 1984, a 40-year run that’s remarkable for its longevity if nothing else. But there’s another Grammer character who’s been around for nearly as long: Sideshow Bob, who debuted in 1990 during the first season of The Simpsons. “You are the king of long runs,” said Deadline’s Pete Hammond during a conversation for The Actor’s Side.

As for how he got the Simpsons gig, longtime Simpsons writer Sam Simon knew Grammer from an early stint on Cheers. “He called me one day when he was in the middle of production on The Simpsons,” Grammer said.

Simon asked him, “Are you still singing?”

Of course, Grammer was still singing. The “Tossed Salad and Scrambled Eggs” crooner was famous on the Cheers set for beginning morning rehearsals with a show tune. You know, the kind of coworker you want to...

French-Swiss actress Irène Jacob, best-known for her star-making turns in Krzysztof Kieślowski’s The Double Life of Veronique (1991), and Three Colors: Red (1994), will be honored at this year’s Locarno Film Festival with the Leopard Club Award for her contribution to contemporary cinema.

The award ceremony will take place at Locarno’s Piazza Grande on the evening of Friday, Aug. 9 and be followed the next morning by a public conversation with Jacob at Forum @Spazio Cinema. The festival will screen Kieślowski’s Three Colors: Red in tribute.

“Irène Jacob is one of cinema’s most mysterious and sublime presences,” said Locarno artistic director Giona A. Nazzaro. “Her every performance manifests the elusive precision of a presence so completely identified with the film’s images as to become virtually part of the cinematography. Her skill in surrendering herself to the directors’ gaze and then, on the contrary, to vigorously embodying the character,...

In the early 2000s, films based on superhero comics became one of the most popular genres in the film industry. These days, thousands of fans watch the newest MCU movie as soon as it is released. In those films, Tom Holland plays Spider-Man, but he wasn't always the infamous web-slinger. In Sam Raimi's trilogy, Tobey Maguire played the role of New York's greatest hero.

In Spider-Man 2, Spider-Man faces his toughest foe yet in the form of Doc Ock while trying (and failing) to balance his life as Spider-Man and Peter Parker. Maguire is joined in the film by James Franco, Kirsten Dunst, Rosemary Harris, Willem Dafoe, and many other great actors. Most fans consider Spider-Man 2 to be the greatest in the trilogy. It had many memorable lines that they love to this day.

Updated April 28th, 2024 by David Giatras: As Spider-Man 2 swoops back into theaters for its 20th anniversary,...

This year’s Tonys will be held on June 16, so the American Theatre Wing will likely be announcing its lifetime achievement award recipient in the near future. Who do you think should take home this prestigious trophy? It has gone to veteran stage performers, directors, choreographers, playwrights, songwriters, producers and designers. In some years we get multiple recipients.

Last year these honors went to legendary actor Joel Grey and composer John Kander. The following living female Broadway vets have also received this award in the past and thus won’t be chosen again: Jane Greenwood, Rosemary Harris and Graciela Daniele. Here are 10 possible women the Tonys could award, all veterans over the age of 65. Vote to let us know who you’d like to see honored.

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Debbie Allen

Two-time Tony nominated actress for her performances in revivals of “West Side Story...

Moms loved actor Robert Shaw. He wasn’t traditionally handsome, but he was sexy with his piercing blue eyes and forceful British accent. There was a gravatas to his performances, a danger that was appealing to women of a certain age. And he knew how to make an entrance on the big screen. Who could forget his introduction as the fanatical shark hunter Quint in the 1975 blockbuster “Jaws” when he runs his fingernails down the blackboard. He was the bad boy of many a mother’s dreams in the 1970s.

Let’s face it, they don’t make them like Shaw anymore. In its 1978 obit of the British actor, the Washington Post declared him as “one of the most forceful and successful character actors on the contemporary English-speaking screen.” He was also a true renaissance man having written five novels and three plays. He was writing his sixth novel when...

The debate over whether Spider-Man is a Thanksgiving movie has resurfaced, with fans pointing to a Thanksgiving dinner scene and a parade balloon scene as evidence. The popularity of Sam Raimi's Spider-Man, released over 20 years ago, remains strong, and Tobey Maguire's portrayal of the iconic hero is still beloved by fans. Willem Dafoe's performance as the Green Goblin in the film is widely regarded as one of the greatest portrayals of a comic book villain, demonstrating his ability to switch characters seamlessly.

When it comes to fan debates about where a movie should sit in relation to annual holidays, the argument over whether Die Hard is a Christmas movie will always be top of the list. However, it is that time of year again when another contender steps forward into the arena of holiday appropriate movie discussions in the form of Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man and its position as a Thanksgiving movie.

David Fincher mocked the Spider-Man origin concept and explained his vision for the superhero movie.

In an interview with The Guardian, Fincher opened up about presenting his concept for a Spider-Man movie in 1999. In his unique take, Fincher's vision omitted the traditional "bitten by a radioactive spider" narrative from the comic book, instead focusing on an adult Peter Parker. With a laugh, The Killer director recalls, "They didn't seem too keen on the idea." Their perspective was clear: "Why tamper with the origin story?" Fincher responded, "Because it's rather simplistic?" While the original origin story held significant meaning for many, Fincher's view was different. He looked at it and remarked, "A red and blue spider? There are countless creative opportunities in life, and that just isn't one of them."

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This post contains spoilers for "Gen V."

Part of what separates "Gen V" from its parent show "The Boys" is the perspective that the story is told from. In "The Boys," the superheroes (aka "supes") are the villains. Key to the show's satire of the superhero genre is showing the collateral damage of normal people being casually crushed by the supes' carelessness with their powers. The main characters are all people who've got a bitter taste of that and want some payback.

In "Gen V," though, the leads are all supes — not that the show makes these "heroes" look much better than "The Boys" does. One trope the show has been showing as especially unenviable is the origin story: how a superhero gets their powers, secret identity, etc.

The series opened with the bloodbath of Marie's (Jaz Sinclair) origin story; she couldn't control her blood-bending powers at their onset and accidentally killed her parents.

This is Day 78 of the SAG-AFTRA strike.

It was everything everywhere all at once Thursday in New York City: Striking actors getting ready for contract talks were joined by writers who have just wrapped up theirs at a rally in Manhattan that also highlighted Asian American Pacific Islander culture in film and television.

On the eve of the Mid-Autumn Festival celebrated by Asian communities worldwide, about 200 people gathered outside the Manhattan offices of Warner Bros. Discovery for pickets and speeches that marked the official end of one strike against the major studios and the continuation of another whose end might be in sight.

Speakers including Joel de la Fuente of Hemlock Grove, Perry Yung of The Knick, Celia Au of Wu Assassins and Ivory Aquino of When We Rise hailed the growing visibility of Asian-Americans onscreen and said that their strike demands — including sustainable wages and limits on the use...

It’s Day 8 of the SAG-AFTRA strike and Day 81 of the WGA strike.

Another busy day out on the picket lines across the country.

Abbott Elementary creator and star Quinta Brunson was out in LA, stars including Daniel Radcliffe, F. Murray Abraham and Rosemary Harris, the 95-year old woman who starred in Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man movies were drumming up support in New York and San Diego’s Comic Con also saw some strike action. This comes after a massive rally in London by UK’s Equity featuring Brian Cox, Simon Pegg and Imelda Staunton.

Brunson told Deadline, “I’m double striking because things have to change, it’s really just that simple. I’m out here supporting all of my fellow members of my unions. There are people who are not in as fortunate positions as me and those are the people that we’re trying to change...

Tobey Maguire's age shows the full scope of his legacy as Spider-Man as the actor is now older than Willem Dafoe was in the original movie. Tobey Maguire first portrayed the Web-Head in Sam Raimi's Spider-Man in 2002, with Maguire's geeky Peter Parker acquiring spider powers from the bite of an experimental arachnid and becoming the superhero known as Spider-Man. Maguire reprised the role twice in 2004's Spider-Man 2 and 2007's Spider-Man 3 before returning along with his Spidey successors Andrew Garfield and Tom Holland in 2021's Spider-Man: No Way Home and again through archive footage in Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse.

Maguire's performance as Peter Parker was instrumental in launching the Wall Crawler's big-screen career, with Maguire first introducing Peter as a high school senior nearing graduation. Maguire has just turned 48 years old at writing, 22 years older than he was at the time of filming Spider-Man. Additionally, Willem Dafoe played Norman Osborn a.

Amy Pascal will never forget the world premiere of the first “Spider-Man” movie in 2002.

She was the head of Sony at the time, and was so worried that the film wouldn’t succeed she “spent the entire time in the ladies’ room crying,” Pascal recalled at the “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” premiere in Los Angeles.

“I sure did,” she continued. “I was terrified. “How do you know? You never know!”

But, she said, her fears disappeared on opening day: “It was one of the greatest days of my life.”

The film took in $100 million in its first three days. The first “Spider-Man,” starring Tobey Maguire Kirsten Dunst, Willem Dafoe, James Franco and Rosemary Harris and directed by Sam Raimi, went on to gross $825 million and spawned a decades-long franchise.

The most recent release is the animated “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse.” After less than two weeks in theaters, the film made $226 domestically and $390 million globally,...

It’s hard to find someone who hasn’t heard of Spider-Man, the young quirky teenager named Peter Parker who gets bitten by a venomous spider and turned into one of the most famous superheroes of all time, in charge of protecting New York City, and sometimes the entire world, from evil villains and threats. Stan Lee and Steve Ditko are credited with creating Spider-Man, who was first introduced to the world as a comic book character. Peter Parker, as a character, has a very lovable and quirky persona, which makes the fact that he is able to fight crime even more interesting.

This dynamic was bound to be shown on the big screen eventually, and in 2002, 40 years after the character was created, Tobey Maguire starred in director Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man. The movie was an extreme success, earning a 90% critics score on Rotten Tomatoes and making $825 million dollars at the box office.

Barbara Bryne, the British actress who portrayed mothers in the original Broadway productions of Stephen Sondheim’s Sunday in the Park With George and Into the Woods, has died. She was 94.

Bryne’s death Tuesday was announced by the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis. The first of her more than 60 plays there was Arsenic and Old Lace in 1970, and she performed in 20-plus productions from 1998-2013, including a memorable turn in 1999 as Lady Bracknell in The Importance of Being Earnest.

“Barbara was a cherished member of the Guthrie family,” theater reps said in a statement, “and we’re grateful she shared her artistry with us for so many seasons. Her legacy will live on at the Guthrie and in our hearts forever.”

The delightful Bryne was nominated for a Drama Desk Award in 1982 for her off-off-Broadway performance as Kath in a revival of the Joe Orton-written Entertaining Mr. Sloane. Three years later,...

The term "alter ego" is a Latin phrase that translates to the beautiful oxymoron of "alternate self." In ancient literature, alternate selves were typically presented as dark omens; doppelgängers and the like. The idea of hiding one's identity and surreptitiously committing acts of heroism perhaps originated in pop literature with the publication of Baroness Orczy's "The Scarlet Pimpernel" in 1905, and was further codified by the publication of Johnston McCulley's "The Curse of Capistrano," the 1919 pulp novel starring Zorro. 

I bring up these literary antecedents as the model on which all modern superheroes have been explicitly based. The distance between the Scarlet Pimpernel and the Scarlet Spider is not so great. The appeal of an alter ego, or a secret identity, should be self-evident. Not only does it allow a superhero character to appear as a free agent, outside of the law and free from being identified, but it...

For as long as film trilogies have existed, so has the unfortunate case of unremarkable final instalments. Whether it’s a lack of steam by the end of the saga, or a simple case of setting up more than you can pay off, the truth is that when it comes to trilogies, it can be Very difficult to stick the landing.

And today, my friends, we get to discuss a movie that serves as the final instalment in the “Raimi-Verse” and although it was not originally meant to be the final instalment, it is the ending that we are stuck with. Of course, I’m talking about Spider-Man 3, the most memed Spider-Man movie to date!

This movie is divisive among Spider Man fans, with a sprinkle of nostalgic cult-fandom over a generally disliked final product. After the massive success of Spider-Man 2 and the exploding box office numbers that...

This year’s Tonys will be held on June 11, so the American Theatre Wing will likely be announcing its lifetime achievement award recipient in the near future. Who do you think should take home this prestigious trophy, which honors an individual’s body of work? It has gone to veteran stage performers, directors, choreographers, playwrights, songwriters, producers, and designers. In some years we get multiple recipients.

Last year legendary five-time competitive Tony winner Angela Lansbury received this honor about four months before her death on October 11 at the age of 96. The following living performers have also already received this award and thus won’t be chosen again: Tommy Tune, James Earl Jones, Chita Rivera, and Rosemary Harris.

Here are the 10 possibilities featured in our poll below, all performers over the age of 65. Vote to let us know who you’d like to see honored.

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Spider-Man 3 was the messy conclusion to Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man trilogy, and it made a big reveal about Uncle Ben’s death that involved Flint Marko a.k.a. Sandman (Thomas Haden Church), but this twist doesn’t make sense. After introducing Toby Maguire as Peter Parker in Spider-Man and seeing him go through an existential crisis while fighting Doctor Octopus in Spider-Man 2, Spider-Man 3 arrived to pit Spider-Man against three villains: Eddie Brock/Venom (Topher Grace), Harry Osborn/New Goblin (James Franco), and Sandman.

Although Eddie and Harry had personal reasons to go after Spider-Man, Sandman’s case was different, as it was Peter who had a personal issue with him. Marko was a small-time thug who stole money to get treatment for his sick daughter, but this obviously led to him getting involved in many problems. Marko is also the man who killed uncle Ben in the first Spider-Man movie,...

Hugh Hudson, director of the Oscar-winning classic "Chariots of Fire," has passed away at the age of 86. According to a statement released by his family, Hudson "died at Charing Cross hospital on 10 February after a short illness. He is survived by his wife, Maryam, his son, Thomas, and his first wife, Sue."

Hudson's fact-based drama about British runners Harold Abrahams (Ben Cross) and Eric Liddell (Ian Charleston) was a surprise critical and commercial smash in 1981, earning four Academy Awards (including Best Picture) and out-grossing splashy studio releases like "For Your Eyes Only" and "Clash of the Titans." The film became a pop cultural phenomenon due in part to Vangelis' main theme, which topped the Billboard Hot 100 for one week in 1982 and inspired parodies in films like "Mr. Mom" and "National Lampoon's Vacation." But despite its staid period setting and deliberately paced narrative, Hudson's movie touched the hearts of moviegoers all...

Already missing Twitter trolling? Short on material to spark resentment since the midterm elections ended? Here’s a list that’ll get you in the Thanksgiving spirit. It’s not an exhaustive one, but if you really want to replicate the family feast experience, you can get liquored up and argue about it. There’s something here for every taste – even if your taste is on the “Dahmer” end of the spectrum.

“Home for the Holidays” (1995) Dylan McDermott and Holly Hunter liven up stuffy Cynthia Stevenson’s Thanksgiving in “Home for the Holidays” (Paramount)

More mischievous than mawkish, this minor masterpiece from director Jody Foster captures the spirit of family get-togethers and all their baggage. At her parents’ Baltimore home after losing her job and making out with her boss, Claudia (Holly Hunter) looks on as gay brother Tommy struggles to carve the turkey and launches it into the lap...

Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man is full of small details that make the story even more entertaining, and the Thanksgiving scene was given a deeper meaning through some subtle details. Spider-Man is one of the most popular and beloved characters from Marvel Comics, and he finally made the jump to the big screen in 2002 in Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man, with Tobey Maguire as Peter Parker. Spider-Man explored the origin story of the title hero, who after being bitten by a genetically engineered “super spider”, quickly developed spider-like superhuman abilities, leading him to adopt a superhero identity and fight crime in New York City.

While Peter dealt with his new powers and the responsibilities and struggles that came with becoming a superhero, Norman Osborn (Willem Dafoe) was also going through a drastic transformation. As a consequence of a failed experiment, Norman started to go insane, developing a villainous alter-ego known as the Green Goblin.

James Rado, who along with his friend and writing partner Gerome Ragni created Broadway’s seminal Age of Aquarius musical Hair, died peacefully Tuesday evening of cardio respiratory arrest in New York City, surrounded by family. He was 90.

His death was announced by his longtime friend, publicist Merle Frimark.

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Rado and Ragni, who died in 1991, wrote the book and lyrics to the landmark musical (full title: Hair – The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical), with music composed by Galt MacDermot, who died in 2018. In addition to its hugely influential insertion of a ’60s counterculture sensibility into Broadway’s mainstream, the musical contributed a score of songs that would become radio hits (often in cover versions) and stage musical standards: “Aquarius,” “Let The Sunshine In,” “Hair,” “Ain’t Got No/I Got Life,” “Good Morning Starshine,” “Easy To Be Hard,” among others.

In addition to co-creating the musical,...

Fresh off of her second Tony Award victory last year for “The Sound Inside,” Mary-Louise Parker has earned a follow-up nomination in the same category for her work in the revival of Paula Vogel’s Pulitzer Prize-winning “How I Learned to Drive.” Parker returned to the haunting piece 25 years after she originated the role Off-Broadway, reuniting with costars David Morse – who also reaped a bid – and Johanna Day, plus director Mark Brokaw.

This nomination not only celebrates her exemplary performance, but also moves Parker into an extremely exclusive list of performers who have earned at least five nominations in the Best Play Actress category. Her first bid dates back to 1990, when she contended for “Prelude to a Kiss.” Over a decade later, Parker earned her second nomination for “Proof” and went on to win the prize. In the following two decades, she earned another nom for “Reckless” in 2005 and last year for “The Sound Inside,...

This article contains Spider-Man: No Way Home spoilers.

Who’s your favorite Spider-Man? This loaded question often says as much about the age of the person answering it as it does the actual performance they’re praising. Millennials of a certain age, as well as younger Gen-Xers, might swear on their lives it never got better than when Tobey Maguire locked lips with Kirsten Dunst upside down in the rain. Yet if you grew up (or are growing up) in the age of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, is there really any other answer except Tom Holland?

It’s obviously a skewed and entirely subjective debate. Nevertheless, we here at Den of Geek have decided to try and answer for good and all who is the best Peter Parker to ever spin a web, and who’s run might’ve just been a tangled mess. We have polled our editorial staff,...

Leonard Soloway, whose six-decade career as a stage general manager and producer included 59 Broadway shows that won more than 40 Tony Awards, died Saturday in Palm Springs, California. He was 93.

His death was announced on Facebook by his nephew Jeffrey Lesser. “He was a huge presence in my life and so many others,” Lesser wrote. “With him goes an era of old Broadway that is dying out. He lived an amazing and full life and brought so many of us along for the ride.”

Soloway, whose life and career was chronicled in the 2019 documentary Leonard Soloway’s Broadway, had a hand in dozens of Broadway’s most notable productions since the 1960s, from his job as house or general manager for 1961’s How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, 1967’s one-woman show Marlene Dietrich, the 1976 revival of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? starring Colleen Dewhurst and Ben Gazzara and...

Exclusive: For the first time in 75 years, New York’s Theatre World Awards honoring debut performances will bypass its annual awards ceremony this year – a reflection of the city’s absence of live shows during the 15-month Covid shutdown – and instead present a one-night-only virtual event honoring Broadway’s best, including special honorees Patti LuPone, Audra McDonald, and André De Shields.

The special event will be hosted virtually by BroadwayWorld.com on Sunday, July 11 at 7 pm/Et, with a free stream available at the website. All proceeds from the event will go toward presenting next year’s event – the 76th Theatre World Awards, set for June 2022 – in person.

The announcement was made today by the Theatre World Awards and producers Tom D’Angora, Michael D’Angora and Tim Guinee. Tom D’Angora and Michael D’Angora direct this year’s event, which will include appearances and performances by previous award winners.

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Maggie Smith (Gosford Park), Ethel Barrymore (Spiral Staircase) and Rosemary Harris (Tom & Viv)... all just a bit Too Young for this list!

We recently published an "Oldest Best Actor Nominees of all time" list since Two men this year (Gary Oldman and Sir Anthony Hopkins) landed in the mix. (Related lists "Youngest Best Actor" and "Youngest Best Actress"). Given that unusual two-for-one accomplishment we figured we needed to update the correlative Oldest Best Supporting Actress list where the exact same thing has happened. We first published this list only three months ago but then the focus was on the possibility that Ellen Burstyn would make history as the oldest nominee ever in that category. But Pieces of a Woman proved polarizing when it "opened" and was ignored outside of Vanessa Kirby's Best Actress bid. 

So an update to the list. Which elder women have been looked...

Ready your salt servers for this latest rumor, as a new insider report claims that Sony Pictures has reportedly expressed interest in bringing back director Sam Raimi and star Tobey Maguire for Spider-man 4, continuing the franchise they started back in 2002. Now, while this latest Spidey rumor will require a fist full of salt to help it go down, it is worth remembering that, not only is there heavy speculation that Maguire will return to the role for the McU's Spider-Man: No Way Home, but that both Marvel and DC are planning on going to some crazy places as they branch out into exploring the multiverse.

The report goes on to state that, for now at least, this is simply an idea that is being considered by Sony and that neither Sam Raimi nor Tobey Maguire have yet discussed the possibility of a fourth movie in their Spider-Man series. The...