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Typically, you have to wait for the home video release of a movie to get a look at the behind-the-scenes footage known in the industry as B-roll, but more than 20 minutes of footage from the making of The Amazing Spider-Man was recently made available for viewing online, in advance of the movie's July 3rd opening.
Broken up into six individual videos, the B-roll footage peels back the curtain to reveal how director Marc Webb used practical effects to simulate superpowers whenever possible and also offers proof that new Peter Parker/Spider-Man Andrew Garfield did quite a few of his own stunts in the movie. Most of the main cast members — Emma Stone as Gwen Stacy, Rhys Ifans as Dr. Curt Connors, Martin Sheen as Uncle Ben, Denis Leary as Capt. George Stacy — also appear in one video or the other. We even get to see Webb and Spider-Man co-creator and comic book icon Stan Lee yucking it up on the set.
watch the behind-the-scenes videos >> Posted 06.11.12 by BrentJS -
In less than a month, Marvel Comics' most popular superhero, Spider-Man (sorry, Cap, Thor, and the rest of you Avengers, but it's true), will be web-slinging his way back onto the big screen after a five-year hiatus and a total reboot of the franchise, courtesy of director Marc Webb. Sony's promotional push for The Amazing Spider-Man is in full, ahem, swing, with TV spots and merchandise tie-ins like the Carl's Jr. "Sweet Costume, Bro" commercial airing on a regular basis.
However, the best promotional material has been saved for the 'net ("web" would be one pun too many), such as the recently released viral videos and featurettes. The same is true for the two new preview clips. The first clip nicely demonstrates the dynamic between Peter Parker (Andrew Garfield) and his girlfriend's (Emma Stone) dad, Capt. George Stacy (Denis Leary), while the other features a spectacular game of cat-and-mouse between Spider-Man and the NYPD — faithful readers will remember we brought you "spy" pics and a video of this scene being filmed well over a year ago. Both feature the acerbic wit of Leary, with dialogue that seems tailor-made for his style of delivery.
watch the new preview clips >> Posted 06.07.12 by BrentJS -
With so much promotional material for the upcoming The Amazing Spider-Man released this month — new viral video and featurette, still images, posters, 4-minute preview of the Lizard (Rhys Ifans), and new trailer — it would appear that Sony/Columbia would be all out of new material to offer hungry fans. Such is not the case.
The latest issue of Entertainment Weekly has revealed several new images (via ComingSoon) of Ifans as Dr. Curt Connors, aka the Lizard, in various stages of transformation — injecting himself, in full Lizard form, and naked in the sewer back in human form. There's also more photos of Peter Parker (Andrew Garfield) with Gwen Stacy (Emma Stone) — one at high school and one behind-the-scenes photo of Parker swinging the two around on his webs — and another of Stacy alone, finding some destruction in one of the science classrooms.
check out the photos >> Posted 05.26.12 by Ryan -
After putting the spotlight on Spider-Man's (Andrew Garfield) new movie nemesis in recent weeks — the latest still images, viral video, and featurette have all focused on Dr. Curt Connors (Rhys Ifans) and his scaly alter-ego, the Lizard — Sony has decided to give the monstrous mutation a break and focus on the man behind the camera, director Marc Webb [(500) Days of Summer].
In the new "Limitless Inspiration" featurette, Webb briefly discusses his approach to making a complex movie like The Amazing Spider-Man, from his initial "feeling" about what the movie should be about to the selection of skilled actors like Garfield and Emma Stone, who can make "words on a page" into something "emotional" to the many artists he collaborates with and the state-of-the-art equipment and technology that allow for pretty much "anything you can imagine" to be made "real."
watch the featurette >> Posted 05.16.12 by BrentJS -
Sony debuted a four-minute "super preview" of The Amazing Spider-Man during the season premiere of America's Got Talent on Monday night and it is now available for viewing online. While the majority of the footage has previously been seen in trailers for the movie, the preview does include nearly 90 seconds of never-before-seen footage, including a dramatic scene on a bridge in which the Lizard (Rhys Ifans) goes on a rampage, tossing about cars like they are playthings. Fortunately, Spider-Man (Andrew Garfield) is on hand to save the day, risking his life — and his secret identify — to rescue the Lizard's victims.
watch the super preview >> Posted 05.15.12 by BrentJS -
Now that The Avengers is into its second record-breaking weekend at the box office, Sony Pictures is starting to ramp up its promotional push for Marc Webb's Spider-Man franchise reboot, The Amazing Spider-Man. A new TV spot recently aired that includes a few snippets of new footage of Andrew Garfield in action as Spider-Man and promises an "exclusive first look" at the movie in a four-minute "super preview" to air during the season premeire of America's Got Talent on May 14th.
watch the Spidey-videos >> Posted 05.13.12 by BrentJS -
When The Amazing Spider-Man director Marc Webb joined Twitter yesterday as @MarcW, he didn't bother to wait to start his social networking experience until after he had his identity verified with a little blue check mark as so many other celebrities do. Instead, he offered proof of his identify in his very first tweet, uploading an awesome still image of Andrew Garfield in repose atop a street light with the simple caption: "Peter Parker. Good Balance."
see the new image and posters >> Posted 05.12.12 by BrentJS -
Superhero fever was already reaching a fever pitch with The Avengers set to debut at theaters around the country at midnight tonight, effectively kicking off "Superhero Summer Part Deux" (last year being "Part Un," with Thor, Green Lantern, Captain America: The First Avenger, and X-Men: First Class all duking it out at the box office), but the new theatrical trailer for The Amazing Spider-Man that just dropped has comic book movie fans whipped into a bonafide frenzy.
The new trailer weighs in at a whopping 2:30 and contains the prerequisite amount of action one expects from a superhero movie trailer, but it's clear to see that Sony knew what they were doing in hiring director Marc Webb [(500) Days of Summer] to reboot the Spider-Man franchise because it also contains enough humor, romance and mystery to appeal to a wide range of moviegoers. For die-hard Spidey fans, the new trailer includes many awesome reveals, including a glimpse at Peter Parker (Andrew Garfield) creating his web-shooters, the introduction of a mysterious figure who appears to be in league with Dr. Connors (Rhys Ifans), and the revelation that Connors' alter-ego, the Lizard, might simply be a "heavy" for Spider-Man to punch, with a "biological attack on New York City" the real threat.
watch the 'Amazing' new trailer >> Posted 05.03.12 by BrentJS -
Sony doesn't want to reveal too much more about The Amazing Spider-Man than they already have — new Peter Parker (Andrew Garfield) with new girlfriend (Emma Stone) searches for the truth about his parents' (Campbell Scott and Embeth Davidtz) disappearance and learns they might be responsible for his transformation into Spider-Man and possibly even the creation of his new enemy, the Lizard (Rhys Ifans) — but the studio is determined to remind you that there is another Marvel superhero hitting big screen this summer besides the self-proclaimed "Earth's Mightiest Heroes" headlining The Avengers. Which is why the studio has released three new, but rather unrevealing, still images from the movie (Spider-Man likes computers; books and cops don't like Spider-Man) and a new poster that is basically a redux of an earlier poster.
see the images >> Posted 05.02.12 by BrentJS -
It's pretty slim pickings for Spider-Man fans right now, as The Avengers pretty much dominates superhero movie news in advance of its nationwide debut in less than two weeks. Not counting the sluggish viral campaign, it's been more than two months since the last major piece of marketing material — the second trailer — for The Amazing Spider-Man was released.
In the absence of new materials, die-hard fans have had to satiate themselves on the snippets of new footage found in international trailers or try to decipher exactly what director Marc Webb meant when he said in a recent interview that "maybe it's not a radioactive spider" that gave Peter Parker (Andrew Garfield) his superpowers. Thankfully, Columbia Pictures has released, via Yahoo!, two new teaser posters for the movie to give us all something to gaze at until Avengers mania dies down a bit.
see the new posters >> Posted 04.17.12 by BrentJS