Fans of the Spider-Man character Kraven the Hunter will have to remain patient for the next few months. Director J.C. Chandor’s “Kraven the Hunter” spin-off film set within the Sony Spider-Man Universe (SSU) has officially been delayed to December 13, 2024.

Initially, the film was slated for release on January 13, 2023, before then being pushed back to October 6, and finally August 30.

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How do superheroes navigate their own mental health journeys? Sony Pictures Animation and Sony Pictures Imageworks are utilizing one of their biggest cinematic franchises to address the topic. “The Spider Within: A Spider-Verse Story” sees Miles Morales deal with the issues surrounding his anxiety after a panic attack. It’s a story that finds the young hero reaching out to others, a crucial step to healing.

This important project represents a collaboration with the Kevin Love Fund.

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Prepare for “The Spider Within: A Spider-Verse Story,” a new Spider-Verse short, seemingly meant to fill the gap between Spider-Man animated movies. Last June, Sony Pictures Animation released the box-office smash “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse,” a sequel to the beloved Academy Award-winning “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.” The second film in the series earned an impressive $690.9 million at the global box office against a budget of $100-150 million, nearly an 80% increase of what its predecessor earned.

Continue reading ‘The Spider Within’ Trailer: Miles Morales Returns In New’ Spider-Verse Story’ Short Film at The Playlist.

Rumored to be playing the next James Bond (by the same U.K. tabloid that said Cillian Murphy was the favorite last week and that Paul Mescal was a lock before that, insert eye roll here), Aaron Taylor Johnson is railing against Hollywood in a new Rolling Stone UK interview. The actor, who appeared opposite Brad Pitt in 2022’s “Bullet Train” and co-stars in the upcoming “The Fall Guy” movie with Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt, is poised to have his leading moment later this year with Sony’s “Kraven The Hunter.”

READ MORE: ‘Kraven The Hunter’ Trailer: Sony’s R-Rated ‘Spider-Man’ Spinoff Starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson Arrives In August

Given how poorly Sony’s “Spider-Man” films have performed of late—two back-to-back, ridiculed bombs in “Morbius” and “Madame Web,” and the “Venom” films that make money but no one actually seems to love—Johnson might think to choose his words carefully.

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In the wake of the dreadful “Madame Web” flop, the central question everyone seems to be asking themselves when it comes to Sony’s Spider-Man Universe (SSMU) is, what the hell is going on over there at that studio? (several post-mortems from Puck and THR are withering in their assessment of the SSMU, and Sony is definitely taking it in the teeth today) While Sony’s superhero movies have flourished when they are Marvel co-productions, “Spider-Man: No Way Home,” grossing almost $2 billion during the 2021 pandemic, and the “Spider-Verse” are big critical and commercial hits under Christopher Lord and Phil Miller, everything else appears to be a wash of late.

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Is a sequel to “Spider-Man: No Way Home” imminent? Not according to Tom Holland, reports Deadline. And that’s because writers haven’t written a decent enough story idea to greenlight another movie.

READ MORE: Sony Reserves 2024 & 2025 Release Dates For Upcoming Marvel Projects: Are They For ‘Venom 3’ & Tom Holland’s Next ‘Spider-Man’ Pic?

Holland discussed a possible sequel to Sony‘s 2021 smash hit at a press conference with the Critics Choice Association yesterday.

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Earlier this week, Sony dropped its first trailer for its next “Spider-Man” spinoff, “Kraven The Hunter,” which hits theaters this October. That film was supposed to be the first of three Spidey spinoffs in the next year, the other two being “El Muerto” and “Madame Web,” both set for early 2024 releases. But thanks to the WGA writers’ strike, and a busy touring schedule for leading man Bad Bunny, Sony has nixed “El Muerto” from its release calendar.

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What’s happening in the world of “Spider-Man” and the entire Spiderverse from Sony? Well, right now, a lot of delays. This weekend, Sony announced several changes in their upcoming Spiderverse schedule, which means all of their films are getting pushed back. The spin-off movie “Kraven the Hunter” film— starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson as one of Spidey’s adversaries—has been delayed from January 13, 2023 release, to October 6, later that year.

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While it took Sony’s Spider-verse to get off the ground and the results were clunky—“Venom” seemingly being a love or hate proposition for some—the entity is up and running about to take off either way. Two “Venom” films are in the can, a crossover with “Spider-Man” has been teased, “Morbius” hits in April, and “Kraven The Hunter” is due in early 2023.

Continue reading ‘Madame Web’: ‘Euphoria’s Sydney Sweeney Joins Sony’s Spider-Man Spin-Off Starring Dakota Johnson at The Playlist.

You’re probably thinking, what exactly is Sony’s strategy with their Spider-Verse? After all, unlike Marvel or DC, or most other film studios, all their spin-offs are generally centered around super villains or anti-heroes. Well, much of that is because Sony’s Spider-verse is much more limited. The company only owns characters within the Spider-Man universe, and most of the known characters in that universe are Spider-Man’s villains, like “Venom” who got his own movie franchise, “Kraven The Hunter,” who is getting his own film, and the upcoming “Morbius,” based on the Spider-Man villain, Morbius, The Living Vampire.

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Between his prosthetic/fat-suit-wearing hammy performance in “House Of Gucci” and his upcoming role as an antihero vampire in Sony‘s “Morbius” Spider-Man spin-off film, we’re sure getting a lot of Jared Leto of late. While his press tour may not be as colorful as, say ‘Gucci’ director Ridley Scott, who knows what Leto did to get in character for the role, maybe sleeping in a coffin?

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“Spider-Man: Into The Spiderverse” is easily not only one of the best superhero films ever made, but it’s also probably the best animated superhero film ever made, period (it’s the rare film that deserved the Best Animated Film Oscar and won it over other all contenders). Produced, godfathered, and co-written by Phil Lord and Chris Miller, who seem to have a fantastic Midas touch with projects such as this (see the similarly excellent, “Mitchells Vs.

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Earlier this month, a mid-credits scene in “Venom: Let There Be Carnage” confirmed a cross-over ahead between the MCU and Sony‘s Spider-Man Universe. How much overlap there is between the two franchises remains to be seen, however. A future collision between Eddie Brook, Peter Parker, and their respective alter-egos may be imminent, but who knows if it will happen in “Spider-Man: No Way Home” or further down the line of Marvel Phases?

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OK, while it’s remained a mystery for a long time, with lots of secrets still to be revealed, the trailer for “Spider-Man: No Way Home” did shed quite a bit of detail on the basic plot of the Sony/Marvel movie. Following the events of “Spider-Man: Far From Home,” his secret identity having been revealed by J. Jonah Jameson (J.K. Simmons), Peter Parker’s (Tom Holland) has been framed for Mysterio’s death and its playing havoc with his personal life.

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2021 has been an arguably difficult year for Marvel. It’s yielded four successful and largely well-received DIsney+ series (“WandaVision” especially), but the big-screen story thus far has been challenged. “Black Widow” underperformed at the box office (in part because it was available on Disney Premier Access), and “Shang Chi” looks poised to do the same underwhelming numbers thanks to Covid Delta surges (And “Eternals“?

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Hollywood struggles to get Venom right. The comic book character has seen two big screen adaptations so far with Topher Grace in “Spider-Man 3” and then Tom Hardy in “Venom,” and neither have quite hit the mark. Grace lacked the edge to play the role, and Hardy leaned toward the weirdness of the character but lacked the screen time to dominate the role.

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Confusion and uncertainty would be good descriptors of how fans feel about Tom Holland’s future as “Spider-Man.” Sony Pictures‘ has multiple ‘Spider-Man’ spinoffs in the works developing their splinter cinematic universe featuring characters such as Venom, Carnage, Morbius, and Kraven, among others, but how does Spider-Man factor into those projects given, he’s so far in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, which seems fairly disconnected from Sony’s Spider-verse?

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Sony Pictures has been slowly assembling their own Marvel Comics cinematic universe with characters connected to the “Spider-Man” rights. First, they shocked skeptics, critics, and pundits with the Tom Hardy film “Venom” which grossed over $800 million at the international box office; impressive, given that the film removed Peter Parker’s connection to the anti-hero’s origin and Tom Holland didn’t appear in the film. 

READ MORE: ‘Kraven The Hunter’: J.C.

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The Russo Brothers were so impressed with Tom Holland as Peter Parker/Spider-Man in their “Captain America: Civil War” film (and ‘Infinity War,’ and ‘Endgame’) they immediatey decided to tap his talents for their first directorial effort outside Marvel. So, As the star of their ApplteTV+ crime drama “Cherry,” Holland is doing all the press rounds and really gunning for that Oscar.

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It started with a joke. Tom Holland revealed the title of the upcoming Sony/Marvel “Spider-Man 3” film to be “Spider-Man: Phone Home.” Holland posted it, along with a first look to Instagram (see below). Then, ‘Spider-Man’ franchise co-star Jacob Batalon, countered with another supposed title, “Spider-Man: Homewrecker,” and another new first-look image from the film.

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Well, it’s all happening and not particularly surprising given some of the news from this afternoon: most studios are expecting to delay all their spring and summer films due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and the way it’s crippled theatergoing in America. The latest casualty, with surely many more to come, is the “Spider-Man” spin-off “Morbius” starring Jared Leto. Sony Pictures has postponed the theatrical release of “Morbius,” a comic book thriller once scheduled to debut on March 19, back a few months to October 8.

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Pardon the pun, but this is a shocker. Jamie Foxx will be reprising his role as Electro in Sony’s upcoming Marvel-produced “Spider-Man 3” starring Tom Holland. This is now the second character in the MCU that has been reintroduced from the old Sony Spider-Man films. J.K. Simmons reprised his role as Daily Bugle newspaper chief J.Jonah Jameson in “Spider-Man: Far From Home,” after appearing in Sam Raimi’s original Spider-Man trilogy.

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The coronavirus pandemic has put a cramp in every studio’s style. Following the news that Marvel will push its “Doctor Strange” sequel out of the fall 2021 frame to March 2022, Sony has muscled in on the open territory. Though, in fact, the multiple release date shuffles announced today might have been done in some kind of conjunction with Sony given the two studios are interconnected and business partners in the world of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Continue reading ‘Spider-Man: Far From Home’ Sequel & ‘Spider-Verse 2’ Delayed Amid Sony Release Date Reshuffle at The Playlist.

Though lacking critical acclaim, Tom Hardy’s take on the Marvel superhero, or supervillain, in “Venom” grew into a massive commercial success, riveting fans of comic books, of Hardy, and of gritty, action movies. In that film, Venom existed in a world without Spider-Man, but a universe that still knew his name and his character. Sony will be expanding this universe in 2020 with a different, yet still dark character study in “Morbius.

Continue reading ‘Morbius’ Trailer: The SpiderVerse Universe Expands With A Vampiric Jared Leto at The Playlist.

The moral obligations of ascension are a huge cross to bear for anyone in touch with humanity. Voltaire knew it, Uncle Ben knew it, and so did Stan Lee. There comes great responsibility when taking the reins of an iconic superhero character too, doing right by them, but also weighing the demands of a restless, savvy audience that has already seen three versions of this role on screen before. Fortunately, Phil Lord and Chris Miller, the ingenious, architects behind Sony’s exhilarating new animated film, “Spider-Man Into The Spider-Verse” understand this acutely.

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