The comic book company owns the rights to such high-profile super heroes as Spider Man, Iron Man and The X-Men.
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Aside from Iron Man, the deal, which closed at the end of the year, brought in characters such as Spider-Man and the Fantastic Four, as well as the numerous others in the popular Marvel universe.
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As Spider-Man, Parker still didn't have it together, questioning himself even while dispatching such criminals as the Green Goblin and Doctor Octopus.
"As Spider-Man I was wired the whole time, " says the 24-year-old actor, munching on an energy bar to stay fueled on a recent nippy Cambridge morning.
In a recent study Orbach maintains that studios and movie theaters could improve revenues by charging more for early screenings of highly anticipated films such as Spider-Man.
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After having success with DC comic book characters (a result of being owned by Warner Bros.), TT Games has partnered with its archrival, Marvel Entertainment, to give more than 100 superheroes such as Spider-Man, Hulk, Iron Man, Thor, Wolverine and Captain America the brick treatment.
They included Spider-Man 2 together with the original Spider-Man on one DVD as a two-for-one "special offer".
In the coming year, Hasbro will release toys to support the upcoming Avengers film, as well as the next Spider-Man flick, and another batch of toys based on Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi.
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Whedon pointed to 2002's "Spider-Man" as a model of a successful superhero film by staying true to the comic while also being entertaining as a movie.
The Amazing Spider-Man tells the story of teenage Peter Parker, who grapples with both high school and amazing super-human crises as his alter-ego Spider-Man battles The Lizard.
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Of all the recent comic-book transplants to the big screen, Tobey Maguire's Peter Parker has been the most likable, quirky and reliably human, even when he's squirting web-juice from his hands as the semi-superhuman Spider-Man.
That was Humphreys - as was the original poster for Spider-Man director Sam Raimi's debut movie The Evil Dead.
These items range from original artwork by Spider-Man illustrators such as Steve Ditko to cheap plastic toys from the 1970s, the oldest and rarest of which can sell for thousands of dollars each.
And while the hype for the new Spider-Man film has been huge, there is almost no chance that this reboot (which looks like a rehash of the first Spider-Man film) will be as profitable as the Sam Raimi-directed trilogy.
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Spider-Man wasn't conceived as anything special -- the character first appeared in issue 15 of the Marvel title "Amazing Fantasy" -- but his popularity quickly made the superhero the subject of his own comic book, followed by several TV series and, in the 2000s, three blockbuster movies.
What this means is, even though this new series takes a lot of inspiration from the Ultimate Spider-Man comics, it is also looking back to those great past eras as well and lifting the best and most important elements, to remain faithful to the full 50 years of Spider-Man history (a 50-year anniversary that is official this August, by the way).
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And as theater goes, it has all the snafus of Spider-Man on Broadway, with none of the entertainment value.
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That would be Matthew James Thomas, the young British actor who played Peter Parker several times a week in the original company of "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, " as a backup to Reeve Carney.
Cooper joins a growing cast for the next Spider-Man outing, including franchise newcomers Oscar winner Jamie Foxx as the villain Electro, Paul Giamatti as the Rhino, Dane DeHaan as Harry Osborn (son of Norman Osborn), Shailene Woodley as Mary Jane Watson, and Felicity Jones as an unknown character (rumored to possibly be Felicia Hardy aka the Black Cat).
Even Spider-Man has one under his mask, which makes it look as if his head has exploded.
The Spider-Man performance is the fifth show the fund has put on as part of its autism-friendly scheme.
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We managed to see a bit of video demoed on the thing, and certainly the screen looked quite nice as it played back the trailer for J Edgar and flipped through the pages of a Spider-Man comic.
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Yet under copyright law, which treats the product of employees and contracted freelancers as the work of the company from the moment of creation, Ditko owns no part of Spider-Man.
Spider-Man will go to Rochester to film a chase scene because speed laws upstate aren't as restrictive as New York City's.
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