Bono and the Edge of U2 are the latest mainstream musicians to pen songs for a Broadway show. They have teamed up with visionary director Julie Taymor to bring "Spider-Man" to Broadway next year. The show — titled "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" — will tell the story of the s...

/Film Michel Gondry to direct Seth Rogen's Green Hornet BlogStage an opening date for Spider-Man the musical which is now called Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark. Whaaaa? Bright Lights... on the subtextual Oscar highlights Dear Jesus experiences those 'commie homo-loving sonofguns' at the Oscars being ...

Filed under: TV on DVD, Reality-Free Here are the new TV DVDs, in stores tomorrow. Let's do something different this week. Which of these DVDs do you plan on buying? Let us know in the comments section. I can't imagine buying any of these shows. The only two I might be interested in are Just Shoot M...

According to a report on the Bloomberg website (at the end of a trail I picked up at JoBlo), the massively expensive, tremendously ambitious Broadway musical based upon Marvel Comics’ friendly, neighbourhood Spider-Man has been smacked with delays. On the new schedule, rehearsals will begin in...

Off Oscar (it's so rare this time of year! But my brain is wandering) All Things Fangirl worries about the soon to open Watchmen adaptation Funny or Die have you seen their Wrestler parody? It's kind of clever but it actually made me sad so I'm thinking... not funny. That said I think Alyssa Milano ...

I spent most of the NYC ComicCon lurching in circles with my mouth half-open, hunting for a copy of Detective Comics # 587 and spending way too much money on plastic bullshit that reminds me of my childhood. The experience was spectacular. I haven’t been to a comic book convention since 1991, ...

Spider-Man movie. I know in my heart of hearts that she's just a Catwoman ripoff but I love her anyway. As I am not strictly an entertainment "journalist" so much as a chatterbox cinematic diarist (?) I shan't berate myself about not have much news to share about the first day at the annual NY Comic...

Actually, I don't wonder too much about that, since Sam Raimi did a damn fine job with the first two "Spider-Man" flicks (and with "Spider-Man 2" made what remains my favorite superhero movie of all time.) If the question were simply "What would David Fincher have done with "Spider-Man 3"?, then I w...

I have a stack of comics, some read, some not. Here are three that caught my attention the past few weeks. Ruins. Marvel Comics Written by Warren Ellis Art by Cliff & Terese Nielsen Fans of Star Trek fiction may recognize the artist for Ruins; yes, years before he did the Deep Space Nine novel ...

There's been a lot of talk about if Sam Raimi, Tobey Maguire, or Kirsten Dunst are returning for Spider-Man 4. Let's not even sweat them, everyone. Raimi fell apart a bit by the third film, Maguire had a mixed reception, and come on, Kirsten Dunst? The real guy we should be worrying about is J.K. Si...