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Hindustan Times
14-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Hindustan Times
First look: Nicolas Cage is all set to play the most genre-defying, neo-noir Spider-Man yet
The Spider-Verse just got darker, and a lot more interesting. Nicolas Cage, the cult-favourite actor known for his eclectic roles, is officially stepping back into the Spider-Man universe. But this time, he's not just lending his voice. In a dramatic twist for the franchise, Cage will star in Spider-Noir, a live-action neo-noir series coming to OTT in 2026. For fans of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, this won't be Cage's first dance with the web. He previously voiced the moody, hard-boiled Spider-Man Noir in the Oscar-winning animated film — a black-and-white vigilante from an alternate 1930s reality. That version became a breakout favourite thanks to his dry wit, trench coat swagger, and deep moral code. Now, he's back but not just in voice, but in full fedora-wearing, shadow-hugging glory. The first look gives fans a glimpse of Cage suited up in the character's now-iconic costume: white goggles glowing against a shadowy webbed mask, his trench coat billowing in the darkness. The show promises a faithful tone, drawing directly from the Spider-Man Noir comic books rather than the animated adaptation. Set in a hauntingly stylised 1930s New York, Spider-Noir follows an ageing, world-weary private investigator who once fought crime as the city's only superhero — but left that life behind. Now, faced with a city drowning in corruption and chaos, he must reckon with the ghost of the man he once was. The series will be released in both black-and-white and colour, offering viewers a choice between classic noir aesthetics and a more modern visual tone — an ambitious stylistic decision that mirrors the duality of the character himself. Though most details are under wraps, a leaked teaser has already ignited buzz online. It opens with a silhouetted figure standing above a rain-slicked skyline, Cage's gravelly voice narrating: 'Have you seen it? The city is a mess. The people could use a hero.' Quick cuts show a spider crawling across pavement, new mysterious faces, and the titular hero going hand-to-hand with armed thugs. The scene crescendos with a final, chilling shot: Spider-Noir's glowing white eyes illuminating in the dark, startling his prey. The teaser ends with a stark title card: Coming 2026. While Spider-Noir shares DNA with Into the Spider-Verse, it stands alone in tone and scope — a noir detective story draped in spandex and shadow. It's less quips and quirk, more bruised knuckles and broken pasts. With Cage at the helm, this series promises a version of Spider-Man unlike any we've seen before — older, edgier, and soaked in noir cool; Spider-Noir could become one of Marvel's boldest genre experiments yet.
Yahoo
09-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Sony and Tom Rothman Agree to Multi-Year Contract Extension
Tom Rothman isn't going anywhere. The chairman and CEO of Sony Pictures' Motion Picture Group has agreed to a contract extension that will keep him in charge of the studio's film output for years to come, Sony announced Friday. Terms of the multi-year extension, including compensation and the specific number of years, were not disclosed. Rothman oversees all film brands under the Sony Pictures umbrella, including Columbia Pictures, TriStar Pictures, Screen Gems, Sony Pictures Animation, Sony Pictures Imageworks, Sony Pictures International Productions, and Sony Pictures Classics. More from IndieWire You Can Only See George Romero's Final Work Here - and No, It's Not a Film Mikey Madison Has Found Her First Role After 'Anora' Oscar Win with 'Reptilia' The move will keep Hollywood's longest-tenured studio head in place for even longer during a time of increased uncertainty in the industry. Rothman has served as Sony's film chairman since 2015, adding CEO to his title in 2021. He first joined the company in 2013 following a multi-decade career at 20th Century Fox that saw him found the Searchlight label and serve as co-chairman and CEO of Fox Filmed Entertainment, president of Twentieth Century Fox Film Group, and president of production for Twentieth Century Fox. While Rothman has greenlit his share of I.P.-driven projects like the 'Into the Spider-Verse' and 'Venom' franchises, his tenure has been notable for his willingness to take big swings on ambitious filmmaker-driven projects such as Quentin Tarantino's 'Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,' Greta Gerwig's 'Little Women,' and Sam Mendes' upcoming four-part Beatles biopic. As a famously devoted cinephile, Rothman's commitment to exclusive theatrical releases has made him popular among filmmakers, with Tarantino going so far to say that he would not work with any other studio at this point. 'I'm probably going to be doing the movie with Sony because they're the last game in town that is just absolutely, utterly, committed to the theatrical experience,' Tarantino told Deadline in a 2023 interview while discussing his hypothetical final film. 'It's not about feeding their streaming network. They are committed to theatrical experience. They judge success by asses on seats. And they judge success by the movies entering the zeitgeist, not just making a big expensive movie and then putting it on your streaming platform. No one even knows it's there.' Best of IndieWire Guillermo del Toro's Favorite Movies: 56 Films the Director Wants You to See 'Song of the South': 14 Things to Know About Disney's Most Controversial Movie The 55 Best LGBTQ Movies and TV Shows Streaming on Netflix Right Now
Yahoo
06-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Ocean with David Attenborough: A thrilling, ravishing call to action to save the world's seas
David Attenborough turns 99 on Thursday – though his latest film, which opens in cinemas that very day, is a timely release in more ways than one. Next month in France, world governments will convene for the Third United Nations Ocean Conference – at which, his film argues, the futures of the world's undersea habitats and their many inhabitants will be at stake. This cracking campaigning documentary makes a galvanising case for action – and without lobbing its audience overboard with an anchor weight of hopelessness yoked to their heels. It first shows the otherworldly splendour and variegation of our planet's sea life, then sets out the overfishing crisis that mortally threatens it, before suggesting an achievable-sounding rescue plan that can be quickly enacted with enough political will and public support. (Probably in the opposite order.) We've done something similar before, our host reminds us in that unmistakable voice like butter being spread across hot toast. In the 1970s, commercial whaling had reduced the global population of those wondrous mammals to one per cent of its original levels. All hope for their survival seemed lost – until ordinary people became sufficiently moved by the creatures' plight that it suddenly wasn't. Positioning the push to end overfishing as 'the greatest opportunity for humanity in my lifetime', Attenborough, who delivers his narration perched on a groyne on a beach grey enough to be British, enters his 100th year on the planet with an optimistic glow. And it's infectious – thanks in no small part to the eye-widening wonder and patient craftsmanship of the film built around it. Attenborough's oeuvre has featured numerous scenes like the ones in Ocean before. But they're freshened here both by the 4K photography, by turns painterly and crisp, and the sense of scale conferred by the cinema screen itself. A sequence of zooplankton feasting on phytoplankton – which probably occurred within about a thimble's worth of seawater, tops – resembles a pitched battle from a trippy sci-fi epic. A swarm of spindly lobster larvae looks less like a group of actual living beings than their Into the Spider-Verse animated counterparts. Such microscopic spectacles were mysteries until fairly recently – but then our understanding of the oceans overall, Attenborough argues, have altered immeasurably over the course of his career as a naturalist. Directors Toby Nowlan, Colin Butfield and Keith Scholey deftly stitch that shift in perspective into a number of scenes. We've all seen banks of seaweed before, but I'm not sure I've ever seen them photographed in rolling top-down vistas, as if they were forests. (Which, of course, Ocean reminds us, they are.) The sense of mystery about the world beneath the waves is both embraced and dispelled: subaquatic mountain ranges are plotted on maps, recasting these vast empty spaces between continents as landscapes in their own right. Ocean with David Attenborough - Silverback Films and Open Planet Studios Attenborough's narration – poetic, erudite, neat – guides the audience through a number of harrowing scenes, many of which lay bare the destruction wreaked by industrial trawlers on environments formed over centuries, then torn up in seconds by the scrape of a chain-weighted net. Yet the nuance of the argument isn't lost. Fishing and overfishing are different things: the struggle isn't positioned as industry versus conservation so much as humanity versus a far-reaching disaster that's still avoidable, just. For all human parties concerned, more fish in the sea would be good news, and their ecosystem hasn't had its chips quite yet. PG cert, 95 min; in cinemas from Thursday May 8 Broaden your horizons with award-winning British journalism. Try The Telegraph free for 1 month with unlimited access to our award-winning website, exclusive app, money-saving offers and more.
Forbes
07-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
‘NYT Mini' Clues And Answers For Monday, April 7
Mini Crossword The NYT Mini is a quick and dirty version of the newspaper's larger and long-running crossword. Most days, there are between three and five clues in each direction on a five by five grid, but the puzzles are sometimes larger, especially on Saturdays. Unlike its larger sibling, the NYT Mini crossword is free to play on the New York Times website or NYT Games app. However, you'll need an NYT Games subscription to access previous puzzles in the archives. The NYT Mini is a fun daily distraction that usually takes no time at all. I try to beat the standard weekday grid in less than a minute. But sometimes I can't quite figure out one or two clues and need to reveal the answer. To help you avoid doing that, here are the NYT Mini Crossword answers (spoilers lie ahead, of course): 1) Price to pay - COST 5) The five unique letters of THE AREA HERE, fittingly - EARTH 6) Uncomfortable thing to witness a couple do in public - ARGUE 7) Gwen ___, Spider-Woman's alter ego in the "Spider-Verse" movies - STACY 8) Give a tug - YANK FEATURED | Frase ByForbes™ Unscramble The Anagram To Reveal The Phrase Pinpoint By Linkedin Guess The Category Queens By Linkedin Crown Each Region Crossclimb By Linkedin Unlock A Trivia Ladder 1) Magna ___ - CARTA 2) Instrument played at the ballpark - ORGAN 3) In need of a hint - STUCK 4) Nonbinary pronoun - THEY 5) Difficulty level for a newbie gamer - EASY Mini A lot of interesting clues in here. I do love that Gwen Stacy, a Spider-Man character who first appeared in 1965, is now best known for being voiced by Hailee Steinfeld in Into the Spider-Verse, but hey, whatever. The EARTH clue was clever and definitely took me more than a minute to parse out. I still don't think I fully understood it. You might say I was…stuck. I think it's a pretty good puzzle today, not incredibly hard, not super easy, but a good blend of them both. It's rare to see it hit that sweet spot, but it's always nice when it does. We will see how tomorrow's puzzle stacks up by comparison. Follow me on Twitter, YouTube, and Bluesky Pick up my sci-fi novels the Herokiller series and The Earthborn Trilogy.
Yahoo
01-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
‘Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse' Hitting Theaters in June 2027
'Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse,' the sequel to 2023's 'Across the Spider-Verse,' will hit theaters in the summer of 2027. Sony Pictures Entertainment as part of its CinemaCon presentation on Monday night announced that the film will hit theaters on June 4, 2027. Producer Phil Lord joined the stage along with directors Bob Persichetti and Justin K. Thompson, and he explained that the film 'decided to break the boundaries of animation again with the epic conclusion of Miles Morales' story.' He also said that for the first time, it will be made specifically for large format screens, the first time Sony has done that on an animated film. Sony also showed a brief sizzle reel of some psychedelic and trippy footage. More from IndieWire Even the Most Successful Indie Directors Can't Make a Living. Why? 'A Nice Indian Boy' Review: This Charming, if By-the-Book Interracial Rom-Com, Packs a Bollywood Twist 'We needed to make sure we had the time to get it just right,' Lord said on the CinemaCon stage at Caesar's Colosseum in Las Vegas. He said the film picks up literally the second where 'Across the Spider-Verse' left off on a cliffhanger, in which Miles Morales was a fugitive on the run from all the other Spider-Men across multiple universes and was the prisoner of his own self in a separate universe, who instead of becoming Spider-Man has now become the Prowler. The last 'Spider-Verse' film, which was Oscar nominated after the original 'Into the Spider-Verse' film won the Best Animated Feature Oscar, grossed $690 million at the box office, and its follow-up was originally expected to open as early as 2024 as two halves of a single story, but after being undated for some time, audiences will have to wait even longer than expected. Bob Persichetti was one of the co-directors on the original 'Into the Spider-Verse,' and Justin K. Thompson was a co-director on 'Across the Spider-Verse,' and the threequel brings the two of them together. Phil Lord and Christopher Miller are producing the film. Sony's presentation also included teasers for Danny Boyle's '28 Years Later,' which comes out this summer, and its follow-up '28 Years Later: The Bone Temple,' which comes out January 2026, as well as Darren Aronofsky's new film 'Caught Stealing' and the rebooted 'I Know What You Did Last Summer.' Best of IndieWire Guillermo del Toro's Favorite Movies: 56 Films the Director Wants You to See 'Song of the South': 14 Things to Know About Disney's Most Controversial Movie The 55 Best LGBTQ Movies and TV Shows Streaming on Netflix Right Now
