Spider-Man: No Way Home has been dominating the international box office even as concerns over the Omicron variant dominate. Well, those that didn’t have a chance to see the film in theaters luckily won’t have to wait too long until it is made available. Fandango’s digital retailer Vudu has shared that the latest Sony release will be made available digitally on the service. Pre-orders are also live for the standard definition (SD), high definition (HDX), and 3K UHD each priced at $19.99.
As ComicBook points out, there are no plans for a release on Disney+, as it’s more likely to be made available through Starz or Netflix due to deals Sony made. There was one made with Disney back in 2021, which might bring the film to the streaming service at some point, but very likely not before 2023. As such, the film will mostly be made available through video-on-demand services for anyone who missed out on the opportunity to see it in theaters.
No WayHome was a powerful new entry for the Spider-Man franchise that pays tribute to the earlier cinematic entries while setting up the future for Tom Holland‘s take on the character. Given how many cameos the film includes, it’ll be quite exciting to see what may have ended up on the cutting room floor that’ll be made available with the home release.
Spider-Man: No Way Home had to juggle quite a lot throughout its runtime. Not only did it act as a perfect send-off to Andrew Garfield and Tobey Maguire‘s runs on the character while also keeping the focus on Tom Holland‘s version. Yet, it not only managed to keep that balance perfectly but even gave the returning cast smaller arcs in the film. A highlight for many was the redemption arc surrounding Garfield‘s version of Peter Parker.
His last film ended with the death of Gwen Stacy due to him not being able to save her. It’s something that stuck with him to this day and is highlighted once he has his first meeting with Peter, who is also going through quite a dark moment. Luckily, the film gives him a second chance to make up for not being able to save Gwen after the MCU’s version of MJ was falling. In an interview with Variety, Garfield shares his excitement about being able to give his version of Peter Parker a redemption.
Oh my god, I don’t even know where to start with that. It’s too big. Gwen had agency. In our film, on her final day, she shows up. I tried to restrain her from showing up to that scene with Electro [Jamie Foxx]. I knew that it was too dangerous, but she chose to be there. She had a hand in her own destiny in that way, and the movie is about fate. I will say the image of my catching [Zendaya’s] MJ — that was really beautiful and it kind of sold me on the whole thing.
Andrew Garfield
It certainly hit many viewers, as Garfield‘s Parker teared up while holding MJ. This moment perfectly highlights how much this film manages to accomplish with smaller moments. It makes you wonder, with the active interest of him returning to the role if there is more to this redemption that can be carried over in a potential continuation. It also echoes strongly Holland‘s Peter story as he also has to find a way to not give in to his inner darkness.
Andrew Garfield had a rough year in the build-up to Spider-Man: No Way Home‘s release. In keeping with his NDA, he kept denying any involvement with the project, as he, Sony, and Marvel Studios desperately tried to keep the illusion alive that he and Tobey Maguire weren’t in the film. Now that it’s finally out there, many have started a movement to revive their respective franchises to tell the stories that never made it into theaters. Luckily, it seems that Garfield is open to potentially returning.
I mean, yes, definitely open to something if it felt right. Peter and Spider-Man, those characters are all about service, to the greater good and the many. He’s a working-class boy from Queens that knows struggle and loss and is deeply empathetic. I would try to borrow Peter Parker’s ethical framework in that, if there was an opportunity to step back in and tell more of that story, I would have to feel very sure and certain in myself.
Andrew Garfield
There are many that are excited to potentially see The Amazing Spider-Man 3 to finally see the light of day. While it’s uncertain they’d want two separate franchises running based on the same character, he’s also become a popular choice to become the focus of Sony’s separate Spider-Man universe, which includes Venom and Morbius. There’s a lot of potential to further explore his story, especially if it spins directly out of No Way Home, and give Garfield more time to showcase the darkness that was hinted at that’s been haunting him since he lost Gwen.
The open secret of multiple Spider-Men in Spider-Man: No Way Home is finally no longer a secret. While many fans believed Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield would join Tom Holland as variants of Peter Parker, it had not been fully acknowledged in the media until the film finally released. Variety has managed to speak to Andrew Garfield about his role in the film and how it came about. It’s the first time the actor can openly discuss it since being forced to deny it for months. In the interview, he highlights how Amy Pascal, Kevin Feige, and Jon Watts provided an exciting and empowering pitch for him to join the project:
I wasn’t expecting to ever have a conversation again about potentially playing Peter Parker. I felt very excited to just to be a fan again. But I got this call from Amy Pascal and Kevin Feige and Jon Watts with this idea. It was immediately undeniable. It sounded incredibly fun, incredibly spiritual — trippy and thematically interesting. On a base level, as a Spider-Man fan, just the idea of seeing three Spider-Men in the same frame was enough. The pitch was really, really enticing. They said, “You played this character in your way and what would you want to explore if you had an opportunity? If you were dumped into this other universe and faced with this younger you and this older you, how will you respond?
Andrew Garfield
It seems like there were multiple levels to Garfield being excited about the project, especially as a fan of the character. The way they let him as an actor explore the future of the character he once played is in keeping with the film’s themes of identity and responsibility. That exploration and the success of his iteration of the character specifically from this film has proved fruitful. How well those successes have landed with audiences suggests Garfield might like another go around if he can create similar thematic and emotional resonances with his role in future projects.
Now that Spider-Man: No Way Home was released a few weeks ago, more behind-the-scenes stories from the production are beginning to emerge. While it was an open secret that Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield would appear alongside Tom Holland, there was lots of uncertainty about how they would each play their version of Peter Parker. In relation to Marvel and Sony’s initial pitch to him Garfield spoke to Variety about how he approached his Peter in relation to the others:
We talked a lot about mentorship. We talked a lot about brotherhood and about what it is to be the older brother, younger brother and the middle brother. There’s also a thing of seeing someone you love walking down a path that you’ve already walked down, and you know it doesn’t lead [to] the place where you ultimately meant to go.
Andrew Garfield
Having each played the character of Peter Parker, Garfield said that the three actors had “deeper conversations” about their experiences with the character. It might have been these that prompted an unscripted moment in the film:
There’s a line I improvised in the movie, looking at [Maguire and Holland] and I tell them I love them. That was just me loving them.
Andrew Garfield
It’s great to hear that one of the most heartwarming moments in the film was improvised and speaks to a warmth between the actors as well as the characters. It was also probably a feeling that many people in the audience had while watching alongside the characters. It’s exciting for fans to know that the actor’s comradery translated from their characters to the actors themselves.
Animation has been proving time and time again how relevant it is to the current cinematic landscape. There are some strong contenders for this year’s Animation Oscard, and among them is the latest Sony animated venture by directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller titled The Mitchells vs. the Machines. Of course, as it is considered a frontrunner, the directing duo was also interviewed on their future ventures. Of course, the discussion also included their next entry in the Spider-Verse series, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse Part One.
While still shying away from any details, Phil Lord did highlight that they are certainly going to push the bound arise of animation with the upcoming project. We technically already got a preview of how Miles’ adventure through the Spider-Verse may reinvent each new universe with a different animation style. He stated that:
It’s been really fun to have the confidence to go even harder and push the [animation] medium even further and take Miles to places that you couldn’t have imagined whilst making the first film.
Phil Lord
It’s certainly ambitious and it’ll be interesting to see just how far they can push the medium. We have no idea how many dimensions Miles may visit in his travel, or even how relevant some may be to the story. In the first entry, we saw that those that came from different dimensions took their animation style with them. It’s a much bigger undertaking changing the animation style with every new world our hero visits.
The wildly successful release of Spider-Man: No Way Home, and Marvel Studios’ current interest in the multiverse, has brought the attention of fans back to the superhero franchises that started it all. Most specifically is Sam Raimi‘s iconic trilogy featuring the famous wall-crawler, which has now seen its leading man Tobey Maguire don the webbed mask once more alongside successors Andrew Garfield and Tom Holland. With an insane, unknown cinematic future in store for the heroes of the many Marvel universes, the doors for more potential returns have been flung wide open. Of course, if Maguirewere to come back for another ride, the continued story of his Peter Parker would have to be far different than originally intended.
As was pointed out in my previous recap of Garfield’s unproduced cinematic future, both former web-heads have seemingly aged past the point of their stories picking up where they left off. Luckily for fans of the original Raimiprojects, very little was revealed about Maguire’s take on Parker post-Spider-Man 3. Therefore, it feels entirely plausible that some of what was planned for the character actually ended up happening. While we may never know exactly what that was, a collection of interviews from the era before The Amazing Spider-Man may have given us a good idea at some of the concepts Raimiand company had in mind for their ensuing films.
It makes sense to start with what is known with absolute certainty. Raimi’s Spider-Man 4 would have featured the title hero clashing with the Vulture, a winged foe portrayed by the great John Malkovich. While this casting was never confirmed by the studio, the actor himself revealed he’d been tapped for the role in two separate interviews. Once before production was cancelled, and again after the movie fell apart. The film also would have introduced Anne Hathaway as Felicia Hardy, a character who was originally rumored to be altered in a way that allowed her to become “The Vultress” instead of her classic Black Cat alter ego. However, Raimihimself later debunked this in an interview with, ironically, Vulture.
Aside from these castings and character introductions, not much is known about the actual plot of Spider-Man 4. When we last saw Tobey’s Pete, he was attempting to mend his broken relationship with Kirsten Dunst‘s Mary Jane Watson. The inclusion of Felicia Hardy in the next movie plausibly indicates that the friction between Peter and MJ would continue. Spider-Man and the Black Cat have a long romantic history in the comics, so the character was likely added to the film as another Gwen Stacy-esque foil for the Peter/MJ plotline.
Thanks to concept artist Jeffrey Henderson, we also know that the movie would have given us some intense, high-flying battles between Spider-Man and Vulture. Hendersonreleased a series of early concepts on his website, which show Spidey and his enemy dueling atop the buildings of New York and using stone gargoyles as weapons. The artist explained that the intent was to make Vulture the fiercest force Peter had encountered yet:
The thing we kept coming back to was that, as a character, everyone was going to dismiss the Vulture as just an old guy in a silly green suit. So we wanted to go the opposite way and really make him the most fearsome and formidable adversary that Spider-Man had faced in the series.
Jeffrey Henderson
Hendersonalso dropped the news that Spider-Man 4 would have opened with a montage canonizing several lower-class villains from the comics. This included a reveal that Bruce Campbell, who made several cameos throughout the series, was actually Quentin Beck, a.k.a. Mysterio:
…a montage of C and D-list villains that we knew would never be used as main antagonists: Mysterio, the Shocker, the Prowler, the old school-onesie-wearing version of the Rhino, maybe even the Stilt Man, etc.
Jeffrey Henderson
Some supposed leaked script treatments claim the film would have seen Adrian Toomes replace J. Jonah Jameson as editor of the Daily Bugle and team-up with Electro, before ending with Peter giving up the Spider-Man mantle (again). Unfortunately, none of this can be backed up, and is likely untrue. Though, had Peter actually given up his crime-fighting identity, it certainly would have been one way to end the hero’s story, as Raimi initially intended to conclude the franchise with his fourth film:
I was very unhappy with Spider-Man 3, and I wanted to make Spider-Man 4 to end on a very high note, the best Spider-Man of them all.
Sony Pictures is going to be making many more ‘Spider-Man’ pictures. I just don’t know what [my] future holds yet… But if it’s a great story and Sony will bring me back to the screen, I would love to…
Sam Raimi
Should Raimihave returned, it’s likely his villain for Spider-Man 5 would have been a familiar face. Dylan Baker portrayed Dr. Curt Connors in small appearances over the course of the previous films, and both he and Raimihad made it known there was an interest in bringing his transformation into the Lizard to life on screen. The concept had originally been batted around for Spider-Man 2 before the director settled on Doctor Octopus as the film’s antagonist. The idea made it as far as the concept stage, with official art eventually making its way online. Many people, including Bakerhimself, believed the story would make a great fit for Spider-Man 4, which he explained to IGN in 2007:
…we’re hoping it’s not too far down the line! I’ll be trying to get on the Lizard costume when I’m 80…it’s like, just open that door up… I’m ready to go!
I love Dylan Baker as a person, and I really like the character he is developing. The Lizard is probably one of my favorite characters. But [‘Spider-Man 4’] will probably have to start with the central journey of the main character to arrive at the proper villain.
Sam Raimi
After being pushed out of two movies, it feels right that Bakerwould finally get the chance to play Lizard in a fifth Spider-Man entry. After all, Raimihad discussed his hope of adapting the Lizard origin on more than one occasion. At one time speaking with MTV about rumored Spider-Man 4 villains, Raimiexpressed admiration for Lizard while dispelling the popular fan theory that Carnage would appear to capitalize on Venom’s role in the previous film:
I love the Lizard… There’s a great story there in the Marvel comic books about Dr. Connors. I’m less familiar with Carnage.
Sam Raimi
So, with Vulture and Black Cat in 4 and Lizard in 5, that leaves Spider-Man 6 as the ultimate unanswered question. I will include a disclaimer that the following is almost entirely conjecture, but natural storytelling and a specific quote from Raimi’s past could help the average detective guess what the film would entail. In the same interview where he mentioned loving Lizard and first name-dropped Vulture, the director mentioned only two other villain prospects he’d like to adapt:
I would love to see Electro…maybe the Sinister Six as a team.
Sam Raimi
One may wonder how these characters could make their way into the RaimiSpider-Man finale. The answer is a famed comic from the 1980s, known as The Wedding! The biggest through-line between all of the series’ films is the relationship between Peter and MJ. It would have made sense, should Raimihave wanted to definitively conclude his story, that the Spider-Man saga end with Maguire and Dunstfinally ending up together and tying the knot. Now, in the pages of said comic, who does Spider-Man do battle with before his big day? You guessed it! Electro.
After defeating Electro, the rest of The Wedding! has Peter fearing for MJ’s life as he remembers all of the dastardly foes he’s encountered over the years. Spider-Man 6 could have easily made this literal if it had Electro join forces with surviving members of Peter’s rogue’s gallery after losing his initial duel with Spider-Man. I can’t think of a better way to end the Spider-Man saga than the Sinister Six threatening to end Peter’s marriage before it even begins.
Spider-Man: No Way Home is filled to the brim with Easter eggs to the cinematic history of the iconic webhead. Yet, the biggest surprise came in the form of the first post-credit sequence where Tom Hardy‘s Venom makes an appearance before vanishing once again. Well, he doesn’t vanish until a small part of the symbiote remains in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. It opens the door to the arrival of his iconic black suit and luckily concept artist Thomas du Crest, who worked on No Way Home shared a possible first look at their design:
The Venom design looks great on Holland, especially with the iconic logo from the comics. It’s uncertain if they’ll wait some time to build upon that tease, but it’s great how they took the suit’s Secret Wars origin by having it be from another dimension. As du Crest points out he doesn’t have the go on the actual No Way Home concept art, this is probably something he made in his spare time that could become relevant once they tackle that specific storyline later down the line. Still, it’s an exciting possible first look at how the film’s Venom designs would work in the MCU.
We’ve heard rumblings of Sony’s interest in trying to nab an Oscar nomination for Best Picture, especially after Spider-Man: No Way Home reignited the international box office, as well as its critical reception. Given how much money the film made, Sony saw the opportunity and has seemingly already started its “For Your Consideration” campaign, as shared by @mavericksmovies. They are all-in, hoping to nab as many nominations as they can and there are high hopes for that Best Picture. If it does manage to get one, it would be the second Marvel Studios project to accomplish this following Black Panther in 2018.
The pictures are in low-resolution, as they aren’t officially released. They can be commonly found through various sites that are frequented by people in the industry to get their attention. It’s not uncommon, as these competitions are just as much about personal preference by the judges, as well as what film grabs their attention. In a year like 2021, there aren’t many films that left this strong of an impact and it’ll be interesting to see if the superhero genre has a chance at joining the nomination once again.
Well, this is certainly a way to start off the year. Spider-Man: No Way Home continues to push through even as uncertainty remains with the Omicron variant potentially putting a halt to any film’s momentum. Still, just a week ago the film passed $500M at the domestic box office and has now already managed to swing past $600M. It’s a motivating start to the New Year for many theater owners and Hollywood, but not everything has been rosy at the domestic box office.
The Matrix Resurrections and The King’s Man have been struggling at the box office. The latter managed to outpace the former, which may be attributed to the simultaneous release on HBO Max. It only managed to nab $3.8M over the entire weekend, which puts it at $31M and far out of range for a potential $100M domestic release. The latest Matrix entry was overtaken not only by Matthew Vaughn‘s latest entry but also American Underdog, a film about NFL quarterback Kurt Warner.
Still, the family-focused Sing 2 was a shining light as it held on to the second spot with $19.6M. It’s made $89.8M in 14 days, it’ll reach the benchmark faster than Disney’s Encanto, which only managed it now since its initial release over Thanksgiving. The big test will be how The Batman performs in March to see where 2022 is heading.
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