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Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is the second movie in the Spider-Verse film series and the 14th () Spider-Man feature film. It has made more than half a billion dollars worldwide, and it is the fourth-highest grossing movie of 2023 so far. A third Spider-Verse movie, Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse, is expected to come out next year, and a Spider-Woman spinoff film is in development.
And: 鈥淲hether you have spent the past decade and a half avoiding Marvel movies like scabies or are in so deep that you can expound on the Sokovia Accords, it is impossible to escape the films鈥� intergalactic reach,鈥� according to Michael Schulman in The New Yorker. And it鈥檚 hard to argue that he鈥檚 wrong. The Nose looks at 鈥�.鈥�
Some other stuff that happened this week, give or take:
- His collaborations with the composer Jerry Bock also included 鈥淔iorello!鈥� 鈥� which, like 鈥淔iddler,鈥� was a Tony winner 鈥� and 鈥淪he Loves Me.鈥�
- 鈥淚 never knew what time it was, so I was constantly buying watches and losing them.鈥�
- The original animated film took in $29.5 million at the box office, by far the worst opening in Pixar鈥檚 three-decade history. 鈥淭he Flash,鈥� from Warner Bros., also struggled.
- Recent misses and low expectations for 鈥楨lemental鈥� beg the question: Has Pixar lost its magic touch? Perhaps the answer is that original animation is now a smaller business鈥攐ne that can鈥檛 necessarily support the unique culture and $200 million budgets that made Pixar great in the first place.
- Maybe that鈥檚 why everyone in Hollywood has this master of comedy and tragedy on speed dial.
- Apple, the company, wants rights to the image of apples, the fruit, in Switzerland鈥攐ne of dozens of countries where it鈥檚 flexing its legal muscles.
- Not 鈥渂est.鈥� Not 鈥渇avorite.鈥� Not 鈥渕ost likable.鈥� Most significant. Some are obvious. Some obscure. A few will be controversial. Let the debate begin.
- SNY already had some of the best announcers in baseball. John DeMarsico, the network鈥檚 director, has made every game feel like a trip to the movies.
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- Shawn Murray: A stand-up comedian, writer, and the host of the Nobody Asked Shawn podcast
- Tracy Wu Fastenberg: Development officer at 黑料吃瓜网 Children鈥檚
- Bill Yousman: Professor of media studies at Sacred Heart University
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