Hey guys, remember back in 2002, there was that movie that sat in theaters for what seemed like ever, and became the highest grossing romantic comedy of all time? You know, My Big Fat Greek Webbing, about a thirty-year-old Greek woman who is going through a midlife crisis and also Spider-Man’s there? While browsing a local resale shop, reddit user criscokkat came upon the above puntastic DVD. Wondering what in the world it could be, criscokkat posted a couple images to reddit, and another user pointed out that it was an old Nick Mag gag, wherein the magazine used to make fake DVD covers for people to slip into real DVD boxes.

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We recently posted the latest picture of Andrew Garfield in the new Spider-Man costume and had a question that was posed by film/comic book geeks across the blogosphere: Is that metal on his wrists, and does that mean artificial web-shooters, like in the original comic books? Emma Stone, who plays Gwen Stacy in the reboot, was asked this very question at the Golden Globes last night and confirmed that indeed, that is metal, and those are web-shooter “devices.” Click through for the interview:

Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark may be taking its lumps in the press right now, what with the delays and multiple actor injuries and all, but it’s got a nuanced and largely favorable critic in Ada Grey, age 6, who says in her “re-piew” [since it is about a preview, so it's not really a review] that “I liked the funny parts and I liked the confusing parts quite a bit. The music was good–almost all the people were singing during the music. It was kind of rocking and kind of sad-ish.”

Grey:

I think this should be for ages 8 and up. It was very scary. You would have to go on a very long plane trip to get there, so be prepared to be bored for a second on the trip to New York and to be bored for some of the play, but most of it will not be boring luckily. People that like Spider-Man and super heroes and villains and violence and kissing would like this play.

Full review here; be sure to check out Ada’s other reviews as well.

(Ada Grey via TDW)

Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark has already experienced its share of woes, but last night’s show may mark an alarming new low point. A preview of the musical was halted last night when an actor who the Associated Press identifies as 31-year-old Christopher Tierney, “the show’s main aerialist [who] performs stunts for the roles of Spider-Man, and the villains Meeks and Kraven,” plunged into an orchestra pit towards the end of the show. Tierney was immediately taken to Bellevue hospital to be treated for his injuries; fortunately, he is reportedly in stable condition.

According to The Wall Street Journal, Tierney fell “between 20-30 feet.”

60 Minutes‘ apparent ability to give unnatural life beyond the dictates of the laws of the universe had no effect on Julie Taymor and Bono‘s fated (if not ill-fated) broadway adaptation of Spider-Man.  According to the New York Times and two unnamed people “involved with the show,” the show’s opening will be delayed another month, meaning that critics won’t get a look at it until at least February 7th.

Last night Conan O’Brien treated us to a sneak preview of the songs and technology that have gone into the multimillion dollar Spider-Man musical, and boy does it shine. Man!Wonder Woman was a daring, avant garde choice, but mostly it was very effective comic book nerd trolling.

This weekend audiences were given a taste of Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, a Broadway musical that everybody keeps calling the most “daring,” “ambitious,” and “expensive” thing to ever go up on stage. While a small number of theatergoers actually got to watch a preview of the show that was reportedly riddled with wire-work gaffes and production pauses that stretched the show’s length to three hours, everyone else had the opportunity to catch a 60 Minutes segment that detailed the show’s rocky path to even this preliminary opening.

What does the segment make the show look like?

Every bit of information about Broadway’s Spider-Man musical has focused on how ambitious it is, and how fraught its development has been, without covering the things that would allow the media consumer to make a judgment on whether or not all this fuss is actually worthwhile.

Even this TV Spot lays out the basics by driving up and shouting: “It’s Spider-Man!  You should go see it because it’s about Spider-Man!  And it’s going to be the most musically, physically, and visually daring thing on Broadway ever!”

Which leaves us calling after the fleeing vehicle “But… what’s the plot?  How are you getting to Carnage without Venom?  Isn’t that kind of a lot of villains for one show?  What does the title even mean?!”  But the Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark car doesn’t hear us, and drives on.

(via Bleeding Cool.)