Podcasts about Oscorp

Tell us there's something better… than The Spectacular Spider-Man! We're revisiting the entirety of our favorite Spider-Man show again from the beginning with full spoilers, and it begins with this whirlwind of a premiere! We talk about the show's origins from creators Greg Weisman and Victor Cook, along with how this episode elegantly interweaves every element of Peter Parker's life – from the high school drama with Gwen, Harry, and the bullies, to an internship with Dr. Connors and not-yet-evil Eddie Brock, to the Daily Bugle, to Oscorp and Vulture's vendetta against never-apologizing Norman Osborn, to the Big Man and his Enforcers, to Aunt May's banana cream pie. This episode is PACKED, and it only gets better from here!We're watching The Spectacular Spider-Man: Season 1, Episode 1: “Survival of the Fittest”.Episode SourcesWebsite⁠ | ⁠Patreon⁠ | ⁠Discord⁠Part of The Glitterjaw Queer Podcast CollectiveContact us: @WallopingWebPod on ⁠Bluesky⁠ and ⁠Instagram⁠Email: ⁠wallopingwebsnapperspodcast@gmail.com⁠Theme song features: ⁠“Resonance (Cyan & Ladybot Remix)” by HOME⁠ | ⁠License (CC BY 3.0)⁠

"With Great Power, Comes Great... Respect."In this episode of Animation Fascination, hosts Marc Vibbert and Stanford Clark swing into action with special guest Hector Navarro (Heroes Reforged) to discuss Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man – Marvel's latest animated take on the web-slinger!Is this fresh spin on Peter Parker's origin a game-changer, or are we just retreading old webs? We break down the unique twists on Spider-Man's story, from Oscorp's influence to a surprising new symbiotic connection, and debate whether the series stands out from previous adaptations like The Spectacular Spider-Man. Plus, we analyze the animation style, character arcs, and how the show ties into the larger Marvel Cinematic Universe.Does this version of Spidey live up to the legacy? Tune in and find out!

Welcome to the All Things Nerd Podcast! Your weekly dive into all the things we find nerdy and worth talking about. This week's episode we talk about Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, Nerd News, Invincible Season 3, and Our Trivial Nerd-Suit.Check out BuyMeACoffee.com/AllThingsNerd for our Pre-Show Warm Up where we catch a buzz and talk about random other nerd things. Subscribe and get behind the scenes and bonus content. If you want to try and stump a host for a chance to win some free merch (both from us and our sponsors) go to www.allthingsnerdpod.com/trivialnerdsuit and go to our contact page to submit your Trivial NERDSUIT question. Mention who the question is for, your question may be presented in an episode for your chance to win! Today's Episode is also sponsored by Cry Baby Craigs. An incredible hot sauce made from pickled habaneros and garlic. Honestly, this stuff goes on everything. For your chance to enhance the flavor of your favorite foods, or bloody mary's, check out Cry Baby Craigs at www.crybabycraigs.com to get yours today. You can always find us online at www.allthingsnerdpod.com with links to our social media pages, or email us with any questions or requests at hello@allthingsnerdpodcast.comWe have some exciting things coming to our website and store soon! If you want to get your hands on some new merch, or help support us in everything we do, follow us there and check it out! Here's a link tree to find us everywhere:  https://linktr.ee/allthingsnerdpodcastIf you want to help us grow our nerd collection and build our studio spaces to bring you even better content you can also check out our amazon wishlist here: https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/genericItemsPage/32P1V8QA7YU28

Agradece a este podcast tantas horas de entretenimiento y disfruta de episodios exclusivos como éste. ¡Apóyale en iVoox! Con Masterwikie y Xevipanda Edita Xevi Canción Resumen del final: Norman visita a Otto en prisión, le lanza burlas con fría intención. Oscorp su ciencia ha de tomar, su mente brillante se va a esfumar. La banda irrumpe con un plan furtivo, robar la tech en el caos masivo. Mas Spider-Man llega, la lucha estalla, y Scorpion al choque su furia desata. Big Donovan huye al ver su final, Gargan lo acecha con sed infernal. Lonnie, atrapado en vapores oscuros, descubre su cuerpo con dones más duros. Ahora más fuerte, su piel imbatible, lucha con Peter en guerra imposible. Mas Gargan lo hunde en metal retorcido, dejando a Spider-Man con odio encendido. Con furia golpea, ya no se contiene, pero Lonnie su ira detiene. Gargan cae y la ley lo captura, Peter respira, su alma en penumbra. Nico lo observa y al fin comprende, su amigo mintió, mas quiso protegerle. La amistad regresa, la culpa se va, y Oscorp en sombras algo más trama. Norman sonríe con gesto triunfal, una araña inyecta, la ciencia letal. Si Peter es fuerte, más lo será, Oscorp el gen del poder robará. Mas llega el día del gran despertar, el Proyecto Monolith está por brillar. Un portal abierto al cosmos profundo, un riesgo que marca el destino del mundo. Doctor Strange se planta en el frente, pero los sabios lo atrapan demente. Activan el umbral sin mirar atrás, y el alien regresa con hambre voraz. Spider y Strange en batalla se funden, saltan en tiempo, las eras se hunden. La araña escapa y en Peter reposa, un ciclo sellado, la historia impuesta. El portal se cierra, la bestia se va, Oscorp en ruinas, el miedo se va. Mas Norman avanza entre el polvo y la grieta, del simbiote una sombra aún queda. Harry reniega su cruel legado, su empresa alza un rumbo honrado. W.E.B. nace con ciencia y razón, para jóvenes mentes sin explotación. Asha y Jeanne su fe le confían, Cho en Oscorp su meta sitúa. Lonnie, en cambio, su puesto reclama, líder de ciento diez, su vida lo llama. Mientras en sombras, con sigilo cruel, Otto prepara su gran renacer. May en la cárcel un paso avanza, busca respuestas en Richard Parker. Escucha el episodio completo en la app de iVoox, o descubre todo el catálogo de iVoox Originals

Agradece a este podcast tantas horas de entretenimiento y disfruta de episodios exclusivos como éste. ¡Apóyale en iVoox! Con Masterwikie y Xevipanda Edita Xevi Canción Resumen del final: Lonnie abandona su vieja pasión, la banda lo llama, su nueva misión. Pearl lo enfrenta, le pide marchar, pero él la aparta, no quiere escuchar. Peter con Norman busca señales, gamma y peligro en rastros fatales. Mientras, Harry a Nico acompaña, en una carrera su duda se apaga. Pero Scorpion acecha en la sombra, con su veneno la ciudad retumba. Spider-Man lucha, su cuerpo resiente, el golpe es brutal, la herida es hiriente. Norman distraído lo deja caer, la sangre en su traje empieza a ceder. Gargan sonríe con burla letal, Peter se ahoga en un trance mortal. Un glider lo salva en el último instante, pero el miedo en su mente se vuelve asfixiante. Norman le exige al fin decidir, o todo su pacto dará por morir. Las dudas lo pesan, su mente se quiebra, en casa con May su pena revela. La vida es dura, no hay vuelta atrás, ella le cuenta su propio pesar. "Yo también sufrí al perder a Ben, el dolor abruma, lo sientes en piel. Pero la fuerza no está en el miedo, sino en seguir aunque caigas de nuevo." Nico en la escuela lo empieza a ignorar, le duele la sombra de su falsedad. Harry intercede y la hace pensar, que Peter solo quería cuidar. Ella recuerda su propia mentira, y entre sus dudas su rabia vacila. Harry la escucha, sincero y paciente, y en la carrera la hace valiente. Mientras, Pearl con Peter estudia en calma, hasta que Lonnie irrumpe en su casa. La banda a Scorpion quiere cazar, pero Pearl lo deja, sin más mirar. Con Smerdyakov, la banda conspira, con la tech de Octavius su guerra delira. Arman sus manos con furia y poder, pretenden venganza, lo quieren vencer. Peter con Norman su miedo comparte, quiere luchar, pero teme entregarse. El viejo magnate, con gesto severo, dicta su norma con tono de acero: "Si el poder retienes, perderás respeto, sin fuerza total, serás solo un eco." Las palabras quedan en su interior, la duda persiste, arde el temor. ¿Debe escuchar, romper el dilema? ¿O caerá atrapado en la misma condena? Peter regresa, mas Harry lo espera, un nuevo traje, su esencia sincera. Oscorp le ha dado un traje mayor, rojo y azul, un nuevo furor. El héroe renace, la lucha comienza, mas sombras acechan su nueva defensa. La guerra en las calles aún no termina, la noche en la urbe nunca se inclina. Escucha el episodio completo en la app de iVoox, o descubre todo el catálogo de iVoox Originals

Agradece a este podcast tantas horas de entretenimiento y disfruta de episodios exclusivos como éste. ¡Apóyale en iVoox! Con XeviPanda y Masterwikie Edita: XeviPanda Canción Resumen Final: Norman lo invita con gran cortesía, y en la cena revela su teoría. Tras salvar a Harry, lo investigó, y con Spider-Man lo relacionó. Peter rechaza la oscura alianza, pero en Oscorp sigue, con la esperanza de ayudar a May en su situación, pagando las cuentas con dedicación. Mientras, en sombras, un drama se enreda: Andre, el hermano de Lonnie, se entrega a una pandilla, la ciento diez, y su líder a Lonnie lo atrapa también. María y James, con armas furtivas, roban joyerías con gran iniciativa. Spider-Man lucha, pero es superado, hasta que Osborn le da su respaldo. De nuevo ese logo, la misma señal, todo conecta en un plan criminal. Sabiendo que solo no puede ganar, Peter a Norman decide aceptar. Los Vengadores ya no son un clan, Norman y Peter deben luchar. Con trajes y nombres lo quiere forjar, pero ninguno parece encajar. Mientras, en sombras, Lonnie es mandado a comprar comida al grupo aliado. Los Escorpiones lo acorralaron, Mac Gargan su miedo usó como esclavo. Donovan ve en esto ventaja, mantiene a Lonnie con su amenaza. Protege a su gente, mas con dolor, pues ya no es libre, perdió el control. Norman comprende y le da a Peter un traje blanco, más fiel a su estilo. Con él rescata vidas perdidas en un tiroteo de fuga y castigo. De vuelta en Oscorp, un grave error: Harry descubre su gran identidad. Mientras, una rusa con gran ambición lleva el dinero a un nuevo rival. Otto Octavius, en sombras aguarda, y a los criminales su ciencia les arma. La guerra en la urbe está por estallar, Peter no sabe lo que vendrá. Otto comercia con armas letales, a Mila le vende un casco infernal. Láser y mente, su don especial, con este poder su guerra es total. Mientras, Norman planea su juego, Harry en la causa será su relevo. La sombra de Oscorp crece en la urbe, Spider-Man carga con todo el peso. Mila, ahora Unicornio feroz, libera a sus socios con gran ambición. Lucha con Peter, lo atrapa sin miedo, pero Mikhail la frena en su fuego. Usado de cebo, traición y desprecio, Spider-Man gana, la lleva al encierro. Mas Mikhail, con rabia y desdicha, jura venganza desde su guarida. Peter con Nico al cine ha ido, Harry los sigue, causando un lío. Mientras, Lonnie, sin elección, deja el fútbol por la calle y su honor. En guerra de bandas su rol ha crecido, salva a Donovan del cruel enemigo. Ahora la banda lo mira con fe, y Tombstone su nombre será desde ayer. Escucha el episodio completo en la app de iVoox, o descubre todo el catálogo de iVoox Originals

Agradece a este podcast tantas horas de entretenimiento y disfruta de episodios exclusivos como éste. ¡Apóyale en iVoox! Con XeviPanda y Masterwikie Edita: XeviPanda Canción Resumen Final: El primer día en Midtown, con gran emoción, un mago y un alien causaron destrucción. Peter salvó a Nico en el feroz duelo, pero una araña le dejó su anhelo. Meses después, con poderes arácnidos, lucha en secreto, ágil y rápido. Sin Midtown, con Nico en Bales estudia, aunque la ciencia ya no es su guía. Su amor de infancia, Pearl, ya no es libre, con Lonnie, el fuerte, su corazón vibra. Salvó a Harry de un cruel tormento, y en redes creció su reconocimiento. Regresa a casa tras su jornada, con tía May, su alma amada. Pero un visitante le espera al final: Norman Osborn, de gesto infernal. Norman a Peter le da una misión, un puesto en Oscorp, gran invitación. Feliz acepta y al día siguiente, con nuevos colegas se vuelve prudente. Bentley Wittman, severo y frío, apaga su ánimo, lo deja sombrío. Mas Carla Connors le da emoción, con su proyecto de gran innovación. Pierde el partido, la fiesta también, su amigo Nico se va sin él. Pero en las noticias un fuego arde, y como Spider-Man entra en combate. Un tal Butane, con llamas de horror, quema un edificio por un error. Lo vence Peter y un logo observa, algo en su mente ya le remuerde. Tarde regresa, y en Oscorp lo espera, Norman Osborn con una prueba certera. En la pantalla, sin disimulo, Peter poniéndose su traje en lo oscuro. Escucha el episodio completo en la app de iVoox, o descubre todo el catálogo de iVoox Originals

Thwip, Thwip baby!! Join Hoody and Kevin as we break down the latest episodes of the next Spider-Man animated series 'Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man!' This week we're breaking down the first TWO episodes of the series where we see Peter Parker live in a universe where he doesn't go to Midtown High and instead of a Stark Internship gets an internship at OsCorp! Plus are the boys both on the Severance Season 2 hype train? All that and more with the Crisis Crew!***Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man Spoilers at 32:44***Buy Your Own Crisis Crew Shirt!: https://bit.ly/3I5Lv8GNew Episodes of Crisis on Infinite Podcasts come out every Monday and Thursday! Make sure to rate us and subscribe to us on your platform of choice and send us a secret message and we'll read it out loud on next week's show!!

Ben and Jonah are hot on a story, but the subject of their investigation might not be too happy about it. Listen to find out how everyone's favourite old man reporters tackle the case of the century!

CLASSIC SPIDEY VILLAINS & LOVE INTERESTS THIS WEEK!! Spectacular Spider-Man Full Episode Reaction Watch Alongs: https://www.patreon.com/thereelrejects POWERED BY @GFUEL Visit https://gfuel.ly/3wD5Ygo and use code REJECTNATION for 20% off select tubs!!  Coy & John are RETURN ONCE MORE to Spectacular Spider-Man!! Tackling Peter Parker's Origins as a 16-year-old Student, Lab Intern, & Aspiring Photographer, Episodes 7 & 8 see the Green Goblin emerge wreaking havoc across New York - could it be Norman or Harry Osborn?? Meanwhile, at Oscorp, Dr Otto Octavius is pushed into a dangerous lab trial only to emerge as the fully-formed Doctor Octopus! All the while, Peter struggles to maintain his job at the Daily Bugle, attend Prom with his friends - including a NEWLY INTRODUCED Mary Jane Watson -, & keep L. Thompson Lincoln's gala from being destroyed. Returning are Gwen Stacy, J Jonah Jameson (with the introduction of his son, John Jameson), Betty Brant, Flash Thompson, with great power comes great responsibility, tons of fights & web-slinging and a whole bunch MORE! Coy & John react to all the best villain fights as well as the show's depiction of the classic struggle to balance coming of age as Peter Parker with the responsibility of being Spider-Man. With his appearance in Across the Spider-Verse + constant rumors of new Spider-Man films involving Tom Holland, Andrew Garfield, or Tobey Maguire, not to mention Sony's Spider-Mondays going on in theaters, it's a spectacular time to be a Spider-Fan! Follow Coy Jandreau:  Tik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@coyjandreau?l... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/coyjandreau/?hl=en Twitter:  https://twitter.com/CoyJandreau YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwYH2szDTuU9ImFZ9gBRH8w Support The Channel By Getting Some REEL REJECTS Apparel! https://www.rejectnationshop.com/ Music Used In Manscaped Ad:  Hat the Jazz by Twin Musicom is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ POWERED BY @GFUEL Visit https://gfuel.ly/3wD5Ygo and use code REJECTNATION for 20% off select tubs!! Head Editor: https://www.instagram.com/praperhq/?hl=en Co-Editor: Greg Alba Co-Editor: John Humphrey Music In Video: Airport Lounge - Disco Ultralounge by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Ask Us A QUESTION On CAMEO: https://www.cameo.com/thereelrejects Follow TheReelRejects On FACEBOOK, TWITTER, & INSTAGRAM:  FB:  https://www.facebook.com/TheReelRejects/ INSTAGRAM:  https://www.instagram.com/reelrejects/ TWITTER:  https://twitter.com/thereelrejects Follow GREG ON INSTAGRAM & TWITTER: INSTAGRAM:  https://www.instagram.com/thegregalba/ TWITTER:  https://twitter.com/thegregalba Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Happy SpiderMonth True Believers! Podcast 616 is gearing up for Madam Webb's debut by visiting the Sony side of Marvel. We are kicking off this webby month with: The Amazing Spider-Man! Joining your amazing host, Damon, are Leila Gorstein and Logan Hulick. Together this trio discuss:The undeniable chemistry of Andrew Garfield and Emma StoneThe loooong 45 minutes before we see Spider-ManAnd the lizard: menace to society or sex symbol? You decide.All that plus a round table of our best Spider-Puns and we rank all the Aunt Mays. So grab those extra web cartridges, book an internship at Oscorp, and say goodbye to your secretive parents (WTF Parkers?)! It's time to get amazing so swing on by!Listen. Subscribe. Sally Field.Hosted by: Damon RoysterProduced by: Michael SeijasThe Press Play Podcast NetworkFollow us on Twitter: @pressplaypodsFor Sponsorship plans and more information, please email: admin@pressplaypodcasts.comTo listen to all our shows and learn more about our network, please visit www.pressplaypodcasts.com

Van & X are live from Oscorp outside the release of Spider-Man 2. As they wait for Miles & Peter to swing by, The Black Variant boys talk the full trailer and reception to Spider-Man 2. Plus - Invincible S2 trailer, Kevin Feige's Secret Wars, the return of Hickman's Ultimate Universe, and more! Tap in!Subscribe to Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theblackvariantrncFollow The Black Variant on Twitter: twitter.com/BlackVariantRNCFollow Van: twitter.com/1017VanFollow X: twitter.com/XTheExiledFollow Syd: twitter.com/sydslidepark

When New York is put under siege by Oscorp, it is up to Spider-Man to save the city he swore to protect as well as his loved ones. And Electro and Rhino are there too for some reason. The Amazing Spider-Man 2  is episode 71 of Superhero Century, the podcast where we watch every superhero movie of the 21st Century in chronological order.  

This week, we talk about the 1980s Marvel Cinematic Universe that could have been, and eventually was. ----more---- TRANSCRIPT From Los Angeles, California, the Entertainment Capital of the World, it's The 80s Movies Podcast. I am your host, Edward Havens. Thank you for listening today.   The Marvel Cinematic Universe is the undisputed king of intellectual property in the entertainment industry. As of February 9th, 2023, the day I record this episode, there have been thirty full length motion pictures part of the MCU in the past fifteen years, with a combined global ticket sales of $28 billion, as well as twenty television shows that have been seen by hundreds of millions of people worldwide. It is a entertainment juggernaut that does not appear to be going away anytime soon.   This comes as a total shock to many of us who grew up in the 1970s and 1980s, who were witness of cheaply produced television shows featuring hokey special effects and a roster of has-beens and never weres in the cast. Superman was the king of superheroes at the movies, in large part because, believe it or not, there hadn't even been a movie based on a Marvel Comics character released into theatres until the summer of 1986. But not for lack of trying.   And that's what we're going to talk about today. A brief history of the Marvel Cinematic Universe in the 1980s.       But first, as always, some backstory.   Now, I am not approaching this as a comic fan. When I was growing up in the 80s, I collected comics, but my collection was limited to Marvel's Star Wars series, Marvel's ROM The SpaceKnight, and Marvel's two-issue Blade Runner comic adaptation in 1982. So I apologize to Marvel comics fans if I relay some of this information incorrectly. I have tried to do my due diligence when it comes to my research.   Marvel Comics got its start as Timely Comics back in 1939. On August 31, 1939, Timely would release its first comic, titled Marvel Comics, which would feature a number of short stories featuring versions of characters that would become long-running staples of the eventual publishing house that would bear the comic's name, including The Angel, a version of The Human Torch who was actually an android hero, and Namor the Submariner, who was originally created for a unpublished comic that was supposed to be given to kids when they attended their local movie theatre during a Saturday matinee.   That comic issue would quickly sell out its initial 80,000 print run, as well as its second run, which would put another 800,000 copies out to the marketplace. The Vision would be another character introduced on the pages of Marvel Comics, in November 1940.   In December 1940, Timely would introduce their next big character, Captain America, who would find instant success thanks to its front cover depicting Cap punching Adolph Hitler square in the jaw, proving that Americans have loved seeing Nazis get punched in the face even a year before our country entered the World War II conflict. But there would be other popular characters created during this timeframe, including Black Widow, The Falcon, and The Invisible Man.   In 1941, Timely Comics would lose two of its best collaborators, artists Joe Simon and Jack Kirby, to rival company Detective Comics, and Timely owner Martin Goodman would promote one of his cousins, by marriage to his wife Jean no less, to become the interim editor of Timely Comics. A nineteen year old kid named Stanley Lieber, who would shorten his name to Stan Lee.   In 1951, Timely Comics would be rebranded at Atlas Comics, and would expand past superhero titles to include tales of crime, drama, espionage, horror, science fiction, war, western, and even romance comics.   Eventually, in 1961, Atlas Comics would rebrand once again as Marvel Comics, and would find great success by changing the focus of their stories from being aimed towards younger readers and towards a more sophisticated audience. It would be November 1961 when Marvel would introduce their first superhero team, The Fantastic Four, as well as a number of their most beloved characters including Black Panther, Carol Danvers, Iron Man, The Scarlet Witch, Spider-Man, and Thor, as well as Professor X and many of the X-Men.   And as would be expected, Hollywood would come knocking. Warner Brothers would be in the best position to make comic book movies, as both they and DC Comics were owned by the same company beginning in 1969. But for Marvel, they would not be able to enjoy that kind of symbiotic relationship. Regularly strapped for cash, Stan Lee would often sell movie and television rights to a variety of Marvel characters to whomever came calling. First, Marvel would team with a variety of producers to create a series of animated television shows, starting with The Marvel Super Heroes in 1966, two different series based on The Fantastic Four, and both Spider-Man and Spider-Woman series.   But movies were a different matter.   The rights to make a Spider-Man television show, for example, was sold off to a production company called Danchuck, who teamed with CBS-TV to start airing the show in September of 1977, but Danchuck was able to find a loophole in their contract  that allowed them to release the two-hour pilot episode as a movie outside of the United States, which complicated the movie rights Marvel had already sold to another company.   Because the “movie” was a success around the world, CBS and Danchuck would release two more Spider-Man “movies” in 1978 and 1981. Eventually, the company that owned the Spider-Man movie rights to sell them to another company in the early 1980s, the legendary independent B-movie production company and distributor, New World Pictures, founded and operated by the legendary independent B-movie producer and director Roger Corman. But shortly after Corman acquired the film rights to Spider-Man, he went and almost immediately sold them to another legendary independent B-movie production company and distributor, Cannon Films.   Side note: Shortly after Corman sold the movie rights to Spider-Man to Cannon, Marvel Entertainment was sold to the company that also owned New World Pictures, although Corman himself had nothing to do with the deal itself. The owners of New World were hoping to merge the Marvel comic book characters with the studio's television and motion picture department, to create a sort of shared universe. But since so many of the better known characters like Spider-Man and Captain America had their movie and television rights sold off to the competition, it didn't seem like that was going to happen anytime soon, but again, I'm getting ahead of myself.   So for now, we're going to settle on May 1st, 1985. Cannon Films, who loved to spend money to make money, made a big statement in the pages of the industry trade publication Variety, when they bought nine full pages of advertising in the Cannes Market preview issue to announce that buyers around the world needed to get ready, because he was coming.   Spider-Man.   A live-action motion picture event, to be directed by Tobe Hooper, whose last movie, Poltergeist, re-ignited his directing career, that would be arriving in theatres for Christmas 1986. Cannon had made a name for themselves making cheapie teen comedies in their native Israel in the 1970s, and then brought that formula to America with films like The Last American Virgin, a remake of the first Lemon Popsicle movie that made them a success back home. Cannon would swerve into cheapie action movies with fallen stars like Lee Marvin and Charles Bronson, and would prop up a new action star in Chuck Norris, as well as cheapie trend-chasing movies like Breakin' and Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo. They had seen enough success in America where they could start spending even bigger, and Spider-Man was supposed to be their first big splash into the superhero movie genre. With that, they would hire Leslie Stevens, the creator of the cult TV series The Outer Limits, to write the screenplay.   There was just one small problem.   Neither Stevens nor Cannon head honcho Menachem Golan understood the Spider-Man character.   Golan thought Spider-Man was a half-spider/half-man creature, not unlike The Wolf Man, and instructed Stevens to follow that concept. Stevens' script would not really borrow from any of the comics' twenty plus year history. Peter Parker, who in this story is a twenty-something ID photographer for a corporation that probably would have been Oscorp if it were written by anyone else who had at least some familiarity with the comics, who becomes intentionally bombarded with gamma radiation by one of the scientists in one of the laboratories, turning Bruce Banner… I mean, Peter Parker, into a hairy eight-armed… yes, eight armed… hybrid human/spider monster. At first suicidal, Bruce… I mean, Peter, refuses to join forces with the scientist's other master race of mutants, forcing Peter to battle these other mutants in a basement lab to the death.   To say Stan Lee hated it would be an understatement.   Lee schooled Golan and Golan's partner at Cannon, cousin Yoram Globus, on what Spider-Man was supposed to be, demanded a new screenplay. Wanting to keep the head of Marvel Comics happy, because they had big plans not only for Spider-Man but a number of other Marvel characters, they would hire the screenwriting team of Ted Newsom and John Brancato, who had written a screenplay adaptation for Lee of Sgt. Fury and His Howling Commandos, to come up with a new script for Spider-Man.   Newsom and Brancato would write an origin story, featuring a teenage Peter Parker who must deal with his newfound powers while trying to maintain a regular high school existence, while going up against an evil scientist, Otto Octavius. But we'll come back to that later.   In that same May 1985 issue of Variety, amongst dozens of pages of ads for movies both completed and in development, including three other movies from Tobe Hooper, was a one-page ad for Captain America. No director or actor was attached to the project yet, but comic book writer James L. Silke, who had written the scripts for four other Cannon movies in the previous two years, was listed as the screenwriter.   By October 1985, Cannon was again trying to pre-sell foreign rights to make a Spider-Man movie, this time at the MIFED Film Market in Milan, Italy. Gone were Leslie Stevens and Tobe Hooper. Newsom and Brancato were the new credited writers, and Joseph Tito, the director of the Chuck Norris/Cannon movies Missing in Action and Invasion U.S.A., was the new director. In a two-page ad for Captain America, the film would acquire a new director in Michael Winner, the director of the first three Death Wish movies.   And the pattern would continue every few months, from Cannes to MIFED to the American Film Market, and back to Cannes. A new writer would be attached. A new director. A new release date. By October 1987, after the twin failures of Superman IV: The Quest for Peace and Masters of the Universe, Cannon had all but given up on a Captain America movie, and downshifted the budget on their proposed Spider-Man movie. Albert Pyun, whose ability to make any movie in any genre look far better than its budget should have allowed, was brought in to be the director of Spider-Man, from a new script written by Shepard Goldman.   Who?   Shepard Goldman, whose one and only credit on any motion picture was as one of three screenwriters on the 1988 Cannon movie Salsa.   Don't remember Salsa? That's okay. Neither does anyone else.   But we'll talk a lot more about Cannon Films down the road, because there's a lot to talk about when it comes to Cannon Films, although I will leave you with two related tidbits…   Do you remember the 1989 Jean-Claude Van Damme film Cyborg? Post-apocalyptic cyberpunk martial-arts action film where JCVD and everyone else in the movie have names like Gibson Rickenbacker, Fender Tremolo, Marshall Strat and Pearl Prophet for no damn good reason? Stupid movie, lots of fun. Anyway, Albert Pyun was supposed to shoot two movies back to back for Cannon Films in 1988, a sequel to Masters of the Universe, and Spider-Man. To save money, both movies would use many of the same sets and costumes, and Cannon had spent more than $2m building the sets and costumes at the old Dino DeLaurentiis Studios in Wilmington, North Carolina, where David Lynch had shot Blue Velvet. But then Cannon ran into some cash flow issues, and lost the rights to both the He-Man toy line from Mattel and the Spider-Man characters they had licensed from Marvel. But ever the astute businessman, Cannon Films chairman Menahem Golan offered Pyun $500,000 to shoot any movie he wanted using the costumes and sets already created and paid for, provided Pyun could come up with a movie idea in a week. Pyun wrote the script to Cyborg in five days, and outside of some on-set alterations, that first draft would be the shooting script. The film would open in theatres in April 1989, and gross more than $10m in the United States alone.   A few months later, Golan would gone from Cannon Films. As part of his severance package, he would take one of the company's acquisitions, 21st Century Films, with him, as well as several projects, including Captain America. Albert Pyun never got to make his Spider-Man movie, but he would go into production on his Captain America in August 1989. But since the movie didn't get released in any form until it came out direct to video and cable in 1992, I'll leave it to podcasts devoted to 90s movies to tell you more about it. I've seen it. It's super easy to find on YouTube. It really sucks, although not as much as that 1994 version of The Fantastic Four that still hasn't been officially released nearly thirty years later.   There would also be attempts throughout the decade to make movies from the aforementioned Fantastic Four, the X-Men, Daredevil, the Incredible Hulk, Silver Surfer and Iron Man, from companies like New Line, 20th Century-Fox and Universal, but none of those would ever come to fruition in the 1980s.   But the one that would stick?   Of the more than 1,000 characters that had been featured in the pages of Marvel Comics over the course of forty years?   The one that would become the star of the first ever theatrically released motion picture based on a Marvel character?   Howard the Duck.   Howard the Duck was not your average Marvel superhero.   Howard the Duck wasn't even a superhero.   He was just some wise crackin', ill-tempered, anthropomorphic water fowl that was abducted away from his home on Duckworld and forced against his will to live with humans on Earth. Or, more specifically, first with the dirty humans of the Florida Everglades, and then Cleveland, and finally New York City.    Howard the Duck was metafiction and existentialist when neither of these things were in the zeitgeist. He smoked cigars, wore a suit and tie, and enjoy drinking a variety of libations and getting it on with the women, mostly his sometimes girlfriend Beverly.   The perfect character to be the subject of the very first Marvel movie.   A PG-rated movie.   Enter George Lucas.   In 1973, George Lucas had hit it big with his second film as a director, American Graffiti. Lucas had written the screenplay, based in part on his life as an eighteen year old car enthusiast about to graduate high school, with the help of a friend from his days at USC Film School, Willard Huyck, and Huyck's wife, Gloria Katz. Lucas wanted to show his appreciation for their help by producing a movie for them. Although there are variations to the story of how this came about, most sources say it was Huyck who would tell Lucas about this new comic book character, Howard the Duck, who piqued his classmate's interest by describing the comic as having elements of film noir and absurdism.   Because Universal dragged their feet on American Graffiti, not promoting it as well as they could have upon its initial release and only embracing the film when the public embraced its retro soundtrack, Lucas was not too keen on working with Universal again on his next project, a sci-fi movie he was calling The Journal of the Whills. And while they saw some potential in what they considered to be some minor kiddie movie, they didn't think Lucas could pull it off the way he was describing it for the budget he was asking for.   “What else you got, kid?” they'd ask.   Lucas had Huyck and Katz, and an idea for a live-action comic book movie about a talking duck.   Surprisingly, Universal did not slam the door shut in Lucas's face. They actually went for the idea, and worked with Lucas, Stan Lee of Marvel Comics and Howard's creator, Steve Gerber, to put a deal together to make it happen.   Almost right away, Gerber and the screenwriters, Huyck and Katz, would butt heads on practically every aspect of the movie's storyline. Katz just thought it was some funny story about a duck from outer space and his wacky adventures on Earth, Gerber was adamant that Howard the Duck was an existential joke, that the difference between life's most serious moments and its most incredibly dumb moments were only distinguishable by a moment's point of view. Huyck wanted to make a big special effects movie, while Katz thought it would be fun to set the story in Hawaii so she and her husband could have some fun while shooting there. The writers would spend years on their script, removing most everything that made the Howard the Duck comic book so enjoyable to its readers. Howard and his story would be played completely straight in the movie, leaning on subtle gags not unlike a Zucker/Abrahams/Zucker movie, instead of embracing the surreal ridiculousness of the comics. They would write humongous effects-heavy set pieces, knowing they would have access to their producer's in-house special effects team, Industrial Light and Magic, instead of the comics' more cerebral endings. And they'd tone down the more risqué aspects of Howard's personality, figuring a more family-friendly movie would bring in more money at the box office.   It would take nearly twelve years for all the pieces to fall into place for Howard the Duck to begin filming. But in the spring of 1985, Universal finally gave the green light for Lucas and his tea to finally make the first live-action feature film based on a Marvel Comics character.   For Beverly, the filmmakers claimed to have looked at every young actress in Hollywood before deciding on twenty-four year old Lea Thompson, who after years of supporting roles in movies like Jaws 3-D, All the Right Moves and Red Dawn, had found success playing Michael J. Fox's mother in Back to the Future. Twenty-six year old Tim Robbins had only made two movies up to this point, at one of the frat boys in Fraternity Vacation and as one of the fighter pilots in Top Gun, and this was his first chance to play a leading role in a major motion picture. And Jeffrey Jones would be cast as the bad guy, the Dark Overlord, based upon his work in the 1984 Best Picture winner Amadeus, although he would be coming to the set of Howard the Duck straight off of working on a John Hughes movie, Ferris Bueller's Day Off.   Howard the Duck would begin shooting on the Universal Studios lot of November 11th, 1985, and on the very first day of production, the duck puppet being used to film would have a major mechanical failure, not unlike the mechanical failure of the shark in Jaws that would force Steven Spielberg to become more creative with how he shot that character. George Lucas, who would be a hands-on producer, would suggest that maybe they could shoot other scenes not involving the duck, while his crew at ILM created a fully functional, life-sized animatronic duck costume for a little actor to wear on set. At first, the lead actor in the duck suit was a twelve-year old boy, but within days of his start on the film, he would develop a severe case of claustrophobia inside the costume. Ed Gale, originally hired to be the stuntman in the duck costume, would quickly take over the role. Since Gale could work longer hours than the child, due to the very restrictive laws surrounding child actors on movie and television sets, this would help keep the movie on a good production schedule, and make shooting the questionable love scenes between Howard and Beverly easier for Ms. Thompson, who was creeped out at the thought of seducing a pre-teen for a scene.   To keep the shoot on schedule, not only would the filmmakers employ a second shooting unit to shoot the scenes not involving the main actors, which is standard operating procedure on most movies, Lucas would supervise a third shooting unit that would shoot Robbins and Gale in one of the film's more climactic moments, when Howard and Phil are trying to escape being captured by the authorities by flying off on an ultralight plane. Most of this sequence would be shot in the town of Petaluma, California, on the same streets where Lucas had shot American Graffiti's iconic cruising scenes thirteen years earlier.   After a month-long shoot of the film's climax at a naval station in San Francisco, the film would end production on March 26th, 1986, leaving the $36m film barely four months to be put together in order to make its already set in stone August 1st, 1986, release date.   Being used to quick turnaround times, the effects teams working on the film would get all their shots completed with time to spare, not only because they were good at their jobs but they had the ability to start work before the film went into production. For the end sequence, when Jones' character had fully transformed into the Dark Overlord, master stop motion animator Phil Tippett, who had left ILM in 1984 to start his own effects studio specializing in that style of animation, had nearly a year to put together what would ultimately be less than two minutes of actual screen time.   As Beverly was a musician, Lucas would hire English musician and composer Thomas Dolby, whose 1982 single She Blinded Me With Science became a global smash hit, to write the songs for Cherry Bomb, the all-girl rock group lead by Lea Thompson's Beverly. Playing KC, the keyboardist for Cherry Bomb, Holly Robinson would book her first major acting role. For the music, Dolby would collaborate with Allee Willis, the co-writer of Earth Wind and Fire's September and Boogie Wonderland, and funk legend George Clinton. But despite this powerhouse musical trio, the songs for the band were not very good, and, with all due respect to Lea Thompson, not very well sung.   By August 1986, Universal Studios needed a hit. Despite winning the Academy Award for Best Picture in March with Sydney Pollack's Out of Africa, the first six films they released for the year were all disappointments at the box office and/or with the critics.    The Best of Times, a comedy featuring Robin Williams and Kurt Russell as two friends who try to recreate a high school football game which changed the direction of both their lives. Despite a script written by Ron Shelton, who would be nominated for an Oscar for his next screenplay, Bull Durham, and Robin Williams, the $12m film would gross less than $8m.    The Money Pit, a comedy with Tom Hanks and Shelley Long, would end up grossing $37m against a $10m budget, but the movie was so bad, its first appearance on DVD wouldn't come until 2011, and only as part of a Tom Hanks Comedy Favorites Collection along with The ‘Burbs and Dragnet.   Legend, a dark fantasy film directed by Ridley Scott and starring Tom Cruise, was supposed to be one of the biggest hits… of 1985. But Scott and the studio would fight over the film, with the director wanting them to release a two hour and five minute long version with a classical movie score by Jerry Goldsmith, while the studio eventually cut the film down an hour and twenty-nine minutes with a techno score by Tangerine Dream. Despite an amazing makeup job transforming Tim Curry into the Lord of Darkness as well as sumptuous costumes and cinematography, the $24.5m film would just miss recouping its production budget back in ticket sales.   Tom Cruise would become a superstar not three weeks later, when Paramount Pictures released Top Gun, directed by Ridley's little brother Tony Scott.   Sweet Liberty should have been a solid performer for the studio. Alan Alda, in his first movie since the end of MASH three years earlier, would write, direct and star in this comedy about a college history professor who must watch in disbelief as a Hollywood production comes to his small town to film the movie version of one of the books. The movie, which also starred Michael Caine, Bob Hoskins, Michelle Pfieffer and screen legend Lillian Gish, would get lost in the shuffle of other comedies that were already playing in theatres like Ferris Bueller and Short Circuit.   Legal Eagles was the movie to beat for the summer of 1986… at least on paper. Ivan Reitman's follow-up film to Ghostbusters would feature a cast that included Robert Redford, Debra Winger and Daryl Hannah, along with Brian Denny, Terence Stamp, and Brian Doyle-Murray, and was perhaps too much movie, being a legal romantic comedy mystery crime thriller.   Phew.   If I were to do an episode about agency packaging in the 1980s, the process when a talent agency like Creative Artists Agency, or CAA, put two or more of their clients together in a project not because it might be best for the movie but best for the agency that will collect a 10% commission from each client attached to the project, Legal Eagles would be the example of packaging gone too far. Ivan Reitman was a client of CAA. As were Redford,  and Winger, and Hannah. As was Bill Murray, who was originally cast in the Redford role. As were Jim Cash and Jack Epps, the screenwriters for the film. As was Tom Mankewicz, the co-writer of Superman and three Bond films, who was brought in to rewrite the script when Murray left and Redford came in. As was Frank Price, the chairman of Universal Pictures when the project was put together. All told, CAA would book more than $1.5m in commissions for themselves from all their clients working on the film.   And it sucked.   Despite the fact that it had almost no special effects, Legal Eagles would cost $40m to produce, one of the most expensive movies ever made to that point, nearly one and a half times the cost of Ghostbusters. The film would gross nearly $50m in the US, which would make it only the 14th highest grossing film of the year. Less than Stand By Me. Less than The Color of Money. Less than Down and Out in Beverly Hills.   And then there was Psycho III, the Anthony Perkins-directed slasher film that brought good old Norman Bates out of mothballs once again. An almost direct follow-up to Psycho II from 1983, the film neither embraced by horror film fans or critics, the film would only open in eighth place, despite the fact there hadn't been a horror movie in theatres for months, and its $14m gross would kill off any chance for a Psycho IV in theatres.   In late June, Universal would hold a series of test screenings for Howard the Duck. Depending on who you talk to, the test screenings either went really well, or went so bad that one of the writers would tear up negative response cards before they could be given to the score compilers, to goose the numbers up, pun only somewhat intended. I tend to believe the latter story, as it was fairly well reported at the time that the test screenings went so bad, Sid Sheinberg, the CEO of Universal, and Frank Price, the President of the studio, got into a fist fight in the lobby of one of the theatres running one of the test screenings, over who was to blame for this impending debacle.   And a debacle it was.   But just how bad?   So bad, copywriters from across the nation reveled in giddy glee over the chances to have a headline that read “‘Howard the Duck' Lays an Egg!”   And it did.   Well, sort of.   When it opened in 1554 theatres on August 1st, the film would gross $5.07m, the second best opener of the weekend, behind the sixth Friday the 13th entry, and above other new movies like the Tom Hanks/Jackie Gleason dramedy Nothing in Common and the cult film in the making Flight of the Navigator. And $5m in 1986 was a fairly decent if unspectacular opening weekend gross. The Fly was considered a massive success when it opened to $7m just two weeks later. Short Circuit, which had opened to $5.3m in May, was also lauded as being a hit right out of the gate.   And the reviews were pretty lousy. Gene Siskel gave the film only one star, calling it a stupid film with an unlikeable lead in the duck and special effects that were less impressive than a sparkler shoved into a birthday cake. Both Siskel and Ebert would give it the dreaded two thumbs down on their show. Leonard Maltin called the film hopeless. Today, the film only has a 14% rating on Rotten Tomatoes with 81 reviews.   But despite the shellacking the film took, it wouldn't be all bad for several of the people involved in the making of the film.   Lea Thompson was so worried her career might be over after the opening weekend of the film, she accepted a role in the John Hughes movie Some Kind of Wonderful that she had turned down multiple times before. As I stated in our March 2021 episode about that movie, it's my favorite of all John Hughes movies, and it would lead to a happy ending for Thompson as well. Although the film was not a massive success, Thompson and the film's director, Howard Deutch, would fall in love during the making of the film. They would marry in 1989, have two daughters together, and as of the writing of this episode, they are still happily married.   For Tim Robbins, it showed filmmakers that he could handle a leading role in a movie. Within two years, he would be starring alongside Kevin Costner and Susan Sarandon in Bull Durham, and he career would soar for the next three decades.   And for Ed Gale, his being able to act while in a full-body duck suit would lead him to be cast to play Chucky in the first two Child's Play movies as well as Bride of Chucky.   Years later, Entertainment Weekly would name Howard the Duck as the biggest pop culture failure of all time, ahead of such turkeys as NBC's wonderfully ridiculous 1979 show Supertrain, the infamous 1980 Western Heaven's Gate, Warren Beatty and Dustin Hoffman's Ishtar, and the truly wretched 1978 Bee Gees movie Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.   But Howard the Duck, the character, not the movie, would enjoy a renaissance in 2014, when James Gunn included a CG-animated version of the character in the post-credit sequence for Guardians of the Galaxy. The character would show up again in the Disney animated Guardians television series, and in the 2021 Disney+ anthology series Marvel's What If…   There technically would be one other 1980s movie based on a Marvel character, Mark Goldblatt's version of The Punisher, featuring Dolph Lundgren as Frank Castle. Shot in Australia in 1988, the film was supposed to be released by New World Pictures in August of 1989. The company even sent out trailers to theatres that summer to help build awareness for the film, but New World's continued financial issues would put the film on hold until April 1991, when it was released directly to video by Live Entertainment.   It wouldn't be until the 1998 release of Blade, featuring Wesley Snipes as the titular vampire, that movies based on Marvel Comics characters would finally be accepted by movie-going audiences. That would soon be followed by Bryan Singer's X-Men in 2000, and Sam Raimi's Spider-Man in 2002, the success of both prompting Marvel to start putting together the team that would eventually give birth to the Marvel Cinematic Universe we all know and love today.   Thank you for joining us. We'll talk again soon, when Episode 102, the first of two episodes about the 1980s distribution company Vestron Pictures, is released.   Remember to visit this episode's page on our website, The80sMoviePodcast.com, for extra materials about Howard the Duck, and the other movies, both existing and non-existent, we covered this episode.   The 80s Movies Podcast has been researched, written, narrated and edited by Edward Havens for Idiosyncratic Entertainment.   Thank you again.   Good night.

This week, we talk about the 1980s Marvel Cinematic Universe that could have been, and eventually was. ----more---- TRANSCRIPT From Los Angeles, California, the Entertainment Capital of the World, it's The 80s Movies Podcast. I am your host, Edward Havens. Thank you for listening today.   The Marvel Cinematic Universe is the undisputed king of intellectual property in the entertainment industry. As of February 9th, 2023, the day I record this episode, there have been thirty full length motion pictures part of the MCU in the past fifteen years, with a combined global ticket sales of $28 billion, as well as twenty television shows that have been seen by hundreds of millions of people worldwide. It is a entertainment juggernaut that does not appear to be going away anytime soon.   This comes as a total shock to many of us who grew up in the 1970s and 1980s, who were witness of cheaply produced television shows featuring hokey special effects and a roster of has-beens and never weres in the cast. Superman was the king of superheroes at the movies, in large part because, believe it or not, there hadn't even been a movie based on a Marvel Comics character released into theatres until the summer of 1986. But not for lack of trying.   And that's what we're going to talk about today. A brief history of the Marvel Cinematic Universe in the 1980s.       But first, as always, some backstory.   Now, I am not approaching this as a comic fan. When I was growing up in the 80s, I collected comics, but my collection was limited to Marvel's Star Wars series, Marvel's ROM The SpaceKnight, and Marvel's two-issue Blade Runner comic adaptation in 1982. So I apologize to Marvel comics fans if I relay some of this information incorrectly. I have tried to do my due diligence when it comes to my research.   Marvel Comics got its start as Timely Comics back in 1939. On August 31, 1939, Timely would release its first comic, titled Marvel Comics, which would feature a number of short stories featuring versions of characters that would become long-running staples of the eventual publishing house that would bear the comic's name, including The Angel, a version of The Human Torch who was actually an android hero, and Namor the Submariner, who was originally created for a unpublished comic that was supposed to be given to kids when they attended their local movie theatre during a Saturday matinee.   That comic issue would quickly sell out its initial 80,000 print run, as well as its second run, which would put another 800,000 copies out to the marketplace. The Vision would be another character introduced on the pages of Marvel Comics, in November 1940.   In December 1940, Timely would introduce their next big character, Captain America, who would find instant success thanks to its front cover depicting Cap punching Adolph Hitler square in the jaw, proving that Americans have loved seeing Nazis get punched in the face even a year before our country entered the World War II conflict. But there would be other popular characters created during this timeframe, including Black Widow, The Falcon, and The Invisible Man.   In 1941, Timely Comics would lose two of its best collaborators, artists Joe Simon and Jack Kirby, to rival company Detective Comics, and Timely owner Martin Goodman would promote one of his cousins, by marriage to his wife Jean no less, to become the interim editor of Timely Comics. A nineteen year old kid named Stanley Lieber, who would shorten his name to Stan Lee.   In 1951, Timely Comics would be rebranded at Atlas Comics, and would expand past superhero titles to include tales of crime, drama, espionage, horror, science fiction, war, western, and even romance comics.   Eventually, in 1961, Atlas Comics would rebrand once again as Marvel Comics, and would find great success by changing the focus of their stories from being aimed towards younger readers and towards a more sophisticated audience. It would be November 1961 when Marvel would introduce their first superhero team, The Fantastic Four, as well as a number of their most beloved characters including Black Panther, Carol Danvers, Iron Man, The Scarlet Witch, Spider-Man, and Thor, as well as Professor X and many of the X-Men.   And as would be expected, Hollywood would come knocking. Warner Brothers would be in the best position to make comic book movies, as both they and DC Comics were owned by the same company beginning in 1969. But for Marvel, they would not be able to enjoy that kind of symbiotic relationship. Regularly strapped for cash, Stan Lee would often sell movie and television rights to a variety of Marvel characters to whomever came calling. First, Marvel would team with a variety of producers to create a series of animated television shows, starting with The Marvel Super Heroes in 1966, two different series based on The Fantastic Four, and both Spider-Man and Spider-Woman series.   But movies were a different matter.   The rights to make a Spider-Man television show, for example, was sold off to a production company called Danchuck, who teamed with CBS-TV to start airing the show in September of 1977, but Danchuck was able to find a loophole in their contract  that allowed them to release the two-hour pilot episode as a movie outside of the United States, which complicated the movie rights Marvel had already sold to another company.   Because the “movie” was a success around the world, CBS and Danchuck would release two more Spider-Man “movies” in 1978 and 1981. Eventually, the company that owned the Spider-Man movie rights to sell them to another company in the early 1980s, the legendary independent B-movie production company and distributor, New World Pictures, founded and operated by the legendary independent B-movie producer and director Roger Corman. But shortly after Corman acquired the film rights to Spider-Man, he went and almost immediately sold them to another legendary independent B-movie production company and distributor, Cannon Films.   Side note: Shortly after Corman sold the movie rights to Spider-Man to Cannon, Marvel Entertainment was sold to the company that also owned New World Pictures, although Corman himself had nothing to do with the deal itself. The owners of New World were hoping to merge the Marvel comic book characters with the studio's television and motion picture department, to create a sort of shared universe. But since so many of the better known characters like Spider-Man and Captain America had their movie and television rights sold off to the competition, it didn't seem like that was going to happen anytime soon, but again, I'm getting ahead of myself.   So for now, we're going to settle on May 1st, 1985. Cannon Films, who loved to spend money to make money, made a big statement in the pages of the industry trade publication Variety, when they bought nine full pages of advertising in the Cannes Market preview issue to announce that buyers around the world needed to get ready, because he was coming.   Spider-Man.   A live-action motion picture event, to be directed by Tobe Hooper, whose last movie, Poltergeist, re-ignited his directing career, that would be arriving in theatres for Christmas 1986. Cannon had made a name for themselves making cheapie teen comedies in their native Israel in the 1970s, and then brought that formula to America with films like The Last American Virgin, a remake of the first Lemon Popsicle movie that made them a success back home. Cannon would swerve into cheapie action movies with fallen stars like Lee Marvin and Charles Bronson, and would prop up a new action star in Chuck Norris, as well as cheapie trend-chasing movies like Breakin' and Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo. They had seen enough success in America where they could start spending even bigger, and Spider-Man was supposed to be their first big splash into the superhero movie genre. With that, they would hire Leslie Stevens, the creator of the cult TV series The Outer Limits, to write the screenplay.   There was just one small problem.   Neither Stevens nor Cannon head honcho Menachem Golan understood the Spider-Man character.   Golan thought Spider-Man was a half-spider/half-man creature, not unlike The Wolf Man, and instructed Stevens to follow that concept. Stevens' script would not really borrow from any of the comics' twenty plus year history. Peter Parker, who in this story is a twenty-something ID photographer for a corporation that probably would have been Oscorp if it were written by anyone else who had at least some familiarity with the comics, who becomes intentionally bombarded with gamma radiation by one of the scientists in one of the laboratories, turning Bruce Banner… I mean, Peter Parker, into a hairy eight-armed… yes, eight armed… hybrid human/spider monster. At first suicidal, Bruce… I mean, Peter, refuses to join forces with the scientist's other master race of mutants, forcing Peter to battle these other mutants in a basement lab to the death.   To say Stan Lee hated it would be an understatement.   Lee schooled Golan and Golan's partner at Cannon, cousin Yoram Globus, on what Spider-Man was supposed to be, demanded a new screenplay. Wanting to keep the head of Marvel Comics happy, because they had big plans not only for Spider-Man but a number of other Marvel characters, they would hire the screenwriting team of Ted Newsom and John Brancato, who had written a screenplay adaptation for Lee of Sgt. Fury and His Howling Commandos, to come up with a new script for Spider-Man.   Newsom and Brancato would write an origin story, featuring a teenage Peter Parker who must deal with his newfound powers while trying to maintain a regular high school existence, while going up against an evil scientist, Otto Octavius. But we'll come back to that later.   In that same May 1985 issue of Variety, amongst dozens of pages of ads for movies both completed and in development, including three other movies from Tobe Hooper, was a one-page ad for Captain America. No director or actor was attached to the project yet, but comic book writer James L. Silke, who had written the scripts for four other Cannon movies in the previous two years, was listed as the screenwriter.   By October 1985, Cannon was again trying to pre-sell foreign rights to make a Spider-Man movie, this time at the MIFED Film Market in Milan, Italy. Gone were Leslie Stevens and Tobe Hooper. Newsom and Brancato were the new credited writers, and Joseph Tito, the director of the Chuck Norris/Cannon movies Missing in Action and Invasion U.S.A., was the new director. In a two-page ad for Captain America, the film would acquire a new director in Michael Winner, the director of the first three Death Wish movies.   And the pattern would continue every few months, from Cannes to MIFED to the American Film Market, and back to Cannes. A new writer would be attached. A new director. A new release date. By October 1987, after the twin failures of Superman IV: The Quest for Peace and Masters of the Universe, Cannon had all but given up on a Captain America movie, and downshifted the budget on their proposed Spider-Man movie. Albert Pyun, whose ability to make any movie in any genre look far better than its budget should have allowed, was brought in to be the director of Spider-Man, from a new script written by Shepard Goldman.   Who?   Shepard Goldman, whose one and only credit on any motion picture was as one of three screenwriters on the 1988 Cannon movie Salsa.   Don't remember Salsa? That's okay. Neither does anyone else.   But we'll talk a lot more about Cannon Films down the road, because there's a lot to talk about when it comes to Cannon Films, although I will leave you with two related tidbits…   Do you remember the 1989 Jean-Claude Van Damme film Cyborg? Post-apocalyptic cyberpunk martial-arts action film where JCVD and everyone else in the movie have names like Gibson Rickenbacker, Fender Tremolo, Marshall Strat and Pearl Prophet for no damn good reason? Stupid movie, lots of fun. Anyway, Albert Pyun was supposed to shoot two movies back to back for Cannon Films in 1988, a sequel to Masters of the Universe, and Spider-Man. To save money, both movies would use many of the same sets and costumes, and Cannon had spent more than $2m building the sets and costumes at the old Dino DeLaurentiis Studios in Wilmington, North Carolina, where David Lynch had shot Blue Velvet. But then Cannon ran into some cash flow issues, and lost the rights to both the He-Man toy line from Mattel and the Spider-Man characters they had licensed from Marvel. But ever the astute businessman, Cannon Films chairman Menahem Golan offered Pyun $500,000 to shoot any movie he wanted using the costumes and sets already created and paid for, provided Pyun could come up with a movie idea in a week. Pyun wrote the script to Cyborg in five days, and outside of some on-set alterations, that first draft would be the shooting script. The film would open in theatres in April 1989, and gross more than $10m in the United States alone.   A few months later, Golan would gone from Cannon Films. As part of his severance package, he would take one of the company's acquisitions, 21st Century Films, with him, as well as several projects, including Captain America. Albert Pyun never got to make his Spider-Man movie, but he would go into production on his Captain America in August 1989. But since the movie didn't get released in any form until it came out direct to video and cable in 1992, I'll leave it to podcasts devoted to 90s movies to tell you more about it. I've seen it. It's super easy to find on YouTube. It really sucks, although not as much as that 1994 version of The Fantastic Four that still hasn't been officially released nearly thirty years later.   There would also be attempts throughout the decade to make movies from the aforementioned Fantastic Four, the X-Men, Daredevil, the Incredible Hulk, Silver Surfer and Iron Man, from companies like New Line, 20th Century-Fox and Universal, but none of those would ever come to fruition in the 1980s.   But the one that would stick?   Of the more than 1,000 characters that had been featured in the pages of Marvel Comics over the course of forty years?   The one that would become the star of the first ever theatrically released motion picture based on a Marvel character?   Howard the Duck.   Howard the Duck was not your average Marvel superhero.   Howard the Duck wasn't even a superhero.   He was just some wise crackin', ill-tempered, anthropomorphic water fowl that was abducted away from his home on Duckworld and forced against his will to live with humans on Earth. Or, more specifically, first with the dirty humans of the Florida Everglades, and then Cleveland, and finally New York City.    Howard the Duck was metafiction and existentialist when neither of these things were in the zeitgeist. He smoked cigars, wore a suit and tie, and enjoy drinking a variety of libations and getting it on with the women, mostly his sometimes girlfriend Beverly.   The perfect character to be the subject of the very first Marvel movie.   A PG-rated movie.   Enter George Lucas.   In 1973, George Lucas had hit it big with his second film as a director, American Graffiti. Lucas had written the screenplay, based in part on his life as an eighteen year old car enthusiast about to graduate high school, with the help of a friend from his days at USC Film School, Willard Huyck, and Huyck's wife, Gloria Katz. Lucas wanted to show his appreciation for their help by producing a movie for them. Although there are variations to the story of how this came about, most sources say it was Huyck who would tell Lucas about this new comic book character, Howard the Duck, who piqued his classmate's interest by describing the comic as having elements of film noir and absurdism.   Because Universal dragged their feet on American Graffiti, not promoting it as well as they could have upon its initial release and only embracing the film when the public embraced its retro soundtrack, Lucas was not too keen on working with Universal again on his next project, a sci-fi movie he was calling The Journal of the Whills. And while they saw some potential in what they considered to be some minor kiddie movie, they didn't think Lucas could pull it off the way he was describing it for the budget he was asking for.   “What else you got, kid?” they'd ask.   Lucas had Huyck and Katz, and an idea for a live-action comic book movie about a talking duck.   Surprisingly, Universal did not slam the door shut in Lucas's face. They actually went for the idea, and worked with Lucas, Stan Lee of Marvel Comics and Howard's creator, Steve Gerber, to put a deal together to make it happen.   Almost right away, Gerber and the screenwriters, Huyck and Katz, would butt heads on practically every aspect of the movie's storyline. Katz just thought it was some funny story about a duck from outer space and his wacky adventures on Earth, Gerber was adamant that Howard the Duck was an existential joke, that the difference between life's most serious moments and its most incredibly dumb moments were only distinguishable by a moment's point of view. Huyck wanted to make a big special effects movie, while Katz thought it would be fun to set the story in Hawaii so she and her husband could have some fun while shooting there. The writers would spend years on their script, removing most everything that made the Howard the Duck comic book so enjoyable to its readers. Howard and his story would be played completely straight in the movie, leaning on subtle gags not unlike a Zucker/Abrahams/Zucker movie, instead of embracing the surreal ridiculousness of the comics. They would write humongous effects-heavy set pieces, knowing they would have access to their producer's in-house special effects team, Industrial Light and Magic, instead of the comics' more cerebral endings. And they'd tone down the more risqué aspects of Howard's personality, figuring a more family-friendly movie would bring in more money at the box office.   It would take nearly twelve years for all the pieces to fall into place for Howard the Duck to begin filming. But in the spring of 1985, Universal finally gave the green light for Lucas and his tea to finally make the first live-action feature film based on a Marvel Comics character.   For Beverly, the filmmakers claimed to have looked at every young actress in Hollywood before deciding on twenty-four year old Lea Thompson, who after years of supporting roles in movies like Jaws 3-D, All the Right Moves and Red Dawn, had found success playing Michael J. Fox's mother in Back to the Future. Twenty-six year old Tim Robbins had only made two movies up to this point, at one of the frat boys in Fraternity Vacation and as one of the fighter pilots in Top Gun, and this was his first chance to play a leading role in a major motion picture. And Jeffrey Jones would be cast as the bad guy, the Dark Overlord, based upon his work in the 1984 Best Picture winner Amadeus, although he would be coming to the set of Howard the Duck straight off of working on a John Hughes movie, Ferris Bueller's Day Off.   Howard the Duck would begin shooting on the Universal Studios lot of November 11th, 1985, and on the very first day of production, the duck puppet being used to film would have a major mechanical failure, not unlike the mechanical failure of the shark in Jaws that would force Steven Spielberg to become more creative with how he shot that character. George Lucas, who would be a hands-on producer, would suggest that maybe they could shoot other scenes not involving the duck, while his crew at ILM created a fully functional, life-sized animatronic duck costume for a little actor to wear on set. At first, the lead actor in the duck suit was a twelve-year old boy, but within days of his start on the film, he would develop a severe case of claustrophobia inside the costume. Ed Gale, originally hired to be the stuntman in the duck costume, would quickly take over the role. Since Gale could work longer hours than the child, due to the very restrictive laws surrounding child actors on movie and television sets, this would help keep the movie on a good production schedule, and make shooting the questionable love scenes between Howard and Beverly easier for Ms. Thompson, who was creeped out at the thought of seducing a pre-teen for a scene.   To keep the shoot on schedule, not only would the filmmakers employ a second shooting unit to shoot the scenes not involving the main actors, which is standard operating procedure on most movies, Lucas would supervise a third shooting unit that would shoot Robbins and Gale in one of the film's more climactic moments, when Howard and Phil are trying to escape being captured by the authorities by flying off on an ultralight plane. Most of this sequence would be shot in the town of Petaluma, California, on the same streets where Lucas had shot American Graffiti's iconic cruising scenes thirteen years earlier.   After a month-long shoot of the film's climax at a naval station in San Francisco, the film would end production on March 26th, 1986, leaving the $36m film barely four months to be put together in order to make its already set in stone August 1st, 1986, release date.   Being used to quick turnaround times, the effects teams working on the film would get all their shots completed with time to spare, not only because they were good at their jobs but they had the ability to start work before the film went into production. For the end sequence, when Jones' character had fully transformed into the Dark Overlord, master stop motion animator Phil Tippett, who had left ILM in 1984 to start his own effects studio specializing in that style of animation, had nearly a year to put together what would ultimately be less than two minutes of actual screen time.   As Beverly was a musician, Lucas would hire English musician and composer Thomas Dolby, whose 1982 single She Blinded Me With Science became a global smash hit, to write the songs for Cherry Bomb, the all-girl rock group lead by Lea Thompson's Beverly. Playing KC, the keyboardist for Cherry Bomb, Holly Robinson would book her first major acting role. For the music, Dolby would collaborate with Allee Willis, the co-writer of Earth Wind and Fire's September and Boogie Wonderland, and funk legend George Clinton. But despite this powerhouse musical trio, the songs for the band were not very good, and, with all due respect to Lea Thompson, not very well sung.   By August 1986, Universal Studios needed a hit. Despite winning the Academy Award for Best Picture in March with Sydney Pollack's Out of Africa, the first six films they released for the year were all disappointments at the box office and/or with the critics.    The Best of Times, a comedy featuring Robin Williams and Kurt Russell as two friends who try to recreate a high school football game which changed the direction of both their lives. Despite a script written by Ron Shelton, who would be nominated for an Oscar for his next screenplay, Bull Durham, and Robin Williams, the $12m film would gross less than $8m.    The Money Pit, a comedy with Tom Hanks and Shelley Long, would end up grossing $37m against a $10m budget, but the movie was so bad, its first appearance on DVD wouldn't come until 2011, and only as part of a Tom Hanks Comedy Favorites Collection along with The ‘Burbs and Dragnet.   Legend, a dark fantasy film directed by Ridley Scott and starring Tom Cruise, was supposed to be one of the biggest hits… of 1985. But Scott and the studio would fight over the film, with the director wanting them to release a two hour and five minute long version with a classical movie score by Jerry Goldsmith, while the studio eventually cut the film down an hour and twenty-nine minutes with a techno score by Tangerine Dream. Despite an amazing makeup job transforming Tim Curry into the Lord of Darkness as well as sumptuous costumes and cinematography, the $24.5m film would just miss recouping its production budget back in ticket sales.   Tom Cruise would become a superstar not three weeks later, when Paramount Pictures released Top Gun, directed by Ridley's little brother Tony Scott.   Sweet Liberty should have been a solid performer for the studio. Alan Alda, in his first movie since the end of MASH three years earlier, would write, direct and star in this comedy about a college history professor who must watch in disbelief as a Hollywood production comes to his small town to film the movie version of one of the books. The movie, which also starred Michael Caine, Bob Hoskins, Michelle Pfieffer and screen legend Lillian Gish, would get lost in the shuffle of other comedies that were already playing in theatres like Ferris Bueller and Short Circuit.   Legal Eagles was the movie to beat for the summer of 1986… at least on paper. Ivan Reitman's follow-up film to Ghostbusters would feature a cast that included Robert Redford, Debra Winger and Daryl Hannah, along with Brian Denny, Terence Stamp, and Brian Doyle-Murray, and was perhaps too much movie, being a legal romantic comedy mystery crime thriller.   Phew.   If I were to do an episode about agency packaging in the 1980s, the process when a talent agency like Creative Artists Agency, or CAA, put two or more of their clients together in a project not because it might be best for the movie but best for the agency that will collect a 10% commission from each client attached to the project, Legal Eagles would be the example of packaging gone too far. Ivan Reitman was a client of CAA. As were Redford,  and Winger, and Hannah. As was Bill Murray, who was originally cast in the Redford role. As were Jim Cash and Jack Epps, the screenwriters for the film. As was Tom Mankewicz, the co-writer of Superman and three Bond films, who was brought in to rewrite the script when Murray left and Redford came in. As was Frank Price, the chairman of Universal Pictures when the project was put together. All told, CAA would book more than $1.5m in commissions for themselves from all their clients working on the film.   And it sucked.   Despite the fact that it had almost no special effects, Legal Eagles would cost $40m to produce, one of the most expensive movies ever made to that point, nearly one and a half times the cost of Ghostbusters. The film would gross nearly $50m in the US, which would make it only the 14th highest grossing film of the year. Less than Stand By Me. Less than The Color of Money. Less than Down and Out in Beverly Hills.   And then there was Psycho III, the Anthony Perkins-directed slasher film that brought good old Norman Bates out of mothballs once again. An almost direct follow-up to Psycho II from 1983, the film neither embraced by horror film fans or critics, the film would only open in eighth place, despite the fact there hadn't been a horror movie in theatres for months, and its $14m gross would kill off any chance for a Psycho IV in theatres.   In late June, Universal would hold a series of test screenings for Howard the Duck. Depending on who you talk to, the test screenings either went really well, or went so bad that one of the writers would tear up negative response cards before they could be given to the score compilers, to goose the numbers up, pun only somewhat intended. I tend to believe the latter story, as it was fairly well reported at the time that the test screenings went so bad, Sid Sheinberg, the CEO of Universal, and Frank Price, the President of the studio, got into a fist fight in the lobby of one of the theatres running one of the test screenings, over who was to blame for this impending debacle.   And a debacle it was.   But just how bad?   So bad, copywriters from across the nation reveled in giddy glee over the chances to have a headline that read “‘Howard the Duck' Lays an Egg!”   And it did.   Well, sort of.   When it opened in 1554 theatres on August 1st, the film would gross $5.07m, the second best opener of the weekend, behind the sixth Friday the 13th entry, and above other new movies like the Tom Hanks/Jackie Gleason dramedy Nothing in Common and the cult film in the making Flight of the Navigator. And $5m in 1986 was a fairly decent if unspectacular opening weekend gross. The Fly was considered a massive success when it opened to $7m just two weeks later. Short Circuit, which had opened to $5.3m in May, was also lauded as being a hit right out of the gate.   And the reviews were pretty lousy. Gene Siskel gave the film only one star, calling it a stupid film with an unlikeable lead in the duck and special effects that were less impressive than a sparkler shoved into a birthday cake. Both Siskel and Ebert would give it the dreaded two thumbs down on their show. Leonard Maltin called the film hopeless. Today, the film only has a 14% rating on Rotten Tomatoes with 81 reviews.   But despite the shellacking the film took, it wouldn't be all bad for several of the people involved in the making of the film.   Lea Thompson was so worried her career might be over after the opening weekend of the film, she accepted a role in the John Hughes movie Some Kind of Wonderful that she had turned down multiple times before. As I stated in our March 2021 episode about that movie, it's my favorite of all John Hughes movies, and it would lead to a happy ending for Thompson as well. Although the film was not a massive success, Thompson and the film's director, Howard Deutch, would fall in love during the making of the film. They would marry in 1989, have two daughters together, and as of the writing of this episode, they are still happily married.   For Tim Robbins, it showed filmmakers that he could handle a leading role in a movie. Within two years, he would be starring alongside Kevin Costner and Susan Sarandon in Bull Durham, and he career would soar for the next three decades.   And for Ed Gale, his being able to act while in a full-body duck suit would lead him to be cast to play Chucky in the first two Child's Play movies as well as Bride of Chucky.   Years later, Entertainment Weekly would name Howard the Duck as the biggest pop culture failure of all time, ahead of such turkeys as NBC's wonderfully ridiculous 1979 show Supertrain, the infamous 1980 Western Heaven's Gate, Warren Beatty and Dustin Hoffman's Ishtar, and the truly wretched 1978 Bee Gees movie Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.   But Howard the Duck, the character, not the movie, would enjoy a renaissance in 2014, when James Gunn included a CG-animated version of the character in the post-credit sequence for Guardians of the Galaxy. The character would show up again in the Disney animated Guardians television series, and in the 2021 Disney+ anthology series Marvel's What If…   There technically would be one other 1980s movie based on a Marvel character, Mark Goldblatt's version of The Punisher, featuring Dolph Lundgren as Frank Castle. Shot in Australia in 1988, the film was supposed to be released by New World Pictures in August of 1989. The company even sent out trailers to theatres that summer to help build awareness for the film, but New World's continued financial issues would put the film on hold until April 1991, when it was released directly to video by Live Entertainment.   It wouldn't be until the 1998 release of Blade, featuring Wesley Snipes as the titular vampire, that movies based on Marvel Comics characters would finally be accepted by movie-going audiences. That would soon be followed by Bryan Singer's X-Men in 2000, and Sam Raimi's Spider-Man in 2002, the success of both prompting Marvel to start putting together the team that would eventually give birth to the Marvel Cinematic Universe we all know and love today.   Thank you for joining us. We'll talk again soon, when Episode 102, the first of two episodes about the 1980s distribution company Vestron Pictures, is released.   Remember to visit this episode's page on our website, The80sMoviePodcast.com, for extra materials about Howard the Duck, and the other movies, both existing and non-existent, we covered this episode.   The 80s Movies Podcast has been researched, written, narrated and edited by Edward Havens for Idiosyncratic Entertainment.   Thank you again.   Good night.

Josh, Daniel, and Dalton Watch TASM 2 SYNOPSIS: Confident in his powers as Spider-Man, Peter Parker (Andrew Garfield) embraces his new role as a hero and spends time with Gwen Stacy (Emma Stone) in between protecting New York from criminals. However, his greatest battle yet is about to begin. With the emergence of Electro (Jamie Foxx), Peter must confront an enemy far more powerful than he is. And when his old friend Harry Osborn (Dane DeHaan) returns, Peter comes to realize that all his enemies have one thing in common: Oscorp.

We bolt out of Oscorp as we discuss the controversial superhero movie sequel, The Amazing Spider-Man 2. We talk behind-the-scenes stories, pros, cons, and, of course, the sequel test. My special guest for today's episode is the first returning guest to the podcast, Alex Woytcke. He is a Minnesotan-based filmmaker, known for Wolf Pack Pictures and White Key Productions. His film Finals Week is in post-production. You can find him at the following locations:- Twitter: @AlexWoytcke- Letterboxd: MrWhiteKey (Alexander Woytcke)- YouTube: Wolf Pack Pictureshttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbeToImX-ADzLHExOOm4wLQYou can find me online at the following:- Vero: Daryn Kirscht- Twitter: @Daryn_Kirscht- Website: darynkirscht.comMy book, The Snyderverse Saga: The Culture-Shattering Phenomena Behind Zack Snyder's DC Film Universe.- Twitter: @SnyderverseSaga- Facebook: The Snyderverse Saga- Amazon Link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09JF84L8G/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1Round II: The Film Sequel- Twitter: @RoundIIPodcast- Facebook: Round II: The Film Sequel Podcast - YouTube: Round II: The Film Sequel Podcast - Website: https://roundiithefilmsequel.buzzsprout.com/  - Patreon:  https://www.patreon.com/roundiipodcast Special  thanks to Geraldo Cortes for composing the intro and outro theme music  for the podcast. All sound effects are courtesy of ZapSplat. The sequel  test music is "Mysterious Strange Things" by Yung Logos on YouTube.

The Amazing Spider-Man: Becoming Spider-Man Peter Parker is a regular kid in high school. After a visit to Oscorp and an encounter with a strange spider, everything in Peter's life suddenly changes! He is now able to cling to ceilings, climb up walls, and eat everything in Aunt May's fridge. Realizing he has Super Powers and a responsibility to use them for good, Peter must save the day by becoming the Amazing Spider-Man! Narrated by Tim Maxwell Written by Tomas Palacios Music by Fesliyan Studios & Spartax Based on the motion picture The Amazing Spider-Man Produced by NEUVERSE CREATIVE This audio drama is adapted from the book "Becoming Spider-Man" written by Tomas Palacios.

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Join Jesse and I as we discuss the second in Andrew Garfield's Spider-Man series. When New York is put under siege by Oscorp, it is up to Spider-Man to save the city he swore to protect as well as his loved ones. No more secrets. His greatest battle begins. Rise of Electro

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The Amazing Spider-Man is the next stop off point for Do You Expect Us To Talk? Rebooting the franchise with an origin story 10 years from first spider-man film, takes Peter Parker back to school. Discovering his fathers old briefcase, Peter is compelled to delve into his father's old work place, Oscorp, to find answers to what happened. Leading to an old college, Curt Connors, who is under pressure to come up for a cure for all illness and hopefully grow back his arm, experimenting with cross species eugenics. This turns Connors into a huge Lizard as Peter gets to grips with his new powers and the loss of his uncle. Join Becca, Chris and Dave as we discuss, a new and improved cast, why you should never try to copy The Dark Knight, improvements from the Raimi films, how to avoid saying "With great power comes great responsibility", having romanic chemistry between the two leads, looking too old for school and studios not knowing what they are doing. You can follow us on Becca, Chris and Dave on Twitter You can find us on iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher and Google Podcasts, all you have to do is search. Also, if you like us leave us a lovely review as it helps us grow. If that wasn't enough, you can even you can follow us on Twitter and like us on Facebook. Do You Expect Us To Talk Will Return with The Amazing Spider-Man 2  

Do You Expect Us To Talk continues its Spider-Man series with the final ill-fated Mark Webb movie The Amazing Spider-Man 2. As Peter Parker graduates from school, he is conflicted about maintaining his relationship with Gwen. Causing friction with their relationship, Gwen gets an offer from Oxford that may end this indefinitely. Meanwhile at Oscorp, Harry Osborn takes over the company after his father's death. As the board members plan to oust him from the company, Harry is desprate to find a cure for his genetic disease . Meanwhile a loner Oscorp employee who is obsessed with Spider-Man has an accident fusing him with electricity. Join Becca, Dave and Chris as we discuss brilliant graduation speeches, the ability to upload files in the air in the early 2000s, police providing a viewing area for civilians during inner city warfare, Sally Field still has nothing to do, best friends who are clearly evil, time limits on genetic diseases, an evil duo lasting for 5 seconds for no real reason and Electro holding himself captive due only to his feelings. You can follow us on Becca, Chris and Dave on Twitter You can find us on iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher and Google Podcasts, all you have to do is search. Also, if you like us leave us a lovely review as it helps us grow. If that wasn't enough, you can even you can follow us on Twitter and like us on Facebook. Do You Expect Us To Talk Will Return with Venom.   

Day 5 has Imo and James taking stock of the good, the bad and the Gwen Stacey of 'The Amazing Spider-Man 2' (2014). The two critics discuss the bunch of baddies who are squeezed into this sequel: from Jamie Foxx's bullied boffin to the ghost of Stacey's dead police papa to the Nazi doctor minding the patients at Evil Incorporated...sorry, Oscorp. They decide whether it was too soon for Sony to circuit-breaker the franchise, or if Garfield's iteration deserved to be flushed down the water spout after this divisive entry.

Père Noël is coming down our chimney this week as Trashing Through the Snow jingles on! Somewhere in the MDU, a young boy Simon's parents mysteriously vanish in Africa and nobody has the heart to tell him that they are secretly Oscorp scientists being held hostage by a militia leader. Hoping to have them home for Christmas, Simon writes a letter to Santa asking for help and oh, by gosh, by golly does Santa Claus pull through! With the help of his Fairy Godmother Karen Chéryl and her magic wand, Santa takes a trek across Africa to find Simon's parents, come hell or high crocodile-infested water. If that wasn't enough, Simon and his possible imaginary friend Elodie travel to the North Pole (or Rovaniemi, Finland we guess), to make sure Santa doesn't back out. Oh and there's an Ogre living in the woods that kidnaps them and forces them to clean his house until he's ready to eat them! So hop on a flight to Santa's workshop, say hello to Phineas T. Prune while you're in town, and get ready for one song after another, because we're heading to France for J'ai rencontré Le Père Noël aka Here Comes Santa Claus!Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/moviedumpster)

Confident in his powers as Spider-Man, Peter Parker embraces his new role as a hero and spends time with Gwen Stacy in between protecting New York from criminals. However, his greatest battle yet is about to begin. With the emergence of Electro, Peter must confront an enemy far more powerful than he is. And when his old friend Harry Osborn returns, Peter comes to realize that all his enemies have one thing in common: Oscorp.   MOVIE CLIPS THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 - Official Trailer Peter Parker Tests Batteries Scene Spider-Man vs Green Goblin   -------------------- SHOW NOTES Official Website Facebook Group Page Podchaser   Listeners can head over to the website in the link above and connect with all social media platforms. Remember that any interaction with the show makes listeners eligible for a their choice of 6 different digital copy codes. While at the website sign up and subscribe to automatically download all future episodes and don't forget to leave a review as the feedback really helps the show. December will be big as MATT GOES TO THE MOVIES teams up with THE BASEMENT BINGE to tackle the multiverse as we cover all 7 live action Spider-Man movies right up to the release of Spider-Man: No Way Home   -------------------- Digital Copy Giveaways Snake Eyes Howard The Duck Tenet Scott Pilgrim Vs The World Alita Battle Angel

Hey everyone, continuing with our quick revisit with the Spider-Man flicks leading up to Spider-Man: No Way Home, today I'll be diving deep into and reviewing The Amazing Spider-Man 2. This is a SPOILER-FILLED Review! The Amazing Spider-Man 2: Directed by: Marc Webb Screenplay by: Alex Kurtzman & Roberto Orci & Jeff Pinker Screen story by: Alex Kurtzman & Roberto Orci & Jeff Pinker and James Vanderbilt Based on the Marvel comic book by: Stan Lee and Steve Ditko Produced by: Avi Arad, Matt Tolmach Associate Producers: Tomas Cohen, Beatriz Sequeira Executive Producers: E. Bennett Walsh, Stan Lee Cinematography by: Dan Mindel Film Editing by: Pietro Scalia Casting by: Kathleen Chopin Production Design by: Mark Friedberg Starring: Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Jamie Foxx, Dane DeHaan, Colm Feore, Felicity Jones, Paul Giamatti, Sally Field Synopsis: It's great to be Spider-Man. For Peter Parker, there's no feeling quite like swinging between skyscrapers, embracing being the hero, and spending time with Gwen. But being Spider-Man comes at a price: only Spider-Man can protect his fellow New Yorkers from the formidable villains that threaten the city. With the emergence of Electro, Peter must confront a foe far more powerful than himself. And as his old friend, Harry Osborn, returns, Peter comes to realize that all of his enemies have one thing in common: Oscorp. 

Abandoned by his parents and raised by an aunt and uncle, teenager Peter Parker, AKA Spider-Man, is trying to sort out who he is and exactly what his feelings are for his first crush, Gwen Stacy. When Peter finds a mysterious briefcase that was his father's, he pursues a quest to solve his parents' disappearance. His search takes him to Oscorp and the lab of Dr. Curt Connors, setting him on a collision course with Connors' alter ego, the Lizard.   MOVIE CLIPS Becoming Spider-Man Spider-Man vs The Lizard Taking Down the Car Thief Scene -------------------- SHOW NOTES Official Website Facebook Group Page   Listeners can head over to the website in the link above and connect with all social media platforms. Remember that any interaction with the show makes listeners eligible for a their choice of 6 different digital copy codes. While at the website sign up and subscribe to automatically download all future episodes and don't forget to leave a review as the feedback really helps the show. December will be big as MATT GOES TO THE MOVIES teams up with THE BASEMENT BINGE to tackle the multiverse as we cover all 7 live action Spider-Man movies right up to the release of Spider-Man: No Way Home   -------------------- Digital Copy Giveaways Snake Eyes Howard The Duck Tenet Scott Pilgrim Vs The World Alita Battle Angel

Tragedy was always embedded into Peters DNA even after the Spider bite. The Amazing Spider-Man 2 leaned into this with its narrative but behind the scenes drama would be its ultimate downfall. In order to keep up with a growing landscape, Sony pushed its second film to set up a whole Spider-Man cinematic universe to rival the MCU. Juggling Electro, Rhino, The Death of Gwen Stacy and setting up the sinister six. What we got was a movie that was destined for greatness which can be seen in snapshots but not the final cut. 

After the collapse of Spider-Man 4, plans to reboot the franchise with a more grounded, modern and realistic vision for Spidey moved forward. Pioneered by indie filmmaker Marc Webb, this iteration of Peter Parker promised to shed a light on the loss of his parents and highlight the Gwen Stacy storyline. With Andrew Garfield taking the mantle we got a nuanced but different universe to swing through with The Amazing Spider-Man. One which had all the potential greatness of the previous films, with the lingering corporate trappings that destroyed it still weaving a web of its own.

Chris and Dave are back and it's time to challenge whether Chris' adamance that Andrew Garfield is the best Spider-Man is well-founded! Plot Synopsis: Peter Parker (Garfield) is an outcast high schooler who was abandoned by his parents as a boy, leaving him to be raised by his Uncle Ben (Sheen) and Aunt May (Field). Like most teenagers, Peter is trying to figure out who he is and how he got to be the person he is today. Peter is also finding his way with his first high school crush, Gwen Stacy (Stone), and together, they struggle with love, commitment, and secrets. As Peter discovers a mysterious briefcase that belonged to his father, he begins a quest to understand his parents' disappearance - leading him directly to Oscorp and the lab of Dr. Curt Connors (Ifans), his father's former partner. As Spider-Man is set on a collision course with Connors' alter-ego, The Lizard, Peter will make life-altering choices to use his powers and shape his destiny to become a hero. Email us: comicsinmotionpodcast@gmail.com Follow us on social media: @comicsinmotionp --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/comics-in-motion-podcast/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/comics-in-motion-podcast/support

ZIM-ZALA-BIM FROM FLORIDA Welcome to the season 6 finale of The Radio Vagabond travel podcast.  In the true spirit of season finales, this one is extra-long and exciting. First, I travel to Key West and visit Ernest Hemingway's 6-toed cats. Then, I make my way to Orlando for something truly magical. UNLOCKING KEY WEST Key West is the southernmost point of the United States, and as I mentioned in the previous Radio Vagabond episode from Cancún, it is also the closest point to Cuba. It sits at the end of the Florida Keys as a series of hundreds of small islands spanning more than 100 miles (160 km) from one end to the other. The drive takes roughly 2.5 hours from end-to-end but you could make a full day of it and stop at some interesting places along the way if you're in the mood for discovery. Key West is famous for its watersports, lively nightlife, amazing beaches, historic sites, and its pastel coloured conch-style architecture. Walking around Key West is probably the best way to see it. You get to see some intriguing homes, courtyards, and gardens while enjoying an adult beverage, great food, and live music. You can start in the center of town at the Key West City Cemetery where you can get a glimpse of the island city's past and its morbid sense of humor, as exhibited by gravestones that read, "At least I know where he's sleeping tonight" and "I told you I was sick". Duval Street is one of the most energetic strips of shops, bars, and cafes anywhere in the world that is host to the famous Sloppy Joe's bar, a favorite hangout of famed American author, Ernest Hemingway. The tormented writer lived on the island in the 1930's and did a lot of his writing here (roughly 60% of his life's work) — when he wasn't getting sloppy-drunk at Sloppy Joe's. HEMINGWAY & KEY WEST The author's home is now converted into one of the biggest attractions on the island: the Ernest Hemingway Home and Museum. The house is now occupied by over 56 cats, and the cat theme is a special feature of the house. Hemingway was given a white six-toed cat by a ship's captain and some of the cats who live on the museum grounds now are actual descendants of that original cat, named Snow White. Key West is a small island, and it is absolutely possible that many of the cats on the island are related. Touring the house and the office where Hemingway did his writing was very interesting. But one of the more stunning and unusual features of the Hemingway Home property is the in-ground swimming pool — an extraordinary luxury for a residential home in 1930s Key West. The final cost of construction in 1938 was $20,000. Even more mind-boggling is the sheer labour of digging a massive hole in solid coral. The Hemingway pool — the only one within 100 miles in the 1930s — was truly an impressive architectural feat. Apparently, Ernest did complain to his wife Pauline about the growing expenses of construction costs. The story goes that he was frustrated and threw down a penny on the half-built pool patio and said: “Pauline, you've spent all but my last penny, so you might as well have that!” Now, there is a penny embedded in cement at the north end of the pool to memorialise Ernest's outburst. I got chatting to Rusty, one of the tour guides and Hemingway aficionado who told me a bit more about the larger-than-life author and his works. “The Old Man and the Sea is perhaps his most famous work as it is taught in most schools. But I think a good place to start is his first novel The Sun Also Rises which is a wonderful recapitulation of his time in France and Spain. It is a great novel based on real people he met while in Europe. But for me, I really love To Have and To Have Not, which is the only of his world based in Key West and even gives Sloppy Joe Russel a cameo.” “Traveling made Hemingway the man we was. He was a journalist first and foremost, so he wrote about what he experienced that inspired his books. Without his traveling, he wouldn't have been as prolific as he was” Rusty tells me. MAGICAL ORLANDO Florida is a big flat state – and another part of it attracts even more visitors thanks to its boat load of theme parks, including Walt Disney World, Universal Studios, LEGOLAND, and many more.  In Orlando, I met Stefan Oswald – my Airbnb host and part-time magician who turned out to be a really interesting guy. When he was younger, he travelled around Europe and did street magic. And I was curious to know how that happened. “I watched a lecture by the great magician Coz Cosmo who travelled around the world performing magic for a living. Thought to myself, “Wow, that's amazing. I want to do that”. So, I put on a show in Dupont Circle in D.C. which was successful. It progressed into a bigger show with more audience members. I was working a part-time job at that time while performing magic on the streets.  Performing street magic seemed like the perfect way to travel. So, I bought a one-way ticket to Madrid with only my show items in a carry-on bag with a change of underwear and a toothbrush – no credit card or cash. I had a few 6-minute shows that I travelled around performing which turned out to be a great adventure.” Stefan stayed at hostels and random beds he found out about on his travels. After Madrid, he moved on to Barcelona where the crazy stuff happened… “I started performing street magic on Las Ramblas, which is forbidden. But within a minute, I had a huge crowd watching me until the police came to disperse the crowd. They told me I was not allowed in Barcelona anymore… On my way back to my hostel in a shady part of the city, I was stopped by a group of prostitutes who intended to rob me. But after I showed them a card trick, they ended up tipping me!” After our chat, I recorded a short Facebook Live video of Stefan performing a quick trick for me. I've watched the video so many times and it still blows my mind that I can't figure out how he does it. Can you figure out how he does it? Go to The Radio Vagabond on Facebook and give me your best guess. HOSTING EMPIRE From Spain, Stefan's magic dreams led him to Paris and then Amsterdam, where he learned a lot from other street performers and perfected his craft. During his time in Europe, he discovered Couchsurfing which inspired Stefan to host people from around the world. He then started managing three Airbnbs and rented out a few cars (including a Tesla) on Turo, which is how I came to meet the magical host. When I met Stefan, he was busy building his Airbnb and hostel empire. Check out the 3D animation of his idea of a Top-Hat-hostel. Well, that plan with the hostels has been put on the back burner for now due to something called “Covid 19”. Let's just say the timing for a huge project like that wasn't perfect. Still, it might happen sometime in the future but in any case, so much has happened since then. Apart from his dreams to build a hotel/hosting empire, Stefan's entrepreneurial mindset drives him to develop new ideas constantly. He also tells me about how he worked as a Professional Cuddler, his desire to produce a thousand children, and having a thousand hostels to fund his work on technology that will make us live for 500 years and have gills and falcon eyes...Oh, plus sending microorganisms to more than 30,000 planets to see which ones will sustain human life – and then send self-replicating robots to the ones that will. Wow, right? The way Stefan Oswald's mind works reminds me of someone who has founded PayPal, SpaceX, Tesla, and just comes up with ideas constantly. Is he the next Elon Musk and how can I invest in OsCorp™, as he called it…? MØDE MED TRYLLE-STEFAN IGEN HER I 2021 Jeg har faktisk lige besøgt Stefan igen for omkring en uge siden, og hold da op, hvor er der sket mange ting i den korte tid, jeg har været væk. Han bor i et nyt hus, som han kalder The Magic Mansion. Hans ”tusinde-vandrehjem-plan” er som nævnt sat i bero, og i stedet er han gået andre veje. ”Siden vi så hinanden sidste gang, er jeg flyttet her til Magic Mansion, som jeg har startet sammen med andre tryllekunstnere. Jeg optrådte dagligt i The Great Magic Hall i tre år – hvilket også blev aflyst på grund af Corona-pandemien. Og det var begrænset med turister i mine Airbnb-lejligheder. Derfor måtte jeg ændre min forretningsmodel for at tjene penge og har konverteret mine lejligheder til langtidsleje. Jeg slog mig sammen med en anden tryllekunstner-ven, og vi driver nu udlejning med firmaet Super Host Florida og udlejer biler under navnet Sling Kings. Vi har 6 Tesla'er og 35 Slingshots, som vi snart fordobler. De går som varmt brød. Stefan har også en plan om at blive vagabond. Han arbejder på en plan om at rejse til 52 lande på 52 uger og lave trylleshows i teatre. He transitioned his Airbnb rental business from short- to long-term occupations. He also plans to become a fellow travelling vagabond himself. He has his sights set on traveling to 52 countries in 52 weeks and performing magic in theatres around the world. Du kan følge ham på Instagram og følge med I om han kommer i nærheden af dig. Han påstår, at Danmark er på listen. Be sure to check out Stefan's magic tour here. AND FOR MY FINAL TRICK... TA-DAAA! That's it for Season 6 of The Radio Vagabond. In this season, I've been mostly in the US but with visits to Canada and Mexico. But all North America. Season 7 starts in September and that is going to be so different. We're going to many different countries and even many different continents. Join me in Guatemala, Bali, El Salvador, Caribbean, Andorra, Uruguay, Yellowstone National Park, Rio de Janeiro, and so many other exciting places. It's going to be a whole new experience listening to The Radio Vagabond, and I can't wait to share it with you. My name is Palle Bo, and I gotta keep moving. See you.

ZIM-ZALA-BIM FRA FLORIDA Velkommen til det sidste afsnit I sæson 6 af Radiovagabond Podcast. I den rigtige ånd for en sæson-finale er denne ekstra lang og der kommer til at ske en del. Først tager jeg dig med til Key West og besøge Ernest Hemingways katte med seks tæer. Derefter tager vi op til Orlando for at opleve noget magi. NØGLEN TIL KEY WEST Key West er det sydligste punkt i USA, og som jeg nævnte i den seneste episode fra Cancún, så er dette også det punkt, der er tættest på Cuba. Man finder byen yderst på Florida Keys, som er flere hundrede små øer, der ligger som perler på en 160 km lang snor fra fastlandet i Florida. Det tager omkring 2,5 time at køre turen langs med dem, men du kan sagtens bruge en hel dag, hvis du stopper flere gange ved nogle af de interessante steder på vejen derud. Key West er mest berømt for aktiviteter på vandet, et livligt natteliv, skønne strande, historiske steder, pastelfarvede små huse og spændende arkitektur. At opleve byen til fods er nok den bedste måde at se den. Og så er der en god mulighed for at stoppe flere gange og få en ”voksen-drik”, noget godt mad og opleve noget livemusik i en af de mange gårdhaver. Jeg foreslår, at du starter i midten af byen med besøg på Key West City Cemetery, hvor du kan få en fornemmelse af byens historie, og se, at de også i gamle dage have en udpræget morbid humoristisk sans. Der er gravsten, hvor der f.eks. står: ”I det mindste ved jeg da, hvor han sover i nat” og ”Jeg sagde jo, at jeg var syg”. Duval Street er en af de mest festlige gader med en masse butikker, barer og caféer – og Sloppy Joe's bar, hvor den berømte forfatter, Ernest Hemingway indtog mangen en voksendrik. Han boede og skrev omkring 60% af sine værker her i 1930'erne – når han altså ikke havde travlt med at drikke sig en pind i øret på Sloppy Joe's. HEMINGWAY & KEY WEST Forfatterens hjem er i dag en af de største attraktioner i Key West: Ernest Hemingway Home and Museum. I huset bor der 56 forkælede katte, og mange af dem har seks tæer på hver fod. Det er ikke utænkeligt, at mange af dem er efterkommere af den kat, Hemingway havde dengang. Katten (Snow White) var en gave fra en kaptajn, og da Key West er en lille ø, er det bestemt ikke utænkeligt, at mange af kattene i huset nu er efterkommere af Snehvide. At gå rundt i huset med en guide og opleve Hemingways kontor, der stadig står som den dag, han forlod huset, var meget interessant. Det mest imponerende var dog nok den store svømmepøl, som var meget luksuriøst i et almindeligt hjem i 1930'ernes Key West. Den endelig pris i 1938 var over 125.000 kr. – og det var mange penge dengang. Men endnu mere imponerende er det at tænke, hvordan de kunne grave det store hul i den hårde koral-undergrund. ”Hemingway Poolen” var den eneste pool i en 160 km radius og et arkitektonisk mesterværk. Det var mest hans kones projekt, og der går en historie om at han brokkede sig over, hvor dyrt det blev. Efter sigende kastede han en dag en penny og sagde: ”Pauline, du har brugt alt undtagen den sidste penny, så hvorfor ikke tage den også?” I dag er der en penny støbt ind i cementen i den nordlige del af poolen, for at mindes dette udbrud. Jeg sludrede med Rusty, der er en af guiderne på stedet. Han er lidt af en Hemingway ekspert, og påstår, at han har læst alt, hvad Hemingway har skrevet. “The Old Man and the Sea er nok et af hans mest berømte værker og bliver brugt i undervisningen mange steder i USA, Men jeg synes, at et godt sted at starte med Hemingway er hans første roman, The Sun Also Rises som er en skøn opsummering af hans tid i Frankrig og Spanien. Det er en fantastisk roman baseret på hans møder med almindelige mennesker, som han mødte på sine rejser i Europa. Men for mig er To Have and To Have Not nok min favorit. Det er den eneste bog, der finder sted i Key West, og endda har Sloppy Joe Russel også en lille rolle”. ”De mange rejser var med til at forme Hemingway til den forfatter, han var. Han var først journalist, så han skrev om, hvad han oplevede og det var hvad der inspirerede hans bøger. Uden sine rejser, var han formentlig aldrig blevet den forfatter, han var,” fortæller Rusty. MAGISKE ORLANDO Florida er en stor flad stat – og en anden del af den tiltrækker endnu flere turister, mest takket være Walt Disney World, Universal Studios, LEGOLAND og de mange andre forlystelsesparker. I Orlando møder jeg Stefan Oswald – min Airbnb vært, som også arbejder som tryllekunstner. Han er en meget interessant fyr, som også har været på en spændende rejse. Da han var yngre, rejste han rundt i Europa og tjente penge til rejsen ved at lave magi på gaden. “Jeg så et foredrag med den store magiker Cos Cosmo, som rejste rundt i verden og levede som tryllekunstner, og jeg tænkte, ”wow, det er fantastisk, det vil jeg også gøre”. Så jeg lavede et show på Dupont Circle I Washington DC, som fungerede ret godt. Det blev til et show med et større publikum, og jeg havde et deltidsjob samtidig med at jeg lavede trylleshows på gaderne. Det, at lave gade-magi virkede som den bedste måde for mig at rejse. Så jeg købte en enkeltbillet til Madrid, hvor det eneste, jeg havde i baggagen, var de ting, jeg skulle bruge til mit show, et ekstra par underbukser og en tandbørste. Jeg havde ikke engang et kreditkort eller kontanter med mig. Jeg havde et seks-minutters show, som jeg rejste rundt med, og det viste sig, at være et fantastisk eventyr”. Stefan boede på vandrehjem og en tilfældig sofa her og der. Efter Madrid tog han til Barcelona, hvor det blev mere vanvittigt. ”Jeg optrådte med mit trylleshow på Las Ramblas, hvilket er ulovligt. Men der var mange mennesker og i løbet af få sekunder havde jeg et kæmpe publikum, der lod sig underholde – indtil politiet kom og jeg forsøgte at lave mit forsvindingsnummer”. Politiet fortalte ham, at han ikke måtte opholde mig i Barcelona mere… En anden gang, da han var på vej tilbage til sit hostel, i en lidt mere skummel del af byen, blev han antastet af prostituerede, som forsøgte at stjæle fra ham. Men i stedet viste han dem et kort-trick og det endte med at de gav ham drikkepenge”. Efter vores snak lavede jeg en kort Facebook Live video, hvor han laver et hurtigt trick med mine briller. Han tager dem af, lægger dem på et bord og efter at have viftet lidt med sine fingre får han dem til at glemme alt om tyngdekraft og vippe op. Jeg fatter simpelthen ikke hvordan han gør det, og glæder mig til at høre dit bedste bud på Radiovagabond på Facebook. OPBYGGE ET IMPERIUM SOM VÆRT Fra Spanien tog Stefan videre til Paris og derfra til Amsterdam, hvor han lærte en masse fra andre gadekunstnere. På sine rejser opdagede han også Couchsurfing, som inspirerede ham til selv at blive vært. Det blev senere til Airbnb og på dette tidspunkt havde han tre Airbnbs og udlejede også et par biler (en af dem en Tesla) på Turu. Han havde også en vild plan om at opbygge et hostel-imperium – se denne 3D animation med hans planer om at lave et Top-Hat-hostel. Men den store hostel-plan var noget pandemien satte en stopper for. I hvert fald en pause for. Timingen for et stort projekt som dette, var ikke helt perfekt. Han har dog ikke ligget på den lade side og blot gået andre veje. Det kommer vi tilbage til senere. Ud over hans drømme om at opbygge en vandrehjemskæde, er han iværksætter på mange andre måder. Han har arbejdet som professionel krammer gennem firmaet Cuddle Comfort, hvor man kan hyre en person til at give knus. Han har også været sæddonor og vil gerne kunne sige, at han har tusinde børn. Og så hans lille beskedne plan om at have tusinde vandrehjem, der skulle tjene penge til hans drøm om at udvikle teknologi, der vil få os til at leve i 500 år. Nå ja, og så planen om at sende mikroorganismer til mere end 30.000 planeter for at se, hvor liv kan overleve. Og derefter sende selv-formerende robotter til dem, der kan. Ja, visionerne mangler ikke noget. Han minder mig næsten om ham, der stiftede PayPal, SpaceX, Tesla og konstant får nye vanvittige idéer. Er han mon den nye Elon Musk og hvor kan jeg investere i OsCorp™, som han kalder sin vision. Wow, right? The way Stefan Oswald's mind works reminds me of someone who has founded PayPal, SpaceX, Tesla, and just comes up with ideas constantly. How can I invest in OsCorp™, as he called it…?   REKINDLING THE MAGIC WITH STEFAN IN 2021 I actually just revisited him a week ago and you're not going to believe all the crazy stuff that has happened – and the plans he has for the future. This is as fresh as it gets and was recorded a week ago here in August 2021. I was back in Orlando, and Stefan offered me to stay at his new house that is officially called The Magic Mansion. Although he still hasn't started the “thousand-hostel-plan”, so much else has happened since then.  “Since we last saw each other, a lot has happened. I founded the Magic Mansion as a place for magicians to come together and learn from each other. My magic career has taken off. I performed at the Great Magic Hall for 3 years until Covid forced my shows to be cancelled. And the lack of turists had a huge impact on my Airbnb rentals. So, I had to convert my apartments into longtime-rental and then I transitioned more into car rentals to make money. I partnered with a magician friend, and we are now running a successful super-host business (Super Host Florida) and car rental business (Sling Kings): we have 6 Teslas and 35 Slingshots now and will get up to 67 in the next few weeks. The business is doing really well now”. Stefan also plans to become a fellow travelling vagabond himself. He has his sights set on traveling to 52 countries in 52 weeks and performing magic in theatres around the world. You can follow him on Instagram and see if he gets to a city near you. OG FOR MIT SIDSTE TRICK... TA-DAAA! Det var alt for Radiovagabond, sæson 6, hvor vi primært har bevæget os rundt i USA – med korte besøg i Canada og Mexico. Men alt sammen Nordamerika. Sæson 7, som starter i september, bliver ganske anderledes i de henseende. Vi kommer til at bevæge os meget mere rundt – til forskellige lande og endda forskellige kontinenter. Tag med til Guatemala, Bali, El Salvador, Caribien, Andorra, Uruguay, Yellowstone National Park, Rio de Janeiro og mange andre spændende steder. Det bliver en helt ny oplevelse, at lytte til Radiovagabond fremover – og det glæder jeg mig rigtig meget til at dele med dig. Mit navn er Palle Bo og jeg skal videre. Vi ses.

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There came a time where Columbia Pictures and Marvel Entertainment made the decision to move away from Sam Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy and reboot the film series. Directed by Marc Webb and written by James Vanderbilt, The Amazing Spider-Man is the superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character Spider-Man and sharing the title of the character's longest-running comic book series of the same name. Luke and Jae revist the 2012 Spider-Man film which returned to the beginning, gave us Andrew Garfield as our new Peter Parker, and promised to deliver an untold story. Emma Stone, Rhys Ifans, Denis Leary, Campbell Scott, Irrfan Khan, Martin Sheen, and Sally Field fulfill supporting roles. Abandoned by his parents and raised by his aunt and uncle, teenager Peter Parker (Andrew Garfield), AKA Spider-Man, is trying to sort out who he is and exactly what his feelings are for his first crush, Gwen Stacy (Emma Stone). When Peter finds a mysterious briefcase that was his father's, he pursues a quest to solve his parents' disappearance. His search takes him to Oscorp and the lab of Dr. Curt Connors (Rhys Ifans), setting him on a collision course with Connors' alter ego, the Lizard.

Fecha de emisión: 27/05/2021 El programa de esta semana queremos dedicarlo a esa cantidad ingente de empresas y multinacionales que pueblan las páginas de nuestros cómics y que tan (inconscientemente) arraigadas tenemos en nuestra cultura friki. Todos conocemos Wayne Enterprises, Oscorp, LexCorp, etc. Intentamos ampliar algo más ese amplio sector. Y recuerda que, a parte de tenernos aquí en Ivoox, nuestro programa se emite en directo todos los jueves de 19h a 20h en el 91.6 del dial sevillano y siempre desde live.sevillafc.es. Y por supuesto síguenos en Twitter a través de @nervioncomiccon

To follow everything Splinter Cell, go follow Nick: @thatstrongnerd and go subscribe to Nick's Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/fearnickg To hear Eric's thoughts on Destiny 2: Beyond Light, go follow Eric: @EricCGinn To see tweets all about JRPG, Anime, and Soulsborne games, go follow Ryan: @ryanthelion3055 We've officially started making a video version of our podcasts! Go to twitch.tv/penultimateconquest to see them live! Every Mondays and Thursdays at 7:30 PM EST. This episode, we're talking about our thoughts on Spider-Man: Miles Morales, what we thought worked with the story, what we disliked about the story and what we think will happen with the sequel to 2018's Spider-Man. How did you feel about this game? Did the Tinkerer live up to your expectations? Could Insomniac change up the story for the sequel? What was your favorite suit in the game? How will Oscorp play into the story next time?Sound off in the comments on the YouTube video or Facebook page! This week's recording schedule on Twitch (YouTube Upload the next day): Tuesday 7 PM EST - Let's Play: Assassin's Creed Valhalla Thursday 7 PM EST - Live Reactions: The Game Awards 2020 Sunday 7 PM EST - The Cross Media Show (Attack on Titan: The Final Season Episode 1+2 Discussion) As always, the link below gives you the links for the YouTube and Twitch channels, the Facebook page, and the podcast feeds. https://linktr.ee/penultimateconquest

Confident in his powers as Spider-Man, Peter Parker (Andrew Garfield) embraces his new role as a hero and spends time with Gwen Stacy (Emma Stone) in between protecting New York from criminals. However, his greatest battle yet is about to begin. With the emergence of Electro (Jamie Foxx), Peter must confront an enemy far more powerful than he is. And when his old friend Harry Osborn (Dane DeHaan) returns, Peter comes to realize that all his enemies have one thing in common: Oscorp. Check out the episode on Youtube, iTunes and Google Play. You can reach us at theironkoob@gmail.com and on Instagram @theironkoob If you have not seen the Review of the Week and would like to avoid spoilers, check the show notes for the timestamp so you can still hear our news sections. I. Review of the Week A. Synopsis and Ratings B. THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 in SPOILERS (5:00) II. Fight of the Week III. Roundup 1. Mandalorian S2E2 in SPOILERS 2. The Crown IV. Gaming 1. Marvel's Avengers Financial Loss 2. Miles Morales Reviews 3. Mass Effect Trilogy Remaster 4. Breakpoint Update V. Trailers 1. Cobrai Kai Season 3 VI. Everette's Game of Smart Ass VII. News 1. More Delays 2. Loki Second Season 3. Justice League Cancellation 4. Tenet Being Released 5. Boba Fett Show 6. Johnny Depp Out of Fantastic Beasts 7. Witcher Production 8. Black Widow Budapest 9. Black Widow Plot Details 10. The CWverse

Abandoned by his parents and raised by an aunt and uncle, teenager Peter Parker (Andrew Garfield), AKA Spider-Man, is trying to sort out who he is and exactly what his feelings are for his first crush, Gwen Stacy (Emma Stone). When Peter finds a mysterious briefcase that was his father's, he pursues a quest to solve his parents' disappearance. His search takes him to Oscorp and the lab of Dr. Curt Connors (Rhys Ifans), setting him on a collision course with Connors' alter ego, the Lizard. Check out the episode on Youtube, iTunes and Google Play. You can reach us at theironkoob@gmail.com and on Instagram @theironkoob If you have not seen the Review of the Week and would like to avoid spoilers, check the show notes for the timestamp so you can still hear our news sections. I. Review of the Week A. Synopsis and Ratings B. THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN in SPOILERS (5:00) II. Fight of the Week (81:00) III. Roundup (84:00) 1. Mandalorian S2E1 in SPOILERS 2. What's coming up? IV. Gaming (92:00) 1. Miles Morales Spider-Verse suit 2. Cyberpunk 3. Watch Dogs V. Trailers (98:00) 1. The Crown Season 4 VI. Everette's Game of Smart Ass (99:00) VII. News (103:00) 1. Wandavision spoiler appearance 2. Ray Fisher Racism 3. Snyder WB Relations 4. Bale in Thor 5. Tomb Raider gone 6. Ubisoft Netflix deal

JK Simmons reveals he’s already filmed his next J Jonah Jameson appearance! Will he appear in Venom 2, Morbius, Spider-Man 3, or ALL THREE? Try ShipStation FREE for 60 days when you use offer code ROGUE at ShipStation.com. Go to http://keeps.com/roguetheory to receive your first month of treatment for free. J Jonah Jameson returned in the Spider-Man Far From Home post-credit scene, with JK Simmons bridging together the Sam Raimi Spider-Man films and the Tom Holland MCU ones. What is J Jonah Jameson’s future in the MCU / SPUMC, and how could his role as a online conspiracy theorist wreak havoc on Peter Parker, Eddie Brock, and others? Will Sam Raimi use Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness’ post credit scene as an opportunity to open up the MCU to the Spider-verse and Tobey Maguire? In this episode of #RogueTheory, Erik Voss, Zach Huddleston, Cosmic Wonder Warren Thompson, and Jessica Clemmons go rogue on Marvel’s maddest Daily Bugle editor-in-chief and his deeper connection to the Marvel world. Is J Jonah Jameson in Far From Home secretly being funded by Norman Osborn and Oscorp? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

 Time for the Comic Talk Headlines with Generally Nerdy!  The Snyder Cut just won't go away! Though now it sounds like it may ACTUALLY be real.  Ahsoka Tano series in the works, Spider-Man PS5 & MORE! Catch up on all the nerdy headlines in TV and Movies, Tuesdays and Fridays. Plus, don't forget to subscribe for more fresh content   TV/StreamingStar Trek: DiscoveryThe coronavirus is now effecting the post production of things. Actor Wilson Cruz told Twitter that season 3 might be delayed, in spite of being in post already.https://twitter.com/wcruz73/status/1240391630114488320 The MandalorianRobert Rodriguez is set to direct an episode in season 2.https://hnentertainment.co/alita-battle-angel-director-robert-rodriguez-now-confirmed-for-season-2-of-the-mandalorian/ MoviesNada!!Rumor MillSnyder CutWord on the street is that the Snyder Cut really DOES exist, and there was a plan to release it with the launch of HBO Max this coming May. With coronavirus concerns though, and considering the amount of work Zack Snyder claims still needs to go into the movie to have his “true intended vision” it seems that is no longer the case. Instead, the new plan is to release WW84 as a means to launch the new streaming platform. In spite of what the official announcement was the other day saying they are still planning a theatrical release for the movie. It seems the studio wants an HBO Max release, while the producers on the film want theatrical.Spider-Man PS5Some new “leaks” about the game have found their way onto the interwebs:Venom factors into the story pretty heavily. Being worn by both Eddie Brock AND Harry OsbornCarnage is in there tooOsCorp seems to be the big bad.Play as MilesSept 2021 release likelyAhsoka TanoRumor has it that Rosario might have signed a deal that includes a limited series on Disney+Iron HeartSeries in the works with RDJ coming back to voice the AI?FlashJames McAvoy to play Leonard Snart (Captain Cold)?Batman BeyondTye Sheridan being eyed for the role of Terry McGuiness in live action movie?AquamanDC is rumored to be planning Momoa’s exit(ish) after the third movie. The title of Aquaman going to the DCEU’s version of Kaldur.You can support this show by visiting our merch store, or by leaving us an Apple Podcasts review.

0:21 MayaHey Sean! Do you think Nick Fury has a secret family that will be retconned in a later film? I was thinking about ways in which Riri Williams could appear into the MCU and it made me wonder ... wouldn't it be wild if she turns out to be Fury's daughter? Wild theory, but it doesn't sound out of the question.1:48 Cara SparmanDo you think Feige/Marvel knew that Spider-Man wouldn't remain in the MCU, and that's why they tacked FFH onto phase 3, rather than having him start off phase 4?9:57 Sean HigginsHey Sean! First off, I'd like to say thank you for all the content you put out with Marvel Studios News! I came across it last week and I'm pumped! What are the chances we see a Nova adaptation in the MCU? And if there is a possibility we could see him sometime soon/in the future, do you think it would be Richard Rider or Sam Alexander? Personally I'd prefer Richard Rider, but  I'd be happy just to see Nova! Thanks a lot! Have a great week and keep on being awesome!12:38 LincI just rewatched Iron Man last night with the kids, and it's just a reminder: when you start off so grounded, and respecting the source material like that, it sets you up for success. Anyway, everybody is going nuts at the moment for the deleted/alt post credits scene with Nick Fury referencing Spiderman and X-Men, but they actually left _in_ a reference to X-Men in the finished piece: when ascending in the Mach II, Jarvis brings up a display of the Blackbird, aka the X-Jet, on Tony's head up display.My question is: do you think they had to get permission from Fox back then? Is that an error that was accidentally left in? Most importantly: does that affect the plans for introducing and integrating the X-Men going forward, since it implies they were already around? Or does it help? And if so, how?20:03 Cancer PuppetA rumor started circulating a couple days ago that Marvel Studios has something in the pipeline for Ghost rider. Cut to today and the planned Ghost Rider series in development at Hulu is abruptly cancelled. So, assuming the former is responsible for the latter, my question comes in three parts. 1: Where do you think is the more likely destination for Ghost Rider in the MCU, Theaters or Disney+?   2:  Which version of the character would you most like to see adapted?   3: Who might you like to see cast in that role? For my money I like Frank Castle. I think an MCU retooling of the Punisher mythos could make the character far more compelling as Ghost Rider than he ever was as the Punisher.30:05 Alex KleinDo you think Sony/Marvel announced this today on the last Friday of the month for stock purposes? I don't follow that stuff too much but I always wonder about the reasons behind the day and time of releasing big news. Does it have anything to do with the Feige/Star Wars announcement this week?31:44 Michael Weaselboy Do you think in Spiderman 3 he will be a fugitive for the whole movie or will he clear his name Midway through and defeat the villain??33:53 Anthony LawreySticking with the subject of Spider-Man, does this news sway your thought one way or the other that Avengers tower will be Oscorp or the Baxter Building?36:48 Bill Van NormanI think most of us assume that Spidey will be on the run at the beginning of the story. This seems like an oportune way to introduce Kraven. Maybe with Mysterio being inadvertantly revealed by Kraven to be alive. What do you think Sean? Do you think part of this new deal will also allow for more of Spidey's rogues gallery to appear in the MCU. Maybe this new deal will allow for something like that and also allow Kraven to then appear in a Sony produced SUMC film.43:51 Adam Shepard With the new Spider-Man deal being for 1 solo film and 1 appearance in another MCU film, what do you think the chances are for another more long-term agreement happening? This is assuming the status quo remains (i.e. Feige still in charge, MCU films still hugely successful, Sony Pictures not purchased, next Spidey film at least as successful as FFH, etc.). Do you think this new deal was done solely to let Marvel Studios give Spider-Man a smooth transition from one universe to the next?56:27 Woo S KimWith the. addition of the third MCU Spider-Man film in 2021, do you believe Phase IV is done or do you believe more will be added to the phase?57:53 Steven 84With the February 2022 date still not filled, do you think there is a chance that is a buffer date in case they would want to push back one of their four 2021 movies? If a movie got pushed back, would your money be on Thor or Doctor Strange? Or, instead of February 2022 being a buffer, maybe it goes away and becomes a new November 2022 date?1:00:24 BrentacPrimeWhen Venom came out it had the "In association with Marvel title card. With the Amazing Spider-Man news last Friday, and Feige's comments that I think implied we are likely see Tom Holland I'm both the MCU and SUMC, do you think Venom 2 will have a title card saying "I'm association with Marvek Studios" See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

0:23 BrentacPrimeI remember  in 2017 I was a little concerned Marvel Studios would be over extending with 3 movies. . Though they had Sony's help for at least part of that with Homecoming. Then they were doing it again in 2018 and 2019. Obviously that's been fine. But I find myself wandering about that again with 2021 and 7 projects total between Disney plus and the movies. Can you please tell me I'm crazy for thinking this?2:28 Woo S KimSean, what are your thoughts on the potential possibility of Patti Jenkins being the director of the second Captain Marvel and or an A-Force film, would you be down for that?3:30 LincIn reading X-Men Grand Designs, I notice there are historical groups of wealthy characters in the X-Men past who conspire to take them down. Are there similar consortiums outside the X-Men groups you'd like to see group up on screen, like Hammer, Oscorp, Rand, Roxxon to take on Stark now that Tony has died? I can l know we're usually interested in the high stakes superhero side of things, but his death should leave a corporate vacuum they we should see play out on screen. Thoughts?4:47 Anthony LawreyI'm rewatching The Avengers for the first time in a while. Is it just me, or are there a lot more practical special effects being used in this because the technology/cost or because the scale isn't as large as IW or Endgame? Or maybe it's just Joss Whedon's style? 6:58 LincWhy weren't Rhody and Sam involved in Age of Ultron's end scene in Sokovia? Or more broadly: Why weren't they involved pretty much at all, after the drinks at Avengers tower?8:04 Michael WeaselboySince The Mandarin will debut soon and Ghost having been in an Antman film do you think we will see other villains fight heroes they haven't traditionally fought in the comics??8:36 Steven84What are your thoughts about the potential creative challenges Sony will face with a 3rd Spider-Man film, given they may not be able to reference certain MCU specific events and characters? On Marvel's side, given Sony will probably be able to reference and follow up on events of Homecoming and Far From Home, how likely is it that a third, Sony produced Spider-Man film will be accepted into MCU canon? This is of course assuming Holland returns to the role.14:08 Terry MortensenSimilar to Steven's question above, do you anticipate Sony making the movie in a way that intentionally leads the general audience into believing the next Spider-Man movie is in the MCU? If Marvel Studios were to take steps to counter this impression, what do you think they could do?17:42 Adam ShepardHow integral do you think Dr. Strange in the Multiverse of Madness will be to the MCU going forward and to the overall plots of future films?18:48 Brett HeierHow do you think the guardians will be written out in gotg3? James Gunn said that this is the last time we will see that iteration of the team. Are there characters you think will stick around for the next iteration?21:26 Brett HeierDo you think Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness is a cover title for Doctor Strange: House of M?22:08 Mookie JohnsonIf Marvel and Sony don't come to an agreement, could Avengers Tower become Oscorp in the Sony universe and the Baxter building in the MCU?23:27 Mookie JohnsonWith Sony having to Tom Holland movies potentially in the works, would you be down for a two-part movie where the first part is Green Goblin or Doc Ock as the villain and part 2 being them returning with the Sinister Six24:50 Kerry VanderbergSince it seems like Sony and Marvel Studios are done working together at this point, do you think that Sony can reasonably complete Peter's story arc in the next Spider-Man film without referencing anything from the MCU? Is John Watts still contractually obligated to be directing, or do you think he will walk away in light of Marvel Studios not being involved?28:09 Steven 84What are your thoughts on Lord and Miller for directors of Spider-Man 3 if Watts doesn't return?28:32 Liam HeslinNow that it looks like Spidey is out of the MCU what are some of the new characters you're most excited to see take their place in the MCU?29:46 Liam HeslinAs a huge music fan, I've thoroughly enjoyed the previously discussions on scores/soundtracks in the MCU movies. Do you have any bands/artists or specific songs you would like to see get a needle drop in the MCU?31:09 Brett HeierIf wanda goes all house of m on the mcu, do you think they will kill her, exile her for a few years, or have her rejoin the team, if she can re-earn their trust. Thanks for everything you do! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

"Confident in his powers as Spider-Man, Peter Parker (Andrew Garfield) embraces his new role as a hero and spends time with Gwen Stacy (Emma Stone) in between protecting New York from criminals. However, his greatest battle yet is about to begin. With the emergence of Electro (Jamie Foxx), Peter must confront an enemy far more powerful than he is. And when his old friend Harry Osborn (Dane DeHaan) returns, Peter comes to realize that all his enemies have one thing in common: Oscorp."   Merch: https://www.zazzle.com/focpodcast   Be Sure to Follow us on Social Media Twitter: @FOC_Podcast Facebook: FOCPodcast Instagram: @FOC_Podcast Email: focpodcast@gmail.com Music: Aural Bandito --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/fortress-of-comictude/support

Spider-Man Far From Home Easter Eggs setting up a Sinister Six sequel? How Spider-Man 3 set up the Sinister Six? Boost your credit score instantly for FREE. It’s only available at https://experian.com/newrockstars Who will be the MCU Sinister Six? Could Mysterio return, and join Vulture and Scorpion from Spider-Man Homecoming? What clues did you miss from Spider-Man Far From Home that could establish Norman Osborn, Green Goblin, and Oscorp in the MCU? Erik Voss breaks down the possible Sinister Six Easter Eggs in Far From Home, and how J Jonah Jameson from the post-credit scene could lead to the rise of the Sinister Six in New York. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Continuing our journey into Spider-Man films we are discuss the maybe not so AMAZING Spider-Man. We breakdown the first reboot and what we enjoyed about this web-slinger plus the things that wish Andrew Garfield didn’t get bitten by the radioactive spider. Amazing SPIDER-MAN  After Peter Parker is bitten by a genetically altered spider, he gains newfound, spider-like powers and ventures out to solve the mystery of his parent's mysterious death. Director: Marc Webb Writers: James Vanderbilt (screenplay), Alvin Sargent (screenplay) | 4 more credits » Stars: Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Rhys Ifans | See full cast & crew » BOX OFFICE  Released July 3rd 2012 Budget: $230 million Cumulative: $758 million Opening Weekend: $72 million Opened #1 15 weeks #2 Ted #3 Brave #4 Savages   Amazing SPIDER-MAN 2 When New York is put under siege by Oscorp, it is up to Spider-Man to save the city he swore to protect as well as his loved ones. Director: Marc Webb Writers: Alex Kurtzman (screenplay), Roberto Orci (screenplay) | 7 more credits » Stars: Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Jamie Foxx | See full cast & crew » BOX OFFICE  Released May 2nd 2014 Budget: $300 million Cumulative: $708 million Opening Weekend: $92 Opened #1  16 weeks #2 The Other Woman  #3 Heaven is Real #4 Winter Solider   SHOW NOTES SEND YOUR QUESTIONS:  onthesubjectpodcast@gmail.com OR   Follow us on:  Twitter:  @onthesubject1 Instagram:  @onthesubject Website: http://www.geeksrising.com LOGAN NAUGLE  Twitter:  @thatlogan Instagram: @thatlogan website: thatlogan.com ZACHARY ROSS JACKSON Twitter: @BossRossJackson  Instagram: @boss_ross_jackson MALCOLM RUSSEL-NELSON Twitter: @capnmalcolm 

Robert Pattison is the NEW BATMAN (9:24) Original Matthew Vaughn X-Men Trilogy Details (18:43) Keanu Reeves in Talks for Marvel's Eternals (25:22) Cancelled FOX Marvel Crossover Film Revealed (31:01) OSCORP in Spider-Man Far From Home (35:51)

Face front, true believers! This episode we're covering S1E6: 'The Sting of the Scorpion'. Wherever Mac 'MRA' Gargan goes, insults follow. Is this cruel and unfair? Yes. Does he deserve this? The answer is also yes. His monkey's paw wish to become one of Spider-Man's greatest villains doesn't exactly work out well for him, so he's left with the curse of being dunked on by everyone he meets, including the extra-dimensional beings recording a podcast about him. Robbie Robertson on the other hand... is a father figure to us all. Meanwhile, we find out why Jonah hates Spider-Man so much, what millennial invention can be credited to Peter Parker, and discuss the insurance policies of the frequently-exploding Oscorp. Then, after talking about the sixth episode of Spider-Man: The Animated Series, we look into the origins of Scorpion in The Amazing Spider-Man #20!​ To see some comic panels and other additional material to go along with the later segments, check out the full podcast notes at: https://that90sspidermanshow.home.blog/2019/04/21/episode-6-everybody-hates-the-scorpion/ A podcast for no one. If we get anything wrong, a wizard did it. Follow us on Twitter @ twitter.com/That90sSMshow Henry @ twitter.com/NotAgainHenry Jack @ twitter.com/jalexg_ Intro + Outro: @Razonix - Synthwave Spiderman Email us at: That90sspidermanshow@gmail.com

Na skutek wrogiego przejęcia Horizon Labs oraz Oscorp przez Allan Chemical w roku 2013 osiemdziesiąt sześć lat później „zanika” właściciel megakorporacji Alchemax – Tyler Stone. Jego syn i tamtejszy Spider-Man – Miguel O'Mara – wyrusza w przeszłość, by sprawdzić, co odpowiada za te wydarzenia. Jak przebiegnie spotkanie Superior Spider-Mana i Spider-Mana 2099? Czy Angelina Brancale rozpozna swoją dawną miłość w ciele Petera Parkera? Jak Spidey przywita Czarną Kotkę? Z kim spotyka się Mary Jane Watson? Co w tym czasie robią Zielony Goblin i Hobgolin? Posłuchajcie.

It's our Halloween episode all about the Green Goblin, Norman Osborn. Then again, Anthony would rather be in Kamchatka than celebrate Halloween, but he managed anyway. Listen now! SHOW NOTES:   Introduction Background (10:56) Created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko in Amazing Spider-Man #14 (July 1964) Head of Oscorp, a chemical company – discovered a secret formula created by his former business partner Mendell Stromm – attempted to recreate it, but it exploded in his face, driving him insane He decided to become a crime boss in NYC, and chose Spider-Man as his nemesis – unsuccessful in several attempts to defeat him Learns that Spider-Man is Peter Parker, a classmate of his son Harry, and attacks him – in the ensuing battle, Norman gets hit with electrical wires, giving him amnesia – Peter destroys the costume and uses this opportunity to start again Norman regains his memories and kidnaps Gwen Stacy – during the rescue attempt, Gwen dies, and Peter, driven by rage, nearly beats Norman to death, but he is impaled by his own glider Goblin formula gives him healing factor, so he breaks out of morgue – went to Europe to be with his illegitimate children he fathered with Gwen Stacy before he killed her (ugh) Orchestrates Clone Saga (ugh again) Returns to public eye and control of Oscorp – buys the Bugle and proceeds to torment Jameson, Ben Urich, and Peter Parker – uses a stand-in as the Goblin for a period Joined a cult, the Gathering of Five – received “gift” of Insanity, and defeated by Spider-Man again Went after Jessica Jones after she helped reveal that Osborn was the Goblin again – he was defeated this time by Luke Cage Masterminded a plan while in prison to go after Spider-Man, and created a team of villains, but was countered by SHIELD and other heroes Civil War – Osborn put in charge of Thunderbolts, a team of reformed villains who have to bring in unregistered heroes – uses them to go after Spider-Man Secret Invasion – kills the Skrull queen Veranke, and uses this to gain control of HAMMER – creates Dark Avengers, until that falls apart Seige – Osborn (under the influence of Loki) attacks Asgard (floating over Oklahoma) – manipulates Sentry into his lackey, except Sentry turns into Void, who destroys Asgard – Osborn driven mad by this Becomes Goblin King – builds army to attack Superior Spider-Man, but is defeated by Peter Parker (after given control of his body back by Otto) Later steals Carnage symbiote and becomes Red Goblin – defeated by Spider-Man once again, and driven insane so that he believes that Spider-Man was Norman Osborn and he was Cletus Kasady   Issues (23:47) Early on, treats Peter Parker as surrogate son and distances himself from Harry Insanity caused by Goblin formula – driven to constantly attack Spider-Man – Dissociative identity disorder How does he keep getting positions of authority even with his history? Treatment (48:02) In-universe Out of universe Skit (57:15) Ending REFERENCES: Robot Chicken - "What a twist!" - Doc/Anthony - 11:52 Jessica Jones episode - Doc - 17:31 South Park - Towelie - Anthony - 44:33 The Lego Movie - "Everything is Awesome" - Anthony - 45:14 Risk - Anthony - 51:34  iTunes: here Google Play: here Stitcher: here TuneIn: here iHeartRadio: here Twitter FacebookE-mailPatreon

28 Miles Morales Today we talk about Miles Morales, who became Spider-Man after the original Spider-Man died, Oscorp tried to recreate the spider that bit Peter Parker, and Miles ended up with powers and responsibilities at the tender age of 13. Media specifically mentioned in today's episode: -Rest in Peace, Steve Ditko -Into the Spider Verse trailer -a list of Ultimate Marvel titles -DC's New 52 -Donald Glover's spiderman standup -Community -Secret Wars -our episode on Jaime Reyes -our episode on Ted Kord -Revealed! The face of Peter Parker! -Champions -Ultimate Comics: Spider-Man (2011) -Miles Morales: Ultimate Spider-Man (2014) -Spider-Man (2016) -The Man of Steel (2018) -Batrimony -Preludes to the Wedding Support Capes and Japes by donating to the tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/capesandjapesFind out more on the Capes and Japes website.

Harry brags to Peter about his accomplishments since taking a position at Oscorp. GUESTS: Jonathan Carlisle and David Johnson Email: contact@spidermanminute.com Follow us on Facebook and Twitter Join our Listener Group: Spider-Man Minute Friendly Neighborhood Listeners Support us on Patreon and listen to the Weekend Bugle! Special … Continue reading →

In which our heroes break into Oscorp, let a bunch of animals loose and try to pet them all as we ask which would be the best radioactive animal to be bitten by? Check out our upcoming lives shows and purchase your tickets for our Melb Fringe Shows or UK tour right here; http://www.sanspantsradio.com/live/ Want to help fundraise in aid of PSC Support? Just head over to sanspantsradio.podkeep.com and give what you can for a brand new D&D adventure! And if you’re wanting to know more about PSC Support, you can head here; http://www.pscsupport.org.uk. Check out our upcoming lives shows and purchase your tickets for our UK tour right here; http://www.sanspantsradio.com/live/ Want to help support the show? Sanspants+: sanspantsplus.com Patreon: patreon.com/sanspantsradio Podkeep: sanspantsradio.podkeep.com USB Tapes: audiobooksontape.com Merch: redbubble.com/people/sanspantsradio or teepublic.com/stores/sanspantsradio Want to get in contact with us? Email: sanspantsradio@gmail.com Twitter: twitter.com/sanspantsradio Website: sanspantsradio.com Facebook: facebook.com/SansPantsRadio Reddit: reddit.com/r/sanspantsradio Or individually at; Duscher: twitter.com/dusch13 Jackson: twitter.com/Alldogsaredead Zammit: twitter.com/GoddammitZammit See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The Green Goblin kills the Oscorp board members while Peter races into action. GUEST: Scott Tofte Email: contact@spidermanminute.com Follow us on Facebook and Twitter Join our Listener Group: Spider-Man Minute Friendly Neighborhood Listeners Support us on Patreon and listen to the Weekend Bugle! Special Thanks to Patreon … Continue reading →

The whole festival watches in curiosity as someone flies an Oscorp glider overhead. GUEST: Scott Tofte Email: contact@spidermanminute.com Follow us on Facebook and Twitter Join our Listener Group: Spider-Man Minute Friendly Neighborhood Listeners Support us on Patreon and listen to the Weekend Bugle! Special Thanks to Patreon … Continue reading →

Peter attends Oscorp’s World Unity Day Festival to take pictures for the Bugle. GUEST: Brad Mendenhall Email: contact@spidermanminute.com Follow us on Facebook and Twitter Join our Listener Group: Spider-Man Minute Friendly Neighborhood Listeners Support us on Patreon and listen to the Weekend Bugle! Special Thanks to Patreon … Continue reading →

Norman is forced to resign by Oscorp’s board of directors. GUEST: Brad Mendenhall Email: contact@spidermanminute.com Follow us on Facebook and Twitter Join our Listener Group: Spider-Man Minute Friendly Neighborhood Listeners Support us on Patreon and listen to the Weekend Bugle! Special Thanks to Patreon Associate Producer: Ed … Continue reading →

This week the nerd news is never-ending: 6:00 - MEANWHILE: OJ Made In America, House Of Cards 12:24 NEWS: Game Of Thrones, Will Arnett Con, Arrow gets vigilant, Orphan Black end nears, Common goes Samurai, Legends gets villain, Rising Stars optioned, Deadpool pays Bea, More Conjuring, Donald Glover in next Spider-Man, who is the strongest, next X-Box, scent of a Jedi, Woman V Batman V Superman cake, West Side Spielberg. 1:02:24 EMAIL: Lexcorp or Oscorp, She-Hulk v Matt Murdock, Tom & Tom 4EVA, Cringeworthy movie moments, and Cartoon nightmares!

Pedro Arthur/UmcaraAí, Guilherme Bächtold, Adonis Guimarães e Rodrigo Rodfer estão presente nesse terceiro episódio para bater um papo sobre o Amigão da Vizinhança! Saiba o básico sobre o herói mais popular da Marvel, descubra qual é o principal super poder de Peter Parker nos quadrinhos, e especule conosco sobre o futuro do Cabeça de Teia nas telonas enquanto dissertamos sobre as prévias manifestações do Spidey nos cinemas. E claro, com um espetacular toque humor! Curta nossas páginas nas redes sociais e nos envie um email com críticas, sugestões e histórias pessoais relacionadas ao episódio, seu feedback é muito importante. Email para contato: flechada@umcaraai.com.br https://www.facebook.com/UmcaraAi https://twitter.com/pUmcaraAi https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC56VIbz4yZebAHW-sQ1FZ2A

Pedro Arthur/UmcaraAí, Guilherme Bächtold, Adonis Guimarães e Rodrigo Rodfer estão presente nesse terceiro episódio para bater um papo sobre o Amigão da Vizinhança! Saiba o básico sobre o herói mais popular da Marvel, descubra qual é o principal super poder de Peter Parker nos quadrinhos, e especule conosco sobre o futuro do Cabeça de Teia nas telonas enquanto dissertamos sobre as prévias manifestações do Spidey nos cinemas. E claro, com um espetacular toque humor! Curta nossas páginas nas redes sociais e nos envie um email com críticas, sugestões e histórias pessoais relacionadas ao episódio, seu feedback é muito importante. Email para contato: flechada@umcaraai.com.br https://www.facebook.com/UmcaraAi https://twitter.com/pUmcaraAi https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC56VIbz4yZebAHW-sQ1FZ2A

The PopcornTalk Network proudly presents Marvel News from Marvel Fans! In this vodcast series hosts Matt Key, Meredith Placko, and Coy Jandreau break all the new marvel news down! Lots of news in Marvel this week! New Ant-man teaser! Test screens for Spider-Man begin with 6 new actors! Stan Lee filmed his camera in Civil War! Charlize Theron in Marvel? Deadpool, Fantastic Four, and Xmen Apocalypse teases! All this AND MORE with today's Marvel Movie News!   Follow Matt Key on Twitter! Follow Coy Jandreau On Twitter! Follow Meredith Placko! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/marvelmovienews/support

Movie Menu Rants Podcast: Extended Episode! Episode #06: Do trailers give too much away? Hosted by: Dan "The Man" Muñoz and Alexander Z Special Guest: Luis Salguero Sound Engineer: Mike Stand ========================= Movie Menu Reviews moviemenureviews.com facebook.com/moviemenureviews twitter.com/moviemenureview Instagram.com/moviemenureviews YouTube Channel- Movie Menu Nowadays, with youtube, smartphones, tv spots, big blockbusters and oscar season, seems like Trailers for films are everywhere we look. There’s even multiple trailers throughout the course of a film’s release and not to mention their international trailers as well. Movie fans live for trailers… especially big budget films. Comic Con has basically become a trailer infused convention where people wait hours and even days just to get a glimpse of a teaser trailer for the upcoming comic book movies like Avengers Age of Ultron and Batman V. Superman Dawn of Justice just to name a few. Even special announcements and dates for when trailers are coming out… who wasn’t excited to see the Interstellar trailer when they announced it’s release. Even to go so far that people would buy tickets to a movie not to watch the movie but watch the trailer instead. Okay well QUESTION...Trailers are basically sneak peeks of what the movie we are about to watch… am I correct? Then why the hell do trailers nowadays basically give away the whole movie or deceive the audience on the tone of the film? I dunno what’s going on with the marketing for a lot of movies, but seems like they really want to give away the best parts in the trailers to draw the audience in or make us believe that the movie is depicted one way when in fact has nothing to do with the film. I’m not saying all trailers are awful… just this year there have been some very awesome trailers to be excited for… and some not so awesome to be excited for. What were some trailers that stood out to you guys this year if you can remember? For me.. Guardians of the Galaxy created just enough buzz where you weren’t sure the whole story other than a group of misfits coming together… but they hadn’t released the voices of Rocket or Groot and they had Hooked on a Feeling as their theme song and memorable quotes like what a bunch of a-holes and then I saw the movie and wow I was blown away. Perfect niche… now thats the nerd side… however the same did not work for The Amazing Spider-Man 2. My first initial reaction when I first saw The Amazing Spider-Man 2 was of course excitement but a little confusion as the trailer was jammed packed with a lot of interesting visuals but not sure how it would all fit together in the end. Then when I saw the film… what seemed to be a very important plot in the trailer didn’t show up in the film… Oscorp spying on Peter Parker… and wondered what happened. This isn’t the only movie this year that had bad trailers and bad marketing hurt a movie. Look at Live. Die. Repeat. Edge of Tomorrow. I really enjoyed this movie.. but wasn’t thrilled about watching it because the trailer depicted as this super serious scifi looping film and after Oblivion, which scored low on Rotten Tomatoes, many people were expecting a repeat of the same movie… however no where in the trailer or marketing did they even hint at this movie having humor of any kind. So my surprise when I found myself laughing at some points in film or having Emily Blunt be as bad ass as she turned out to be and again felt deceived by the trailer. Now I know the majority of the trailers are not cut by the director themselves or even the studios. They hire a third party production company who “specializes” in cutting scenes from the movies and turning them into trailers. I had a professor who, on the side, did that for a living and he would always mention how much he hated doing it cuz Trailers nowadays aren’t just used to just market the film… but to be mini movies in itself. This is why movies have started to give away more and more as the multiple trailers are released. I try to just watch the first trailer and try not watch the second or third trailer to keep my theater experience fresh. There have been some amazing trailers… like inception… even the new Tomorrowland where it gives just enough to keep us interested but you have no idea what the story is. I wish directors always had final say of the trailers for their films but thats not how business works… sometimes. I do love trailers but kind of wished we would just have one teaser and one official trailer that can be changed to fit international markets, and that’s it. Until we can get there.. I’ll just stick to watching the first trailer and avoiding everything else.

2014's The Amazing Spider-man 2   Peter Parker runs the gauntlet as the mysterious company Oscorp sends up a slew of supervillains against him, impacting on his life.   Cheapseat Reviews: Exploring the Hollywood film industry for the greater good. 

We went to see The Amazing Spider-Man 2, and Rob, Stephen, Zach, and The Boy share their VERY SPOILERY thoughts and reactions to the movie. WARNING: We're serious - we spoil this movie. If you haven't seen the movie, you should listen to this later. Peter Parker runs the gauntlet as the mysterious company Oscorp sends up a slew of supervillains against him, impacting on his life. Show your thanks to Major Spoilers for this episode by becoming a Major Spoilers VIP. It will help ensure The Major Spoilers Podcast continues far into the future!

We went to see The Amazing Spider-Man 2, and Rob, Stephen, Zach, and The Boy share their VERY SPOILERY thoughts and reactions to the movie. WARNING: We're serious - we spoil this movie. If you haven't seen the movie, you should listen to this later. Peter Parker runs the gauntlet as the mysterious company Oscorp sends up a slew of supervillains against him, impacting on his life. Show your thanks to Major Spoilers for this episode by becoming a Major Spoilers VIP. It will help ensure The Major Spoilers Podcast continues far into the future!

Estrenamos sección y mónguer. Merkito is here, y con la autoridad que le otorga el crear su propia gente, Merk estrena sección: No tenéis ni puta idea de lo que es la vida. Como cualquiera que sea padre, desprecia al resto de humanos que no lo son. Bien por Merk! Siérrer trae bocetos de secciones, pero sale muy bien. Zerf analiza la fauna que asiste a un preestreno, por ejemplo al de Amazing Spiderman 2. Y envía un CV para trabajar en Oscorp. Javiola trae noticias mónguers. Y Edu hace…

This week on the Major Spoilers Podcast, more Flash, ComiXology get hacked, the Six Million Dollar Man, The Movement, Witchblade, and your comments! Thanks to Shades of Vengeance for sponsoring this episode, check out their Era: The Consortium Kickstarter Tabletop RPG campaign. NEWS CW Flashes us with new costume LINK ComiXology gets hacked LINK REVIEWS STEPHEN SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN SEASON 6 #1 Jim Kuhoric (w) Juan Antonio Ramirez (a) Alex Ross, Ken Haeser (c) It’s the Six Millions Dollar Man’s 40th anniversary, and Dynamite is proud to bring you the direct continuation of the classic television series with Season 6! Better. Stronger. Faster. The original Six Million Dollar Man, Steve Austin was a man barely alive until the OSI turned him into the world’s first Bionic Man. Now he and Oscar Goldman are the most effective team in National Security. But a rogue faction in the OSI is making a power play for that position with a new type of infiltration agent – one that is completely obedient and robotic. Can a soulless machine that wears Steve Austin’s very face make the Six Million Dollar Man obsolete? For the 1st Time EVER! Fan favorite toy-line character Maskatron makes his Six Million Dollar Man debut and becomes a part of the classic television series mythology with a violent and terrifying purpose. And as Steve’s world is threatened from within, his very actions unknowingly release an alien menace upon an unsuspecting world. Classic action, powerful science fiction, and a cast of characters from one of television’s most original series combine to make The Six Million Dollar Man: Season Six a must have for comic fans! [rating:4/5] MATTHEW The Movement #10 Writer: Gail Simone Artist: Freddie Williams II Publisher: DC Comics Guest-starring Batgirl! The Movement goes head to head with Batgirl over someone who’s using Coral City as a sanctuary! Then, the team heads to West Virginia to stop Michael the Blessed from killing his brother: The Movement’s own Burden! [rating:3.5/5] RODRIGO Witchblade #173 Story By: Ron Marz Cover By: Stjepan Sejic Price: $2.99 Even without the Witchblade secured to her wrist, Sara Pezzini cannot escape the corrupting influence of the gauntlet. [rating:3.5/5] ZACH Evil Empire #1 (W) Max Bemis (A) Ransom Getty (CA) William Pyle From BOOM! Studios. WHY WE LOVE IT: After Polarity, we just had to work with writer (and Say Anything lead singer) Max Bemis again, and his thrilling take on how our modern society could evolve into an evil empire is absolutely terrifying. WHY YOU WILL LOVE IT: Every fan of fiction is aware of the trope of the "evil, sinister empire" i.e. the Empire in Star Wars. Oftentimes, when we are introduced to these totalitarian establishments, they are already fully in power and it's up to our hero to bring back order and peace. However, in Evil Empire, we explore how that would unfold in a real-world setting. How close to the precipice are we right now in the world we live in? Would we let it happen? More specific to this tale: Would we secretly want it to happen? WHAT IT'S ABOUT: Told through the perspective of an underground rapper named Reese, Max Bemis' gripping story explores a scenario in which we watch our modern society gradually evolve (or is it devolve?) into an evil empire. [rating:2/5] Major Spoilers Poll of the Week This time of year I notice a lot of people switching jobs, quitting jobs, or simply looking for opportunities to move ahead in the company. It must be on Eddie in Pittsburgh’s mind, as this week he wants to know what company you would rather work for – Lexcorp or Oscorp? [poll id="327”] http://majorspoilers.com/2014/03/11/major-spoilers-poll-week-lesser-two-evils/ Contact us at podcast@majorspoilers.com Call the Major Spoilers Hotline at (785) 727-1939. A big Thank You goes out to everyone who downloads, subscribes, listens, and supports this show. We really appreciate you taking the time to listen to our ramblings each week. Tell your friends about the podcast, get them to subscribe and, be sure to visit the Major Spoilers site and forums.

This week on the Major Spoilers Podcast, more Flash, ComiXology get hacked, the Six Million Dollar Man, The Movement, Witchblade, and your comments! Thanks to Shades of Vengeance for sponsoring this episode, check out their Era: The Consortium Kickstarter Tabletop RPG campaign. NEWS CW Flashes us with new costume LINK ComiXology gets hacked LINK REVIEWS STEPHEN SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN SEASON 6 #1 Jim Kuhoric (w) Juan Antonio Ramirez (a) Alex Ross, Ken Haeser (c) It’s the Six Millions Dollar Man’s 40th anniversary, and Dynamite is proud to bring you the direct continuation of the classic television series with Season 6! Better. Stronger. Faster. The original Six Million Dollar Man, Steve Austin was a man barely alive until the OSI turned him into the world’s first Bionic Man. Now he and Oscar Goldman are the most effective team in National Security. But a rogue faction in the OSI is making a power play for that position with a new type of infiltration agent – one that is completely obedient and robotic. Can a soulless machine that wears Steve Austin’s very face make the Six Million Dollar Man obsolete? For the 1st Time EVER! Fan favorite toy-line character Maskatron makes his Six Million Dollar Man debut and becomes a part of the classic television series mythology with a violent and terrifying purpose. And as Steve’s world is threatened from within, his very actions unknowingly release an alien menace upon an unsuspecting world. Classic action, powerful science fiction, and a cast of characters from one of television’s most original series combine to make The Six Million Dollar Man: Season Six a must have for comic fans! [rating:4/5] MATTHEW The Movement #10 Writer: Gail Simone Artist: Freddie Williams II Publisher: DC Comics Guest-starring Batgirl! The Movement goes head to head with Batgirl over someone who’s using Coral City as a sanctuary! Then, the team heads to West Virginia to stop Michael the Blessed from killing his brother: The Movement’s own Burden! [rating:3.5/5] RODRIGO Witchblade #173 Story By: Ron Marz Cover By: Stjepan Sejic Price: $2.99 Even without the Witchblade secured to her wrist, Sara Pezzini cannot escape the corrupting influence of the gauntlet. [rating:3.5/5] ZACH Evil Empire #1 (W) Max Bemis (A) Ransom Getty (CA) William Pyle From BOOM! Studios. WHY WE LOVE IT: After Polarity, we just had to work with writer (and Say Anything lead singer) Max Bemis again, and his thrilling take on how our modern society could evolve into an evil empire is absolutely terrifying. WHY YOU WILL LOVE IT: Every fan of fiction is aware of the trope of the "evil, sinister empire" i.e. the Empire in Star Wars. Oftentimes, when we are introduced to these totalitarian establishments, they are already fully in power and it's up to our hero to bring back order and peace. However, in Evil Empire, we explore how that would unfold in a real-world setting. How close to the precipice are we right now in the world we live in? Would we let it happen? More specific to this tale: Would we secretly want it to happen? WHAT IT'S ABOUT: Told through the perspective of an underground rapper named Reese, Max Bemis' gripping story explores a scenario in which we watch our modern society gradually evolve (or is it devolve?) into an evil empire. [rating:2/5] Major Spoilers Poll of the Week This time of year I notice a lot of people switching jobs, quitting jobs, or simply looking for opportunities to move ahead in the company. It must be on Eddie in Pittsburgh’s mind, as this week he wants to know what company you would rather work for – Lexcorp or Oscorp? [poll id="327”] http://majorspoilers.com/2014/03/11/major-spoilers-poll-week-lesser-two-evils/ Contact us at podcast@majorspoilers.com Call the Major Spoilers Hotline at (785) 727-1939. A big Thank You goes out to everyone who downloads, subscribes, listens, and supports this show. We really appreciate you taking the time to listen to our ramblings each week. Tell your friends about the podcast, get them to subscribe and, be sure to visit the Major Spoilers site and forums.

The Starburst Radio Podcast - Episode 4.2: R.I.P. Idris Elba In which Mike Royce suffers from Ryan Reynolds cufflink envy, copyrights several useless verses, and predicts the delivery of the Bryan Singer X-Men grab bag. Kris Heys isn’t impressed with the Oscorp villain factory, wonders about the wider adventures of Porkins in the Star Wars universe, and explains where he found his sodden box. There are Christmas shopping suicides, Roger from New Jersey returns, and something is definitely rotten in the state of Gotham, as two Red Bull fuelled editors struggle to present this post-deadline episode of Starburst Radio... All recordings are issued under official license from Fab Radio International

With a retelling of Spider-Man’s origin currently hanging around in theaters, the M&BLC crew decided to read four previous iterations of the web-slingin' wall-crawler’s origin. The tomes discussed are: Amazing Fantasy #15 by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko (1962) Spider-Man: Chapter One #1 by John Byrne (1998) Ultimate Spider-Man #1 by Brian Michael Bendis and Mark Bagley (2000) Ultimate Comics Spider-Man v2 #1 by Brian Michael Bendis and Sara Pichelli (2011) How does the Silver Age debut of Spider-Man hold up 50 years after its release? Did anything about John Byrne’s 1998 reboot work? And does Oscorp’s HR packet include an overview of Greek mythology? Find out in this episode! Katey Healy-Wurzburg hosts a monthly show at the Upright Citizens Brigade East Village Theatre called The Fascinator. You can follow her on Twitter at @khealywu. Curtis Retherford writes on his website, curtisretherford.com. Check out his upcoming web series, Quest for an Unknown Planet. Music: “It’s Real” by Real Estate "Katey Healy-Wurzburg and Curtis Retherford / Spider-Man Origins (1962-2011)" originally appeared at http://mattandbrettlovecomics.com/podcast/2012/spider-man-origins.html

In a bumper edition of the podcast Jonathan and Matt celebrate their one year podcast-versary by giving each other gifts. But first they get tangled up in a Spider-Man review where Matt questions how well Spider-Man would do with the ladies, Jonathan has some tips for being a super-hero in high school and they both share some concerns about OSCORP security. They also announce the winner of the 'Game of Thrones' competition, to see who will be walking away with a brand new book.