Sam Raimi

A few weeks ago a rumor came out that production on Spider-Man 4 was halted due to creative differences between Sony Pictures and director Sam Raimi. Well it looks like those rumors were true and things may be a bit more dire than we thought.

Last week we got our first piece of info on Spider-Man 4 in the form of a casting update for the potential villains. Aside from the rumor that the character of Felicia Hardy aka The Black Cat, rumored to be played by Ann Hathaway, would be turned into a new villain called the Vulturess the majority of people were happy to hear that John Malkovich would be possibly portraying the Vulture. Well it seems like everyone was happy about aside from Sony Pictures.

Iron Man 2, Thor, Captain America, and The Avengers aren’t the only Marvel superhero films coming out in the next few years as there’s also a fourth Spider-Man film via Sony Pictures planned for 2011.  While the news that director Sam Raimi would once again be telling Tobey Maguire what to do as Spider-Man isn’t new since it was announced some time ago it almost seemed like everyone forgot we had another tale of New York’s web slinger in production.

The somewhat odd video game movie news continues after last week’s Dante’s Inferno news as today we have an update on the World of Warcraft movie.  Speaking to the MTV Movie Blog director Sam Raimi (yeah, the dude who made Evil Dead and Spider-Man is helming WoW) said that writer Robert Rodat is putting together a script that really feels like a WoW adventure.  Now that isn't particularly an exciting piece of news or an interesting comment except for the