After the massive weekend success of Sony Animation Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, there are plenty of rival studios looking to execute their comic book IP differently on the big screen. All too often, animated superhero projects are released directly in-house (think the countless Warner Bros. DC superhero movies like 2010 Superman/Shazam!: The Return of Black Adam and avant-garde Disney+/Marvel Studio series What if?). Leave it to the guys who surprised a lot of people by winning almost half a billion The Lego Movie, Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, to once again revolutionize the family animated genre.
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On today’s episode of Crew Call we talk to the writers and producers of Beyond the spider’s web in an animated style upgrade from their first Oscar-winning film Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, handling a number of projects with their production Lord Miller (they produced the $87 million winter hit, The Cocaine Bearand they have the second season of The Afterparty on AppleTV+ this July and Universal’s R-rated dog comedy, stray out in August in theaters), their next live-action director, and their thoughts on what AMPTP should do to end this WGA strike.
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Says God, “The thing to keep in mind and it’s simple to understand is that writers’ pay has been cut 25% and budgets have gone up and executive compensation has gone up. It’s not sustainable that way. I think a fair deal is absolutely within reach.”
Spider Man: Beyond the spider’s web grabbed the summer’s best opening to date with $120.6 million domestically, the third-best domestic opening ever for a Spider Man film, with a total global opening of $209 million.
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