Word: spidey
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...really have a bad back that limits his ability to do stunts? Yes, but it's feeling fine these days, thanks. Did Columbia Pictures try to replace him in Spider-Man II with rival boy-man Jake Gyllenhaal? And did he have to beg his way back into the Spidey suit, with the help of the aforementioned well-connected girlfriend? No comment beyond "And here we are." Plus a zap with the lasers to say, Move...
Seabiscuit is the acid test for Maguire. For one thing, he has to find out if people can look at him and not see Spidey. As Christopher Reeve found out, once you put on the tights, it can be hard to get them off. For another thing, Peter Parker was a high school kid. This is the first time we'll see Maguire as a man playing a man. "There probably won't be a lot more things I do where the character is, like, a virginal, innocent, sexually naive kind of guy," he acknowledges. "Only because being...
...course, counterprogramming isn't a fail-safe strategy. Universal released About a Boy last month, hoping that female moviegoers would choose Hugh Grant over Spidey and Anakin. Though the comedy got stellar reviews and has already earned back its $27 million cost, it might have made more in a less crowded season. A small art film can turn a profit in a few theaters, while more expensive films intended as counterprogramming must compete with blockbusters for a wider audience. Universal plans to keep About a Boy on select screens throughout the summer and pull it up to a $40 million...
Tobey Maguire, as many have noted, is an unlikely action hero. Then again, so is Spider-Man. Maguire's own background as a lonely California kid may have been better preparation for his break-out role as the angst-ridden Spidey than hours in the gym. Before Spider-Man made him internationally famous, Maguire was known as one of Hollywood's go-to actors for troubled-youth parts: a neglected loner in The Ice Storm (1997), a teen yearning for escape in Pleasantville (1998), an orphan searching for a home in The Cider House Rules (1999), a self-destructive college...
...sympathetic father figure, battles monsters and stumbles toward a complicated manhood. We doubt that the Spider-Man people swapped script notes with George Lucas and his Star Wars: Episode II--Attack of the Clones team; still, the similarities are striking. So, probably, are the eventual box-office numbers. Spidey has quickly scaled the Hollywood heights, but Lucas may be able to ward off this arach attack. Remember, folks: every previous Star Wars movie has been the top-grossing film of its year...