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New Spider-Man Has Been Cast PLUS New Director Announced

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You see that face over there to the right of this text? That young man, ladies and gentlemen, is named Tom Holland and will be your new Spider-Man as announced by  Marvel . Of course, we knew the news of the casting would be coming soon as the cast of Captain American: Civil War continues to take shape as they gear for a 2016 release. However, Marvel has yet to announce that Holland will be playing Spider-Man in that movie yet, we're all just making that assumption. What is known for sure is that the next Spider-Man movie, paid for by Sony and co-produced by Kevin Feige, president of Marvel Studios, will star Holland, will be released on July 28th, 2017 and (as announced today) will be directed by Jon Watts. Neither Watts nor Holland have a whole lot to list on their respective IMDb page but maybe that's a good thing, right? Taking the reigns of a much-loved yet much-criticized entity such as Spider-Man comes with a truck-load of pressure and expectations on it's ow...

Greatest Crossover of All Time is Actually Happening

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This past December there was a lot of inside information that was revealed because of the Sony hack. Obviously the biggest thing to come out of it was that at one point there was talk of Spider-man returning to Marvel and being a part of the MCU. And it's very possible that this information getting leaked to the public may have played a big part in the deal actually finalizing and going through. But the whole Spider-man aspect of everything was such a big deal that it ended up burying other stories that were also revealed, but nobody had much time to talk about them because everyone was to busy focused on Spider-Man. It turns out that one of the more wild ideas that cropped up in the leak is actually being given serious consideration. Sony is apparently developing a crossover of the 21 Jump Street Franchise and the Men In Black franchise. Now before you roll your eyes at that remember that Jump Street creators Phil Lord and Chris Miller are the kings at taking terrible idea...