Via Twitter, Sony Pictures has set May 6, 2011 as a release date for Spider-Man 4. So now that the Watchmen complaining is officially over, we can start fresh on Spidey-Bemoaning: Lizard vs. Kraven, kill off or don’t kill off Mary Jane, heart or hate Sam Raimi, and so on…

I can never get enough of behind-the-scenes film blogs. There’s certainly a delight to be found in reading movie reviews, fanboy rants and all of the latest Hollywood news, but when it comes to the nuts-and-bolts of filmmaking, from the people who are down in the thick of it, I eat it up like a [...]

Well, that’s too bad. Back a year or so ago when I heard that they’d be making a movie out of Judi and Ron Barrett’s terrific kids’ book Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, I hoped maybe it’d be made live-action. Handled well, the idea of seeing an actual town where it rained hotdogs and [...]

Is there a movie that you would simply delete from history if you could? Just travel back in time, knock off the screenwriter and then watch the movie’s IMDB page fade away into the space-time continuum?
We’ve all got these, right? Historically speaking, we’d all have been better off if some movies just didn’t exist. [...]

Dedicated screenwriting 101 here: From an interview with Harrison Ford on the MTV Movies Blog in which the inevitability of another Indiana Jones movie is mentioned:

MTV: Is the ball in George’s court at this point?

Ford: It is. That’s the process. With some general input he goes off and searches for the MacGuffin and then stumbles [...]

In its never-ending effort to run its valuable properties not just right into the ground but also beat them and shred them and burn, stomp and otherwise destroy them beyond all possible recognition until suddenly they’re new and then begin the whole thing all over again, Hollywood seeks to further “leverage” its X-Men properties into [...]

In an industry like Hollywood where once-famous actors and actresses are thrown upon the heap of public boredom; where today’s hotshot agent can’t get anyone on the phone tomorrow; where crafty and clever screenwriters, having failed to score multi-million dollar spec sales, are stacked on the bottom of a low-level development executive’s weekend read list; [...]