Sep 16 2009 Get Your Spider-Man Costume Dry Cleaned By May 6, 2011

Because that's when Spider-Man 4 will be released, "web-slingers!" This article from yesterday's Variety claims director Sam Raimi and stars Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst are on board, with the script being written by Gary Ross.

Ross's previous writing jobs have been a bizarrely mixed bag, including Big, Pleasantville, Mr. Baseball, and the film that gave Kevin Kline his most memorable dual-role, Dave, so it's anyone's guess what this guy is going to come up with for a Spider-Man movie.

I wonder what happened to the talk of a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright writing the script. I'm just going to assume Raimi switched writers to find someone with more experience in writing the themes he has planned for the fourth film. Meaning his ideas for Spider-Man 4 probably revolve around Spider-Man magically aging, magically entering a '50s television show, playing baseball as Tom Selleck in Japan, and being both the U.S. President and someone who looks so insanely similar that he can pass as the U.S. President. So, basically, it's already way better than Spider-Man 3.

Jul 10 2009 'Brothers' Poster: Time to Learn the Two Extremely Specific Sides of Every Family

There are two sides to every family: the side on which naked Tobey Maguire shuns Natalie Portman's intense back adoration, and the side where Jake Gyllenhaal thinks, "Man, I never get invited to the back-kissin' party. I wonder whose backs-of-heads these are, anyway." If your family is missing one or both of those sides, sorry, but you aren't a real family.

'Brothers' Poster Premiere [Cinematical]

Jul 8 2009 Spider-Man Recreating Interstitial Scenes from 'The Great Outdoors'

Tobey Maguire battling marital issues and also raccoons? That sounds sort of like a movie, explains Variety:

Tobey Maguire is set to star in "The Details," an indie black comedy written and directed by Jacob Estes. Shooting begins August in Seattle.

Maguire joins Elizabeth Banks in the pic about a struggling married couple who, already struggling with issues like infidelity and whether they should stay married, see their lives further complicated by ravenous raccoons burrowing under the sod in their back yard. A disagreement over how to dispatch the pests creates a chain reaction of mishaps that include a murder by bow and arrow

With any luck, the raccoons will be CGI and possess knowledge of singing and the English language, so we can finally get the Alvin and the Chipmunks we really wanted. The one that in involves murder by bow and arrow.

Jul 6 2009 'Brothers' Trailer: No, Not the Movie About the Reunited Tiger Cubs

When news comes back that Tobey Maguire has died in the line of duty, brother Jake Gyllenhaal makes sure he really "takes care" of the widowed Natalie Portman. Yeah, that's right, "takes care" with quotes. (Sex.) Which wouldn't be such a big deal, except it turns out Maguire has survived! He's home! He's making intense, award-baiting faces! And he's understandably displeased with the whole wife-sleeping-with-his-brother thing.

I can't believe the trailer gives away the shot where he turns into Vader:

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Oct 31 2008 Pulitzer Prize-Winning Playwright Writing 'Spider-Man', Probably Thinks He's Better Than Us

Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Lindsay-Abaire is in final negotiations to write Spider-Man 4. This will be the Spider-Man for the literati! From THR:

Lindsay-Abaire, who won a Pulitzer in 2007 for his drama "Rabbit Hole," is in final negotiations to write "Spider-Man 4" for Columbia.

Sam Raimi and Tobey Maguire are back as director and star, respectively, as are series producers Laura Ziskin and Avi Arad. Kirsten Dunst also is expected to return for the latest movie featuring the Marvel Comics character.

Lindsay-Abaire has said in interviews that his plays tend to be "peopled with outsiders in search of clarity," which would put his work on sympathetic terms with Peter Parker, who in his classic incarnation is the perpetual outsider.

A Pulitzer prize-winner writing a Spider-Man is nothing new, but a playwright this time? Yikes! Is this Spider-Man or Death of Spider-Man?! Is this Spider-Man or Spider-Madame Butterfly?! Spider-Man or Streetcar Named Desire, Which is Being Suspended by Webs of Spider-Man?! Spider-Man or Shrek the Musical...-Man????

Nah, this should fine. Almost anything would improve on the last sequel. Though I am slightly concerned that Lindsay-Abaire wrote Inkheart, which looks terrible (in fairness, everything with Brendan Fraser looks terrible), and Shrek the Musical, which is Shrek the Musical.

Sep 17 2008 Tobey Maguire Getting Well Reimbursed for Pretending to be Superhero

Sony is reportedly ready to pay Tobey Maguire $50 million to shoot Spider-Man 4 and 5 back-to-back, plus grant him mornings and evenings off to spend with his young daughter. From Times Online:

In a victory for working fathers in Hollywood, the actor Tobey Maguire has been granted “family time” with his young daughter as part of an unprecedented deal to star in the next two Spider-Man movies.

Maguire was willing to shoot Spider-Man 4 and 5 back-to-back over six months next year but insisted he should take early mornings and evenings off so he could play with his “favourite blonde”, Ruby Sweetheart, who is 22 months old.

This arrangement does not sit well with Steve McQueen's wife Barbara, who for some reason was asked about it:

Some critics have mocked the current generation of Hollywood actors as “boy-men”. Steve McQueen’s widow Barbara said she could not imagine him asking for “family time” when making The Great Escape.

Firstly, why are you, Steve McQueen's widow Barbara, addressing the issue of if Steve McQueen is more manly than Tobey Maguire? Even if we assume for a moment that it's not plain to everyone that Steve McQueen is obviously manlier than Tobey Maguire, who gives a shit? Who is comparing Bullitt to the weird kid from Wonderboys? Did she call someone to say this? Did someone call her? I can't figure out why I would ever see the words "Steve McQueen's widow Barbara" if I'm neither reading an article about Steve McQueen nor Steve McQueen's widow Barbara.

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Oct 3 2007 Some Other Crap That Happened...

- More pictures from the Sex and the City set reveal Carrie appears to be marrying Mr. Big in the same garish, over-the-top manner as the rest of the show. [The Superficial]

- Rumor is spreading that McG, director of the Charlie's Angels franchise, is attached to direct Terminator 4. Just as soon as he can find a way to stretch cute boy underwear over liquid metal. [CHUD]

- IMDB added a new character profiles to the database, allowing users to see who has played a particular character and in what films or shows the character has appeared. This will aid me in my quest to see every movie featuring the character of "topless slut." [IMDB]

- Gullermo del Toro may finally get to shoot his passion project, At the Mountains of Madness, adapted from the Lovecraft novel. This drastically decreases my hopes of seeing a reality series about that Pan's Labyrinth guy with the eyes in his hands. [Latino Review]

- Natalie Portman will star in Brothers alongside Jake Gyllenhaal and Tobey Maguire, who play some sort of blood relatives. [Variety]

- Over 2,000 production stills, production budget, breakdowns, and other top-secret materials were stolen from the set of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. TMZ will have the Jones Sex Tape posted within the hour. [IESB]

Sep 7 2007 Maguire Climbing in Robotech Suit

Tobey Maguire's Maguire Entertainment and Warner Bros. have picked up the right to anime classic Robotech and hope to bring it to screens with Maguire in the lead. After three big-budget Spider-Man films in the bag, the young actor is ready to return to those smaller, intimate, giant robot mech suits in outer space roles that gave him his start.

The move was spurred on by the recent success of the $311 million-grossing giant robot flick Transformers, as well as the long-held understanding that giant robots are really awesome.

Maguire, WB attack the big screen with 'Robotech' [Hollywood Reporter]