Spider-Man 4

• Ricky Gervais will cameo on The Office next week — Inside TV
• Watch Zooey Deschanel in She & Him's latest video for "Don't Look Back" — Vulture
• See some footage from the filming of Spider-Man 4 — Moviefone
• Larisa Oleynik snagged a recurring role on Hawaii Five-0 — PopWatch
• Find out 17 things you didn't know about Seinfeld — TV Squad
• Paul Rudd and Jennifer Aniston pose for the first movie still from Wanderlust — The Playlist
• Kyra Sedgwick joins the horror film Dibbuk Box — Coming Soon
• The Company Men producer John Wells talks to Savvy about the job market — SavvySugar
• Watch the trailer for Rubber, a movie about a killer tire (seriously) — Pop Candy

• The Vampire Diaries, Gossip Girl, Supernatural, America's Next Top Model, and 90210 have all been picked up for another season — The Ausiello Report
• Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island is going to get a movie adaptation — Coming Soon
• Check out the full lineup of acts at the 2010 Sasquatch Music Festival — PopCandy
• Vampire flick Vlad is getting its script reworked by the writer of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre — MTV Movies Blog
• The Defendor trailer starring Woody Harrelson, Kat Dennings, and Sandra Oh is out — PopWatch
• Amy Smart has landed a role as a nurse in a pilot for a CBS medical drama — HitFix
• James Cameron has met with Marc Webb to discuss the next Spider-man — Inside Movies
• Watch the new music video for "Jump Up in the Air" from Lil Wayne and Erykah Badu — Vulture
• Tori Spelling is writing a children's book — LilSugar

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Spider-Man 4 may be dead, but Sony is wasting no time in moving on to its replacement. Word is the studio has hired (500) Days of Summer director Marc Webb to orchestrate the first film in the new saga — as well as two additional movies based around the younger Peter Parker and his spandexed alter ego. The news may seem surprising for a relative newcomer to feature film, but Webb supposedly has two things in his favor: Columbia's chairman Amy Pascal likes him, and he comes with a much cheaper price tag than veteran Sam Raimi.

I was against a Spider-Man update before, but things just got interesting. Webb took a ton of lighthearted liberties with Summer, so I'm hoping his younger sensibility and creativity can breathe some life into the old franchise. Let's just hope we've seen the last of those Peter Parker dance sequences.

• Daniel Craig is in talks to star in Jon Favreau's Cowboys & Aliens — Coming Soon
• Check out the Middle Ages-set Ironclad trailer, starring Paul Giamatti and Kate Mara — PopWatch
• Starz may be canceling Crash — TV by the Numbers
• Mr. Schue — I mean Matthew Morrison — has signed with Mercury Records — HitFix
• Check out a retrospective of Denzel Washington's best movies — Rotten Tomatoes
• (500) Days of Summer's Marc Webb is rumored to be a contender to direct the next Spider-Man movie — MTV Movies Blog
• Adam Shankman is trying to get Robert Pattinson or a Twilight cast member for the Oscars — Vulture
• Jackie Earle Haley is rumored to be starring as villain Sinestro in The Green Lantern — Cinematical
• Kellan Lutz is in the running to star in the Conan the Barbarian remake — PopSugar

Following recent script woes, Sony has announced via press release that it's pulling the plug on Spider-Man 4. In its place, they're developing a fresh storyline that takes the webslinger back to high school. The film will reportedly focus "on a teenager grappling with both contemporary human problems and amazing super-human crises" (wait, I thought that was the first Spider-Man?!).

The studio is eying a Summer 2012 date, but the other big change: it's bringing in a brand-new cast and production team for the reboot. That means that Tobey Maguire and director Sam Raimi are both saying goodbye.

This swap really irks me. To salvage Spider-Man 4's problems by recasting just seems like a desperate attempt at some blockbuster-sized money. Sure, the younger Spidey will give the franchise new life, but I think I would've rather seen it die — at least for several years until the memory of Maguire's version is long gone (heaven help us if they cast a less adept teen heartthrob for the role). Don't you agree? Or are you excited for a makeover of the beloved superhero?

• A new promo pic of Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter — Coming Soon
• Everything you need to know about Lost in eight minutes and change — TV.com
• Spider-Man 4 has been pushed back due to script woes — Vulture
• Peep this early look at Will Arnett in Parks and Recreation — The Ausiello Files
• Pretty much every Precious cast member (Mariah Carey, included) has been nominated for an NAACP Image Award — E! Online
• The writers of Zombieland are penning the screenplay for Deadpool, the X-Men spinoff with Ryan Reynolds — MTV Movies Blog
• Yoko Ono has plans for a John Lennon memoir — Rock & Roll Daily
• The most ridiculous trailer ever. You can decide if it's fake — Funny or Die
• Here's the full soundtrack list for Valentine's Day — HitFix
• Would you read the leaked Eclipse script? — PopSugar

• Yep, this Michael Bay commercial for Victoria's Secret is exactly what you'd expect — Vulture
• VH1's latest reality show is the docu-soap Basketball Wives — Hollywood Reporter
• Frank Langella has joined in the cast for Unknown White Male — Coming Soon
• Vampire satire Transylmania breaks the record for lowest opening ever — Cinematical
• CBS has canceled long-running soap opera As the World Turns — The Ausiello Files
• A retrospective of the films Clint Eastwood has directed — Rotten Tomatoes
• Avatar is getting Golden Globes awards buzz after some early reviews — HitFix
• Spider-Man 4 rumor watch: John Malkovich may play villain The Vulture — Movieline
• Mystery Science Theater 300 is coming to Hulu! — PopWatch
• Re-create the interior look of one of my favorite holiday movies: Elf — CasaSugar

The rumor mill keeps churning about Spider-Man 4. Let's recap: First, word spread that Rachel McAdams would be playing new villain Felicia Hardy, aka The Black Cat in the fourquel — hearsay which McAdams later denied. Earlier this week Julia Stiles's name started floating around instead. And now Anne Hathaway is the latest to be added to the running.

Hathaway and Spidey seem like a solid pairing — she'll up the A-list wattage of the film, and I think a superhero blockbuster would be a nice addition to her resume. But what about Stiles? She's been in the Jason Bourne series, so she does have the experience of working on a mega franchise. Still, I just can't imagine her busting chops and throwing around kicks like Hathaway.

Neither actress is even confirmed yet, which means other ladies could still step into the roles! Let's discuss who you would like to see take on The Black Cat part —Stiles, Hathaway, or do you have another actress that you would cast?