He was the Jew Hunter in Inglourious Basterds; he is hunting the Green Hornet next as a diabolical gangster; and now Christoph Waltz is being rumored as the next Spider-Man villain. Is this man the ultimate villain? With only Avatar‘s Stephen Lang in close company, we’d say yes. And the thought of him squaring off with a Spider-Man played by Andrew Garfield in a movie directed by Marc Webb sounds like something with a lot of potential — the most potential since Sam Raimi, Tobey Maguire and Willem Dafoe joined forces back in the day.

Columbia Pictures has announced this evening that Andrew Garfield has been cast in the role of Peter Parker for their upcoming franchise reboot of Spider-Man, due in theaters on July 3, 2012. The film will begin production in early December directed by Marc Webb (500 Days of Summer) and a screenplay by James Vanderbilt.

Two days ago we — along with the rest of the web — reported the overwhelming non-situation of the Spider-Man casting situation. Sony is in the home stretch of picking the next Peter Parker, we know this to be true. Whether or not it will be revealed between now and Comic-Con at the end of July seems to be a point of much contention. The list of finalists has not changed since we reported it in late May. But now there are new reports that say Josh Hutcherson has accepted the role, and I hope they’re wrong.

Michael Fassbender, known for his incredible talent and his performance in Inglorious Basterds and Hunger, may play the younger version of Ian McKellan’s Magneto in Matthew Vaughn’s X-Men: First Class. He might also take a walk over to the Sony lot and star in Spider-Man, playing the villain for director Marc Webb. He may do none of these things. Just know that if he does them, he will do them well.

In a world gone made with press release of press releases of non-casting news, Robert Fure vents his frustrations, then goes back to work reporting which animal is cut from Furry Vengeance 2: The Furrier.

Everyone’s favorite web-slinger has found a new hope.

Marc Webb has officially been offered the job to take on Spider-Man for three full films. Are you ready for Spider-Man 4: Spider-Man 1? Great. What should it look like, smart guy?

This week, on a very special episode or Reject Radio, Landon Palmer attempts to explain why his fascination with nun orgies hasn’t gotten his Masters degree taken away from him.

This week, on a very special episode of Reject Radio, we discuss the finer points of something or other.

Reports are coming in from Nikki Finke and her new man-about-NYC Mike Fleming at Deadline that Spider-Man 4, as we know it now, is dead in the water.

That’s if Italian football shows are to be trusted for movie news.

This week, on a very special episode of Reject Radio, we change the entire face of the internet film podcast world by doing the show in photo-realistic 3D.

Movieline may have just scored one of the biggest scoops of the late year. Either that, or they’re about to be the biggest turkeys of the late year in movie news.

Yesterday I presented you with a list of Five Actresses Who Should Play The Black Cat in Spider-Man 4, and no where on there did I mention Anne Hathaway. That said, it seems as if Marvel and Sony Pictures aren’t listening to me.

If you read a lot of movie blogs, chances are that you’ve seen plenty of suggestions about this week’s top rumor, the question of who should play The Black Cat in Spider-Man 4. You can throw all of those suggestions out the window, because we’ve got our own list of ladies who should be wearing tight outfits and sneaking into NYC banks.

Someone on the inside is talking, and they’re talking about Spider-Man 4. And leave it to us to be last on the block to hear this ice cream truck ‘o fun.

It is safe to assume that the plot details and casting for Sony’s upcoming comic adventure Spider-Man 4 will not be kept secret for too much longer, but we’re still taking rumors with a grain of salt.

It’s the end of the week, and we’ve got a bunch of news stories in the bin here at Reject HQ that we’d like to share with you…

Columbia Pictures and the IMAX Corporation are press releasing this morning, letting us know that they will be releasing Spider-Man 4 on May 5, 2011 on the biggest of the big screen formats.

On the red carpet for the premiere of Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, Bruce Campbell squealed to Access Hollywood about the progress of the upcoming Spider-Man 4 production…