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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.

While Spider-Man 4 is still waiting for director Sam Raimi to be ready for action, it’s web-slinging star is moving on to something a little bit more indie — a black comedy called The Details.

What can’t Americans get enough of at the box office? You guessed it… comic books. Yet another comic book is slated to hit the silver screen—this time a sci-fi series aptly titled “Afterburn” from the independent comic book company Red5Comics that depicts a post-apocalyptic world in which part of the atmosphere has been destroyed and much of the population is dead.

Not even alliteration could save Spider-Man 3, but could a Pulitzer Prize winner swing in and save the day for the Spider-Man franchise? Columbia Pictures thinks so.

I know we don’t like thinking about Spider-Man much these days. That third movie truly put a bitter taste in everyone’s mouth. But with that in mind, I think we need to look at some things that could be positive about Spider-Man sequels.

Tobey Maguire will be donning the red, blue, and black suit once again as Spider-Man, except this time, there’s a catch. Spider-Man 4 and 5 will reportedly be shot back-to-back and because of a potentially grueling schedule, Tobey got a clause worked in to benefit being a father.

After the critical debacle that was Spider-Man 3 and the eye-opening masterpiece that is The Dark Knight, does anyone really care to see a fourth Spider-Man movie with the same creative team behind it? How about a fifth?

May 2011, according to producer Laura Ziskin via The LA Times Blog, is the tentative date for the fourth installment in one of the most successful franchises in history.

Who will don the suit? Who will have the power to leap from building to building using sticky web gunk shot from his wrists? Is there anyone out there that looks good in Spandex?

Spider-Man producers Laura Ziskin and Grant Curtis are currently in the process of looking over photos of young boys to fill the tight suit of the arachnid-like hero in the upcoming fourth and fifth installments.

Some people are scared of one thing (Freud was afraid of ferns), and some people are scared of everything.. Take Woody Allen. He suffers from many phobias, including Arachibutyrophobia — fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of his mouth.

50 Cent has regret, Errol Morris has a sense of humor and Jake Gyllenhaal might be playing in the Sands of Time. That, and a cool visual guide to this crazy George Bush Biopic from Oliver Stone.