Spider-Man 4
 

Right now on ebay an org called Stand Up To Cancer is offering a walk-on-role to Spider-Man 4. Bidding is currently at $5000 and the auction ends Sept 5th

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=180282289817

Great that the money is going to Cancer research, but is seems that Sony is really phoning this in. If the person with the winning bid pays out over 5 grand, they should get the works.

The starting price was 99 cents so these bidders either really want to be in the film or are just doing it cuz the money is going to a good cause. Gonna be interesting either way. And the winner will be announced on a tv special that'll air on ABC, CBS, and NBC Sept 5th. I wish I had enough money to do this. Not to get in Spidey 4 but to just donate to cancer research.

Then just donate money to Cancer research. They could use donations with out having to give something out. Every little bit counts.

Yeah really. :P I can't believe you didn't know that it works that way.

Don't have $5,000+ but want to make a difference? Donate here. Just click the 'Donate Now' tab.

It really doesn't matter... the studio et al can write off any of the prizes as a Tax write off (someone correct me if I'm wrong), so the studio doesn't EVEN have to pay anything. It's just free PR...

Right, which has nothing to do with what I was saying. I'm saying don't wait for a BENEFIT for donating to cancer research, if you really want to help, then help.

Any big company that will willfully donate money towards something will use it to get a bang out of their bucks. The good PR isn't enough. Besides, other than a costume and a couple plane tickets, it's the prize winner who's paying the tab for them. So essentially, the company isn't paying anything, minus the cheap prize winnings. The winning bid will no doubt be numerous times the worth of the prize itself in cost to the company.

So technically, they aren't EVEN paying the bills here themselves. The winning bidder is. So technically, the company is just finding a way to take the credit while donating a paultry sum of gifts...

Let's see what we got....


Plane ticket, unless you have to pay for your own transportation. And I bet its coach. Unless they just swing a corporate jet over...

Cost? Nada.

Not only do they not have to pay an extra, they get someone who will stand in the background for free.

Again- Plane ticket or corproate jet....

This pretty much is the ONLY thing that would cost a real fortune....

Free, unless you count a limo... though, the winner could wind up sharing it with some smaller person who worked on the film (Head of the Dolly Grip Union or something)

So, you have a couple plane tickets and a couple designer suits... that's several thou right there (though some of it may just be extra stuff lying around)... but if people bid enough, it could be several times that.

Though I agree... cut the middle man out and donate some of the proceeds to something. Even if it is a PR stunt/tax write off...

Dude, he was talking to Raph's Girl. He meant she could donate without expecting anything in return.

What if I don't want to meet the actors but I want to meet the director and only one of the actors (Bruce Campbell)? lol

Yeah, exactly.

Yeah yeah...Actually I donated to breast cancer research this month. It was $5 but at least it was something...and I got some books I needed.

I'd donate to that org on ebay if I could but alas I cannae afford it. Buying groceries and paying bills has a higher priority.

It wasn't necessarily calling you personaly out, just the mentality that so many have towards needing something in return for donating to Cancer research. And nothing wrong with Donating only 5 bucks, every bit counts.

as for groceries and all that, I usually try to buy items that donate to atleast Breast cancer research whenever I go shopping. I'm seriously wearing pink hair ties right now because of it. :o

Yeah... I try and buy anything that'll donate to animals or breast cancer research. Im a member of the World Wildlife Fund. There's an e-card company called Care2 that whenver I send an ecard thru them to somebody they donate $1 to WWF and several other wildlife orgs. So hey...I do my part alot. I give $1 here or there. It's why Im poor. Much of my money goes to charities and the rest goes to paying the bills! :lol:

I wouldn't wear pink hair ties tho...I hate the color. But if it has to do with breast cancer research Im all there. My grandmother and one of my aunts are breast cancer survivors.

Well there's 7 hours left on the bid and the winner will probably be announced tonight at the stand up to cancer thing on tv. The current price is $12,700.00!

I don't know why you'd want to win that. 90% of the time with contests like these the winner gets put in but their scene is cut.

Looks like Sam Raimi is returning to direct Spidey 4. Tobey McGuire has also signed on to return as Peter/Spidey. No word on who the villian is but I really hope it's Lizard.

http://www.comics2film.com/index.php?a=story&b=35458

I wish they knew they were making Spidey 4 when they made Spidey 3... maybe then, they wouldn't have had to completely fill the thing with as many villains as possible...

Kirsten Dunst has said that she's "in".

http://splashpage.mtv.com/2008/09/29...she-in-or-out/

Goshdarnit, I guess Bring It On 10 will have to try and make it without her... :P


EDIT: Can I maybe blame this one on Jester? Krow maybe?? One of those guys are to blame, I'm sure of it!

Ugh.

Dunst seriously is the worst MJ on the f*cking planet. I wish they'd reboot the franchise, it's out of steam, and Raimi's style is good for a few things, but since he's stuck in the 1960s, we're not going to get anything more concrete where Peter's concerned. He doesnt "get" him at all. The villains he seems to care about more.

It would be way too soon to reboot, I think. It has to wait a little while longer. Rebooting Hulk had mixed results.

Something tells me this will be like the 1970's Superman films... 2 great ones at the beginning, and forgettable stuff thereafter. They really should have cut the amount of villains in 3 in half.

I didn't do nothing!!

I liked Kirsten at first, but I like her less and less as the sequels go on. In 3 she seemed to have absolutely no chemistry with Peter. I know that was the point, but still...

Looking back, my 'The Jester made me do it' joke/excuse for the initial bad joke was rather unclear... This is what happens when I get bored. >_<
Few can avoid-act like Kirsten. Tell her what to do, and she might be able to hit that mark. But, tell her what not to do, and she gets it every time.

I think the first two barely hold up. Sam didnt "get" Peter and MJ at all, and seeemed to have a ball with everyone else, which I thought were some of the best interpretations period of Norman, Harry, and Doc Ock.

Spider-man 3 didn't sit well with me. I'm a huge fan of Spidey though and I'm hoping he can get it right this time. A proper sequel(s) to Spider-man 2 definitely has my undivided attention. While Peter Parker was portrayed in what I found an appropriate way in the trilogy, i definitely think there are a couple attributes missing from his comic counterpart. I'm excited for James (Vanderbelt?..forgot the last name)'s script, so if they can fix up Peter just a little bit, I think this series will be back on track in a very good way.

It doesn't matter if the writers get the character right, because Maguire's got the charisma of a wet sponge and Raimi doesn't seem to have any interest in taking his source material seriously anyway.

Despite those things, Dunst is still the worst part of these movies. I figured Marvel would pull the plug after Raimi clearly took the piss with Spidey 3, but I guess they didn't get the joke (or it still made a boatload of cash).

That was their own fault. They begged Raimi to abandon a cohearant script he had with Vulture and Sandman, and stick an overrated, irrelevant character into it just to sell toys. Sam had every right to mangle the script and make it a piss-take, it'd lost any appeal to him.

Yeah, I know, but I figured Marvel wouldn't want to work with him anymore after that.

STFU, dopplegangers rule!

Wait until the Clone becomes optional before stickin' up for 'em hon:lol:

As for Marvel bringing back Raimi, hasnt Avi Avrad, the idiot who put him up to it, gone now?

Sam Raimi apperantly wants Morbius to be the villian for Spidey 4.... Ugh....Vampires are totally over rated. :ohwell:

http://joblo.com/raimi-wants-morbius

I wouldn't say so much over rated at the moment as over done.

Sigh.

I was actually looking forward to a Spider-man movie without the hack and the mannequin. Oh well.

Freaking 15 year olds and their internet culture... ruinin' all them vampires for us people who liked their campy attributes... people who wanna watch Blackula and Love at First bite and Groovy Ghoulies and like that....:tcouch:


They might as well revisit Spider-man's villains from The Electric Company while we're at it:

He's a cool character in his own right but not enough to carry a whole film. If it had some others in it he would make a good supporting villain. Honestly I see him fitting in better with Ghost Rider. Yeah vampires are over done but so are ninjas, zombies, and pirates. At least he was an established character. There's a bunch of others I'd prefer to see so this comes rather left field.

I watched Spider-man 2 recently and it didn't do anything for me. It used to be my favorite comic movie, saw it five times in theaters two of them Imax, but it lost that magic. I hated 3 but I need to give it another chance since I've only seen it once and I went in with expectations that were way too high.

I'll see what happens. I'm sure I'll end up in the theater. Spider-man is on the list with Batman and the Ninja Turtles of series I'll always give a chance...

Or maybe Blade, neh?

Vampires suck.