Tobey Maguire Back For Spiderman 4 & 5 With ‘Family Time’ Included In The Contract
He will be shooting the two movies back to back next year over a period of six months but insisted he should take early mornings and evenings off so he could play with his “favorite blonde”, Ruby Sweetheart, who is 22 months old.  A friend of Tobey’s said last week: “Tobey admits he is obsessive-compulsive about everything he does, and raising Ruby is no different.  There’s no way Tobey would allow work, no matter how well paid, to get between him and Ruby, and Sony realized that.” S

Tobey Maguire Insists He Gets 'Spider-Man' Mornings And Evenings Off For Potty Training Duty [The Good Dad Discount]
The Spider-Man franchise has a reluctant protagonist in its star Tobey Maguire, who has now lived out more web-slinging adventures than quirky leading men twice his age, and who sounds more interested in watching his baby Ruby Sweetheart take her first earthbound steps than he is chasing The Lizard up the side of a skyscraper. Among the terms of his recent negotiation with Sony to shoot Spider-Man 4 through 5, he insisted, among the expected profit-sharing perks, upon a shortened schedule to accommodate for

Maguire Pulling in $50 Million for 'Spider-Man 4' and '5'
That's a lot of pennies

Tobey Maguire’s Spider-Man Sequel Deal?
Tobey Maguire is that much closer to signing a deal for the next two Spider-Man films. According to The Times Online, Maguire is willing to shoot Spider-Man 4 and Spider-Man 5 back-to-back over six months next year for a record $50 million in salary and profit shares. The story makes a big deal of a supposed clause in the contract which would give Maguire unprecedented early mornings and evenings off for “family time”. The idea is that shooting two films back to back is an exhausting task, and

Tobey Maguire Offered Megabucks, Half-Days For Spidey 4 & 5
When news came out that Tobey Maguire would return to his role as Peter Parker in not only Spider-Man 4 but Spider-Man 5 as well I figured someone just got really paid. Sure enough, Maguire is going to be raking in the big bucks on this one. Set to earn $50 million for his work on the back-to-back films, Maguire will move into the arena of some of the highest paid actors out there. Not only with Tobey pull in an average of $25 million per film he’ll be getting an incredible deal on his daily schedu

Tobey Maguire Makes Unprecedented Deal for Spider-Man 4 & 5
The man behind the webs gets $50 Million for the films, and time off to spend with his daughter.

Tobey, Jennifer & Ruby Do Breakfast
Tobey Maguire and his wife Jennifer Meyer take their 1 1/2-year-old daughter, Ruby Maguire, out for breakfast at the M Cafe in Hollywood on Sunday. Photos: Flynet SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Tobey, Jennifer & Ruby Do Breakfast", url: "http://www.celebritybabyscoop.com/?p=14855" });

Tobey Scores Sweet Spidey Deal—So Who's Next?
We told ya more than two weeks ago that despite comic-book nerds and H'wood types alike saying otherwise about the fate of the next two Spider-Man movies, it wasn't a done deal for Tobey Maguire to star in Spidey 4 and 5. Now today comes word that Tobes has been granted even bigger benefits than a multimillion-dollar payday—T.M. will have "family time," meaning he'll have early mornings and evenings off during the six-month shoot so he can spend time with his 22-month-old tot, Ruby. This is exactly w

Tobey Maguire Takes Spider-Man Maternity Leave
Peter Parker has play time and $50 million in cash.

Tobey Maguire Stepping Closer to Spider-Man 4 and 5 Deal
As part of the deal for his return to the superhero franchise, the actor has been granted 'family time'.

Tobey’s Family Is More Important Than His Spidey Sense
Tobey Maguire was looking slim on his way to a meeting in LA yesterday. The actor has been busy saving the world with Leonardo DiCaprio lately, and before he gets back to the business of being a superhero, he is making sure to factor in family time to his rumored Spider-Man sequels contract. Since the fourth and fifth movie are supposedly filming back-to-back for six months, Tobey wanted early mornings and evenings off so he could spend time with Ruby — so sweet, but no surprise coming from a guy who brou

Tobey Maguire's Preposterously Hard Life
Pity poor Tobey Maguire. Sure, he's just signed up to film both Spider-man 4 and 5 back-to-back, but at what cost? Well, now we know—$50 million for six months worth of work, and, uh...100% paid vacation. Maguire only agreed to the deal after making sure he had mornings free and would be able to quit at mid-afternoon for "family time." So say your prayers for Mr. Maguire tonight, knowing that he's being barely compensated for a half-year of half-days of work. This raises an interesting point I was disc

Tobey Maguire use pens as tooth picks
Tobey Maguire was driven to a meeting in Santa Monica in a hydrogen powered BMW. The actor seemed relaxed as he chewed on a tooth pick and read variety while a female driver manned the wheel. However, the tooth picks obviously didn't do the trick as he opted for a pen to dislodge whatever was in his teeth as he walked into the building. Related articles: Tobey Maguire looses his temper! Posted: Thurs

Tobey Maguire Schedules Film Shoot Around Daddy Duty
So the Spiderman protagonist has been asked to shoot Spidermans 4 and 5 in a single six-month period (back-to-back), and he agreed — granted he got mornings and evenings off to spend with his 22-month-old daughter, Ruby Sweetheart. 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. The 33-year-old actor is expected t

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

Spider-Man's next foes?
With Tobey Maguire and director Sam Raimi all but confirmed to shoot Spider-Man 4 and 5 back-to-back next year -- a massive undertaking expected to web up $50 million for Maguire -- what villains are left to menace your friendly neighbourhood wall-crawler? Electro? Rhino? Tarantula? Scorpion? No one's saying, so we took it upon ourselves to handicap some of the potential candidates: The Lizard: Ever since Dylan Baker was introduced as one-armed Dr. Curt Connors in Spider-Man 2, fans have been anticipating

Spider-Man No Workey Without Family Time
Tobey Maguire will once again reprise his biggest role as Spder-Man in the fourth and fifth films, which will be filmed back-to-back over 6 months next year. He'll get paid a record $50 million to do so AND he's got a "family clause" written into his contract. This means he'll be granted early mornings and evenings off to spend with his 22-month-old daughter Ruby Sweetheart. Sony studios realized that without this family clause, Maguire would very likely not return to their much-neede

Tobey's Back As Spidey With Family
Well, at least one of them's coming back. Peter Parker's big screen alter ego Tobey Maguire has signed on to return as the webslinger in the next two Spider-Man flicks, tentatively named.....Spider-Man 4 and 5. And just like an amazing father would do, Maguire negotiated with Sony to have some "family time" in his contract so he could spend some quality time with his 22-month-old daughter Ruby. According to the report, Tobey's buddy said: Tobey admits he is obsessive-compulsive about everything

Tobey's Family Is More Important Than His Spidey Sense
Tobey Maguire was looking slim on his way to a meeting in LA yesterday. The actor has been busy saving the world with Leonardo DiCaprio lately, and before he gets back to the business of being a superhero, he is making sure to factor in family time to his rumored Spider-Man sequels contract. Since the fourth and fifth movie are supposedly filming back-to-back for six months, Tobey wanted early mornings and evenings off so he could spend time with Ruby — so sweet, but no surprise coming from a guy who

Tobey's Family Is More Important Than His Spidey Sense
Tobey Maguire was looking slim on his way to a meeting in LA yesterday. The actor has been busy saving the world with Leonardo DiCaprio lately, and before he gets back to the business of being a superhero, he is making sure to factor in family time to his rumored Spider-Man sequels contract. Since the fourth and fifth movie are supposedly filming back-to-back for six months, Tobey wanted early mornings and evenings off so he could spend time with Ruby — so sweet, but no surprise coming from a guy who brou

Geek Daily: 'Spidey 4, 5', 'Hulk' Sequels and More!
The Geek Beat is taking a late-September vacation to Middle Earth -- but it will be back next month and those of you suffering withdrawels can always check the archives. In the meantime, you can relax with a daily round-up of nerdy news bites. (They taste like coconut!) This is relaxing for me, too -- I get to catch up on my reading, my Halloween shopping, and my yoga. I can stay up all night re-reading Preacher (you know I will) and not waiting for an X-Men Origins: Wolverine story. A good way to end summe

Jim Sheridan takes “I, Claudius”
Jim Sheridan seems to be getting ready to get back on track after the stupid 50 cent movie. Relativity Media has picked up the rights to Robert Graves brilliant novel I,Claudius for Jim Sheridan to direct. The film is right now in the scripting stages and he will co write it with Nye Heron. It is a secret autobiography of Claudius, the fourth emperor of Rome, who used his wits and intelligence to survive his murderous family and become one of Rome’s greatest emperors. This is surely going to be something

Make The Best Spider-Man 5 You Can, Sam Raimi [Steal This Pitch]
So we're already getting very heavy hints that the recently-announced Spider-Man 4 will center around the long-teased-to-the-point-of-not-caring "Curt Connors Becomes The Lizard" storyline that easter eggs in the first three movies have been slowly building to, but that's not why we're excited about the prospect of Sam Raimi and Tobey Maguire returning to the Spider-Franchise for two new movies. No, what makes us giddy with glee is the idea that Spider-Man 5 can finally deliver what we've been waiting years

Kirsten Dunst Talks Spider-Man 4, - So Is She In Or Out?
For quite some time now, “Spider-Man” star Kirsten Dunst has had one major condition as to whether or not she’d sign-up for any future sequels of the franchise — that director Sam Raimi and co-star Tobey Maguire be signed on as well. Well, now that the news has broken that both Raimi and Maguire have signed back on for a fourth and fifth installment – with a hefty paycheck attached as well — MTV News posed the big question to Dunst while she was promoting her upcoming film, “How to Lose Fri