The Associated Press: Broadway finds its 'Spider-Man' in Reeve Carney
NEW YORK — Broadway has found its Spider-Man — rock singer Reeve Carney. Carney will portray celebrated web-slinger Peter Parker in "Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark," producer Michael Cohl announced Friday. The lavish musical is still scheduled to open sometime in 2010 at the Hilton Theatre. Dates will be announced. The show has had a troubled history, with work on the musical stopped last summer because of financial difficulties. New financing is expected to be in place shortly,...

Broadway finds its 'Spider-Man' in Reeve Carney
NEW YORK -- Broadway has found its Spider-Man - rock singer Reeve Carney. Carney will portray celebrated web-slinger Peter Parker in "Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark," producer Michael Cohl announced Friday. The lavish musical is still scheduled to open sometime in 2010 at the Hilton Theatre. Dates will be announced. The show has had a troubled history, with work on the musical stopped last summer because of financial difficulties. New financing is expected to be in place shortly, according to its...

Broadway's Spider-Man is Reeve Carney
Reeve Carney Official Press Release The producing team of the Broadway-bound Spider-MAN Turn Off The Dark met with the show's key creatives today to confirm the following. Michael Cohl has joined the production as lead producer on the show. Jeremiah J. Harris is now second producer on the show. The full producing team for Spider-MAN Turn Off The Dark is Michael Cohl, Jeremiah J. Harris, Hello Entertainment/David Garfinkle, Marvel Entertainment/David Maisel, and Sony Pictures Entertainment. The...

Spider-Man Chosen for Broadway Musical
Producers and a creative team announced Reeve Carney as their final choice to play Spider-Man. A professional team working on the Broadway rendition of Spider-Man has chosen a rocker to play timid Peter Parker. On Friday, the creative forces behind “Spider-Man” Turn Off the Dark” issued a Press release announcing production and casting decisions, reports New York Times . According to the statement, the team selected Reeve Carney to play the role of Peter Parker. The decision was made R

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“Spider-Man” Musical Finds Its Leading Man: Reeve Carney: VIDEO
The coming Broadway musical “Spider-Man, Turn Off The Dark," with U2's Bono and The Edge, hires a new lead actor, Reeve Carney, and shuffles producers.

Spider-Man Musical Pulls Itself Together, Slowly [Spider-man]
The permanently troubled Spider-Man musical took a couple of steps in the right direction towards being able to open yesterday; not only did the show get a new lead producer, but an actor was finally announced to play Peter Parker. With a budget estimated to be somewhere in the region of $50 million already, and a weekly running cost that may be in the budget of $1 million a week, Julie Taymor's musical version of Marvel's superhero may be too expensive to be allowed to fail. That might explain...

'Spider-Man' musical casts Peter Parker
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Broadway has its Spider-Man: Reeve Carney to play Peter Parker in musical: PHOTO
oadway has found its Spider-Man - rock singer Reeve Carney. Carney will portray celeated web-slinger Peter Parker in "Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark," producer Michael Cohl announced Friday.

Carney Lands Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark Lead
Reeve Carney, of rock band Carney, will play Peter Parker/Spider-Man in Julie Taymor's Broadway show "Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark," producer Michael Cohl announced Friday. Carney has a role in Taymor's upcoming drama, The Tempest . The singer is joining a cast that includes Evan Rachel Wood as Mary Jane Watson and Alan Cumming in the role of Norman Osborn/Green Goblin. The lavish musical is scheduled to open sometime in 2010 at the Hilton Theatre. The show will feature a score by Bono and The...

Ben Whishaw, the Man Who Could Have Been Spider-Man: PHOTO
Ben Whishaw, the Man Who Could Have Been Spider-Man Julie Taymor’s Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark hasn’t had the easiest time making it to the Broadway stage. On paper, it would seem to have everything going for it: a big budget, one of theatre’s brightest directors, songs written by Bono and the Edge, and a cast that’s had Evan Rachel Wood and Alan Cumming attached. Still, the show was hit hard by hiatus last month — and then there was the little matter of casting...

Here Is Your Spider-Man 4 Rumor Rundown!: PHOTO
I love rumor rundowns. You get to read what is really going on and then you also get to see what is complete BS. Many thanks to UGO for providing the info for this installment of "Jman's Rumor Rundown"! "Confirmed: Spider-Man 4 will begin shooting in March 2010 with Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst signed on to star. (MTV) It will be released on May 5, 2011 in theaters and IMAX. (Comingsoon.net) The first draft of the script was written by James Vanderbilt (Zodiac) and rewritten by Pulitzer...

Spider-Man 4: Willem Dafoe's Green Goblin is Done: PHOTO
In recent weeks, there's been some chatter as to what characters, or more specifically, villains, we will see in the upcoming fourth installment to the

Director Julie Taymor Unveils Broadway's Spider-Man: PHOTO
It will not be Jim Sturgess slinging webs on Broadway in the new comic book musical Spider-Man Turn of the Dark . Instead, director Julie Taymor ( Across the Universe ) has hired another young actor she recently cast in a film version of Shakespeare's The Tempest . Reeve Carney will play Peter Parker to Evan Rachel Wood 's Mary Jane Watson, and here's a look at the 26-year-old actor. In addition to acting, Carney is the lead singer of a band that features his last name, and is the final piece...

Spider-Man Musical's Fate Nearly Decided?
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Reeve Carney to play Spider-Man on Broadway
The Broadway-bound Spider-Man musical has a new lead producer and a new star. Playing Peter Parker and his alter-ego in Spider-Man Turn Off The Dark will be Reeve Carney, who beat thousands of candidates to take the role. He is the lead singer of the rock band Carney, which is set to release its first album in early 2010 on Interscope Records. Carney previously acted in Snow Falling on Cedars and he worked with Spider-Man ’s Broadway director Julie Taymor on her forthcoming film of The...

Latest On The U2 Spider-Man Musical
Here's the latest on "Spider-Man, Turn Off The Dark", the musical featuring music from U2's Bono and The Edge. The show has added a new lead and second producer and full financing is "expected to be in place shortly". Once this happens the show will resume full production. The show will open in 2010 at the Hilton Theatre in New York . The show has also have selected Reeve Carney, the lead singer of Carney, to play the role of Peter Parker, aka Spider-Man. Carney joins previously announced cast...

Spider-Man musical spinning messy web
As this Spider-Man tale opens, the audience sees New York City “on fire and in ruins” as “a section of the Brooklyn Bridge ascends with Mary Jane bound and dangling helplessly from the bridge.” Soon thereafter, a new villainess called Arachne flies into the picture spinning a deadly trap, and as Spider-Man battles all kinds of criminals he's swinging right over the audience. It sounds like the 3-D opening for the next Spider-Man sequel, and even though this superhero...

Can the Spidey musical overcome its greatest foes? UPDATE: PHOTO
UPDATE: It seems that today is the day of decision , as the NY TImes and Post report. Today a meeting is being held to decide the future of the show. Fingers crossed! John Horn in the LA Times finally has a fully researched–he’s even read the script– story on the sprawling mess that is the Spider-Man musical. The death of a key player, scheduling conflicts, inexperienced producers — you name it. It’s a rogue gallery of woes. The show has a total budget of $52...

Spider-Man Musical Hits a Wall
Columbia / Everett Collection He can shoot webs, swing between buildings, and punch through brick walls, but Spider-Man's Fundraising powers are another story. Six years, tens of millions of dollars, and music by U2 have yet to bring the superhero to Broadway, where a planned musical is still short as much as $24 million of its projected $52 million budget. According to the Los Angeles Times, the production would easily be the most expensive in history and would feature pyrotechnics, giant...

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Newcomer to take lead in 'Spidey' musical
NEW YORK, Nov. 6 (UPI) -- Singer and actor Reeve Carney has been cast as Peter Parker in the upcoming Broadway musical "Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark," the show's producers said.

Newcomer to take lead in 'Spidey' musical
<br />NEW YORK, Nov. 6 (UPI) -- <P>Singer and actor Reeve Carney has been cast as Peter Parker in the upcoming Broadway musical <Q>Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark,</Q> the show's producers said.</P> <P>Carney is the lead singer of the rock band Carney....

Marvel Noir Redux: PHOTO
By Marc Strom Noir stories may not have happy endings, but that doesn't mean they can't have sequels. On December 2, writers David Hine and Fabrice Sapolsky with artist Carmine Di Giandomenico bring you Spider-MAN NOIR: EYES WITHOUT A FACE #1, while on December 9 writer Fred Van Lente and artist Dennis Calero complete that one-two punch to the gut with X MEN NOIR: MARK OF CAIN #1. Van Lente's series will catch up with the core cast members who made it out of the previous saga alive. "They fled...

Watch the MarvelFest NYC 2009 Extended Cut Video: PHOTO
We had so much footage of all the cool stuff that went down at MarvelFest NYC 2009 that we just had to put together this extended highlight reel of the festivities. Enjoy! Visit marvel.com/fest for more photos, info and highlights from MarvelFest NYC 2009!   To find a comic shop near you, call 1-888-comicbook or visit www.comicshoplocator.com Not a subscriber to Marvel Digital Comics Unlimited yet?  Join now! Download  Spider-WOMAN  and  ASTONISHING X-Men  Motion...