“The Amazing Spider-Man 2” swings into theaters this May, carrying with it the fate of Sony Pictures’ summer.
“It’s the biggest and best ‘Spider-Man’ to date,” Rory Bruer, Sony’s president of worldwide distribution, promised a crowd of exhibitors at CinemaCon on Wednesday night.
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To back it up, Sony showed 30-minutes of intense action for the sequel that has both humor and lots of Spidey swinging through the skyscraper canyons of Manhattan. The footage included a high-speed battle that found the hero, played by Andrew Garfield, battling a Russian accented, machine gun-wielding Paul Giamatti, while desperately trying to attend his high school graduation.