Spider-Man | Celebrating 20 Years at the Movies

There wouldn't be a Spider-Man: No Way Home if there hadn't first been 2002's Spider-Man. Celebrate 20 years of Spider-movies with the original on 4K and digital.

Spider-Man is the 2002 Sony Pictures Entertainment live-action feature film adaptation of the Marvel Comics character of the same name. It is the first film in the first Spider-Man film series.

Tobey Maguire stars as Peter Parker, who is bitten by a genetically altered spider while touring the labs of the bio-tech firm Oscorp. Oscorp is owned by Norman Osborn (Willem Dafoe), father to Peter's best friend Harry (James Franco). Peter and Norman's fates become intertwined as Peter receives super powers from the bite, while Oscorp teeters on the bring of financial ruin. Under pressure to deliver on his military contracts, Norman injects himself with his enhancement formula and becomes super-human and super insane. He wears Oscorp military tech and becomes the Green Goblin. When he realizes that his nemesis, Spider-Man is actually Parker, a plot unfolds to terrorize Peter's friends and family, including the love of his life, Mary Jane Watson (Kirsten Dunst).

Sam Raimi directed the movie from a script by David Koepp. The movie was wildly successful with fans and critics, who lauded it's good humor, romance and emotional richness, living alongside with spectacular action and effects. Spider-Man shattered box office records and is seen as a significant leveling up for Marvel as a cinematic force.

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Spider-Man: No Way Home is the 2021 Sony Pictures Entertainment/Marvel Studios live-action sequel to Spider-Man: Far From Home and the third movie in the cycle of films featuring Spider-Man in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Although Sony initially said they did not want to do an additional collaboration with Marvel under the terms of the previous films, on September 27, 2019 the studios reached an agreement to co-develop the third Tom Holland Spider-Man movie. Jon Watts, the director of Spider-Man: Homecoming and Spider-Man: Far From Home is set to return, as are the primary cast of the film.

Benedict Cumberbatch appears as Doctor Strange who agrees to help Peter, whose identity was outed at the end of the previous film and now his a life of turmoil. A reality-altering is meant to fix things but instead conjures elements of the multiverse which include Alfred Molina's Doc Ock and a version of the Green Goblin. Rumors also place Jamie Foxx in the film, reprising his Electro character.

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