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EXCLUSIVE: Jon Watts has withdrawn as the director of Fantastic Four, the reinvention of the venerable Marvel Comics series at Marvel Studios and Disney. Watts just directed Spider-Man: No Way Home, the Sony Pictures and Marvel Studios film that grossed $1.89 billion to become the sixth highest-grossing film of all…

In the wake of his $1.5 billion grossing Sony Marvel Cinematic Universe sequel, Spider-Man: No Way Home, filmmaker Jon Watts is boarding New Line’s Final Destination 6 as a producer. Lori Evans Taylor and Guy Busick are writing the screenplay from a story by Watts based on his treatment. The sixthquel is destined for H…

UPDATE, writethru: Sony/Marvel's friendly neighborhood webslinger now leads the No. 4 movie of 2021 worldwide, as Spider-Man: No Way Home overtakes F9 with $751.3M through Tuesday. At the international box office, Peter Parker has also leapt to a new milestone, topping the $400M milestone with yesterday's grosses for…

2ND SATURDAY UPDATE, writethru: Adding another estimated $67M overseas on Friday, Sony/Marvel's Spider-Man: No Way Home has grossed an amazing $181.4M at the international box office through yesterday. With domestic's $121.5M Friday, the second biggest opening day of all time there, the global total is already across…

EXCLUSIVE: Apple Studios has landed yet another high-caliber movie package, making a deal for an untitled film that Spider-Man director Jon Watts will write and direct, with George Clooney and Brad Pitt starring. The film will get a robust theatrical release as part of this. The film will be produced by Watts…

Deadline has confirmed that a Jon Watts-directed thriller starring George Clooney and Brad Pitt is being bid upon by an array of studios including Sony, Lionsgate, Annapurna, MGM, Universal and Warner Bros on the theatrical side and streamers Apple, Netflix and Amazon. Watts is set to write, direct and produce with…

EXCLUSIVE: Sony is guaranteed to have a huge hit on its hands with Spider-Man: No Way Home this coming December. Like, really huge. After dropping the teaser at CinemaCon and on social media Monday night, the trailer for Spider-Man: No Way Home racked up an-all time viewership record of 355.5 million global views in…

Marvel Chief Kevin Feige announced on Thursday that a new Fantastic Four movie is in development with Spider-Man Homecoming filmmaker Jon Watts. 20th Century released three Fantastic Four films starting in 2005. The latest installment in the Fantastic Four franchise which Fox tried to make anew in 2015 with director…

EXCLUSIVE: With Sony and Disney/Marvel having agreed to co-financing terms on the third Spider-Man Homecoming movie Friday, it should come as no surprise to hear that Jon Watts is in talks to return to the $2 billion-grossing franchise he directed. This is great news for fans of the series as it means continuity. The…

Six-time Emmy winner John Lithgow is set as a lead opposite star Jeff Bridges in FX’s drama pilot The Old Man, from Black Sails co-creators Jon Steinberg and Robert Levine. In another major coup, the pilot has tapped Jon Watts, who directed and co-wrote blockbusters Spider-Man: Homecoming and its sequel Spider-Man: Far…

EXCLUSIVE: As the dust settles on the Disney/Marvel and Kevin Feige exit from the Sony’s Spider-Man franchise, the next looming tug of war might well be over director Jon Watts, who catapulted from the small-budget Sundance film Cop Car to the A-list helmer of the $880 million-grosser Spider-Man: Homecoming and Spider…

EXCLUSIVE: With a projected $1.109B through tomorrow, Spider-Man: Far From Home will swing past Skyfall ($1.108B) to become Sony Pictures' highest-grossing global release ever. The Sony/Marvel sequel's split is expected to hit $376M domestic and $733M at the international box office through Sunday. The milestone comes…