After the massive weekend success of Sony Animation’s Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, many rival studios are looking at executing their comic book IP differently on the big screen. Quite often, animated superhero projects are released directly to the home (think Warner Bros-DC’s myriad superhero toon movies like 2010’s Superman/Shazam!: The Return of Black Adam and Disney+/Marvel Studios’ avant-garde series What If?). Leave it to the guys who bedazzled many with the near half-billion grossing The Lego Movie, Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, to revolutionize the family animated genre once again.
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On today’s episode of Crew Call, we talk with the writers and producers of Across the Spider-Verse on one-upping the animated style from their first movie, the Oscar winning Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse; juggling a slew of projects via their production shingle Lord Miller (they produced the winter $87 million-grossing hit Cocaine Bear, and have the second season of The Afterparty on Apple TV+ in July and the Universal R-rated doggie comedy Strays out in August in theaters); their next live-action feature directorial; and their thoughts on what AMPTP needs to do to end this WGA strike.
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Says Lord, “The thing to keep in mind which is simple to understand is that writers pay is down 25% and budgets are up and executive compensation is up. It’s not sustainable that way. I think a fair deal is absolutely within reach.”
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse nabbed the best opening of summer to date at $120.6M stateside, the third-best-ever domestic opening for a Spider-Man film, with an overall global start of $209M.
You can listen to our chat below.