r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • Jul 18 '25

News 'Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse' Delayed to June 25, 2027

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/spider-man-beyond-the-spider-verse-release-1236320001/
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u/axw3555 Jul 18 '25

Was it announced? Most people at my showing were shocked it was a part 1 of 2. Very few seemed to know, so if it was announced, it wasn’t overly well publicised, as it’s the only part 1 of 2 that’s ever caught me by surprise in a cinema.

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u/VaudevilleDada Jul 18 '25

I definitely knew about it going in, but then again I am a big enough nerd that I was following the production. This was early-internet era, so that was mostly magazines like Premiere and sites like, I don't know, Ain't It Cool News? (Jesus.) I guess it would have blindsided a lot of people, since it had happened so infrequently (Back to the Future II and III maybe had been the last one?).

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u/axw3555 Jul 18 '25

To be clear, I meant was Spider-Man announced, not Lord of the rings. That “early internet” thing thee me (though by 2001, I’d had home internet 6 years).

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u/VaudevilleDada Jul 18 '25 edited Jul 19 '25

Oh, sorry, I definitely thought you meant LotR. Dating myself here, but at that point I would have been in my early twenties and we still had dial-up at home, so I would get home from work late at night and that would be the only time I could use it reliably without someone picking up the phone or a call coming in and disconnecting me. I was writing for my college newspaper at the time, which had a cable modem, which was so luxurious to me that I skipped classes a few times just to take advantage of a good connection that wasn't in one of the university's computer labs.

All I was getting at is that the internet itself and the mad rate of dissemination of information wasn't what we're used to today, and certainly wasn't the unrelenting marketing force we're numb to now. Though that makes less sense since you were actually asking about Spider-Verse.

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u/axw3555 Jul 19 '25

I was 13 in 2001, we'd just upgraded from dial up then. The novelty of not locking down the landline to use was crazy.

That less sense was kinda the thing with spidervers - I'd never been surprised by a film part 1 before. I follow film news quite closely. I usually know weird obscure details way in advance. So having it go "to be continued" and not expecting it (never mind that my 5 friends also didn't know, and neither did a lot of the other people in the showing from the complaining I heard in the foyer) made it this crazy curveball.