Amy Pascal

Luca Guadagnino has set himself quite an ensemble for his next film as Zendaya,  Josh O’Connor and Mike Faist tapped to star in Challengers (O’Connor and Faist are still in final negotiations, Zendaya is set). MGM recently acquired rights to the package with Amy Pascal, Guadagnino, Zendaya, and Rachel O’Connor of Pascal Pictures producing. Justin Kuritzkes penned the script. The story follows Tashi, a tennis player turned coach, has taken her husband, Art, and transformed him from a mediocre player into a world-famous grand slam champion. To jolt him out of his recent losing streak, she makes him play a “Challenger”...

The Costumer Designers Guild has fitted Andrew Garfield for its 2022 Spotlight Award, and Spider-Man producers Amy Pascal and Rachel O’Connor will receive its Distinguished Collaborator Award at the 24th annual CDGA next month. The guild also said today that Emmy winner and two-time Oscar-nominated costume designer Sharen Davis (Ray, Dreamgirls) will be presented the Career Achievement Award during the in-person Costume Designers Guild Awards on March 9 at the Broad Stage in Santa Monica. “Andrew Garfield’s history with costume design has transcended genre,” said Salvador Perez, President of the Costume Designers Guild. “A tech giant, a decorated soldier, a superhero and now,...

Spider-Man: No Way Home’s global success was a big win for Sony and Marvel Studios as well as fans, who were treated to one of the strongest entries in the franchise to date. Now as Amy Pascal, Kevin Feige, Tom Holland and the rest of the Spidey team look to the future, they’re not only planning what they’re going to do in the upcoming films, but also what not to do in order to create a successful follow up.

A column chronicling conversations and events on the awards circuit. This week, interviews with Amy Pascal, Daniel Craig and Cary Joji Fukunaga on finding elusive Oscar love for the two buzziest blockbusters of the year, plus why Oscar screenplay frontrunners aren’t eligible for the WGA Awards, and why March is becoming the equivalent of a pileup on the 405 — awards-wise that is. COVID CHASES OUT AWARDS SHOWS BUT WE’LL ALWAYS HAVE THOSE GLOBES This week it has been a rush to the exit for any awards show previously scheduled in January and February. The only ones staying put so far are the...

After just three weeks on the market, and an unusually long four-month contract period, the longtime New York City home of late and legendary American aristocrat Gloria Vanderbilt has been sold by her surviving son, veteran CNN anchor Anderson Cooper. The buyer is powerhouse film producer Amy Pascal, who wanted the place with enough fervor that she paid $2.5 million, more than twice its $1.125 million asking price. The former chair of Sony Pictures, who now heads up Pascal Pictures, where she produced the superhero blockbuster Spider-Man: Homecoming and received Oscar nominations for The Post and Little Women, shelled out another $950,000 for...

Marisa Tomei recently made her return to the MCU in Spider-Man: No Way Home. Marvel Studios' take on Aunt May is considerably different from her previous counterparts. She's much younger, active and behaves more like Peter's friend, rather than a mentor. This fresh take on the character has been a well-received addition to the Spider-Man mythos. As it turns out, though, May could have been even more different than previous iterations, as, early on in the development of Spider-Man's MCU movies, Tomei proposed the idea of giving May a girlfriend.

Spider-Man joined the MCU back with 2016’s Captain America: Civil War, and since then everyone’s been happy. Well, almost. He’s only there out of some complicated deal between Sony, who owns his wing of the Marvel-verse (including Venom), and Disney, who own all the rest. There was that time Disney almost lost Spidey, but that all worked out in the end. The merger, though, didn’t start so swimmingly either.

In a recent interview alongside Marvel boss Kevin Feige with NY Times, Sony’s Amy Pascal talks Spider-Man 4 ambitions. We know Pascal has already said Sony want another Tom Holland and Marvel led Spider-Man trilogy. Feige, whilst not confirming a deal did say this with regards to future plans.

Zendaya and Tom Holland have been fielding romantic rumors ever since they starred as love interests in 2017's Spider-Man: Homecoming. Fans have speculated about their status for years, but it wasn’t until a recent awards ceremony that the duo made their relationship public. The Internet was overjoyed - but if one Spider-Man film producer had had anything to say about it, there might never have been a Tomdaya at all.

Tom Holland and Zendaya were urged not to date one another by 'Spider-Man' producer Amy Pascal. The former Sony executive admitted she took both stars aside after they were cast as Peter Parker and MJ in the comic book movie series and advised them not to get involved in a romantic relationship, but the pair didn't listen.

It's clear that one of the cornerstones of making "Spider-Man: No Way Home" was that several of the hero's villains from past incarnations of the character return to fight another battle. But how do you convince an actor to give time to a cameo of their past character — especially in a superhero tentpole film where it could end up being a waste of that actor's time? According to Amy Pascal, Sony Pictures chairwoman and "Spider-Man" producer, it was all about building on the past.