Spider-manTurnOffTheDark

W While the production drama associated with the Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark has seemingly passed, it seems that legal battles associated with the Broadway musical haven't been put to rest just yet. Former Turn off the Dark director Julie Taymor's lawsuit against producing company, 8 Legged Productions, now has an official court date...

If you've been patiently waiting for years to get the inside scoop of what actually happened behind the scenes on troubled superhero musical Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark, your wait is almost over. The playwright who worked with Bono and the Edge to write the show has sold a book about his experience to Simon & Schuster.Gle...

It's been almost two years since the troubled Spider-Man musical, Turn Off The Dark, opened for previews for the first time, giving audiences a glimpse at a show at once ambitious and (dangerously) ill-considered. It's been just shy of eighteen months since original director Julie Taymor was ousted from the production amid last-minute revisions and rewrites...

Gaming: New screens from Transformers: Fall of Cybertron show Optimus Prime, Grimlock and other favorites in action. Legal: After being sued by Julie Taymor, the current producers of Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark are suing the fired former director right back...

I don't know how crazy you guys got ringing in 2012, but I took it pretty easy on the adult beverages myself (I didn't even have any comic book cocktails). That's why when I awoke on Sunday to confirm Anderson Cooper was kidnapped by the Green Goblin on CNN's New Year's Eve special, I wondered if perhaps my $6 bottle of champagne from Trader Joes had been more potent than I'd realized...

Delicious: Star Wars fans can now get their hands on Han Solo frozen in carbonite -- sweet, chocolatey carbonite. Musicals: It looks like the ultra-expensive Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark musical is actually making money. Interviews: Guy Delisle talks to Actua BD about his upcoming travelogue from Jerusalem...

Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, the big-budget Broadway musical based on the classic Marvel Comics superhero, has claimed the health of another performer. Matthew James Thomas, who plays Peter Parker/Spider-Man at Wednesday and Saturday matinees, was taken to the hospital this week with a head injury...

Legal: Julie Taymor is suing the Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark producers over for what she claims are creative rights violations and unpaid royalties. Digital: Amazon's Kindle Fire will officially ship with the Comics by comiXology app on November 15...

The Late Show With David Letterman hosted Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark's villains for a robust performance of the Green Goblin's "Freaks Like Me Need Company" a few weeks back and man, was it suitably freaky. At this point most fans have made peace with the musical's bizarre costumes -- you've got to make things larger-than-life on stage, right...

Toys: Alex Schranz continues to craft delightful custom Lego displays, this time based on the '60s Batman TV show's Batcave. Movies: Sebastain Shaw Kevin Bacon has signed on to play the villain in the upcoming live action movie adaptation of Dark Horse's R...