From PH to the ‘Spider-Verse’: Artist Ronald Samson on his ‘date’ with Hollywood

Rito P. Asilo - Entertainment Editor 05/28/2023

If you loved the Oscar-winning 2018 animated feature “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” as much as we did, you’re in for a bigger and bolder treat when its sequel, “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse,” begins its theatrical run in…

Bolivian schoolteacher gives virtual classes as superhero

AP 06/14/2020

LA PAZ, Bolivia  — Sometimes, Jorge Manolo Villarroel is Spiderman. Sometimes, he’s the Flash, or the Green Lantern. But he’s always a teacher — one who lives out his childhood dreams by dressing up as superheroes for…

‘Spiderman’ helps distribute goods, bring positive vibes to Barangay Luz frontliners

Immae Lachica 04/27/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines— Cebuano volunteers know how to do a good deed with style. Just like the group of Star Wars-inspired volunteers in Consolacion who helped in manning the checkpoint to ease the tension between motorists and…

Tom Holland talked to Sony and Disney to save Spider-Man—report

10/04/2019

It seemed like a done deal last August that the Spider-Man franchise was to stay put with Sony after negotiations fell through between Sony Pictures Entertainment and Disney’s Marvel Studios. But on Sept. 27, Spider-Man swung back…

LOOK: Tom Holland, Robert Downey Jr. reunite as fate of Spider-Man hangs

08/24/2019

Tom Holland and Robert Downey Jr. seemed to pay no mind as the fate of Spider-Man on movie screens is up in the air. Holland and Downey Jr., who play Spider-Man and Iron Man in the Marvel…

Engineering student’s Ironman, Spiderman drawings gaining online attention

Immae Lachica 06/23/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines— A 20-year-old’s love for drawing is slowly making noise on the Internet. Johndoe Baylon, a Civil Engineering student of the Cebu Institute of Technology University (CITU) shared on Facebook his drawings of famous superheroes…

‘French Spiderman’ arrested for climbing Seoul skyscraper

AFP 06/06/2018

FRENCH urban freeclimber Alain Robert attempted to scale the world’s fifth-tallest building Wednesday, getting more than half way up the 123-storey Lotte World Tower in Seoul before security forced him to abandon the ascent. The 55-year-old, dubbed…

Spiderman caught

Nestle L. Semilla 04/11/2017

A MONTH after he evaded arrest, the man known as Spiderman was finally arrested outside his apartment in Barangay Sambag I in Cebu City yesterday. Director Yogi Filemon Ruiz of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency in Central…

The dream of a benevolent dictator

Raymund Fernandez 11/29/2016

There is a reason why a superhero like Batman or Spiderman don’t run for president. They know: “With great power comes great responsibility.” And political offices like the presidency of any country, even ours, would simply not…

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