Andrew Garfield

Early fan interest in Sony's “The Amazing Spider-Man” looks to be just that - amazing. Audience surveys circulating around Hollywood this week show that the web-slinger reboot is generating a level of excitement reserved for only a handful of the summer's biggest hits. Even though “The Amazing Spider-Man,” which overhauls the creative team behind the first three movies, doesn't open until July 3, potential ticket buyers - even young women - already are more interested in the superhero story than they are in “Brave,” which will premiere this weekend to as much as $65 million.

SUNDAY Films from "Amour" to "Zero Dark Thirty" will vie for best picture at "The 85th Annual Academy Awards," hosted by - What the deuce?! - "Family Guy" creator Seth MacFarlane, himself a nominee in the best original song category. (ABC, 5:30 p.m.) MONDAY There'll be no need to apologize when "Independent Lens" presents the 2012 doc "Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry," a profile of the artist whose activist ways have put him in hot water with government officials in his native China.

After all the debate, the questions and the cage-rattling about whether Marc Webb's "The Amazing Spider-Man" was a good idea, audiences this holiday weekend spoke. People (a lot of people, $140 million worth of people) bought tickets to "The Amazing Spider-Man. " And the great majority of them enjoyed it. Like, A- CinemaScore enjoyed it. None of that will be enough to move most skeptics from their position that the Sony movie should never have been made in the first place.

The awards season is finally in full swing: Nickelodeon has unveiled its list of nominees for the 2013 Kids' Choice Awards. And just like every year, it's an eclectic bunch. Jennifer Lawrence, Kristen Stewart and Scarlett Johansson will compete in the mighty prestigious favorite female buttkicker category (as well as favorite movie actress). Other nominees include Nickelodeon heavyweights Miranda Cosgrove, along with Disney stars Bridgit Mendler and Selena Gomez in the favorite TV actress category.

Christian Borle won the Tony Award for featured actor in a play for "Peter and the Starcatcher," beating out Andrew Garfield for his role in the recent revival of Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman. " "Starcatcher" is a quasi-prequel to "Peter Pan"and is based on the book by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson, and was adapted for the stage by Rick Elice. Borle, who also appears in the NBC series "Smash," plays the role of Black Stache in the show. "Starcatcher" was produced at the La Jolla Playhouse in 2009.

When Andrew Garfield won the role of Spider-Man in July, most people asked, "Who?" Now, after the one-two punch of "Never Let Me Go" and "The Social Network," Garfield has become one of Hollywood's most recognized young actors, picking up a Golden Globe nomination and sharing a Screen Actors Guild ensemble nomination for his work in "The Social Network" and being named ? wait for it ? an Esquire magazine Grooming Icon for 2011. "My mum would be, 'Yes, yes, you have lovely hair,'" Garfield says, laughing, while looking at the magazine.

Sweet and sought after, young Hollywood stars Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone are speaking out about their chemistry - onscreen, that is, in "The Amazing Spider-Man . " While the two keep a low profile in their personal relationship (sparked last June), the actors bring some theatrical heat as lovebirds Gwen Stacy and Peter Parker. "We got on really well as people, in between [takes]," Garfield told MTV News. "That was the fun stuff. In between, we'd just mess around, and I felt, 'Ah, this is different.'" Garfield expressed relief that Stone decided to take the role, saying that his scenes with the "Crazy Stupid Love" actress were his favorite to shoot (watch the interview below)

Andrew Garfield said he has dreamed of playing Spider-Man since he was a little boy, so that when it came time to actually suit up as the iconic superhero, the pressure of the role nearly overwhelmed him. "Before, it was just pure fantasy," Garfield, 28, explained at the premiere of "The Amazing Spider-Man" in Los Angeles last week. "Suddenly, I had to embody that character for a generation of kids. And I wanted to so desperately do it well and inspire kids to be better to each other and to themselves through doing that.

Director Marc Webb and star Andrew Garfield are suiting back up for another chapter in "The Amazing Spider-Man," which grossed $261 million domestically this summer. The duo responsible for rebooting the successful franchise just five years after the Sam Raimi-directed trilogy closed up shop in 2007 will resume production in early 2013. They will be working off a screenplay from Alex Kurtzman & Roberto Orci and Jeff Pinkner based on a previous draft by James Vanderbilt. Sony Pictures announced the film's 3-D release date of May 2, 2014, back in April, months before it had locked in its director and star.

Andrew Garfield doesn't do Facebook. But if he did, the 27-year-old British actor would no doubt be fending off lots of requests right now from people wanting to be his cyber friend. With two Oscar-potential films about to be sharing theater screens and an outing as Spider-Man up next, Garfield in his short film career has suddenly become a hot property. In "The Social Network," David Fincher's look at the contentious founding of Facebook, opening Friday, Garfield plays Brazilian-born Eduardo Saverin, who, along with fellow Harvard undergrad and punk genius — as the marketing campaign would have it — Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg)

Director Marc Webb and star Andrew Garfield are suiting back up for another chapter in "The Amazing Spider-Man," which grossed $261 million domestically this summer. The duo responsible for rebooting the successful franchise just five years after the Sam Raimi-directed trilogy closed up shop in 2007 will resume production in early 2013. They will be working off a screenplay from Alex Kurtzman & Roberto Orci and Jeff Pinkner based on a previous draft by James Vanderbilt. Sony Pictures announced the film's 3-D release date of May 2, 2014, back in April, months before it had locked in its director and star.

Hordes of moviegoers were bitten by the "Spider-Man" bug this past weekend, as the superhero flick flew to the top of the box office. The 3-D reboot starring Andrew Garfield as the web-slinger debuted Tuesday and grossed a healthy $140 million during its first six days in theaters, according to an estimate from Sony Pictures. Overseas, where the film played in 74 foreign countries, the movie collected an additional $129.1 million, raising its...

After all the debate, the questions and the cage-rattling about whether Marc Webb's "The Amazing Spider-Man" was a good idea, audiences this holiday weekend spoke. People (a lot of people, $140 million worth of people) bought tickets to "The Amazing Spider-Man. " And the great majority of them enjoyed it. Like, A- CinemaScore enjoyed it. None of that will be enough to move most skeptics from their position that the Sony movie should never have been made in the first place.

"Ice Age: Continental Drift"is melting the hearts of foreign moviegoers, because the animated film has already grossed $198 million overseas. The fourth installment in 20th Century Fox's popular franchise doesn't hit theaters in the U.S. until Friday, but the 3-D movie is on its way to becoming a global hit. This weekend, the film about three Paleolithic mammals played in 48 foreign countries and collected $80.6 million. The film performed especially well in Germany, where it had the biggest opening of the year in the country with $14.5 million in sales.

Hordes of moviegoers were bitten by the "Spider-Man" bug this weekend, as the superhero flick flew to the top of the box office. The 3-D reboot starring Andrew Garfield as the web-slinger debuted on Tuesday and grossed a healthy $140 million during its first six days in theaters, according to an estimate from Sony Pictures.  Audiences were less interested in the weekend's other new offerings. Oliver Stone's gritty crime drama "Savages" launched with a decent $16.2 million while "Katy Perry: A Part of Me," an inexpensive 3-D concert documentary about the pop star, brought in a so-so $7.2 million over the weekend.

"The Amazing Spider-Man"  was the hero of the box office this weekend, swinging to the No. 1 position past a new documentary about Katy Perry and Oliver Stone's gritty  "Savages. " The 3-D superhero flick starring Andrew Garfield debuted Tuesday and proceeded to gross $140 million during its first six days in theaters, according to an estimate from distributor Sony Pictures. The weekend's other debuts got off to less impressive starts: The drug cartel drama "Savages" collected a decent $16.2 million and "Katy Perry: A Part of Me" made only $7.2 million over the weekend.

NEW YORK - Seeing as he grew up in the county of Surrey in southeast England and was called one of Britain's rising stage actors at an early age, you might expect that Andrew Garfield has Sir Laurence Olivier as one of his role models. But his adolescent hero was an entirely different kind of star: Muggsy Bogues, the short, quick, ball-stealing guard for the Charlotte Hornets NBA team in the 1980s and '90s. "I never wanted to be an actor, I wanted to be the next Muggsy," recalls the 28-year-old Garfield.

Going defiantly against the grain of a hyperbolic movie culture, "Never Let Me Go" is passionate about deliberation and restraint. Starring Carey Mulligan, Andrew Garfield and Keira Knightley, the A Team of young British acting talent, this is a moving and provocative film that initially unsettles, then disturbs and finally haunts you well into the night. Based on the celebrated novel by Kazuo Ishiguro, "Never Let Me Go" is suffused with the kind of longing for what cannot be that is implicit in its title.

After a full day in theaters, "The Amazing Spider-Man" has pulled $35 million into its web. The $230-million production starring Andrew Garfield, which hit cinemas at 12:01 a.m. Tuesday, gathered $7.5 million from post-midnight screenings, then continued to do solid business over the course of the day. Those who turned up to see the movie gave it an average grade of A-minus, according to market research firm CinemaScore. Still, the film made less on its opening day than any of the previous three "Spider-Man" movies did during their first 24 hours in theaters.