“The Amazing Spider-Man” is looking like a better film the more I read about it, and this news from Slash Film is just another piece to add to this good-looking puzzle. According to the site, the Japanese press conference for the Marc Webb-directed film revealed a lot of juicy tidbits about the film’s plot and character relationships. At the conference, Avi Arad, one of the producers for the film, said that there are major differences between this film and the trilogy by “Spider-Man” superfan director Sam Raimi. “In our movie, [Peter] finds his true love,” he said. “Gwen Stacy was always the true love of Peter Parker…We found a very,…

According to a report by Variety, Gary Ross (“Pleasantville”) is closing in on a deal to not only direct a “Venom” project, a spinoff of Sony’s “Spider-Man” franchise, but also possibly rewrite the current script. Topher Grace, who portrayed the character of Eddie Brock/Venom in “Spider-Man 3″, will not be returning to the role of Venom, an enemy of Spider-Man bonded to an alien symbiote that gifts him with powers similar to Spider-Man. First introduced in 1986 by Marvel Comics, Brock was a photographer similar to Peter Parker who falls out of grace thanks to Spider-Man. He was the first character to be known as Venom after bonding to the…