Just like gossipbomb told you several days ago, today Sony announced that they have signed Marc Webb to direct the re-boot of the Spiderman franchise.
The “500 Days of Summer” dirtector is said to be getting close to $10 million for the film.
10 million??? Wow, how much was Sam Rami supposed to get?

Although big names like James  Cameron, David Fincher, and Wes Anderson are being whispered about to take the reigns of the ‘Spiderman’ franchise, the real money is on young Marc Webb, who directed this year’s indie smash ‘500 Days Of Summer’ to tackle the job of re-booting the stale ‘Spiderman’ series.

Tobey Maguire can kiss that fat ‘Spiderman 4′ paycheck goodbye — he’s been fired from the next ‘Spiderman’ movie along with director Sam Rami!
Rami and the studio making the movie, Sony, have been at war over the new script and new villains since the project was announced.  Sony says they are taking the franchise in [...]

‘Spiderman 4’ is on hold as director Sam Raimi and the movie studio who is paying for it, Sony, battle it out over super-villains.
Rami, wants ‘The Vulture’ as the main baddie while Sony is pushing for ‘The Black Cat’.
The situation is similar to ‘Spiderman 3’ when Raimi also wanted to use ‘The Vulture’ but Sony [...]