Simon looks at a troubled blockbuster, and a delightful biopic in the latest Film Stories.

Work started on 2007's Spider-Man 3 straight after the release of 2004's Spider-Man 2. Yet it'd be a turning point in the webslinger's big screen adventures, caught on the front line battle between art and commerce.

For Eddie The Eagle (2016), though, a project that originally was to star Steve Coogan was dragged out of development hell at speed, when a producer watched a not-dissimilar film with his family.