Amazing Spider-Man 2, The

The Amazing Spider-Man 2 is an American feature film of the superhero action genre. It is based on the character of Spider-Man, as seen in comic books published by Marvel Comics. This was the fifth Columbia Pictures film based on the superhero, after director Sam Raimi's trilogy (concluding in 2007) - released as a big-budget summer blockbuster sequel in 2014. It was the sequel to director Marc Webb's hit in 2012. The studio has announced more installments in the superhero saga for the summer of 2016 and late spring of 2018.

It again starred Andrew Garfield reprising his role as Peter Parker/Spider-Man, opposite love interest Gwen Stacy (Emma Stone). Jamie Foxx was featured as the meek Oscorp employee Max Dillon/villainous Electro, while Dane DeHaan was wealthy scion Harry Osborn (Peter Parker's boyhood friend) - the Green Goblin, and Paul Giamatti was an Eastern bloc criminal known as Aleksei Sytsevich/Rhino.

With a production budget of $200 million, and box-office gross receipts of $203 million (domestic) and $708+ million (worldwide).