In the latest example of studio penny-pinching, exterior scenes for the latest “Spiderman” sequel, which is set in New York as usual, will be shot in the thriving metropolis of…Cleveland, Ohio. Digital imagery will be used to Biggie-Size downtown Cleveland’s somewhat-smaller-than-Manhattan-style skyscrapers in order to fool everyone who has been to neither New York nor Cleveland into believing that Spidey and the gang are still shaking things up in the Big Apple.
No word yet on whether villains Venom (Topher Grace) and Sandman (Thomas Haden Church) will put on an evil death metal concert spectacular at the “New York” Rock & Roll Hall of Fame for the film’s big finale.
