I feel for the diehard Spider-Verse fans who are actively waiting for any crumbs Sony gives them for the much-delayed animated film Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse, because for the rest of us, it’s nice to just have the occasional sign of life as a periodic check-in. It’s been over a year since we last saw any proof that Beyond the Spider-Verse is a real movie, and last night at CinemaCon, Sony released four new images from the film.
The third film in the Spider-Verse series was originally scheduled to launch in 2024, but that sounded lofty even then, as it would have come out just one year after 2023’s Across the Spider-Verse. It’s become increasingly common over the past decade and a half for film franchises to release two movies in two years as a sort of “Part One” and “Part Two” type deal, but this is typically done with live-action movies that are shot in tandem, rather than an animated movie that it sounds like Sony had not made massive strides on by the time Across the Spider-Verse premiered. So here we are, two years later, with a June 18. 2027 release date.
A new look at Spider-Man: Beyond the #SpiderVerse. In theatres 6.18.2027. 🕸️ pic.twitter.com/WK2dIjvcyc
— Spider-Man: Beyond The Spider-Verse (@SpiderVerse) April 14, 2026
Now that we have our expectations in check, we’ve been getting a slow drip feed of teases for Beyond the Spider-Verse, primarily through still images from the film. The CinemaCon images aren’t much, but hey, at least we know the movie is real, on its way, and looks beautiful. We’ve got an image of Miles sitting on top of a car with his father in Brooklyn, Spider-Man 2099 choking Miles out in a flashy fight sequence, and Spider-Punk walking on top of a crowd and telling Miles that they’re “gonna save [his] dad” after he was told he would have to die as a “canon event” in the movie’s multiverse setup. The fourth screenshot shows what looks like a younger version of Miles’ father and his late uncle Aaron, so it looks like we’ll be getting a flashback to their complicated history in Beyond the Spider-Verse.
It’s been a big morning for Spider-Man fans, as the face model for Peter Parker in Insomniac’s games may have accidentally leaked the existence of a new Spider-Man game. Not that Spider-Man fans are starving for food right now with Brand New Day coming to theaters on July 31.
