The Amazing Spider-Man' sequel gets a release date

While The Amazing Spider-Man still isn’t due to hit theaters until July 3, 2012, Sony has already set the date for the movie’s sequel.

That’s right, you can already mark your calendars, because The Amazing Spider-Man 2will be released on May 2, 2014.

The Amazing Spider-Man stars Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone as they reboot the original franchise that was first made popular in 2002.

By the looks of it, the film’s makers are pretty certain that the movie will be a success when it’s released next summer.

“I think it speaks volumes about our confidence in what we are seeing on the new film and our desire to move quickly on the next installment,” said a spokesperson for Sony.

There’s no news as to what the second film’s plot may be, but we do know that Garfield and Stone will return in their respective roles.

Do you think The Amazing Spider-Man will be a big enough success for a sequel?

Man Arrested After Trying to Build Nuclear Reactor at Home

A man from Sweden was arrested after it was discovered he was trying to split atoms and build a nuclear reactor in his kitchen, blogging about the experiment the whole time.


Richard Handl kept radioactive elements radium, americium and uranium in his apartment, but he was arrested only after he had sent a question to Sweden’s Radiation Authority, asking whether what’s he doing is legal.


“I wanted to see if it’s possible to split atoms at home”, Handl said. While it may be possible, it certainly is not legal under Sweden’s law, and Handl may be looking at two years in prison.


Handl kept logs of his experiments on his blog, still available at richardsreactor.blogspot.com. There, he describes his efforts in detail: obtaining hard-to get materials, trying to create nuclear fission, and even having a small “meltdown” in his kitchen after trying to “cook Americium, Radium and Beryllium in 96% sulphuric-acid”.


Like a real scientist, Handl describes details of his arrest calmly and objectively.


“I was ordered by the police to get out of the building with my hands up, then three men came, with geiger-counters and searched me. Then I was placed in a police-car, when Radiation Safety Authory went into my apartment with very advanced measure-tools. So, my project is canceled”, he wrote in the blog.