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We’ve followed the casting notes, perused the set photos, and soaked in the rumors. Today, we finally got to see some footage. We can’t show it to you yet, but we can go into details about what it contained.

During today’s Comic-Con panel at Hall H, Sony showed off a reel — essentially a trailer — from Marc Webb‘s The Amazing Spider-Man 2. The video was a rough one, with incomplete effects and a couple of storyboards, but it was enough to offer us a good sense of the movie. And what we saw was pretty fantastic. Hit the jump for the full description.

The video opens with a shot of New York City streets. A large truck barrels through several cars, prompting the cops to get on the case. We then get our first glimpse at Spider-Man (Andrew Garfield), riding on top of one of the cop cars.

The Spidey of The Amazing Spider-Man 2 is a more confident, content Spidey than we saw in the previous film. We hear him in a voiceover: “You know what it is I love about being Spider-Man? Everything.” He chases a tattooed gangster (Paul Giamatti) who’s driving a truck, and manages to beat him up without much trouble.

But that doesn’t mean everything’s smooth sailing. We see a scene of Peter arguing with Aunt May (Sally Field) over, of all things, laundry. Or that’s the superficial subject; at heart is Peter’s need to protect his identity. “Last time you did it, you turned everything blue and red,” she scolds. Peter covers up by explaining that he’d been washing his flag, to which she protests, “No one washes their flag.”

Spider-Man’s first encounter with Max Dillon (Jamie Foxx) comes shortly afterward. Spidey saves the rather pathetic-looking Oscorp employee from a disaster (seemingly during the chase with Giamatti’s Rhino), brushes him off, fixes his combover, and asks him to be his “eyes and ears.”

The incident leaves Max starstruck, and he’s seen shortly thereafter gushing to Gwen Stacy (Emma Stone) in an elevator about how great it must be to be Spider-Man. “It must be pretty cool to have the whole world see you like that,” he gushes. “I wish I was like him. The amazing Spider-Man.”

Rhino also makes a further brief appearance. Spider-Man uses his web to trap him between two buildings, and further humiliates him by pulling down his pants. Rhino’s anger is stopped in its tracks when a pipe falls from the sky, knocking him unconscious. While some of the comedy in the trailer works (Spidey fixing Dillon’s combover, for instance) this bit was a little more rough.

While The Amazing Spider-Man showed Peter and Gwen getting together, The Amazing Spider-Man 2 follows them trying to stay together. Which may be easier said than done when one-half of the couple is a famous superhero. “You’re Spider-Man and I love that,” she says. “But I love Peter Parker more.”

Unfortunately, there’s still more trouble coming Peter’s way. We see Max at work, getting electrocuted and falling into a tank of electric eels. He emerges transformed into blue, glowing Electro, which of course can only spell trouble for Spider-Man.

Complicating Peter’s life further still is the reappearance of Harry Osborn (Dane DeHaan), whom we see only briefly in the trailer. He’s apparently spent the last several years at a private school called the Ravencroft Institute, and seems to have some lingering daddy issues as evidenced by a short appearance from a sick Norman Osborn (Chris Cooper). “Not everybody has a happy ending,” Norman says. In addition there are a couple shots that suggest how Gwen Stacy’s part in this story will end.

Cut to Electro’s rage-filled rampage across New York. “I just wanted everybody to see me,” he says. “Soon everyone will know how it feels to live in my world…. A world without Spider-Man.” He shoots lightning bolts across the city, toppling buildings and sending people screaming. In the last scene of the trailer, Spider-Man catches a cop car hurtling through the air, a split second before it would have landed on a policeman. “Need a hand?” he asks.

The Amazing Spider-Man 2 opens May 2, 2014. For more on what we learned at the panel, keep an eye out for Germain’s upcoming Spider-Man post.

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• Shailene Woodley in Talks to Play Mary Jane Watson in ‘The Amazing Spider-Man 2,’ Electro Rumored as Villain
• ‘The Amazing Spider-Man’ Review – Short on Spectacle, But Big on Heart
• Sally Field Joins Spider-Man

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Roughly seven decades will have passed between Captain America: The First Avenger and Captain America: The Winter Soldier, but Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) will learn the hard way that the past still has a way of catching up with you.

Those familiar with the comics know that the new film’s title refers to James “Bucky” Barnes (Sebastian Stan), Cap’s onetime BFF who returns as a powerful nemesis. We’ve still got some time to wait before we see the two cross paths, as The Winter Soldier doesn’t land until next spring. But a just-revealed bit of concept art hints at what their fiery showdown might look like. Check it out after the jump.

EW posted the new artwork. That’s Captain and Bucky in the foreground of course, and if you’ look closely you’ll also notice Falcon (Anthony Mackie) unleashing some major firepower in the background.

Bucky was last seen falling off a train to near-certain death in Captain America: The First Avenger. Since then, though, he’s been not just resurrected but “improved.” He’s now a super soldier like Captain America. Unlike his old pal, however, he’s also been brainwashed and turned into an assassin.

One of the Winter Soldier’s shiny new features includes a bionic limb, which he’s using in the picture to grab Cap’s shield. It’s a move he tries a few times throughout the movie — see also here and here — and if the teaser poster is any indication, the thing ends up taking quite a beating. The two seem to meet more than once, but judging by the sheer number of explosions going on in the background, this image appears to be from the climactic battle between the two.

Joe and Anthony Russo are directing Captain America: The Winter Soldier, which opens April 4, 2014. Scarlett Johansson, Samuel L. Jackson, Cobie Smulders, Robert Redford, Frank Grillo, Emily VanCamp, Maximiliano Hernández, and Hayley Atwell also star.

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We’ll almost certainly see a teaser trailer for Marc Webb‘s The Amazing Spider-Man 2 next week at Comic Con, but for now here’s the first official shot of Jamie Foxx as the villain Electro. We’ve seen Foxx’s non-electrified look in an official pic, and set pics showed us an early look at what you see above and below. But this image gives you Electro complete with post-production effects. He’s facing off against Spider-Man (Andrew Garfield) on the cover of the new EW, and you can see the full image below.

Webb told the magazine, “With the first one I felt it was important to retell that origin story. But that was kind of brutal because people were so familiar with it. Now that the origin story is done? We’re off to the races. It’s incredibly liberating.”

The Amazing Spider-Man 2 opens on May 2, 2014. The film also stars Emma Stone, Chris Cooper, Shailene Woodley, Paul Giamatti, Felicity Jones, Martin Sheen, Paul Giammatti, and Colm Feore.

In The Amazing Spider-Man™ 2, for Peter Parker (Andrew Garfield), life is busy – between taking out the bad guys as Spider-Man and spending time with the person he loves, Gwen (Emma Stone), high school graduation can’t come quickly enough. Peter hasn’t forgotten about the promise he made to Gwen’s father to protect her by staying away – but that’s a promise he just can’t keep. Things will change for Peter when a new villain, Electro (Jamie Foxx), emerges, an old friend, Harry Osborn (Dane DeHaan), returns, and Peter uncovers new clues about his past.

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