After taking a year to sign up the key players, Columbia Pictures has finally set at date of May 2011, as the worldwide release date for Spider-Man 4.

The first three films based on Marvel's acrobatic webcrawler combined grossed a massive $2.5 billion at the worldwide box office (that’s US dollars of course), so a fourth installment was always going to happen. It was only a matter of locking down stars Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst and of course director Sam Raimi.

2011 is shaping up to be a Marvel-ous season with Thor due out in June and The First Avenger: Captain America in July. Filming on the new Spidey flick reportedly gets under way early next year