Helming a summer blockbuster can do wonders for one’s career With the start of another summer movie season brimming with extravagantly budgeted tent-pole features, another group of potential “boy wonder” directors will roll the dice on lucrative and high status careers. As “The Amazing Spider-Man 2’s” director, Marc Webb can attest, successfully helming a summer blockbuster can do wonders for one’s career. When Columbia took a chance on Webb for the first “Amazing Spider-Man” film, he had directed one small romantic comedy, “(500) Days of Summer,” with an estimated budget of $7.5

As a newbie director entrusted with a $230 million budget for only his second feature, and a potentially profitable franchise, Webb might seem like an anomaly, especially in a business in which executives regularly proclaim to be risk averse. However, this summer other directors are standing on the same career-boosting yet precarious precipice that Webb did two summers ago. Another relatively inexperienced director, Gareth Edwards, is directing the latest incarnation of “Godzilla,” with an estimated budget of $160 million.

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