Marc Webb was born on August 31, 1975. Although his parents were said to be very academically oriented, he “reportedly attended Colorado College for only a semester before delving into the professional side of filmmaking.” He worked on short films and music documentaries such as Hype (1996). Webb then moved on to work with music videos for popular artists and bands like Good Charlotte, Regina Spektor, Green Day, and Fergie. In 2006, he was awarded Director of the Year Award by the Music Video Production Association, and won MTV Video Music Awards for Green Day’s “21 Guns” several years later (Marc Webb Biography- Yahoo! Movies).
Premiering in August of 2009, (500) Days of Summer was released as Webb’s first full length film and starred on-the-rise celebrities Zooey Deschanel and Joseph Gordon-Levitt. He teamed up with a production company, Fox Searchlight, which "has made big hits of Little Miss Sunshine, Juno, and Slumdog Millionaire" (Corliss). Despite the fact that this was Webb’s first Hollywood movie, “he surpassed the usual stop-and-start path of indie film directors by vaulting to the top of one of the biggest franchises in the business: Sony’s ‘Spider-Man’ series.” The Amazing Spiderman is set to release in 2012 with Andrew Garfield as a high school version of Peter Parker, and Emma Stone as Gwen Stacy. The film is post-production, but Webb is rumored to be remaking Just Another Love Story, a Danish thriller that was released in 2008 (Marc Webb Biography- Yahoo! Movies). The future may be unclear at the moment for Marc Webb fans, but one thing is for sure: he won’t be leaving Hollywood anytime soon.
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