Spiderman 3

[GeneChing]

Silent Assassin just told me Spiderman III broke the box in HK, besting Kung Fu Hustle's record by nearly twice as much take.

Spiderman 3 Opens, Earns $29M
Wednesday, May. 02, 2007 By AP/DAVID GERMAIN

(LOS ANGELES) — "Spider-Man 3" cast a worldwide web with a blockbuster first day, hauling in $29.15 million in 16 overseas markets and beating the debuts of the previous two "Spider-Man" flicks in each locale.

The film had the best opening day ever Tuesday in some countries, including France, Italy, South Korea and Hong Kong, distributor Sony Pictures said.

"Spider-Man 3" opens over the next couple of days in dozens of other countries, including the United States on Friday.

"`Spider-Man' is a worldwide franchise, and the thing we're most excited about is that in two pretty completely separate parts of the world we've gotten off to a great start," Jeff Blake, Sony vice chairman, said Wednesday. "We certainly hope for the same in North America."

Domestically, 2002's "Spider-Man" opened with $114.8 million in its first weekend, a record debut that stood until "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" shattered it last year with a $135.6 million weekend.

"Spider-Man 2" opened on a Wednesday before the Fourth of July weekend in 2004, pulling in a record $180.1 million in its first six days.

The two previous films combined for a total of $1.6 billion worldwide, about half of that coming in the United States.

In France, "Spider-Man 3" took in $6.8 million on opening day, more than the first-day grosses there for "Spider-Man" and "Spider-Man 2" combined.

It grossed $4.6 million in Germany, $4 million in Italy, $3.7 million in Japan, $3.4 million in South Korea, $1.1 million in the Philippines and $1 million each in Hong Kong and Thailand.

The third installment in director Sam Raimi's superhero series, "Spider-Man 3" reunites Tobey Maguire as the web-slinger, Kirsten Dunst as the love of his life and James Franco as his old pal turned enemy.

Adapted from the Marvel comic books, the film also introduces two new villains, Thomas Haden Church as the Sandman and Topher Grace as Venom.

Along with bad guys, Spidey ends up battling his own dark side as he fights the temptation to use his powers for evil after an alien entity infects his superhero outfit.

[@PLUGO]

Saw it last night.

Much more comic-book and the previous adaptations . . .

some fun surprises as well.

I was never fond of Venom in the comic but it played out well in the film by really expanding the "Marvel Universe" of the Silver Screen.

[GeneChing]

SPIDER-MAN 3: A Different Spin on the Web by Dr. Craig Reid

[doug maverick]

this sh!t was whack. i'm gonna hit sam raimi with beng chuan to the chest when i see him for this awefull movie. i saw it on imax and imax always makes the crapiest movies look better and it still sucked. what the hell was up with all the stupid saturday night fever struts and the ****ing dancing. and how the hell you gonna have spider man crying three times in the movie and crying like ***** at that. nonono this movie was bad. the action was good, but i hated it.

[SevenStar]

the movie was great. the only things I really didn't care for were the matrix style aerial fight scenes and venom's "death" - they leave it open as to whether or not he's dead, but if they are keeping with the comic, then he should be very much alive. what's wrong with spidey crying? he may be an awesome fighting, cynical smartass, but peter parker is a geek to his heart. naturally, he's more sensitive than other marvel characters.

I wouldn't mind seeing another installment, possibly with carnage and someone else - rhino or electro, maybe.

Can't wait to see silver surfer in FF2 - he is the only reason I wanna see that movie.

[Shaolinlueb]

it was ok. im kinda disapointed with the whole venom thing though. next movie should have venom and spiderman with kraven hunting them both

[jethro]

I never finished watchign Spiderman 2, hopefully they give a recap in part 3.

[GeneChing]

The daughter of a friend of mine said that Spiderman 3 is "Spiderman goes emo." She's totally right. I mean, look at Parker's hair.

I hate emo...

[doug maverick]

me and all my friends said, one of my partners bought 50 seats at the imax for all his employees to go see it and i snatched up two ticks, for me and my girly. and i'm so glad i saw it for free, spider man was crying like a *****, and when he went dark he was just super emo. again i say somebody needs to smakc sam raimi in the head so he could wake the **** up.

[doug maverick]

so spider man four has been scrapped and raimi and the entire cast is out....and i gotta say im kinda happy. but what im not happy about is sony's plan to reboot the entire series from scratch making it more dark and gritty like batman which to me is a wrong move for spider man....also the person on the super short list to play spider man...and this is just what i heard from a good source this is not in the news reports but my sources tell me taylor lautner is on the super short list to play spiderman...but he has plenty of films lined up. so we'll see...there are a few othr names that would be better picks then taylor. and they should ait till action man comes out to check the reception because if the fanboys dont like taylor, they will sink spider man...

[@PLUGO]

Hollywood News noticed a retweet by "Adulthood" director Noel Clarke to British actor Arnold Oceng. He mentioned that Sturgess has been offered the part in upcoming "Spider-Man" film.

"Got inside track. jim sturgess has bin offerd the new spiderMan in spiderMan reboot, U knw I always get da inside scoop."

[doug maverick]

i'd take sturges over lautner...nothing wrong with lautner but i just dont see him as spiderman

[Lucas]

I think justin bartha would be a great peter parker, he has the look, if compared to classic spider man parker.

[doug maverick]

I think justin bartha would be a great peter parker, he has the look, if compared to classic spider man parker.

looks way to old to play a high school, student.

[Lucas]

i guess im talking older parker, when hes maried to M J and is in his 20's. where hes always scruffy and getting beat up by the sinister 6 and all that fun stuff.



im tired of teeny heros