Spidey ‘2’ to swing in two days sooner
“Spider-Man 2” will hit theaters June 30, two days earlier than scheduled, said Jeff Blake, vice chairman of Sony Studios.
That gives the movie a two-day head start on the Fourth of July weekend, one of the busiest times of the year at theaters.
The announcement this week at theater owners’ annual ShoWest convention came with more good news: A third installment of “Spider-Man” is due in 2007.
Starring Tobey Maguire as the masked do-gooder, “Spider-Man” had a record $114.8-million opening weekend and was the top-grossing movie of 2001 with a $403.7-million domestic haul.
Renewed success seems a safe bet, based on theater owners’ hearty cheers for footage of “Spider-Man 2” that Sony previewed Wednesday. The studio showed off the final theatrical trailer, which debuts in theaters April 9, plus an extended action sequence in which Spider-Man battles multi-tentacled villain Doc Ock (Alfred Molina) on a speeding mass-transit train.
From Associated Press
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