{"id":570,"date":"2007-04-17T22:21:29","date_gmt":"2007-04-17T22:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/archives\/2007\/04\/17\/a-big-week-for-spider-man-3\/"},"modified":"2007-04-17T22:28:02","modified_gmt":"2007-04-17T22:28:02","slug":"a-big-week-for-spider-man-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2007\/04\/17\/a-big-week-for-spider-man-3\/","title":{"rendered":"A big week for Spider-Man 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

The summer blockbuster season began last night as Spider-Man 3<\/strong><\/a> had its world premiere in Tokyo.<\/p>\n

With a rumoured budget of $258 million<\/a> and a global marketing spend in the region of $100 million a lot is riding on this film.<\/p>\n

Kimiko de Freytas-Tamura of the AFP writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The third and possibly final installment of the widely popular “Spider-Man” films made its world debut in Tokyo Monday in a rare move for Hollywood as it sees more opportunities overseas. Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst and other stars of the movie attended the gala red-carpet premiere of “Spider-Man 3,” the latest chapter in the adventures of the web-spinning comic hero.<\/p>\n

The potential summer blockbuster opens in Japan and other major Asian markets on May 1, three days before the United States. It will also come out on May 1 in some European countries including France and Germany. It marks the first time that Sony Pictures, despite its Japanese parent company, has chosen to debut such a high-profile film in Japan, the world’s second-largest box office.<\/p>\n

“Of course, we are looking to boost our proceeds in Japan,” said a Sony official in Tokyo. Last year domestic fare overtook Hollywood movies in revenue at the Japanese box office for the first time in 20 years thanks to a growing crop of high-quality Japanese productions.<\/p>\n

Analysts said Sony’s decision to launch the new “Spider-Man” in Japan was primarily symbolic as it will be out within days elsewhere in the world and can be expected to be a hit in the United States.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I think the the success of this film is pretty much assured. The question is really how big it is going to be. Given that spring releases like 300 <\/strong>and Blades of Glory <\/strong>have surpassed expectations to become major hits, the opening numbers for Spidey could be huge.<\/p>\n

The first one was a faithful and well crafted comic book adaptation and was the biggest film of 2002. The second film was better – I think it still stands up as one of the best comic book adaptations ever put on screen – and this one looks like it could follow suit.<\/p>\n

I’m seeing it this week so I’ll report back with some thoughts soon.<\/p>\n

Spider-Man 3<\/strong> opens in the UK on May 4th<\/em><\/p>\n

> Official site for Spider-Man 3<\/a> and the official blog<\/a>
\n> IMDb entry for Spider-Man 3<\/a>
\n> The impressive Wikipedia entry for Spider-Man 3 <\/a>(editing is locked but be careful about spoilers)
\n> SlashFilm has some QT footage from GermanTV with more Venom<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The summer blockbuster season began last night as Spider-Man 3 had its world premiere in Tokyo. With a rumoured budget of $258 million and a global marketing spend in the region of $100 million a lot is riding on this film. Kimiko de Freytas-Tamura of the AFP writes: The third and possibly final installment of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}