SPIDEY TO MAKE TWO MORE APPEARANCES ON FILM.Byline: Greg Hernandez Staff Writer LAS VEGAS - Spidey will be spinning his web again and again. Sony Pictures Entertainment announced at the ShoWest convention that ``Spider-Man 2'' will now be hitting theaters on Wednesday, June 30, two days earlier than originally scheduled. The studio also announced that it is planning to release ``Spider-Man 3'' in May 2007, a third chapter in what it hopes will continue to be one of the most popular franchises in movie history. ``We decided that (ShoWest) was the right time to announce the third film,'' Sony Pictures Chairman Amy Pascal pascal /pas·cal/ (Pa) (pas-kal´) (pas´kal) the SI unit of pressure, which corresponds to a force of one newton per square meter. pas·cal (p  -sk said. ``We all knew we had another story to tell about Peter Parker as he gets older.'' The first ``Spider-Man'' bowed in May 2002 with a record $114.8 million opening weekend gross. It went on to earn just over $400 million domestically. Pascal said deals have been set with all of the principals including stars Toby Maguire and Kirsten Dunst as well as director Sam Ramey. All three appeared at a screening of the trailer for ``Spider-Man 2'' as well as a lengthy action scene in which Spider-Man has a showdown on a train with the film's villain, Dr. Octopus octopus, cephalopod mollusk having no shell, eight muscular arms or tentacles, a pouch-shaped body, and two large, highly developed eyes. The prey (crabs, lobsters, and other shellfish) is seized by the sucker-bearing arms and pulled into the web of tissue at the base of the arms, paralyzed and partially digested by a poisonous salivary secretion, and chewed by the horny, beaklike jaws and the radula, or tooth ribbon.. Theater owners cheered wildly after seeing the clip and several said later that the film will be the biggest hit of the year. ``Prior to seeing (the clips), I wasn't all that crazy about Dr. Octopus, but now I think it'll do at least $400 million,'' said Keith Schexnayden, owner of a four-screen theater in Senotibia, Miss. ``The first one was our biggest movie and has only been topped by ``The Passion of the Christ.'' Greg Hernandez, (818) 713-3758 greg.hernandez(at)dailynews.com |
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