Contributed greatly by the success of Spider-Man 3, Hollywood has managed to break Summer 2004’s $4.009 billion record by bringing in an estimated $4.11 billion in domestic ticket sells.
Despite a competive summer which only brought three films to hold back-to-back weekend titles (Spider-Man 3, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End and Superbad), Hollywood managed to greatly increase its box office take over the last few years.
Spider-Man 3 was the top grossing film of the summer, bringing in $336.5 million from US theaters and a worldwide haul of $885.4 million. Shrek the Third, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End, Transformers and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix round out the top five.
Spider-Man 3 has been honored with three National Movie Awards nominations including Best Family Film, Best Performance by a Male (Tobey Maguire) and Best Performance by a Female (Kirsten Dunst).
This is the first year of the awards, which are being produced by UK television network ITV. The network had tremendous success with their National Television Awards which honors the best in UK television.
Viewers can vote for their favorite films at the National Movie Awards official website. The awards will be given out on September 28th at London’s Royal Festival Hall and will be aired the following evening on ITV1.
David Koepp, screenwriter of the original Spider-Man and next summer’s Indiana Jones 4 had reportedly been approached to write the screenplay for Spider-Man 4, but when Sam Raimi announced last month that he had met with executives at Sony and they were in the process of finding a writer, questions of Koepp’s attachment to the project surfaced.
IGN has confirmed that Koepp is in fact not involved with the fourth installment of the popular franchise, citing scheduling conflicts. Koepp is currently in pre-production on the film Ghost Town starring Greg Kinnear, Ricky Gervais and T?a Leoni.
Spider-Man creator Stan Lee will be the guest on Voice of America’s Talk to America on Wednesday, August 15th. The first fifteen people to submit questions for Mr. Lee will receive an autographed comic book. Head over to VOA for more info.
Spider-Man 3, the biggest movie of the year, will hit store shelves on October 30th. In addition to being released on standard DVD, the film will also be available on Blu-Ray (Sony’s high-definition video format) as well as PSP (also Sony).
The Blu-Ray and Special Edition DVD versions will feature over six hours of bonus material including a behind-the-scenes look at the stunts for the film, outtakes, audio commentary and a video for Snow Patrol’s “Signal Fire” which was featured on the soundtrack.
Three-packs of all the films will also be available on DVD and Blu-Ray.
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
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