My Favorite Movies: Spider-man

     Spider-man is an American superhero film that was released in 2002. It was directed by Sam Raimi and written by David Koepp. The film is based off of the Marvel comic series created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko. Spider-man stars Tobey Maguire, who plays Peter Parker/Spider-man; Kirsten Dunst, who plays Mary Jane Watson; James Franco, who plays Henry Osborn; and Willam Dafoe, who plays Norman Osborn.
     The filming of Spider-man took place in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New York City from January 8th to June 30th of 2001. The film was released on May 3, 2002 and became a critical and financial success. It made $821.7 million worldwide, which made it 2002's third highest grossing film and thirty-third highest grossing film of all time. Spider-man was, for it's time, the only film to gross $100 million in it's first weekend. When it was released, it was the most successful film based on a comic book. Now, it's number four with The Avengers, The Dark Knight, and The Dark Knight Rises ahead of it. Spider-man also has too sequels which are titled Spider-man 2 and Spider-man 3. A thrid sequel was debated, which would feature villains such as Carnage and The Lizard. Spider-man 4 was going to be released in 2011.

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