Spider weaves a web between Savoy and MC

For the first time in the history of Sri Lankan movie scene, the two leading theatres in Colombo, Majestic Cinema and Savoy will release the latest worldwide box office hit, 'Spiderman-3'.

The two theatres released the movie simultaneously on May 12 a week after its worldwide release on May 4. Imported by Luxmi Pictures pvt, Limited, the leading importer of Hollywood films has bought the royalty and two copies at a colossal some of money.

With the success of the first and the second Spiderman-3 has proved its success in the first week itself in box office records.

Repeating its previous successes the award winning director Sam Raimi has returned with more effects, more evils and more actions to heighten the power of his fictional Marvel comic hero Spiderman-3. Raimi takes up the helm again with a returning cast that includes Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, James Franco and J. K. Simmons. The film also stars franchise newcomers Topher Grace, Bryce Dallas Howard and Thomas Haden Church.

Adding more characters the producer and Marvel Studios chairman, Avi Arad convinced the director Raimi to include Venom, a character with a perceived "lack of humanity". The film's version of the character was an amalgamation of Venom stories. Eddie Brock, Junior, the human part of Venom, serves as a mirror to Peter Parker, with both characters having similar jobs and romantic interests. Brock's actions as a journalist in Spider-Man 3 also represent contemporary themes of paparazzi and tabloid journalism. The director Raimi had to graft the symbiote onto Peter in order to introduce Venom, and Tobey Maguire (Peter Parker/ Spiderman) relished the opportunity to play a less timid Parker.

In the plot of latest Spider series, Peter Parker has finally found the balance he has longed for between his love for Mary Jane Watson and his responsibilities as Spider-Man.

The city of New York and its citizens are at last coming round and appreciating everything he has done as his crime-fighting alter ego, and Peter is in the running for a staff job at the Daily Bugle. However, everything Peter has worked for is about to unravel. Flint Marko, while fleeing prison, is caught in an accident that displaces molecules and is transformed into the Sandman, a new super villain who is able to change his body into any shape of sand he sees fit. When Peter learns of a connection between The Sandman and the murder of his Uncle Ben, he will stop at nothing as Spiderman to capture him. But before Peter can do so he discovers a mysterious black substance has turned his suit black, and has brought forth a darker side of Parker and Spidey nobody has seen before. Peter begins to give into this new dark personality, starts to abandon the ones he loves the most and in turn his best friend Harry Osborn takes up his late father's mantle as The New Goblin. Quickly Parker begins a new romance with his lab partner, the beautiful Gwen Stacy but in doing so Peter sets off a rival Bugle photographer, a troubled young man by the name of Eddie Brock who is obsessed with Stacy. Little does Peter know the black substance has its sights set on Eddie else as well.

Brock is turned into Venom, a arch-foe that mirrors everything Spider-Man can do. Peter is forced to become the strong-willed hero he has forgotten about if he hopes to defeat his greatest threat yet.

Making it the most expensive film ever made in nominal U.S. dollars, the film's budget was officially $258 million. Principal photography for Spider-Man 3 began on January 16, 2006 and wrapped up in July 2006 after over a hundred days of filming. The team filmed in Los Angeles, Cleveland on the invitation of Cleveland Film Commission which offered production space at the city's convention centre at no cost and later moved to Manhattan.

On the special effects John Dykstra, who won the Academy Award for Visual Effects for his work on Spider-Man 2, declined to work on the third film as visual effects supervisor. Spider-Man 3 was commercially released in 16 territories on May 1, 2007. The film was commercially released in the United States on May 4 in a North American record total of 4,253 theatres and statistics that estimated an opening weekend of over $100 million for Spider-Man 3.

By May 6, 2007, Spider-Man 3 opened in 107 countries around the world. Making more records Spider-Man 3 set a record $59 million take for its opening day in the United States, breaking Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest 's $55.8 million record.
The movie also took the worldwide opening day record with $104 million. The US opening day take includes a record $10 million in Thursday midnight showings. Spider-Man 3 broke Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest's all-time weekend debut by grossing $148 million.