Back in 2007, Sony and Marvel were enjoying a mass backslapping session over the massive success of their friendly, neighbourhood Spider-Man. Despite some unfavourable reviews lamenting its surfeit of villains, Spider-Man 3 had just made an absolute killing at the box office, with a worldwide take of almost $900 million making it Sony’s highest ever grossing film.
Not ones to leave a cash-cow unmilked, Sony announced that there was plenty more to come from the franchise, with executive Michael Lynton revealing plans were afoot to make not one, not two, but three further sequels.
“Everyone has every intention of making a fourth, a fifth and a sixth and on and on,” gushed Lynton to the BBC. “Spider-Man 3 had a universal appeal, it had a broader appeal than the second movie. It attracted a family audience and brought the family audience back. (We’ll keep making) as many as we can make good stories for.”
“When everybody comes up for air,” he concluded, “we can think about how to make the next one.”
Having done better business at the box office than the first two films combined, Sony’s bullishness was hardly surprising. So with the studio all set to plough their newfound millions back into the series, the next move was to get Sam Raimi and Tobey Maguire back on board…
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Hadouken76
Sep 16th 2010, 12:11
After all the teasing with Dr Connors in the first 2 movies, they should of unleashed him in the 3rd one, it would of brought more of an emotional pay-off than some random felon and a grumpy photographer. Another 'origins' movie is going to bring more deja vu than anything else
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Levendus
Oct 15th 2010, 19:30
Why do they think we want more Peter Parker angst ? We want a bit of that but what the audience enjoyed the most was the action sequences and the epic webslinging through the city scenes. Sony really don't know what they're doing with this...I'll be boycotting this film at the cinema and probably downloading it. They're not getting a penny of my cash for this.
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Arkhaminmate001
Oct 16th 2010, 8:41
Spider Man has been in 3 movies already and done well - ok 3 was below par compared to 1&2 but 2 great movies and 1 ok movie is a lot better record than the Star Wars prequels! lol Leave spidey be, Toby was great, story told, move on. This is just an excuse to jump on Marvels success by Sony and the cast is a total miscast, in my opinion.
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