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...Forget SPIDER-MAN 3's record haul. Sony executive Michael Lynton (speaking to the BBC) is already talking about "a fourth, a fifth and a sixth and on and on ... as many as we can make good stories for." (According to some critics, that criterion didn't govern Spider-Man 3.) No word yet on whether director Sam Raimi or star Tobey Maguire will return. SCORE...
...There is, however, a mystery about Lucky You. Warner Bros. is tossing it out on the weekend Spider-Man 3 is expected to earn a gajillion dollars. In effect, they're saying, if you can't get a ticket for Spidey, maybe you'll wander down the multiplex hallway and take a look at our picture. It is also said that Hanson has been forced into many months of re-editing fuss to reach this frustrating point. Finally, it has been observed that televised poker, which became a TV darling when this picture was green-lit, has lost some...
...sense a great movie, a masterpiece that future generations will want to rediscover. But it is a solid, well-made, generally gripping and intelligent movie - and how many of those have lately been made in America? So don't worry if you're shut out of Spider-Man. There is an alternative - and one that will afford you the kind of agreeable pleasure that genre movies once routinely supplied and now only rarely...
...Responsibility for keeping a film under budget belongs to the director. Both Spider-Man's Sam Raimi and Pirates' Gore Verbinski have earned their respective studios' trust with the first two installments in their franchises. And, like their actors, they've earned a pretty penny...
...Spider-Man 3 will open on a record 4,200 screens this Friday, the first weekend in May, typically the best box office weekend of the year. To get the dream weekend slot, studios have to claim it early and filmmakers have to hustle and pay their gaffers and best boys lots of overtime to finish in time...