Spider-Man 3 A Hit in Asia

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“Spider-Man 3” smashed box office records across eight Asian markets on Tuesday, as the superhero sequel got a head start on the rest of the world, the film’s distributor said.

“It was bigger than ‘Spider-Man’ and ‘Spider-Man 2′ everywhere,” said Sony Pictures vice chairman Jeff Blake.

Leading the way was Japan, where its opening-day sales of 415 million yen ($3.5 million) ranked as the biggest for a Tuesday. Films in Japan normally open on a Saturday, which is a bigger moviegoing day.

The Sony Corp .-owned studio launched the world premiere on home territory, in Tokyo, last week. The film, which the studio said cost $258 million to make, reunites stars Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst with director Sam Raimi.

In South Korea and Hong Kong, the picture set new marks for the biggest opening day, taking in 3.2 billion won ($3.4 million) and $HK7.5 million ($960,000), respectively.

Sales in Singapore, the Philippines, Malaysia and Thailand were the highest for any single day, opening or otherwise. Taiwan sales were the biggest for any weekday.

Tags: SpiderMan 3, Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst

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Spiderman 2 at Best movies on May 6th, 2007 3:27 pm

Indeed, Spiderman 3 with the evil twist is such a BIG HIT with asians moviegoers and film buff – all the way from Japan, Hongkong China, Philippines, Thailand, Russia, Singapore, Malaysia, and even Indonesia. It did not matter that Spiderman 3 DVD are already flooding the market in this region of piracy and pirated goods – this time, the public went to the movies and enjoyed a legal and fantastic music, images and sound in the Spiderman movie.

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