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'Spider-Man' Sets $114 Million Record at Box Office
Sun May 5, 1:15 PM ET

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - "Spider-Man" a highly anticipated comic-book hero
saga, kicked off the lucrative summer movie season in North America with a
record three-day gross of $114 million, according to studio estimates issued
on Sunday.

The film, released by Columbia Pictures, smashed the old three-day record of
$90.3 million, set last November by "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone."

"Spider-Man" also broke the boy wizard's benchmarks for highest single-day
receipts, said Jeff Blake, Columbia's president of worldwide marketing and
distribution.

The film revolves around a high-school geek, played by Tobey Maguire, who
is bitten by a spider and is soon able to scale walls and shoot webs from his
wrist. Kirsten Dunst co-stars as his love interest, and Willem Dafoe as the
villainous Green Goblin. Sam Raimi directed the film, which was reportedly
budgeted between $120 million and $130 million.

The audience was evenly split between males and females, and between viewers aged over and under 25, Blake
said.

The "Spider-Man" gross of $43.7 million on Saturday broke the "Harry Potter" single day record of $33.5 million, and
the new film reached $100 million in three days, while "Harry Potter" took five days.