That’s right the web wielding super-hero is moving up a couple of days from its original release date of July 2 to June 30th to take full advantage of the holiday weekend, the announcement came today at ShoWest by Jeff Blake, Vice-Chairman of Sony Pictures Entertainment and President, Worldwide Marketing and Distribution, Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group.
“We decided to move the film up two days to take full-advantage of the Fourth of July holiday period,” said Blake. “When you have an event movie that is so widely-anticipated, it makes sense to give it as wide a berth as possible during the lucrative summer season.”
During Columbia Pictures presentation on Wednesday night at ShoWest, the world’s largest convention of theater owners and operators, Blake also confirmed the studio is developing the third chapter in the continuing adventures of “Spider-Man” and the next installment will be released on May 4, 2007.
The presentation featured an exclusive first look at approximately 10 minutes of the film highlighting the range of emotion and drama in the movie while also introducing exhibitors to Spider-Man’s new nemesis, Doc Ock. In addition, theater owners also previewed a new “Spider-Man 2” trailer, which will appear in their theaters in the coming weeks. The session included an appearance by the film’s stars Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst, director Sam Raimi and producers Laura Ziskin and Avi Arad.
Along with the announcement we have received a new production still from the film which you can get here.
