Spider-Man Does Christmas
People with as many personal issues as Peter Parker tend to avoid the holidays at all cost.
Still, his web-slinging alter-ego is set to swing into video stores Nov. 30 with the DVD and VHS releases of Spider-Man 2, Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment announced Friday.
Lest you missed the timing of Spidey's home-video debut, its studio didn't, noting that, yes, the superhero will be "arriving just in time for the holidays."
Spider-Man 2, starring Tobey Maguire as the sweaty-palmed superhero, will be the fourth and last of the year's box-office blockbusters to make its DVD debut.
Shrek 2, the year's reigning box-champ with $436 million in ticket sales, is due in video stores on Nov. 5. The Passion of the Christ, in second place with $370.3 million, bows on DVD on Aug. 31. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, in fourth with $246.5 million, is set for a Nov. 23 debut.
Spider-Man 2, still in the box-office top 10 as of last weekend, has taken in $362.8 million--and counting.
Geoffrey Kleinman, editor of DVD Talk (DVDTalk.com), predicted Spidey 2 will do bigger business than its forerunner, which snagged "$190 million in its first three days of DVD release in 2002. But he predicted it wouldn't do bigger business than Shrek 2.
To Kleinman, nothing will do bigger business this holiday season than Shrek 2.
"It's the big green ogre. He's unstoppable," Kleinman said of the CGI-animated fractured fairy tale. "The appeal of Shrek 2 is so wide and crosses so many of the market segments, it's going to take the fall holiday title. It's going to be the champ."
Undeterred, Columbia TriStar is planning a bold invasion of store shelves, with a two-disc Spidey 2 DVD, a Spidey 2 gift set with all sorts of supplemental fanboy material (comic books, artwork, etc.), a Superbit DVD version of Spidey 2 for audio and videofiles, and a DVD two-pack containing both Spidey 2 and 2002's Spider-Man.
The two-disc Spidey 2 DVD will keep couch potatoes planted on the sofa with more than 10 hours of extras, including a 12-part doc on the making of the Doc Ock-graced movie. Maguire and director Sam Raimi help supply a commentary track to the main feature.
Spidey 2 will have to demonstrate super strength to make its mark on DVD. In addition to competing against the big three (Shrek 2, Passion of the Christ, Harry Potter) for the dollars of holiday shoppers, it will go up against the biggest of them all, Finding Nemo.
The Disney-Pixar fish tale is DVD's reigning sales champ, with some 22 million units sold.
Nothing for Pete to worry about. Really.
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