Most awaited date 2007-05-04---->Spiderman 3

One of the most awaited movies of 2007 is Spiderman 3. After 2 Spiderman this is really gonna be a hit, a great story and a great history of hits it will surely break its own record. So what's in it have a little update on the movie then,

Cast overview:

Tobey Maguire .... Peter Parker/Spider-Man
Kirsten Dunst .... Mary Jane Watson

James Franco .... Harry Osborn

Thomas Haden Church .... Flint Marko/Sandman

Topher Grace .... Eddie Brock/Venom

Bill Nunn .... Joseph 'Robbie' Robertson

Directed by Sam Raimi

Peter Parker has finally managed to strike a balance between his devotion to MJ and his duties as a superhero. But there is a storm brewing on the horizon. When his suit suddenly changes, turning jet-black and enhancing his powers, it transforms Peter as well, bringing out the dark, vengeful side of his personality that he is struggling to control.
Columbia Pictures surprised Spider-Man fans at the 2006 San Diego Comic Con by publicizing only the appearance of director Sam Raimi but bringing Spider-Man 3 stars Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, Topher Grace, Thomas Haden Church and Bryce Dallas Howard as well as producer Laura Ziskin to talk to the huge crowd gathered for one of the biggest events of its kind in the world.
Not only did the crowd of 5,000+ get to hear from the film’s stars, they were also treated to amazing footage from Spider-Man 3 put together just for the event. The footage had never been screened for the public before and included unfinished scenes as well as the first shots of Sandman (Haden Church) in action and a quick look at Venom (Grace).
Judging by the reaction of the crowd to the footage, Raimi and Co’s third Spider-Man movie easily lives up to the first two films of the series.
Prior to taking the stage to field questions from fans, the cast and director Raimi took part in small press conference in which Raimi did a great job of dodging questions that were too specific and that might lead to revealing storylines he wants to keep secret until the film’s release. Maguire and Dunst also showed great restraint, carefully wording their answers so that no spoilers could possibly be divulged.
The Big News Coming Out at Comic Con: Director Sam Raimi started the press conference out on a lighter note by joking when asked if he’d be making any big announcements during the Spider-Man 3 presentation. "I’m having a baby. Oh, you mean in regards to the story and the characters in the picture? Not interested in my personal life then, I guess? That’s fine, be that way. Yes, there is a big announcement that we were going to make today in front of the kids who’ve come to Comic Con, and that is that the movie will… One of the big villains that we have been expecting, will be my mother-in-law; will be Venom. He’s coming to star across from Tobey [Maguire] in this picture as the villain, along with Thomas Haden Church who plays the Sandman."
Sam Raimi on the Decision to Include Venom in Spider-Man 3: "Avi Arad, who’s really got his pulse on all the Marvel fans better than any head of the corporation has ever understood those people that are interested in the corporation’s product - he really knows what those kids want - he said, ‘You’ve had two Spider-Man pictures. This third one - there’s so many kids, so many fans of Spider-Man want to see Venom. Even if you didn’t grow up with him, they want to see him. You’ve got the Sandman, that’s one of your favorite villains. Why don’t you bring Venom in also and make those kids, the fans of Venom, happy?’ So I thought that’s what we should do."
Raimi’s opinion of Venom as a villain in the Spider-Man film world changed after seeing him brought to life by Topher Grace. "Now that I’ve seen Topher Grace perform him, then saw what Alvin Sargent did with the script… He created a great character. He really filled out Eddie Brock into a very meaningful character. Tobey has a great energy with him in the few scenes that they play together as competitors, and I really like him now."
The Design of Venom: Raimi credits his entire team with creating Venom’s look. "We had a great design team on this picture led by James Acheson, our costume designer, working with a team of brilliant sculptors, artists, painters, and we studied all the different looks. So many different artists created different looks of Venom and we tried to take the ones that we thought would work best for us, but also the ones that Avi felt were the most classic elements and base it on that."
Making Venom realistic within the world of the Spider-Man movies was a challenge for director Raimi. "There’s a lot of fantastic elements about Venom that you could say are in conflict with the realism that we wanted to have in the picture," explained Raimi. "But we just said to ourselves, ‘Kirsten and Tobey, you’ll have to do the heavy lifting here to bring it back down to earth because there’s this wild goo from outer space and you’re just going to have to connect us to the characters.’"
Raimi laughed at the follow-up to the ‘realistic’ question which called him on the ‘goo’ statement. Asked if his answer confirms Venom will be from outer space, Raimi countered with, "(Laughing) I never said that. I don’t know what you’re talking about."
The other two Spider-Man movies include visual nods to the covers and panels from the comics. Raimi says the third film does something similar. "In this story we’re less specific but we did try and stay very true to the Venom comic books when they describe his birth – the creation of Venom. We did try and stay true to the writers’ and the artists’ ideas of how that happened."
Tobey Maguire on His New Costume: Maguire said there wasn’t much of a difference between the two Spider-Man costumes he dons in the film. "They’re pretty much the same. I mean what it feels like, the material’s similar. I think it’s probably a little sleeker and sexier, you know, kind of more like me in real life (laughing)."
Juggling Multiple Villains and Love Triangles: "Well, Spider-Man comic books had all these characters and successfully interwove their stories," said Raimi. "A lot of what we’re doing is not introducing elements. Like if Harry Osborn does decide to seek vengeance upon Peter Parker for the death of his father, it’s certainly something that’s been set up in the first and second picture.
This is more the conclusion of that. We have less work to do in that sense of not just introducing all of these new people.
One of the other villains we’ve tried to weave the story into Peter Parker’s personal life in as important of a way as we could, in a way that hopefully will make more of the first two pictures and give us insights into what we’ve seen before. I think probably only with the Brock character is there a complete new introduction of elements into Peter’s life but that’s ok, I think, because he can meet new people, too."
Kirsten Dunst on How Mary Jane Changes in Spider-Man 3: "I never know what to say without giving it away. Basically she’s still an actress and you can see where it was heading towards in the last film with Peter. Emotionally, much more adult, more mature and there’s a lot more at stake because their relationship – they’re together. So emotionally it’s just, there’s a lot more at stake for all the characters and I think that we’ve gone to their relationship because they’re older, and just developed more and become more complicated. So emotionally, it’s a much heavier film."
Tobey Maguire’s Take on His Character’s Development: "You know for me one of the most important [things is] there’s obviously a continuity of character that you have to keep up. Peter Parker is Peter Parker and so it’s important to not just try to like create new kind of things for Peter just for the sake of that. But I don’t necessarily want to see the same scenes played out and Peter going through the same kind of things that he’s gone through. So I think that Alvin and the other people who had input into Peter’s story and what Peter’s going through in this movie, did a fantastic job because as an actor for me it was like – there was nothing stale about it. I got to approach it and got to do like brand new, really fun, interesting things for myself. And in terms of what the specifics of that are, you know, you’ll see when you check out the movie."
Maguire delves a little bit into the darker side of Peter Parker in the third Spider-Man outing. "Again, it was just because we’ve gone into some different areas that it was new and fun for me without losing touch with who Peter is. I really enjoyed the things that I got to do in the movie."
Sam Raimi’s Casting Choices: Raimi says hair color and other physical attributes never figure into his decision on who to cast in any role. Specifically addressing the choice of Bryce Dallas Howard to play Gwen Stacy, Raimi said, "We just cast the best actress for the part. Tobey, our producer Laura Ziskin, myself, Grant Curtis - just trying to find the best actress for the role. Best actress – not someone that looked like Gwen Stacy of the comic books, although once the actress would have been cast, that would have been our immediate job. How could we make her look like the image the kids have grown up with? But nevertheless, casting we’re just trying to find the right person who could make it real, take the dialogue and bring it to life. See things – read it in the most unexpected way – bring some life to it. Make it interesting, exciting for me who was watching it, for Tobey who was acting in it, for Laura who was watching it with us. That’s really what the casting was about.
The moment came when Bryce read the scene, one particular scene, and it came to life for us suddenly. We all looked to each other and felt energized. It was a different thing than with Kirsten and Tobey because we were after a different relationship, actually, there. But here we were looking for a great actress and that’s what seemed to jump out at us."
Is Spider-Man 3 the Completion of the Story?: Does the third film bring closure and are there more movies in the works? Kirsten Dunst answered, "Well, I mean, [this is] definitely a culmination but you would have had to have seen the first and the second. This definitely ties up some story lines. But if there more stories to tell, if there are things that are unresolved, then we will tell them. But I think that depends on if everyone staying, there’s a story to tell. If there’s a good story, I’ll be there."
The Decision to Film in Cleveland: Cleveland’s not exactly the first location that pops into mind when you think of a Spider-Man movie. Raimi said it all came down to being able to shut down streets. "Cleveland was wonderful to us. They really put the red carpet out for us. [We did] a tremendous amount of shooting there so we’re very thankful to that city.
What happened was the sound stages are in Los Angeles, because we’re Columbia Pictures, so we shot right on the back lot – Columbia Pictures in Los Angeles. All the stage work was done there, 90% of it. And then New York has always been the city as you know, of Spider Man, so we went to New York to shoot all the location photography. Now there’s some car action in the story – there’s a car action sequence - but we couldn’t ask Manhattan [to shot that there].
Manhattan couldn’t give us ten straight blocks of city dedicated to our car chase, but Cleveland could. So we sent a second unit there under the direction of Dan Bradley, a great stunt coordinator and second director I’ve worked with before, to shoot the car action stunts there. For like ten days we were able to monopolize these streets. That’s why we shot in Cleveland."
The Improvements in Special Effects: Discussing the third film’s effects Raimi explained, "I think what’s different is we had new challenges this time. We had to bring about the Sandman and we’ve got a great special effects designer in Scott Stokdyck who was one of the two fellows who did the first two Spider-Man pictures, along with John Dykstra, and now he’s got the job alone. We’ve got a lot of the same animators, we’ve replaced a lot of them, others have moved on. But the core team is there and we’ve tried to build upon it so we’ve become better at working with animation.
I’ve learned a lot over the last five years. It’s like directing animated picture after animated picture, you start to understand what’s working and what’s not and why. But as far as the technical aspect and what the new hurdles are, it’s really about bringing about, for us, Sandman to the screen. How can we make it believable to the audience? Not just fantastic, but believable that this fellow could turn into sand and become this substance and still be a human being. It’s really without feeling the hand and the manipulation of the artist all the time, but just getting into the dream of it and getting sucked up into the story. So it’s about technical expertise and artistic expertise on behalf of the teams of artists we have working on those effects. They made a lot of new techniques available to themselves. They’ve developed some new programs, written some new programs. They’ve taken some existing software and combined it in new ways that we haven’t seen – new applications for it and a lot of just ideas - ideas that they did some groundbreaking on. And are still groundbreaking on. We still aren’t sure we can do it, actually."
Raimi continued, "Venom is less of a technical challenge and more of an artistic challenge in trying to capture the spirit of this very powerful, somewhat Spiderized graceful-but-animal, not Spider-Man’s style of movement – that’s more about capturing a dance form on screen."
The Physical Side of Playing Spider-Man: Maguire says his back’s doing fine. "I enjoy doing this stuff, and I do the stuff that I can do and that’s safe. I don’t know. It’s an interesting part of the job. I think when I watch the stunt men do really, really crazy stuff, my mind gets blown and I go, ‘I can’t believe they do that.’ It’s really amazing. And this, me saying this is a little ill-advised, you know, that most actors – I don’t understand this – the actors come in and say that I do all my own stunts. By the way, I just want to tell you guys now any actor that says, ‘I do all my own stunts,’ is not telling you the truth unless they’re like jumping over a little gate or something."
Sam Raimi on the Challenges of Adapting This Story Three Times: "What’s been easier each time is getting to know the family that we work with, and really trusting them to the point they become complete collaborators. From Laura Ziskin to Alvin Sargent, Tobey, Kirsten, James Franco, Rosemary Harris, the directors of photography, the animators I was speaking of, the editors – there’s so many people that make this movie. Unlike a lot of smaller films where it’s one person - the actors and the writer and the producer, a tiny little core - there’s a thousand people making this. So it’s gotten a lot easier because we’ve got this system of knowing each other, knowing how we work together. Trusting each other. That has made everything a lot easier."

So be ready spiderman fans because the date is coming soon.