'Spider-Man 3' Web sales top predecessor

April 24, 2007 Moviegoers are buying online tickets to "Spider-Man 3" at a faster clip than they did for its blockbuster predecessor almost two weeks before that film hit theaters, top online ticket sellers said Monday. The new film, produced and distributed by Sony Corp.'s Columbia Pictures and Marvel Entertainment Inc., has sold out dozens of the thousand or so midnight showings scheduled for May 3, said Fandango spokesman Harry Medved. The film kicks off a potentially lucrative summer season for Hollywood studios and movie theaters, with the third installments of the "Shrek" and "Pirates of the Caribbean" series of movies also slated for May.

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