The Chicago Sun Times talks about the box office recepits for the coming weekend. What exactly is going to happen?
Two weeks later and Spider-Man is still hanging tough at the box office, pulling in a whopping $72 million. One wonders if the webbed wonder is nervous about being "Force-d" out of the No. 1 spot next weekend when "Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones" opens? What, Spidey, worry?
"We don't really have this rivalry with the 'Star Wars' people," says the "Man" himself, Tobey Maguire. "I honestly think there's room enough for both movies to do well at the box office."
"Spider-Man" producer Laura Ziskin agrees. "Star Wars' will do great. I think the theaters will be full for a longer period of time with both 'Spider-Man' and 'Episode II' around. People will try to get tickets for one sold out show then go for the other," she says, adding, "Maybe we helped get people in the mood for a big summer movie. It's like, 'Gee, I had a good time at the movies and I'll go again.' Hit films feed off each other that way."
Other Spider-Bites? Maguire says that he recently made a pitstop at a Cirque du Soleil Show. "I saw them swinging around and I thought, 'I'm a fraud,' " he says. As for his new buff action-hero bod, he tells us, "No, I'm not going to work that hard to keep the body. Filming 'Spider-Man' was over months and months ago.
"Now, some days I wake up and feel like working out. Others I just say, 'Forget it.' Then I'll look in the mirror and go, 'Oh, you lost it.' But I don't have the time to train the way I was training for the movie until we get to the sequel."