August 21, 2004
Spidey 2 DVD In Time For Christmas and Still in the Box-Office Top 10
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.
Spider-Man 2, still in the box-office top 10 as of last weekend, has taken in $362.8 million--and counting.
If Peter Parker spent most of Spider-Man 2 battling low self-esteem, his movie bosses at Sony's Columbia TriStar suffer no similar affliction.
The studio 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 videophiles, 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