Many also had the support of the box office, including Spider-Man (No. 16) and Batman (No. 19), which both benefited from recent major motion picture reboots.

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The series -- about a group of space explorers given various superpowers after being hit by cosmic rays -- began a new era for Marvel Comics, signaling the start of their wave of Silver Age characters, including Spider-Man, the X-Men, the Hulk, Iron Man and many more.

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The success of the Playstation 2 pushed the games division's profits up to 24.8bn yen from 4bn and films, including "Spider-Man" and "Men in Black II", pulled in 9.9bn yen, but was down on the 22bn yen a year ago.

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Cooper joins a growing cast for the next Spider-Man outing, including franchise newcomers Oscar winner Jamie Foxx as the villain Electro, Paul Giamatti as the Rhino, Dane DeHaan as Harry Osborn (son of Norman Osborn), Shailene Woodley as Mary Jane Watson, and Felicity Jones as an unknown character (rumored to possibly be Felicia Hardy aka the Black Cat).

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All in all over 100 items stuffed inside a courtesy HD DVD press backpack (which itself may be a collector's item some day soon), including a Jawbone Bluetooth headset, CoPilot Navigator 9, Spider-Man 3 Blu-ray disc, Tooth Tunes toothbrush, and an iriver Mplayer.

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Last summer, China Film opened several similar movies, including "The Dark Knight Rises" and "The Amazing Spider-Man, " on the same dates.

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If anything, the "Spider-Man" reboot, with its new cast and creative team, including Andrew Garfield in the title role, seems to have the most challenges of them all.

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Most had Spider-Man 2, along with other movies not yet out at UK cinemas including Tom Hanks' The Terminal, Keira Knightley's King Arthur and Garfield - The Movie.

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