If Sony can earn blockbuster-style box office with the new Spider-Man at a much lower budget, it will have discovered the Hollywood version of the Holy Grail.
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 19-year-old striker weaved through the middle of a flat-footed Everton defence and, were it not for a reckless late tackle by last-man Hibbert on the edge of the box, he would have been one-on-one with Tim Howard.
Everything from the series' out-of-the-box premise to its likable leading man, James Wolk, has garnered praise from early viewers.
Matt Damon, the soft-spoken leading man in box office winner The Bourne Ultimatum, turns out to be Hollywood's best investment.
U2's Bono and The Edge seemed to have initially bungled their Broadway debut with "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" only to have it become a box-office success.
The games company recently founded a new wing, Ubisoft Motion Pictures, no doubt hoping to mimic the success of Marvel Comics, which has scored box office hits with independently-produced pictures including Iron Man, Thor and Avengers.
If there is someone who can give Star Wars a run for box-office gold, maybe it's Spider-Man.
James Ferguson, still hoping to witness General Grant's arrival, looked up from his first-floor seat and saw, on the other side of the theatre, another man-not Grant-approaching the box.
Another, sent by a Japanese man, lies in a coffin-shaped box, arms folded across her chest.
From this vantage point, unless Man of Steel connects on a primal level or Pacific Rim really is a game-changer, Iron Man 3 is the presumptive box office champion of summer 2013, if not the entire calendar year.
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"If I can put it on paper, I can imagine how it'll end up in a box, " said Mr. Haro, opening a guide to Spider-Man poses: crouching, leaping, dangling.
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The film set records when it opened last weekend, becoming the third highest-grossing opening of all time behind The Dark Knight and Spider-Man 3 and the biggest opening of 2009, according to Box Office Mojo.
Last-man Craigan lost possession to Ksanavicius on the edge of the box, but referee Iain Brines gave a foul that did not seem apparent, although Graeme Smith saved the Lithuanian's shot as the whistle blew.
With a very big year at the box office anticipated with the one-two punch of The Dark Knight Rises this summer and Man of Steel this Christmas, the game developer is offering both super heroes in one game.
If those films are Iron Man-sized hits, it will set up The Avengers for a boffo box office.
In his room at the apartment, Mr. Sen's possessions offered a snapshot of a man described as gentle and hard-working: heart medication, a large box of fudge brownies and several books on learning HTML and business.
It could have been Tottenham's second spot-kick, as man of the match Gareth Bale had been brought down in the box minutes earlier.
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While the lumbering relics of the computing past are torn up for scrap--or, if they're lucky, stashed away in a museum--games such as Pac Man or Galaga are endlessly recycled for use in online services, such as X-Box Live, or on mobile phones and handheld devices.
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