On May 4th, 2007, while promoting the film on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (1992), Thomas Haden Church revealed that he broke three knuckles during the subway scene where he swings to punch Spider-Man and ends up punching a chunk of the wall away. Church said that the effects crew had told him that the brick in the middle was fake while the upper and lower ones were real. Unfortunately, the foam brick had not actually been put in place yet, and when Sam Raimi yelled 'action', Church spun around and punched the real brick on the first take.

All of the screams Kirsten Dunst had for this film were recycled from Ämblikmees 2 (2004).

In total, the film took 2 years and 10 months to make.

Bryce Dallas Howard performed her own stunts during the crane accident scene, unaware that she was pregnant at the time of filming.

It was considered at one point to split the movie into two films.

There were many scenes that were shot but never released on DVD including a montage of Peter (in his black suit) taking down criminals and leaving them strung up, tons of character-building moments, a confrontation scene between Captain Stacy and Eddie Brock (where Gwen dumps him at her father's house) and Peter freaking out after he looks in a mirror and sees a nightmarish version of the Venom symbiote screaming at him.

One of the sounds used for Venom is of a Tasmanian Devil.

Kirsten Dunst, a natural blonde, plays redhead Mary Jane, while Bryce Dallas Howard, a natural redhead, plays blonde Gwen Stacy.

While being in the Venom costume, Topher Grace didn't drink any water during his breaks because he couldn't use the bathroom with his costume on.

According to James Franco, they had to go back and do some re-shoots just prior to the release, because test audiences felt that there was not enough action in the film.

In a fight scene where Spider-Man punches through Sandman's chest, congenital amputee boxer Baxter Humby took Tobey Maguire's place in filming the scene. Humby, who was born without his right hand, helped deliver the intended effect of punching through Sandman's chest.

Harry's lab contains his father's Green Goblin mask, as well as a gold "Hobgoblin" mask from the comics.

According to Bryce Dallas Howard on the DVD commentary, the actor who plays the photographer during the crane accident scene performed magic for her at a birthday party when she was in the second grade.

The highest-grossing movie of 2007.

The release date for the film was set before Ämblikmees 2 (2004) was even released.

Thomas Haden Church worked out for 16 months to build up his physique to portray the Sandman, and Topher Grace worked out for six months to prepare for his role as Venom.

This was Cliff Robertson's final film before his death on September 10, 2011 at the age of 88.

Ämblikmees 3 (2007) combines all three Raimi brothers. Sam Raimi as the director, Ivan Raimi as one of the writers and Ted Raimi as an actor in the role of Hoffman.

Sam Raimi was deeply unhappy with how the film turned out. He had hoped that the planned fourth film would have made up for it.

The photograph of Mary Jane next to Peter's police scanner is the picture he took of her at the science exhibit in Ämblikmees (2002).

To prepare for his role as Venom, Topher Grace worked out for six months, gaining 24 pounds of muscle. He based his performance on alcoholics and drug addicts.

Reportedly an early draft had John Jameson, the astronaut from Ämblikmees 2 (2004), returning from a space mission with the symbiote as a stowaway. To save time and money, this was eliminated in favor of having the meteorite just happen to land next to Peter Parker.

Sam Raimi and Tobey Maguire were the driving forces that got Sandman into this film. During press interviews for the first two Spider-Man films, Raimi and Maguire repeatedly mentioned Sandman as a villain they would like to see in the third film.

Eddie's line - "My spider-sense is tingling... if you know what I'm talking about!" - when referring to MJ, was Topher Grace's idea.

It took three years to create the visual effects required to portray the Sandman's powers. To understand the dynamics of sand, various experiments were conducted with sand (launching sand at stunt men, splashing the stuff around and pouring it over ledges). Sand sculptors were also consulted for advice.

Real sand was used for Sandman, except when characters were being buried or covered in sand. Since real sand would have been a possible hazard for such scenes, ground up corncobs were used instead.

The first shot of the Sandman forming took roughly 6 months to create.

Both Topher Grace and Thomas Haden Church confessed that when they were unceremoniously invited to meetings at Sony, they had no idea they would be auditioning for this film.

Sam Raimi is the first director to helm three installments in a superhero franchise. At the time Bryan Singer had only made 2 X-Men movies and Tim Burton and Joel Schumacher each did two Batman movies. Christopher Nolan is second with his Dark Knight Trilogy. Bryan Singer became third when he returned for X-mehed: Tulevase möödaniku päevad (2014).

During Stan Lee's cameo in the film, he uses the catch phrase "'nuff said", which he used frequently in the comics to end short editor's notes inside the panels.

In the comics, the symbiote was a flowing sentient liquid ooze. Sam Raimi was very clear on the film's portrayal of the symbiote: he wanted it to have character, but not to resemble a spider or octopus. As portrayed in the film, it possesses a webbing form (it was composed of many separate CGI threads) that gives it a sense of life and an appearance of gripping onto someone's body.

Ground corn was used as sand because it reflected well on camera.

Opened in 4,252 theaters, more than any other movie before, beating out the former record-holder Shrek 2 (2004) which opened in 4,223 theaters. The record was then beaten by Kariibi mere piraadid: Maailma lõpus (2007), which opened in 4,362 theaters in the US.

When the symbiote attaches to Peter's motorcycle license plate, it takes on the shape of a V (for Venom).

The film's translation in Russia is "Spider-Man 3: Enemy in the Reflection"

At 140 minutes, (or 2 hours and 20 minutes), this is the longest of the original three Sam Raimi Spider-Man movies.

Elisha Cuthbert and Scarlett Johansson were both considered for the role of Gwen Stacy.

Thomas Haden Church was offered the role of Sandman on the strength of his performance in Külili (2004). He accepted the part despite the fact that there was no script.

Over 1000 people worked on the film, some of them putting in the 8000 hours needed to construct the 40 Spider-Man suits and others writing complicated CGI software.

After Peter tells Mr. Ditkovitch that he'll get his rent when he fixes the door, and goes to the window, on the bookcase next to the window is The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson, a story of man's duality, much like the "dark" Peter Parker in this movie.

Originally, Dylan Baker's Curt Connors was meant to mutate into the Lizard and become the main villain for this film. There is a lizard skeleton in Dr. Connors' laboratory that foreshadows this metamorphosis. Another hint is the fact that his right arm is missing: in the comics he tried to restore it using reptile DNA, which led to his transformation. The Lizard story was filmed, with Rhys Ifans in place of Baker, for the reboot movie Imeline Ämblikmees (2012).

Topher Grace left Kuumad 70ndad (1998) to star in this movie.

Originally, director Sam Raimi vehemently opposed having Venom as a villain in the film, claiming he hated Venom's "lack of humanity," but Marvel producer Avi Arad convinced him to include the character, explaining that Venom had a strong worldwide following. Raimi eventually came to appreciate the character, based on writer Alvin Sargent's script and actor Topher Grace's performance. However, to keep Venom's appearance a secret, he claimed during the film's casting and production that he hated the character, and had no intention of including the character in this film or any subsequent sequels. To make amends, he then treated the audience at the 22 July 2006 San Diego Comic-Con to the first public images of Venom in the film, albeit with unfinished special effects.

Not only was there a fourth installment planned but also a fifth installment and a sixth installment were planned as well.

As of 2008, this was the most successful film domestically in the U.S. not to be nominated for an Academy Award. It has since been replaced by Pimeduse rüütli taastulek (2012), Näljamängud (2012), and Näljamängud: Lahvatab leek (2013).

The font of Venom's web message is the same font used for the title of the comic, Sensational Spider-Man.

The movie had the best per-theater average ($34,807) ever among wide releases.

The character of Eddie Brock/Venom, as portrayed in this film, is an amalgamation of his "Amazing Spider-Man" (an obsessive journalist) and "Ultimate" (a skinny young man with a crush on Gwen Stacy) versions. This was done to present Eddie Brock as a shadowy reflection of Peter Parker (which shows that Peter Parker, when affected by the symbiote, starts to act like Eddie).

According to Grant Curtis, in early production the Vulture was originally going to be in the movie, and Ben Kingsley was involved in negotiations to play him before the character's story line was replaced by Venom. Kingsley later appeared in Raudmees 3 (2013) as another classic Marvel villain, the Mandarin. Vulture finally hit the big screen ten years later in Spiderman: Homecoming.

The film's IMAX screenings reached $20 million in 30 days, faster than any other 2D film remastered in the format.

Over 600 latex "web" balloons for the rally scene were hand-painted with a Sharpie marker.

The film's visual effects designer, Scott Stokdyk, created a miniature of a skyscraper section at 1/16th scale, instead of using CGI, to save time and costs, and so that damage done to the building could be portrayed realistically.

The demanding shoot in Cleveland meant that a section in downtown was closed down. The pavements had to be repainted to resemble those in NY. Traffic signs and electricity poles were removed for stunts. The shooting schedule also overlapped with the start of the MLB season for the Indians as well as the NBA playoffs for the Cavaliers and the heavier-than-usual traffic had to be re-routed. Despite all this, it is reported that the people of Cleveland welcomed the crew and didn't complain about the disruption the shoot caused.

A sequel was in development and was going to feature Dr. Curt Connor's turn into The Lizard and feature Carnage. But after some disputes over the script and Sam Raimi, the movie was cancelled in favor of a reboot.

To prepare for his role as the Sandman, Thomas Haden Church worked out for 16 months, losing ten pounds of fat and gaining 28 pounds of muscle. He based his performance on misunderstood monsters, like the Golem from Der Golem, wie er in die Welt kam (1920), Frankenstein (1931)'s monster, and King Kong (1933).

Alvin Sargent secured a seven figure deal to rewrite Ämblikmees 2 (2004) and work on Ämblikmees 3 (2007).

When production started, the computer programs to render the Sandman and his capabilities had not been developed. As production progressed, these programs were completed but the amount of man-hours put in to meet the deadlines were astronomical.

The alien symbiote's main weakness is that it is susceptible to high ultra-sonic sounds. This weakness is also shared by Daredevil, another Marvel Comics character.

According to composer Christopher Young, the Sandman's theme was composed with two contrabass saxophones, two contrabass clarinets, two contrabrass bassoons and eight (very low) French horns to describe Sandman as "heavy and aggressive." Venom's theme was meant to make him sound "vicious and demonic" and used eight French horns.

The jazz bar scene took approximately 2 weeks to film.

Partial scenes, where Spider-Man is hanging from the back of an armored car, were filmed in downtown Cleveland, Ohio, due to high shooting costs in New York City.

The animators at Sony Pictures Imageworks based Venom's movements on big cats like tigers, panthers and cheetahs.

Release prints were delivered to theaters in three parts, each with a fake title. Reels 1, 3, 5, "Two Timing Friend". Reels 2 and 4, "Back for More". Reels 6 and 7, "Listening Heart".

Composer Danny Elfman does not return to provide the musical score for this film, citing creative differences with director Sam Raimi during Ämblikmees 2 (2004). Instead, Christopher Young composes the film's score. In December 2006, however, producer Grant Curtis announced that Elfman had begun collaborating with Young on the film's score music. Interestingly, Elfman turned down this film for Charlotte koob võrku (2006), which is also about a spider who uses her talents to do good. Raimi and Elfman reunited for Suur ja kõikvõimas Oz (2013).

Series Trademark: [song] During the celebration scene the band plays an alternate rendition of the Spider-Man (1967) TV show theme while Spider-Man ascends to the stage. However, the song is absent from the closing credits for the first time in this series.

It was delivered to UK cinemas under the code name "Back for more".

This film was reportedly the most expensive film ever made in U.S. dollars, with a green-lit budget of $250 million. However, with the ground-up development of revolutionary CGI, the astronomical costs of shooting on location in New York (reportedly at $1 million per day) and extensive re-shoots which over-ran the production schedule an additional 8 months, have led many industry insiders to speculate a final tab of $350 Million or more in production costs alone. If this figure is true, then only Kariibi mere piraadid: Maailma lõpus (2007) comes in second with a final budget of $300 million.

The font used for the posters of the play Mary Jane appears in, was originally designed for the first Fantastic Four logo.

The name of the character Mr. Ditkovitch clearly recalls the name of the co-creator of Spider-Man, Steve Ditko.

A scene of Spider-Man battling a giant Sandman at a construction site was previously done in the cartoon Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends: Spider-Man: Unmasked! (1983).

The villains' meeting would have seen Eddie coming across Flint pretending to be sand in a playground for his little girl to play on. Talking to Flint, Eddie would have convinced him that his girl may be cured yet.

John Dykstra, who won an Oscar for his work as visual effects supervisor on Ämblikmees 2 (2004), had declined to work on the third film. Instead, Dykstra chose to work on Hot Wheels. Scott Stokdyk took over as visual effects supervisor.

In June 2017, 10 years after the movie premiered, an editors cut of the movie was released. It features a few extra scenes, that never made it to the original cut. However, a lot of scenes shown in trailers and promos from 2007, are not a part of the editors cut. A worldwide petition currently exists, to have the movie released with all the deleted scenes - similar to how Spider-Man 2.1 was made.

Phil Saunders, one of the art crew members, says that production designer Neil Spisak was let go just a few weeks into principal photography. J. Michael Riva was subsequently hired for the remainder of principal filming and re-shoots. However, both Spisak and Riva are credited in the main titles sequence.

This was the first Spider-Man film to not contain a reflection of the main villain in Spider-Man's eye on the poster.

As of 2017, this is the most recent live-action Spider-Man movie to feature the character J. Jonah Jameson. In the movies with Andrew Garfield as Parker, Jameson was mentioned but remained off-camera; in the Marvel Cinematic Universe with Tom Holland as Parker, Jameson has not yet shown up.

Some of the track and electrical hardware in the subway sets were on loan from SEPTA in Philadelphia and came from the city's Broad St. Subway.

Sam Raimi had previously considered Thomas Haden Church for a role in Selgeltnägija (2000).

The sixth most expensive movie to date (October 2015), and the most expensive movie not belonging to Disney. The five most expensive movies, all of which are owned by Disney, from least to most expensive are Kariibi mere piraadid: Võõrastel vetel (2011), Kariibi mere piraadid: Maailma lõpus (2007), Tasujad: Ultroni ajastu (2015), John Carter (2012) and Rapuntsel (2010).

You can see Venom on the black suit's eyes on the movie poster.

Sam Raimi stated in an interview that he has no interest of seeing Carnage in a live action movie, as he said that about Venom. However, he said that Toxin would make a cameo in future Spider-Man movies, without Carnage.

The song that Mary Jane performs on stage is from the Irving Berlin stage play "Annie Get Your Gun".

The hospital set was the one used on Strong Medicine (2000).

The Spider-Man trilogy has been turned into the basis of a lot facial memes (especially when it's an emotional scene with Peter Parker).

In the background, you can see a Charles Manson news article for the Daily Bugle framed and hanging on the wall.

The movie was released the same day as the Spider-Man 3 (2007) game. (May 4, 2007)

The Ditkovitch family are named after Marvel Comics artist and writer Steve Ditko, original illustrator of Spider-man.

Prints were delivered to some theaters under the codename "Let's Dance Again".

Adrian Lester had as cameo as a research scientist who is sought after by the Sandman to find a cure for his ailing daughter. He was seen in one teaser trailer for the film; however, his scenes were cut from the final theatrical version.

Last film appearance for Hal Fishman. He passed away 3 months after Spider-Man 3's release date.

In other earlier scripts of the film, the Lizard and Electro were planned to be the antagonists, rather than Venom and the Sandman. However, the Lizard appeared in Imeline Ämblikmees (2012) while Electro appeared in Imeline Ämblikmees 2 (2014).

Rosemary Harris later appeared with Marisa Tomei, one of her successors as Aunt May Parker, in Enne kui saatan surmast sotti saab (2007).

During breaks in filming, James Franco read works by William Shakespeare, Geoffrey Chaucer and John Milton.

Sandman's theme uses "two contrabass saxophones, two contrabass clarinets, two contrabass bassoons and eight very low French horns" to sound "low, aggressive and heavy". Christopher Young described Venom's theme as "Vicious, my instructions on that one were that he's the devil personified. His theme is much more demonic sounding." Venom's theme uses eight French horns. Sam Raimi approved the new themes during their first performance, but rejected the initial music to the birth of Sandman, finding it too monstrous and not tragic enough. Young had to recompose much of his score at a later stage, as the producers felt there were not enough themes from the previous films. Ultimately, new themes for the love story, Aunt May, and Mary Jane were dropped.

The name of the character who replaces MJ in the play is Andrea Rubin; Sam Raimi's sister is named Andrea.

The film is considered to be the Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (2005) and X-Men: The Last Stand (2006) of the Spider-Man trilogy as the film follows Peter Parker/Spider-Man as he succumbs to his darker side when the symbiote assimilates him and his Spider-Man outfit. Revenge of the Sith is about Anakin Skywalker turning to the dark side and becoming Darth Vader and The Last Stand is about Jean Grey succumbing to her darker side and returning from the dead as Phoenix.

The film's cast includes two Oscar winners: Cliff Robertson and J.K. Simmons, and five Oscar nominees: Thomas Haden Church, James Cromwell, Willem Dafoe, James Franco, Rosemary Harris.

Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, James Franco, Rosemary Harris, Willem Dafoe, Cliff Robertson, J.K. Simmons, Elizabeth Banks, Bill Nunn, Bruce Campbell, Ted Raimi, John Paxton and Stan Lee are the only actors who appear in all three films of Sam Raimi Spider-Man Trilogy.

Originally, Sam Raimi didn't want to include Venom in the movie as he wasn't a fan of the character. However, he was pushed by Sony to include Venom as a sort of fan service. That being said, fans did not like this iteration of Venom, particularly because Brock does not become Venom until towards the end.

While Spider-Man (2002) and Spider-Man 2 (2004) were released on DVD in separate widescreen and full screen editions, Spider-Man 3 was released on DVD in widescreen only.

There were plans for a Spider-Man 4, Spider-Man 5, and a Spider-Man 6. Sadly, they were all cancelled due to poor reception from this movie.

Emma Raimi: The girl who sells her camera to J. Jonah Jameson for $100 is Sam Raimi's daughter.

Grant Curtis: producer appears as one of the two security guards in the truck that got hijacked by Sandman.

Stan Lee: the man who tells Peter how great Spider-Man is.

Christopher Young: the conductor and the guy standing next to the piano player at Mary Jane Watson's rehearsal scene.

Sam Raimi: [Campbell] Bruce Campbell, who appears in most Raimi films, plays the French waiter.

The union between Venom and Sandman originally had Venom just offering the cash Sandman needs to save his daughter in exchange for helping him kill Spider-man, but during the battle, Sandman's daughter would come and tell her father that she could not be cured and was going to die, and wanted to die with her father being a good man, not a criminal.

While Topher Grace was a big comic book fan and had read the first Venom stories as a boy, he found the suit he had to wear as Venom extremely unpleasant. It took an hour to put on (and four hours to apply the prosthetics); and it had to be constantly smeared with goo to give it a liquid organic feel. Grace also had to wear fangs, which bruised his gums.

You can see Flash Thompson in the background at Harry Osborn's funeral.

Venom is never referred to as Venom. Sandman is only called Sandman once - during a newscast sequence near the film's climax. New Goblin is never called New Goblin - the closest this comes to happen is Peter calling him "Goblin Jr."

Originally, the butler was to be another illusion of Harry's, representing his good side. Even though this idea would have cleared up a massive plot hole (the butler waited to explain to Harry that his father's wounds were not an accident after such a long time), it was cut.

Mary Jane wasn't originally going to be in the taxi in the film's climactic fight. This was changed during the middle of shooting. Gwen was supposed to be captured, while MJ would have persuaded Harry to help Peter. The change was made at a late stage and Kirsten Dunst was not happy about it. Sam Raimi even apologised to her.

In the comics, Harry Osborn dies because the Goblin formula he ingested was fatally unstable, and was slowly poisoning him. Sam Raimi changed Harry's death to parallel his father's death in Ämblikmees (2002). However, in Harry's final scenes, his pale look could be a sign of the Goblin formula's effects.

During one of the scenes in Jameson's office, a newspaper in the background says "Doc Ock Still at Large".

Immediately after Ämblikmees 2 (2004) released, Ivan Raimi wrote a plot for the third film in two months. According to Sam Raimi, the film initially dealt with the concept of heroes with a dark side, and villains with a sympathetic side. As well as dealing with the "triangle" between Peter, Mary Jane and Harry, the Sandman was made the film's official "villain"; the screenwriters made his character, merely a petty criminal in the comics, the real killer of Ben Parker to further Peter's guilt over his uncle's death. Raimi wanted another villain in the film, and eventually settled on the popular villain Venom to please the fans. There was also the addition of a rival love interest, Gwen Stacy, to complicate personal matters. However, with all these additions, the story became so complex that Alvin Sargent considered cutting it into two films, before realizing he could not create a successful intermediate climax for the third film to lead into the fourth.

This is the only film of the trilogy not to feature Spider-Man swinging through the city at the end.

The first live action Spider-Man film in which a main villain, Sandman, survives at the end of the film.

In the comics, Reed Richards of the Fantastic Four is the one who discovered that the black and white Spider-Man costume is an alien symbiote. However, because movie rights to the "Fantastic Four" characters are owned by 20th Century Fox, it was changed to Dr. Curt Connors making the discovery.

The scene where Spider-Man throws an exploding pumpkin back at Harry, exploding in Harry's face, recalls a similar scene in Ämblikmees (2002). Green Goblin throws a pumpkin at Spider-Man, blowing off half of his Spider-Man mask.

The first Spider-Man film to not include any spidey sense sound effects.

When Eddie jumps in the symbiote, during his death in the explosion, for a few frames, his skeleton briefly appears, around the same time the ball of nuclear energy is released, after being pulled in.

When Spider-Man removes the symbiote costume, he is in a church tower and the sound of the bell allows Spider-Man to remove it, immediately afterward, it attaches itself to Eddie Brock where he transforms into Venom. This is almost exactly what happened in the Amazing Spider-Man comics.

James Franco was doing this movie and filming pineapple Express at the same time