Spider-Man 3 becomes the home entertainment event of the year when Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (SPHE) releases the international blockbuster on DVD October 30, in time for the holiday gift-giving season. Spider-Man 3 will be available in several versions for fans to collect including a single-disc release, a two-disc Special Edition release, PSP, and a three-pack DVD release which will include Spider-Man and Spider-Man 2 on DVD with collectible O-Ring packaging. Also available is the “Spider-Man High Definition Trilogy,” a three-pack release of all three films on Blu-ray High-Def allowing fans an exclusive opportunity to collect both Spider-Man and Spider-Man 2 in high definition, along with “Spider-Man 2.1” and Spider-Man 3. Spider-Man 3 will also be available as a stand-alone two-disc release on Blu-ray High-Def.
The two-disc Spider-Man 3 Blu-ray High-Def and two-disc Special Edition DVD offer fans more than six hours of all-new bonus materials, including a trio of featurettes spotlighting the cinematic creation of the web crawler’s greatest nemeses. Grains of Sand — Building Sandman details the challenges Sony Pictures Imageworks faced in creating the iconic villain; Re-Imagining the Goblin explores the changes in the New Goblin character from page to screen; and Covered in Black — Creating Venom follows the cinematic creation of Spider-Man’s archrival.
The two-disc’s added value also has a trio of features on the creation of the spectacular stunts in the movie: Hanging On … Gwen Stacy & the Collapsing Floor, where stunt coordinator Scott Rogers explores the logistics of the dangerous stunt performed by Bryce Dallas Howard; Fighting, Flying & Driving — The Stunts, wherein Stunt Coordinator/2nd Unit Director Dan Bradley and Stunt Coordinator Scott Rogers provide a behind-the-scenes peek at the various “gags” in the film; and Wall of Water where the viewer is taken into the creation of one of the biggest stunts in the film. In addition, the discs offer bloopers, a Snow Patrol music video, and two audio commentary tracks with cast and filmmakers.
Spider-Man 3 Special Features (Single-Disc DVD)
— Digitally Mastered Audio and Video
— Audio: English Dolby True HD 5.1, English PCM 5.1 (Uncompressed), French, Spanish, Portuguese, Thai 5.1 (Dolby Digital)
— Subtitles: English, English SDH, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Korean, Thai, Chinese Mandarin, Chinese Cantonese
— Bloopers
— Photo Galleries
— Snow Patrol Music Video
— Audio Commentary with Director Sam Raimi and Cast Members Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, James Franco, Thomas Haden Church, Topher Grace, and Bryce Dallas Howard
— Audio Commentary with Producers Laura Ziskin, Avi Arad and Grant Curtis, Editor Bob Murawski and Special Effects Supervisor Scott Stokdyk
— Closed Captioned
— Bonus Previews
Spider-Man 3 Two-Disc Special Edition DVD, Two-Disc Blu-ray High-Def
Disc One Special Features:
— Digitally Mastered Audio and Video
— Audio: English Dolby True HD 5.1, English PCM 5.1 (Uncompressed), French, Spanish, Portuguese, Thai 5.1 (Dolby Digital)
— Subtitles: English, English SDH, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Korean, Thai, Chinese Mandarin, Chinese Cantonese
— Bloopers
— Photo Galleries
— Snow Patrol Music Video
— Audio Commentary with Director Sam Raimi and Cast Members Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, James Franco, Thomas Haden Church, Topher Grace, and Bryce Dallas Howard
— Audio Commentary with Producers Laura Ziskin, Avi Arad and Grant Curtis, Editor Bob Murawski and Special Effects Supervisor Scott Stokdyk
— Closed Captioned
— Bonus Previews
Disc Two Special Features:
— Digitally Mastered Audio and Video
— Audio: English, Spanish 5.1 (Dolby Digital). English, Spanish (Dolby Surround)
— Subtitles: English, Spanish
— Featurette: Grains of Sand — Building Sandman
— Featurette: Re-Imagining the Goblin
— Featurette: Covered in Black — Creating Venom
— Featurette: Hanging On … Gwen Stacy and the Collapsing Floor
— Featurette: Fighting, Flying & Driving — The Stunts
— Featurette: Tangled Web: The Love Triangles of Spider-Man 3
— Featurette: Wall Of Water
— Featurette: On Location Cleveland — The Chase on Euclid Avenue
— Featurette: On Location New York — From Rooftops to Backstreets
— Featurette: The Science of Sound
— Featurette: Inside The Editing Room
— Theatrical TV Spots From Around the World
— Closed Captioned
