cinematographer: Bill Pope
budget: $200 million
producer: Avi Arad , Laura Ziskin
distributor: Sony Pictures Releasing
assistant director: Lisa C. Satriano
production company: Columbia Pictures , Marvel Enterprises
runtime: 127 minutes
sfx supervisor: J.C. Brotherhood
characters by: Stan Lee , Steve Ditko
main characters: May Parker , Peter Parker/Spider-Man , Mary Jane Watson , Harry Osborn , Dr. Otto Octavius/Doctor Octopus , Rosie Octavius , J. Jonah Jameson
related movies: Spider-Man 2 , Spider-Man 3 , Spider-Man: No Way Home
sequel: Spider-Man: No Way Home , Spider-Man 2 , Spider-Man 3
story by: Alfred Gough , Miles Millar , Michael Chabon
premiere date: June 30 2004
box office: $789 million
franchise: Spider-Man In Spider-Man 2, the latest installment in the blockbuster Spider-Man series, based on the classic Marvel Comics hero, Tobey Maguire returns as the mild-mannered Peter Parker, who is juggling the delicate balance of his dual life as college student and a superhuman crime fighter. Peter's life becomes even more complicated when he confronts a new nemesis, the brilliant Otto Octavius (Alfred Molina) who has been reincarnated as the maniacal and multi-tentacled "Doc Ock." When Doc Ock kidnaps MJ (Kirsten Dunst), Spider-Man must swing back into action as the adventure reaches new heights of unprecedented excitement.
