🍿 Amazing Fact About Spider-Man (2002) Directed by Sam Raimi, this groundbreaking superhero film revolutionized the genre by becoming the first movie to earn over $100 million in its opening weekend ($114.8 million in 2002), kickstarting the modern comic-book blockbuster era. Genres: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi. One iconic scene—the upside-down kiss between Spider-Man (Tobey Maguire) and Mary Jane (Kirsten Dunst)—was grueling to film in pouring rain; Maguire nearly suffocated as water filled his