[originaltext] LOS ANGELES--Spider-Man caught just about everyone in his web.

LOS ANGELES--Spider-Man caught just about everyone in his web. The superhero’s latest adventure, Spider-Man 3, smashed box-office records with $148 million in its first three days, according to studio estimates Sunday.
  That put it ahead of the previous record debut of ＄135.6 million set last summer by Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’ s Chest.
  With ＄59.3 million on opening day Friday, Sony’s Spider-Man 3 broke the single-day box-office record, also held by Dead Man’s Chest with ＄55.8 million in its first day.
  Since it began rolling out overseas on Tuesday, Spider-Man 3 has taken in ＄227 million in foreign markets, bringing the film’s worldwide total to ＄375 million. In just days, the movie has grossed ＄117 million more than its whopping ＄258 million production budget.
  In just two days, it also nearly matched the ＄114.8 million opening weekend of 2002’s Spider-Man, which had held the debut record until Dead Man’s Chest opened.
  Spider-Man 3 reunites director Sam Raimi, who also made the previous two installments, and stars Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst.