TRIVIA

• Topher Grace left "That '70s Show" to star in this movie.

• The over 600 latex "web" balloons in the celebration scene had to be hand-painted with a Sharpie marker.

• 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.

• This film is reportedly the most expensive film ever made in U.S. dollars, with a budget of $250 million. This breaks King Kong (2005)’s record of $207 million, and in terms of adjusted dollars, would be third to Voyna i mir (1968)’s budget of $560 million.

• Thomas Haden Church worked out for 16 months to build up his physique to portray Sandman.

• 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.

• Kirsten Dunst dyed her natural blond hair red for the role of Mary Jane Watson. Bryce Dallas Howard dyed her natural red hair blond for the role of Gwen Stacy.

• Real sand was used in the scenes with Sandman, except where there were characters being buried / covered in sand. Real sand being possibly hazardous for such scenes, ground up corncobs was used as a substitute. It provided marvelous snacks for the cast and crew afterwards.

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

• 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 a future sequel.

Trivia courtesy of Internet Movie Database.