
Sony isreporting record worldwide box office for 2002, due in large part to the successof Spider-Man. A write-up in today's Varietystates the studio raked in $2.75 billion in combined domestic and internationalsales this year, sinking the previous record held by Twentieth Century Foxduring their Titanic year.
The webbedwonder gets the lion's share of credit, accounting for $815 million in receipts.Credit also goes to top performers like the comic-based Men in Black IIas well as xXx and Panic Room.