User blog:ARTaylor/15 Years of Spider-Man

Today marks the fifteenth anniversary of the premiere of Spider-Man. The first theatrical film featuring the friendly neighborhood Spider-Man, it follows Peter Parker through his origins as he tries to win the heart of the beautiful Mary Jane Watson while battling his best friend's father as the dreaded Green Goblin. The film was a massive critical and financial success, breaking box office records, and launching the superhero genre into overdrive. It was followed by two sequels and influenced the then-unrelated Spider-Man: The New Animated Series to follow the events of the film. The movie features the talents of J. K. Simmons in his first turn as Daily Bugle editor J. Jonah Jameson, Jim Ward as the OsCorp project coordinator, and Stan Lee in one of his early cameos as a man at the World Unity Fair.