Tuesday, May 1-----America's favorite superhero is back. ...The Tribeca Film Festival and Columbia Pictures have joined together to usher in the latest chapter in the life, loves and adventures of Peter Parker (also known as Spider-Man) with a marathon of midnight screenings leading up to the premiere of SPIDER-MAN 3 on Friday.

Night owls and Spidey die-hards can catch the original SPIDER-MAN, starring Toby McGuire, Kirsten Dunst and Willem Dafoe, tonight at midnight at the Clearview Chelsea West. Tomorrow night, Spidey's sworn nemesis Dr. Octopus (Alfred Molina) will introduce the midnight showing of SPIDER-MAN 2.

And if that isn't enough for you Spidey maniacs.....on Thursday night, the Festival will present a marathon of the first two SPIDER-MAN epics, along with a special featurette of behind-the-scenes footage from SPIDER-MAN 3. The marathon ends just before midnight.....giving Spidey fanatics just enough time to catch the first screenings of SPIDER-MAN 3 at 12:01am. Sheesh.

Sandy Mandelberger, Festival Online Dailies Editor