Sam Raimi returned to this striking building (part of the Mount St Mary Campus) for enjoyably splurgy horror Drag Me To Hell as well as The Princess Diaries, Catch Me If You Can and Shop Girl. The ‘Restaurant Constellation’, where the maitre d’ ( Raimi regular Bruce Campbell) is keen to help Peter’s proposal to Mary Jane, is the Doheny Mansion, Chester Place, south of downtown LA. Spider-Man 3 film location: the botched proposal in the swanky ‘New York’ restaurant: Doheny Mansion, Chester Place, downtown Los Angeles | Photograph: Big Orange Landmarks / Floyd B Bariscale As he wreaks havoc in the city, you can see the Alexandria Hotel (John Doe’s place from Se7en) on the left, and the site where Colin Farrell was pinned down in the Phone Booth on the right, at the junction of Fifth and Spring Streets. It’s quickly back to California for ‘38th Street’, where Marko / Sand Man is able to conceal himself in a truck of sand, which is parked on Fifth Street, downtown LA. He’s rewarded with a brash ceremony in Foley Square, where all this attention seems to be going to his head. In the real New York, Spider-Man has his hands full saving the day, and Gwen Stacy ( Bryce Dallas Howard) from the out-of-control crane at the junction of 6th Avenue and West 55th Street.
Peter Parker’s scruffy apartment is still Chrystie Street on the Lower East Side as it was in Spider-Man 2.Īs the rivalry between Peter and Harry flares up again, the two fight above the streets of downtown Los Angeles, once again standing in for New York, and the alley into which Harry falls, losing his memory, is behind – yes – the Orpheum Theatre (don’t try to track down he hospital he’s taken to, which was is the studio set for TV series Strong Medicine).Īnother strand of the story has Flint Marko ( Thomas Haden Church) stumbling into the ‘Particle Physics Test Facility’, which was built on the Disney Ranch in California, where he undergoes a strange transformation into Sand Man. The beautifully restored auditorium has also been seen in Christopher Nolan's The Prestige, Tim Burton’s Ed Wood, Kenneth Branagh’s enjoyably daft Dead Again, Oliver Stone’s The Doors – and did you recognise it as the venue for the silent movie premiere with Uggie the dog in The Artist?).Ī few old favourites return: Once again, the plush penthouse of Harry Osborn ( James Franco) is New York’s Tudor City on the outside, and Beverly Hills’ Greystone Mansion, 905 Loma Vista Drive, on the inside and, again, the ‘Daily Bugle Building’ is the Flatiron Building. It’s the Orpheum Theatre, 842 South Broadway, downtown Los Angeles. Spider-Man 3 film location: Mary Jane performs on ‘Broadway’: the Orpheum Theatre, downtown Los AngelesĪs before, the theatre interior is somewhere totally different.
The stage door to the theatre, where she warbles They Say That Falling In Love Is Wonderful (from Annie Get Your Gun, if you were wondering) is the Broadhurst Theater, 235 West 44th Street in Manhattan’s Theatre District. It seems to be good times all round with Mary Jane ( Kirsten Dunst) finally preparing for her Broadway debut in Manhattan Memories. New York is now in love with Spidey, as Peter Parker ( Tobey Maguire) notices as he walks through Times Square. The special effects, though, take it to a new level.Īs before, though set in ‘New York’, the filming is split between East and West coasts, with even a little of Cleveland thrown in. The third (and, as it turned out, final) in the Sam Raimi series crams in so much – the Mary Jane jealousy plot, the resolution of Harry Osborn’s story, the ‘dark’ Spider-Man, Eddie Brock as Venom, and the appearance of Sandman (not to mention a complete and unconvincing rewrite of the killing of Uncle Ben) – that there’s little time for anything to register much of an impact.