All they need is to announce a couple huge underage stars/disasters-waiting-to-happen as the leads -- Miley Cyrus as MJ! Chris Brown as Peter Parker! -- and its cultural infamy will be written in stone for generations to come.

In all seriousness, I am an unabashed lover of both Spider-Man AND musicals and yet can't help but be overwhelmingly cynical/terrified.

According to a news release from the producers, the show, in which the title character will indeed be flying around the Hilton, draws on the comic book series for “inspiration,” yet also “spins a new take on the mythic tale of a young man propelled from a modest row house in Queens to the sky-scraping spire of the Chrysler Building, the bustling offices of the Daily Bugle, through the dizzying canyons of Manhattan, to new vistas never before seen.”

The plot description concludes: “Spider-Man’s battles will hurtle the audience through an origin story both recognizable and unexpected, yielding new characters as well as familiar faces until a final surprising confrontation casts a startling new light on this hero’s journey.”

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This weekend marked the release of Disney's new movie High School Musical 3: Senior Year (HSM 3), and you won't be shocked to learn that the movie landed at the top of the box office receipts domestically with $42 million. Based on Disney Channel's original High School Musical TV movies, the HSM 3 feature film becomes the biggest debut ever for a movie musical, easily beating out the previous record holder Mamma Mia (July 18, 2008) that bowed with $27.8 million, according Box Office Mojo. Also, HSM 3 is now the biggest open for a live-action G rated movie, surpassing the release of Disney's Hannah Montana and Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert (February 1, 2008), which debuted with $31.1 million. Additionally, HSM 3 is the second largest October weekend opening for a kids movie behind Shark Tale (PG, October 1, 2004) at $47.6 million, and for the 2008 so far, the movie is the third biggest G-rated movie, behind Wall-E (June 27, 2008) with $63.1 million and Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who! (March 14, 2008), which opened with $45.0 million. Internationally, HSM 3 earned $40 million across the 22 markets where it also opened this weekend, per Variety.

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