Spider-Man 3 did $57,274,000 last night, including about $10 million from Thursday’s midnight show. Others are claiming it did $59 million even. One studio is projecting a total weekend tally of $148,929,000. Even if the disappointing word-of-mouth brings it down some it’ll still do over $140 million. Sam Raimi‘s movie is eating up 80% to 85% of the weekend’s business.

Disturbia is #2 with $5,700,000 and Fracture is #3 with $3,666,000…off 46%. The Invisible is fourth with $3,542,000, followed by Next at $2,966,000. Poor, kicked-around Lucky You will end up with about $2,626,000 — the per-screen estimate is about $1940. Blades of Glory will make $2,462,000. Meet The Robinsons will take in $2,456,000 and Hot Fuzz will earn $2,095,000. Are We Done Yet? is tenth with $1,494,000 and a cume of $46 million.

When I first heard a few weeks ago about screenwriter Stephen Schiff writing a Wall Street 2 movie, I wrote him with some questions. I said there’s a competitive element afoot with Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio cooking up a rise-and-fall-of-a-Wall Street-hustler story — an adaptation of Jordan Belfort‘s upcoming tell-all autobiography “The Wolf of Wall Street.” And I was wondering if Schiff’s piece was going to be something different or familiar.

The familiar would be another tale about a twentysomething money-hungry guy (a) gaining entry to the world of high finance, (b) learning the ropes, making big bucks and getting a little drunk on the juice of it all, and (c) eventually going too far, getting busted and crashing into a hole of shame and disrepute.

Schiff, ill and on a writing deadline, asked if we could talk later, and I said sure. And then yesterday along came a piece about the film by N.Y. Times guy Michael Ciepley, using producer Ed Pressman and actor Michael Douglas as the on-the-record sources. Schiff’s script is called Money Never Sleeps and will be, according to Ciepley’s story, about a “restyled” Gordon Gekko, to be played again by Douglas.

Gekko’s character arc won’t be emphasizing “moral development.” He’ll be the villain of the piece, in other words. There was no mention of a good-guy character, if in fact the film intends to use one.

Best quote: Douglas telling Ceipley said he wouldn√ɬ¢√¢‚Äö¬¨√¢‚Äû¬¢t mind if he never had “one more drunken Wall Street broker come up to me and say, ‘You√ɬ¢√¢‚Äö¬¨√¢‚Äû¬¢re the man!'”

I have no idea whether or not Money Never Sleeps has a good or poor chance of coming out before the Scorsese-DiCaprio film (Schiff will deliver the script “later this year”), but they should probably get the lead out just to be on the safe side.

Oliver Stone‘s anti-Iraq War video spot, sponsored by the MoveOn.org political action group and VoteVets.org, is straightforward but underwhelming. When I first heard Stone would be doing this I was kind of expecting…I don’t know, some kind of pulverizing visual statement that would scream “wake up and listen!” Something that would say “the guy who made Platoon made this.” Maybe some kind of Battle of Algiers-type deal.

Instead, Stone shows us two talking-head closeups of two vets — John Bruhns, a former infantry sergeant who fought in Iraq “starting from day one” in ’03 and realized early on that the presence of U.S,. troops was “wrong, immoral and irresponsible,” and Ron Kovic, the paraplegic Vietnam vet whom Tom Cruise played in Stone’s Born on the Fourth of July, saying that “together we can support the troops” by bringing them home.

I agree — we are disrespecting U.S. soldiers in Iraq by sending and keeping them there — and Stone and the MoveOn-ers are coming from a morally compassionate place, but the primary visual impression in Stone’s piece is that Bruhns has put on weight since his ’03 tour.