Los Angeles - The nation's two leading online movie ticket sellers -- Fandango and MovieTickets.com -- announced on Monday that "Spider-Man 3" set single-day ticket sales records for both of their services. Fandango, which was recently acquired by cable TV provider Comcast, said that ticket sales for the film on Friday broke both its daily and hourly sales records, when the site sold ten tickets per second over multiple hours. Meanwhile, MovieTickets.com -- a joint venture between a number of theater owners, AOL and Viacom -- said "Spider-Man 3" broke its single-day sales record, beating out last summer's "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest."

Los Angeles - Sony Pictures Entertainment said on Wednesday that, contrary to news reports, an investigation by the company has found no pirated DVD copies of its forthcoming "Spider-Man 3" film in China, or on the Internet.

Beijing - China has warned that U.S. complaints to the World Trade Organization (WTO) regarding the nation's control on piracy will harm relations between the two nations, Reuters reported.