Kirsten Dunst has teamed up with Thomas Haden Church and Topher Grace for Spider-Man 3, which is set to be released in 2007.

Church is set to play Sandman, and Grace will star as Venom, with Sam Raimi directing. A release date has been penciled in for May 4th, 2007.

"We have really great people though as the villains in this film, Thomas Haden Church and Topher Grace, Venom and Sandman," said Dunst while promoting her film "Elizabethtown".

"Maybe I wasn't supposed to say that," the actress said before reversing her claim. "It's the other way around. You're right," she added, after she was assured by reporters that the information has already been released.


Dunst, who has recently signed on to star in Marie-Antoinette, will receive a script for Spider-Man 3, that begins shooting in January.

Kirsten Caroline Dunst was born on the 30th of April, 1982, at Point Pleasant, New Jersey. And her name's pronunciation is Keersten, not Kursten. Her father, Klaus, was a medical services executive. Kirsten's mother, Inez, was an artist and former gallery owner. In 1987, they'd give Kirsten - usually called Kiki due to her early failure to pronounce her own name - a baby brother, named Christian.

Klaus didn't think much would come of it, but Inez began to put young Kirsten forward as a model, such that she was working by the age of 3. By 4, she was signed up to Elite and the Ford Agency. She made her TV debut in an ad for dollies that really wet themselves - she would appear in over 70 ads in all - and her debut proper, aged 6, on Saturday Night Live, playing the grandchild of Dana Carvey's President Bush. All the while, she attended Ranney School at Tinton Falls, New Jersey. By now, Klaus and Inez had separated and, once Kirsten had made her first big screen appearance - as Mia Farrow's child in the Woody Allen segment of New York Stories - Inez took her and Christian off to Los Angeles, hoping to see her daughter become a star. (tiscali.co.uk)

KIRSTEN DUNST
filmography

Spider-Man 3 (2007) (pre-production)
Marie-Antoinette (2006/I) (post-production)
Elizabethtown (2005)
Wimbledon (2004)
Spider-Man 2 (2004)
Spider-Man 2 (2004/II) (VG) (voice)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
Mona Lisa Smile (2003)
Kaena: La prophétie (2003) (voice: English version)
Levity (2003)
The Death and Life of Nancy Eaton (2003) (TV)
Spider-Man (2002)
The Cat's Meow (2001)
Crazy/Beautiful (2001)
Get Over It (2001)
Deeply (2000)
Bring It On (2000)
Luckytown (2000)
The Crow: Salvation (2000)
All Forgotten (2000)
Savage Garden: Superstars and Cannonballs: Live and on Tour in Australia (2000) (V) (uncredited)
Dick (1999)
Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999/I)
The Virgin Suicides (1999)
The Devil's Arithmetic (1999) (TV)
Strike! (1998)
The Animated Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1998) (V) (voice)
Small Soldiers (1998)
Fifteen and Pregnant (1998) (TV)
"Stories from My Childhood" (1998) TV Series (voice)
Wag the Dog (1997)
Anastasia (1997) (voice)
Tower of Terror (1997) (TV)
True Heart (1997)
Mother Night (1996)
The Siege at Ruby Ridge (1996) (TV)
Jumanji (1995)
Little Women (1994)
Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (1994)
Greedy (1994)
Darkness Before Dawn (1993) (TV)
High Strung (1991)
"Loving" (1983/I) TV Series
The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990)
Majo no takkyûbin (1989) (voice: English version)
New York Stories (1989)