As you might imagine, studios are combing their libraries to find related items to reissue to tie in with the frenzy surrounding the May 3 opening of The Avengers. Coming Tuesday are two more discs that come closest to the feature film, a sextet of Marvel Animation films in two sets. Making their Blu-ray debut,…
There’s a great interview with Joss Whedon, director of the upcoming The Avengers movie, out May 4th, in Sunday’s Arts & Leisure section of the New York Times. Anyone who reads these columns with any regularity already knows that I am a Buffy geek. But you don’t know that I originally ignored it. Yep, that’s…
In case you missed it, here are the character specific one-sheets to tease next spring’s Avengers movie. And sandwiched in-between are the official details. Genre: Action-adventure Rating: TBD U.S. Release date: May 4, 2012 Running time: Cast: Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, Tom Hiddleston, Stellan Skarsgård and…
Marvel has been touting the July 22nd release of Captain America: The First Avenger, and has focused all their efforts on the latest entry in the Marvel Film Universe. What they don’t talk about are the previous screen incarnations of the Star-Spangled Avenger. Beyond the Lawrence-Gantry animated series of the 1960s, there were several telefilms…
Today I learned that Avengers Mansion, home to stalwarts like Thor, Captain America, Iron Man, and do you really need me to rattle off the full roster, is based on a real place in New York– the Henry Clay Frick house, a city-block sized mansion at 1 East 70th St., right opposite Central Park. (The…
We, the fair and proud gentlemen of mirth, aka Comic Book Enthusiasts, have a new reason to celebrate forthwith! The mighty gods from the House of Ideas has given birth to a new trailer for their forthcoming magical visage of the thunder god himself. Yay, my brethren, Marvel hath beseech-ed unto us several minutes of…
So, what are you planning on doing May 3, 2013? On or about that day, unless I’ve gone to a preview, I’ll probably be seeing Iron Man 3. If that seems like a long time, it’s only a year (almost to the day) after Iron Man and Tony Stark appear in The Avengers movie. Amusingly,…
Isaiah Mustafa, best know to the world as “The Man Your Man Could Smell Like” from the Old Spice commercials, is a big time comic fan and has made no secret of his desire to pay Luke Cage in the movies. And now, Marvel has let him do exactly that. Fantastic. Although, personally, I’d rather…
Our friends over at io9 attempted to price out what it would cost to construct Iron Man’s movie armor using real world technology. Annalee Newitz concluded, “So, what’s the final price tag? $100,420,000 “To put that in perspective, the cost of the F-35 fighter plane is estimated at $95 to $113 million. So this suit…
As part of the ramp-up for Iron Man 2 (subtle hint) the first photo of Chris Hemsworth as Thor has been released into the wild. So: do you think he can pull it off? Is he worthy to hold the hammer? Hat tip: Comics Alliance.
If you’re like me, you thought the Oscar ceremony was the pre-game show for the new Iron Man 2 trailer, which premiered during the Jimmy Kimmel show. You can get it off of the Apple trailer site, or you can view it here: So what do we get this time around? More Black Widow. More…
Face front, true believers, because Iron Man 2 director Jon Favreau, along with actors Robert Downey, Jr. (Tony Stark), Scarlett Johanssen (Black Widow), Don Cheadle (James “Rhodey” Rhodes), and Sam Rockwell (Justin Hammer), were on hand to screen some previously-unseen footage at SDCC tonight. Newsarama was there, and thanks to the magic of liveblogging, we…
