Own Captain America’s Shield – Or One Very Much Like It

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It’s been almost a year since we first saw Chris Evans wield The Shield as Captain America, and while small children have spent the interceding months running around with a dis of their own, those of us who have (in theory) grown up have had to make do with a painted bin lid and an [...]

Marvel Release Teaser Trailer for Marvel: Avengers Alliance Strategy Game

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Marvel have just released the first teaser trailer for their movie tie-in game for The Avengers. It’s called Marvel: Avengers Alliance and it’s going to be built within Facebook. You can already sign up to the page by clicking here and ‘liking’ the page. Here’s the blurb: Marvel Avengers Alliance, Marvel’s first Facebook game coming [...]

Name-Change: Thor Might Just Be The Mightiest Avenger

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Mere days after Mattel teased a hitherto unseen character in Martin Campbell’s Green Lantern movie, another toy manufacturer - this time Hasbro – has brought into question the official name of Marvel’s upcoming Thor movie. Glimpsed at New York Comic-Con (courtesy of Coming Soon), the action-figure’s packaging advertises Thor: The Mightiest Avenger rather than just Thor. While [...]

What Are Marvel’s Post-Avengers Plans?

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On paper, Marvel’s “wedding cake” plan seems like a masterstroke. You own a film studio recently bought out by the giant Disney, with access to about 5000 superheroes. You take the most popular heroes (the ones not owned by Sony or Fox, naturally), give them their own franchises and gradually build up the layers to [...]

Scarlett Johansson Could Be Meeting Vaughan in ‘St. Louis’

Future Avengers team member Scarlett Johansson looks to be first performing side-kick duties alongside Vince Vaughn for director David O. Russell’s next feature, Old St. Louis. The New York Magazine is reporting that she will play the part of Vaughn’s secretary, in a tale of an estranged daughter (rumoured to be played by Kick Ass’ Chloe Moretz), who [...]

The Avengers/Hulk Saga Should Surprise No-one

The news that Edward Norton had been ‘dumped’ as Bruce Banner/The Hulk for the forthcoming Avengers movie seemed to shock the media this past week. I have to ask, however, just how shocked can we reasonably be? This has been on the cards since the initial announcement of an Avengers project. If it is because [...]