The Avengers goes from Zero to $1 Billion in Nineteen Days!

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After taking the US box office by absolute storm last weekend, to the tune of a record-breaking $207.4m. in its opening weekend, The Avengers is now the first film to break the $1bn. threshold in 2012 with an estimated $1.002bn., increasing the membership of the billion-dollar club to 12. The 3D re-release of The Phantom [...]

Avengers Title Comes To Wii U and Kinect

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Yes, you heard that correct, there is an avengers game coming, but alas not based on the excellent movie. This new Avengers game is called ‘Avengers: Battle For Earth” and is being developed by Ubisoft Quebec. it’s not clear what form the game will take but being for Wii U and Kinect, expect some kind of motion [...]

Sequel Is Confirmed as The Avengers Reaches Biggest Domestic Opening Weekend Of All Time

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The Avengers has reached the biggest domestic opening weekend of all time, Disney have announced this week, becoming the fastest film to reach $200 million domestically in just three days.§ Also marking the second highest single-day take of all time at $80.8M, following record-breaking days on Saturday ($69.5M) and Sunday ($57M), the film’s 3-day record-breaking [...]

Joss Whedon writes Open Letter Thanking Fans for Years of Loyal Support

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After taking the US box office by storm at the weekend, literally breaking records to take the biggest opening weekend with a final tally of $207.4m., Joss Whedon has taken to the web to say thank you to all his loyal fans for the years of support throughout his career. Writing on a fan-site dedicated [...]

Video of the Day: How Lou Ferrigno Made it into The Avengers

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The work done by the Soundworks Collection to illuminate the architecture of the sound of the modern blockbuster is always something special, even when I have no interest in the film (Transformers: Arse of the Moon is a recent example) I’ll always make time to watch the short videos Michael Coleman and his team produce. [...]

The Avengers Destroys US Box Office with $200.3m – Biggest Opening of All Time

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It’s official. The Avengers has taken the US box office by storm this weekend in its opening release, with early figures estimating a $200.3m. three-day opening, making it the biggest opening weekend in the States of all time. If anyone was unconvinced that Joss Whedon wasn’t the right man for the job (and I don’t [...]

See Tyler Stout’s amazing Mondo poster for The Avengers

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While we’ve had (and had often) Joss Whedon’s The Avengers in UK cinemas for a week now the US have only a few more hours to wait until they take their place on the assembly line. So what better time for the ever-epic Mondo to introduce the final poster in their series to celebrate Marvel’s [...]

Watch Joss Whedon’s Commentary on a Fight Sequence from The Avengers

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With its US release right around the corner, and a record-breaking debut this past weekend in many international territories – including the UK, taking a phenomenal four-day haul of £15.8.m – we’re heading into the final days of The Avengers’ promotional campaign before it’s unleashed on the big screen across the Atlantic. In part of [...]

Hollywood Unhinged – Building the next action hero

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Giving action cinema some personality and making the next buff hero cry on cue. Avengers Assemble may have broken the cinematic mould by throwing together Marvel’s favourite characters, but it’s all a bit sanitised in comparison to what Sylvester Stallone’s likely to be throwing our way over the summer. While Iron Man, Hawkeye, The Hulk [...]

The Avengers Smashes UK Box Office Records Galore

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We knew The Avengers was going to be big but I reckon not even Disney / Marvel knew how big until box office confirmations started to come in during the day. We’ve just received a press release which has confirmed that the movie has taken the number one spot in all 39 countries in which [...]

The Hey U Guys UK Cinema Release Round-up: 27th April

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  Another busy weeks of cinema releases this week but despite the wide array of movie offerings, there’s clearly one fantastical, latex-clad, cross-over blockbuster which towers above all the others. I am of course referring, to Strippers Vs Werewolves. Apparently there’s some small, niche movie about a bunch of crazy vigilantes who gang up to [...]

The Gang’s Al(most) Here: Four More Mondo Avengers Posters Appear

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Following the artwork by Olly Moss and Tom Whalen seen last week featuring Black Widow and Hawkeye those pesky Assembling Avengers are now complete with four new posters debuting around the web and jolly splendid they look too. Appearing first on Movies.com we have Thor by Martin Ansin, Captain America looking very patriotic over at Wired,  [...]

The Avengers Cast and Crew Interviews

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As well as our interviews with the cast of The Avengers, I thought it would be a nice idea to get the interviews from our friends at Upbeat posted as well because let’s face it, you guys want to see as much from the biggest movie of the year as possible. Upbeat had a good [...]

The Cast of Iron Man 3 is Growing – Jessica Chastain and Andy Lau to Sign up?

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Two stories doing the rounds today offer up the potential of a couple of new faces joining the Marvelverse for Shane Black’s Iron Man 3. Twitch quote the wonderfully named NeonPunch as the source for the rumour that Andy Lau, known to many for his roles in Infernal Affairs and House of the Flying Daggers, [...]

Third Trailer for The Dark Knight Rises to be Attached to The Avengers

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It looks like two of the biggest and most-anticipated movies of 2012 might soon be appearing in tandem in the form of The Avengers and The Dark Knight Rises. NolanFans.com report that The Avengers screenings in the US will have the third trailer for The Dark Knight Rises attached, which will make getting to the [...]

The Avengers Assemble European Premiere – Red Carpet Interviews

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You may have already seen our interview with Marvel President Kevin Feige from this evening’s Avengers Assemble premiere. If not, if you’re at all interested in just what Marvel Studios plans to do over the next few years, check it out. Read our review of Avengers Assemble here Seen it? Good! Of course, we didn’t [...]

Avengers Assemble (The Avengers) Review

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Click here for our Premiere coverage of Avengers Assemble (The Avengers) It would be a handy cliché to say that Avengers Assemble has been a long time coming, but actually, it hasn’t. In just under four years, Marvel Studios have churned out the precursor films, and put everything in place for their super team-up – [...]

Our Photos from the Avengers Assemble European Premiere

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Colin Hart and Ben Mortimer attended the European Premiere of The Avengers (or if you’re in the UK, Avengers Assemble) this evening in Westfield Shepherd’s Bush. We’ll be posting everything that they got interviews-wise as soon as possible (in fact you can see our interview with Producer Kevin Fiege right here). Colin is a rather [...]

The Avengers European Premiere Interview: Marvel President Kevin Feige Gives Studios Updates

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Earlier this evening we headed down to the capital of movie glamour that is The Westfield Centre in Shepard’s Bush, for the European Premiere of Avengers Assemble. We’ll be running our full coverage shortly, but we thought you might want to see this as soon as we could get it to you – our interview [...]

Black Widow and Hawkeye feature in the first Mondo posters for The Avengers

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Mondo have come up with the goods once again as they furnish the world with the first in what is expected to be a full set of unique posters for The Avengers. Joss Whedon’s movie has been impressing critics and in a week’s time the UK will see what all the fuss is about (the [...]