2012 Predictions: Who Will Join the $1bn. Club?

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To date, there are currently ten films that have crossed that almost unimaginable threshold of taking more than a billion dollars at the worldwide box office, a record first broken in 1998 by James Cameron’s epic, Titanic, which stayed at the top of the US box office for fifteen straight weeks, a record it still [...]

This New Avengers Banner will Walk All Over You

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Please note: This has been confirmed as fan art and was not made by Marvel. Coming at you like a geeky avalanche The Avengers looks set to be the first big winner in the movie season I’m going to call Superhero Summer (for this post at least). If you were one of the four people [...]

Buzz: Which Movie Won the Battle of the Super Bowl?

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Despite the fact that most of the tv spots and other movie-related fare (step forward off a cliff Honda’s Ferris Bueller nonsense) were released online in the days leading up to the Super Bowl the most expensive minutes of airtime certainly gave us all something to talk about last night. In amidst the confused tweets [...]

Mark Ruffalo Joins Can A Song Save Your Life

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Mark Ruffalo (The Kids Are All Right) has signed on to star opposite Scarlett Johansson (Lost in Translation) in Can A Song Save Your Life. John Carney, director of the charming low-budget indie musical Once, is attached to direct from his own screenplay. Can A Song Save Your Life centers on a young female singer (Johansson) whose [...]

The Avengers – The Full Super Bowl TV Spot Arrives

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If you’re a Marvel fan then you’ll have seen the teaser for this teaser already with some new footage of our heroes fighting intergalatic nasties and now here’s the whole thing. The whole gang is here with Iron Man (Robert Downey, Jr), Thor (Chris Hemsworth), Captain America (Chris Evans), the Hulk (Mark Ruffalo, of whom [...]

More Images from LEGO’s The Avengers Range are Sufficiently EPIC

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A week or two ago, we out up pics from the London Toy Fair showing off the first images of the LEGO’s The Avengers range. Now, the chaps over at Wikia (with a nod to the dudes at Blogomatic) have uncovered new images of the latest LEGO creations including more images of Hulk (Mark Ruffalo [...]

Brilliant New Promo Art For ‘The Avengers’ Includes 3D Poster

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More promotional artwork has been released for Marvel’s The Avengers this week, which includes a brilliant 3D poster. The Avengers, which is set to be released on 27th April, begins when Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson), Director of the international peacekeeping agency known as SHIELD, finds himself in need of a team after an unexpected [...]

Must Watch: The Avengers’ Superbowl TV Spot Gets An Awesome Teaser

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Last week, we heard that Joss Whedon, Tom Hiddleston, and Clark Gregg would be hosting a Global Twitter Chat for Marvel’s upcoming The Avengers tonight. We also heard that with the chat, we’d be getting a teaser for the film’s upcoming TV spot at this weekend’s Superbowl, and we now have that awesome video to [...]

Tom Hiddleston Announces Thor 2 Will Start Shooting In London This Spring

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Becoming an increasingly well-known name both here and across the Atlantic, Tom Hiddleston will soon be returning to the big screen to reprise his role as Loki from Thor in Joss Whedon’s upcoming The Avengers. Hiddleston has been speaking to the Belfast Telegraph, via ComicBookMovie, and has said that the sequel to last year’s Thor [...]

Marvel Announces The Avengers Twitter Q&A This Tuesday With Joss Whedon and More

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Have you ever had that burning desire to put your questions to Joss Whedon, creator of such iconic TV shows as Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, and Firefly, and of course the director and co-writer of Marvel’s upcoming The Avengers? Of course you have! And now could be your chance. Collider report that Marvel have [...]

Five Brilliant Official Hi-Res Stills From The Avengers

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The marketing campaign is well and truly underway for Joss Whedon’s upcoming The Avengers, which brings together all of the awesome characters we’ve loved watching over the past few years in their separate movies for one epic superhero blockbuster. Just last night, we put up some great images and specs of Tony Stark’s $9m. car [...]

Awesome Images And Specs Of Tony Stark’s $9m. Car From The Avengers

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Sundance Film Festival is well underway out in Park City, Utah, and a fantastic new bit of marketing has surfaced in promotion of Joss Whedon’s highly anticipated upcoming film, The Avengers, which is due out in April this year. Collider have a brilliant selection of images and the full specs for Tony Stark’s car from [...]

Captain America 2 May Start Production This Year, Followed By S.H.I.E.L.D. Movie?

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On the off chance you’ve not been following Marvel’s superhero films in recent years, here’s a quick run-down for you: They’ve been amazing. We’ve had five so far in the current Marvel Cinematic Universe: Iron Man in 2008, followed by The Incredible Hulk that year, then Iron Man 2 in 2010, followed by Thor and [...]

Potentially Spoilerific Cameo for The Avengers Revealed

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A quick word of warning before things get too spoilery in here: should you wish to watch The Avengers with fresh eyes, this news really isn’t for you. Really. I’m being serious. This is (potentially) massive and (if confirmed) it can never be unseen. We ready? Good. In a recent interview with The Radio Times, [...]

First Photos of LEGO Lord of the Rings and The Avengers Characters

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London Olympia is currently playing host to the London Toy Fair 2012. Over the past couple of weeks, we’ve had promotional posters for the Lord of the Rings LEGO characters but now the folks over at Blogomatic have got photos of the LEGO men themselves. These photos are of the LEGO stand rather than the [...]

The Avengers Grace The Cover Of Empire And More Great New Images And Plot Updates

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It was only a few days ago that we got to see some brilliant new promo images for The Avengers released in celebration of the Chinese New Year. We’ve now got some more excellent images of the Marvel superheroes as four of them grace the cover of Empire, in a four-cover issue, giving you a [...]

The Avengers Gets Awesome New Promo Images And Red Envelopes To Celebrate The Chinese New Year

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Joss Whedon’s upcoming The Avengers is by far one of the most highly anticipated films of 2012. We’ve been seeing plenty of great things from the project in recent months, with the mind-blowing first trailer arriving back in October last year. If you’ve missed that and all our coverage for the film, you can catch [...]

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 [...]

The Avengers Gets A New Russian Trailer With More Brilliant Footage

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Joss Whedon’s upcoming The Avengers is without a doubt one of the most highly anticipated films of the year, and in the past few months, we’ve been treated to plenty of brilliant images, posters, and that all-important first trailer that took the Internet by storm back in October. Truly, it made the film look even [...]

Marvel Set Game Of Thrones’ Alan Taylor To Direct Thor 2

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The first of our superhero films from Marvel this year, Thor was an impressive box office and critical success when it came out in April this year, taking just shy of $450m. from its $150m. budget. Pretty much ever since it found such success in cinemas, there’s been talk of a sequel, and it officially [...]