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Ever since Disney acquired Marvel, the smart people have quietly let their consternation about continued media consolidation simmer. Everyone else has been wondering when we’d get an animated movie based on a Marvel comic. Well, here you are. The first Marvel superhero property to get the Mouse House treatment is… Big Hero 6.
Yeah, remember Big Hero 6?
The series is basically an extended homage to Japanese art and culture, created in 1998 by Steven T. | Full Story
In the 1990′s, Marvel sold off the movie rights for many of its superheroes to various film studios. It seemed like a good idea at the time – after all, now there would be a way for the beloved costumed adventurers to make it to the big screen.
Except then in the late 2000′s, Marvel Studios came into being, and began building a shared cinematic universe for the supes. And while much fun was had by all, many people could only wistfully wish that this universe could include some of the highest-profile superheroes, like Spider-Man, or the X-Men. | Full Story
A new Iron Man 3 trailer emerged online last night featuring Robert Downey Jr. as “Tony Starks” and some awesome footage on how the armored avenger suits up.
The new trailer debuted at the 2013 Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards to roaring kids and adults alike.
Marvel’s Iron Man 3 pits brash-but-brilliant industrialist Tony Stark/Iron Man against an enemy whose reach knows no bounds. When Stark finds his personal world destroyed at his enemy’s hands, he embarks on a harrowing quest to find those responsible. | Full Story
EW.com recently interviewed Robert Downey Jr, taking advantage of the famed actor’s frankness in order to gather info regarding Iron Man 3.
Robert Downey Jr. really needs no introduction. He’s always been something of an oddball and professional risk in Hollywood, but the actor has really come into his own and cashed in on his talent. With 2008′s Iron Man, the follow up in 2010′s Iron Man 2, and last year’s The Avengers, Robert Downey Jr. | Full Story
The Oscar nomination are out and a nominee to highlight for their extraordinary work on Marvel’s The Avengers is Industrial Light & Magic. They’ve receieved their nomination and following the good news the company released its reel, which shows their remarkable work behind the scene of the hit film. Industrial Light & Magic has a team of 200 artists, scientists, and engineers behind the work in the video below. In the footage, ILM gives a step-by-step visual of how the compositions were put together. | Full Story
Just yesterday some cool set photos of Thor getting a major beat down surfaced online. Now a new video of him enduring the same fate has just been revealed.
As filming continues in London this week for Thor: The Dark World, someone managed to get their cell phone past security and capture some awesome behind the scenes footage. In the video, Thor could be seen fighting Malekith and from the looks of it, Thor is not winning this fight. | Full Story
Fan of Hugo Weaving as The Red Skull? Unfortunately, one performance is all you’ll get from the famed actor, according to a recent article from Collider.
While Hugo Weaving has always been a fan of reprising roles – as he did in the Matrix, Transformers, Lord of the Rings trilogies (and soon to do again in The Hobbit three-parter) – the unmistakable actor has revealed that Captain America as well as The Avengers “not the sort of film” he usually flocks to and is excited by. | Full Story
The Avengers theater run has come to an end and for a film that dominated the content on film blogs for over a year, you would think it’s time to lay it down and move on to the next big blockbuster. Not for Marvel Studios. The company just released an official Avengers gag reel plus a bonus clip that will be on the Blu-ray/DVD, and now the blog frenzy begins all over again. | Full Story
Now that Marvel has officially announced the release date for The Avengers 2 its time to humor some of the wild rumors that are circulating around the web.
About two weeks ago fan-natics started chattering about the character Vision and who will likely play him. Firstshowing.net highlighted The Playlist theory that put Vin Diesel or Clark Gregg in the role.
Agent Coulson, played by Gregg came to a deadly end in The Avengers. | Full Story
The rights to Marvel’s Daredevil could be heading back to its home.
The clock is ticking on the project that Fox says is actively in development. They even announced Joe Carnahan as the new director, but that might not be enough.
Fox is currently in control of the rights to Daredevil, which first hit the screen in 2003 starring Ben Affleck. Since then, the studio failed to do anything else with the franchise. | Full Story
Movies have enriched Dan Schindel's life so much that he decided
the best way to give back was to become a critic. In addition to Who Got the
Role?, he writes for ScreenPicks, We Are Movie Geeks, Off to
See the Elephant, and several other sites. He spent a year watching and
reviewing a documentary every day for his blog, Days of Docs, so now he
knows everything.
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