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• Avengers has made $165 million already, and it hasn't even opened in America yet. This is worldwide and pre-ticket sales, of which Avengers has apparently pre-sold more of than all other Marvel movies combined. Yikes. (Via WWTDD)
• The next Hulk movie, presumably starring Mark Ruffalo, is ever-so-tentatively set for 2015. (Via /Film)
• Sony apparently hates The Amazing Spider-Man. What, a movie that they rushed out purely to keep the Spidey movie rights might not be the best movie ever? Who could've imagined? (Via Gamma Squad)
• Josh Trank, the guy who directed the "found-footage" teen superhero flick Chronicle, is now in charge of developing the Fantastic Four reboot for Fox. Note: This doesn't mean he's directing it, although it certainly hasn't been ruled out. (Via /Film)
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New Hulk Movie...I think that the Leader would be a cool Hulk villain and I like the actor that played him in the last movie (funny man Tim Blake Nelson) and I like Marc Ruffalo fine ...Could a She-Hulk be cool?
Maybe not an all CG at 7 feet tall She-Hulk, but a hot green 5'11" green chick. A smart funny lawyer that loves being green and super strong...part of Avengers 2? The chick who played Wonder Woman, Adrianne Palicki is 5'11".
I have never been a She-Hulk fan, but I find her more plausible as a member of the Avengers than the Black Widow.
Call me crazy, but She-Hulk came up at Ain't It Cool News last week and I suggested Elizabeth Moss (yes, Peggy on "Mad Men") as Jen Walters/mo-cap She-Hulk.
Good idea or bad idea? (Me, I'm leaning toward the former.)
I'm not convinced we're at a point where they could make She-Hulk -- whether CGI or a woman in green make-up -- not look really stupid.
I mean, unless they did the entire film in CGI, I guess.
The Avengers will be such a huge success that Marvel is at this moment pre-emptively firing Joss Whedon for the sequel. :-)
I heard he already got fired, re-hired, fired, re-hired.
Then he rewrote the script which they gave approval to, before hiring some shaky cam schleb to go over it and make it more awesomer. Also Michael Bay will be directing the sequel and he's been studying up on the Super Terrific Japenese Thing articles from here at topless robot. Expect a time travelling dildo...
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I would like to see Marvel Studios get the rights to Fantastic Four back more than any of the other properties owned by other studios. In my mind the FF and the concepts spinning out of it are closely linked to the Avengers and the Marvel U as a whole, and I think it would add a lot to the shared cinematic universe. If you see what i mean.
I agree. It's bad enough they don't have Spider-Man (the cornerstone of the Marvel Universe) but not having the FF is seriously detrimental to their ability to make a larger world.
And besides, if they get FF, then some day we might get something crazy like Avengers vs FF, or Civil War.
[MINOR SPOILER ALERT]
I've seen it, and it is awesome. The aliens were generic just enough as to convey the perfect of what an alien invasion in a super-hero comic book is like (we've all seen it) to a wider audience. The movie is obviously action-oriented, but all characters still have their chance of showing their personality and/or style properly. And the guy doing Loki is perfect in the role of a megalomaniac self-proclaimed god with self-esteem issues...
I'm not at all surprised it made so much; the only showings I could get to (yes, plural) have been the megaexpensive 3D ones. A 12 screen cinema with 4 screens showing it almost non-stop and all full = loadsamoney for someone.
Paying just under £50 for two people to go to the cinema is bad enough but when the movie is as awesome as this I insisted on going again and still couldn't get cheap(er) seats, I think I deserve shares in the company. (To their credit they did give us a free nacho box between us and a bottle of Sprite each).
Weirdly, I don't want to see Trank direct the new FF movie. I would much rather see him direct "The Red Star."
Before you say anything, read the graphic novels. They're fantastic
I don't want to be 'that guy', but I bet the WB execs are looking at that box office and crying themselves to, if not quite sleep, then definitely a cocaine induced stupor.
No , Please be that guy. It needed to be said...The failures at WB should jump off a bridge
Hey, if your to dumb to make a decent "Green Lantern" movie while having the guy who made the Comic huge success on site. Don't manage to show why "GL" could be a big franchise. Then they deserve it.
I just watched the Avengers on a cam bootleg torrented from the UK. Isn't the internet a great thing?
This is how I would have preferred to watch the film, but my friends dragged me along to watch it on a massive screen, the fools.
You're the winner here, Floob. You got the best of Avengers AND Chronicle all in one lonely sitting.
No,I'll still see it on a screen Smoky, prob on wed when it opens here. Hope there's room for my sad nerd self with you and all your tons of friends taking up all the good seats.
I work for the FBI and we've started a new campaign against copyright infringement where we troll on comic book-related news sites. Thank you for your cooperation, Floob.
I actually talked to a friend in Britian who saw the movie. He liked it but that's not the strange part. I asked him who the guys in Loki's army were and he said that he didn't know. Acording to him where they come from isn't even discussed and they may not even be mentioned by name in the film at all.
It's kind of easy to miss, but they do call them the Chitauri a couple of times. It's not really important, to be honest. They're really just there as a generic alien army to fuck shit up.
Your friend is a goddamn liar. It sounds like he wandered into Hunger Games by mistake and was either too embarrassed or too stupid to admit his mistake. "Oh, I didn't realize Hawkeye was a chick. Everyone is younger than I was expecting." Yeah, right. Well done, Will's British friend, wherever the hell you are (probably at the Tower of London eating scones). Why can't you pay attention when you go to watch a film? This is how internet rumors begin, you jerk. Because of people like your stupid friend I got needlessly hyped about Bradley Cooper as the Flash. When's that happening? Oh, yeah, that's right, never.
Without getting as worked up as my excitable friend here, I can tell you that it is mentioned in the opening fucking monologue of the movie and many many times after that so tell your friend to either open his goddamned ears next time or close his goddamned mouth afterwards.
Oh Avengers! I haven't been this excited for a movie since The Dark Knight came out. It took all my will power not to download a shitty handcam file this weekend. I'm happy it's doing so well overseas, but I don't understand why they didn't open it same day worldwide. Hoping people pirating it here will still go see it in theaters.
Yesterday, I saw The Avengers (or "Marvel Avengers Assemble because we don't want you to confuse it with that show with Emma Peel in it" as it's called here in Blighty). I will just say that the Hulk was superb and the news of Mark Ruffalo getting his own Hulk movie is the bright spot in my day. Honestly, you will see The Avengers and wonder how in the world they managed to make two Hulk films which were as underwhelming as they were.
Because there was no Joss Whedon involved. Ang Lee is a great director but he really was not the right person for a Hulk film.
I call Ang Lee's attempt Crouching Hulk, Hidden Banner. Nobody else cares but I revel in my own wit every time I say it.
I've never liked Ang Lee, and I really didn't get why they hired him to direct a superhero film. It made no sense, and the script was straight out of stupid-land.
Incredible Hulk was better, but I think it suffered from Norton's control issues. They needed someone to just be an actor, not someone to rewrite the movie. I love Norton, but sometimes he can really take a fun little movie and turn it into a drag.
I'm not feeling it for The Avengers. I liked The Incredible Hulk but the two Iron Man movies (especially the second one), Captain America, and Thor were ... blah. I'll probably see it at the $1.50 theater. I'll see it in the first-run theaters if enough of my friends see it and tell me it's good.
IT WAS GOOD I know we're not friends but... see it. Seriously. I didn't love Thor or Captain America but seriously, it's great.
I thought Evans was fine. Cap is just a terribly dry character. He has none of the inner conflict of the other heroes. He's just a stalwart, noble guy who always does the right thing, and that's death on film.
I got the same impression. The Cap looked like he belonged to the second-tier team with Hawkeye and Widow. Sadly, even in the final fight, the other two seemed to do more than he did.And I didn't like his uniform; I liked the soldier-looking uniform of his movie better.
Oh no I meant I didn't love the Thor or Captain America movies, I liked them as characters in Avengers.
Wait, hold on, I thought I was agreeing with you, but now you want to disagree with me. I have a lot of love for Cap, but I did have to wonder when he was on the Helicarrier struggling against one guy with a machinegun and had to be rescued by Iron Man, after Iron Man had already rescued everyone else on the whole damn ship-plane-whateverthefuck.
I don't know, he had a lot of good moments. As a character he's less naturally funny and dynamic than Hulk, Iron Man and Thor (and I was surprised at how much better Black Widow was here than in Iron Man 2) but I think Evans did a good job, and the costume actually looked pretty good.
Still not willing to let Hulk movie thing die? See, that's where they will screw up the Marvel films, not willing to admit box office defeat for certain characters. The last two HULK films clearly don't justify a third attempt.
Same with Fox and Fantastic Four...the two recent ones were watchable movies, but the interest wasn't enough for a third or a Silver Surfer film. Lie to yourselves, Fox, and pump that cash into it.
Hulk was so beloved in Avengers by me and everyone else I know who's seen it that I'm sure another Hulk movie with Mark Ruffalo will do fine.
He's the break out for sure. If they have a decent scrip and director it'll be easy. Ruffalo is the best Banner/Hulk.
Exactly what I was going to say. Hulk absolutely stole The Avengers. I've spoken to a lot of people - both nerds and non-nerds - about the movie and, without exception, he's the first thing anybody mentions. A week ago, I'd say another Hulk film would be a guaranteed failure, but now I reckon it's got a good shot at success on the basis of his 'Puny God' routine alone.
I didn't even realise he *had* said anything afterwards. I've never heard so much cheering and laughter from a British audience in my life before.
knew what was coming when i saw it again Saturday night, but still laught my ass of after seeing it already Thursday night.
Yeah, I just got back from seeing it for the second time at an early evening screening at what may be the world's shittiest cinema (seriously, there were three women sat on the floor for the entire damn movie) and half the room still applauded that scene.
That scene got fucking cheers from the audience, so loud I had to look it up to find out what the Hulk had said afterwards.
But Incredible Hulk was a good movie. It just didn't perform as well as it deserved to.
The biggest problem with The Incredible Hulk was studio interference. Edward Norton rewrote the script and was heavily involved in the creative process. The studio made them cut half an hour out of the movie(Which included a brief appearance by a frozen Cap in a scene where Banner is in the arctic) and basically turn it into an overly simple action thriller. Norton vocally objected to this and thats why Marvel pushed him out for the Avengers.
A similar thing happened with Iron Man 2. Favreau was unhappy with Marvel basically forcing him to turn into half Iron Man movie and half extended Avengers trailer, and thats a big part of why he's not doing Iron Man 3. We're lucky somebody was smart enough to let Whedon do what he wanted with Avengers, cause it seems like these Marvel execs are pricks, by and large.
It also didn't help that it debuted the same summer as Iron Man and The Dark Knight.I still think that overall it's the second best Marvel movie, though I haven't seen The Avengers yet.
I think too many people assumed it would be a sequel, and thus similar in tone, to Ang Lee's piece of shit.
