Weekend box office: The first avenger gets the advantage

2011-07-24 18:34:14 Author: Scott Gwin Hero power topped Harry Potter this weekend. Captain America: The First Avenger made a solid debut at number one with $65 million. While that’s a respectable opening, it’s nothing to get excited about. According to rankings at Box Office Mojo it’s only the 48th largest opening for a comic book adapted film. Harry Potter: The Deathly Hallows, Part 2 slipped a hefty 70% from its record breaking opening weekend (most movies drop 50% – 60%). That sort of rapid drop off is a common trend for Potter flicks, but no other entry in the franchise has ever come this…

American captain’s red painted-face Nazi and other 6 bold historical rumor

2011-07-22 23:53:36 Author: Mack Rawden I haven’t seen Captain America yet, but I have confusedly watched the trailer at least a dozen times. It leads me to believe the Nazi war machine was not a horde of Aryan avengers but a swarm of Storm Troopers led by some failed, red-faced experiment. This is not true. I know because I’ve watched at least a dozen History Channel specials on the Third Reich, and never once has the narrator mentioned this. As it seems like pertinent information, I have no choice but to conclude Captain America is outright lying to me. Not fudging…

4 reason American captain is the miracle movie which you waited for

2011-07-21 21:39:47 Author: Sean O’Connell Ever since plans for a full-blown Avengers movie were revealed, fans of comic books and the movies they inspire have been ticking off a laundry list of hurdles that needed to be cleared in order to make the multi-character adventure a reality. The concept was so far-fetched back when Samuel L. Jackson’s Nick Fury first graced a post-credit sequence at the end of Jon Favreau’s Iron Man that most of us were just geeked to see some form of Marvel superhero crossover on the silver screen. (Prior to that, the only thing that…

To 3D or not to 3D: Chooses correct American captain the ticket

2011-07-21 01:41:57 Author: Josh Tyler When you see Captain America: The First Avenger this weekend the biggest decision you’ll face at the box office isn’t when to see it, but how to see it. Like nearly ever big blockbuster set to be released from now on through 2013, Cap’s first adventure is being released on both higher-priced 3D and more budget-friendly 2D screens. We’re here to help you decide which version to see. Our “To 3D or Not to 3D” series does not review the relative merits of a movie like Cap as a piece art or entertainment. If you’re interested…

The avenger trailer on-line leaked?

2011-07-17 23:39:55 Author: Josh Tyler We knew that Marvel had been planning to release a trailer for The Avengers , and assumed that it would play this weekend in front of Captain America: The First Avenger . It just makes sense, after all the word “Avenger” is in the title. In fact there had been reports that it may be shown at the very end of the movie, in the closing credits, which begs the question… what is this? The following video has popped up all over YouTube tonight. It appears to be some sort of leaked version of The Avengers trailer, but since…

Ape May Reteam For Director animal farm planet Andy Serkis and rise

2011-07-05 18:37:27 Author: Eric Eisenberg After Peter Jackson and Andy Serkis completed their work together on the Lord of the Rings movies, it came as a surprise to nobody when they decided to reteam for the director’s remake of King Kong . The combination of WETA’s digital abilities and Serkis’ acting skills has twice resulted in some of the best CGI the world has ever seen. Later this summer, we will witness the third movie that the company and actor have worked together on in the form of Rise of the Planet of the Apes , and now director Rupert Wyatt seems to be…

Miracle’s laughable fraud plan revealed?

2011-07-05 19:55:22 Author: Eric Eisenberg I still have a hard time wrapping my brain around this year’s San Diego Comic Con lineup, namely the fact that Twilight: Breaking Dawn will have a Hall H panel, while Marvel’s The Avengers won’t. It’s totally backwards and is a perfect for showing how the event’s original purpose has completely disappeared. When it was made official that Marvel wouldn’t be hosting a Hall H panel, however, the news came with a silver lining: while they won’t be hosting an event on the main stage, they will have a presence during the event. Now the details of…

Star Trek: Perhaps second moves to December, 2012

2011-05-24 23:07:05 Author: Eric Eisenberg June 29, 2012. For the last year and a half that has been the established release date for the sequel to J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek . But with writers Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman and Damon Lindelof focusing on a multitude of different projects and J.J. Abrams occupying himself with this summer’s Super 8 , the production has taken a long time to get going. As of yesterday it was reported that the project is ready to be prepped with a 70+ page outline, but “ready to be prepped” isn’t the stage you want to be at with a massive science…

Weekend the box office – first pirates the water trough position

2011-05-22 21:41:14 Author: Scott Gwin Summer got into full swing this weekend with the first major anticipated blockbuster arriving in theaters. Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides swash-buckled onto the scene with a year-to-date best opening of $90 million. While that’s no skin off an old flint’s nose, it is the lowest debut total for a Pirates of the Caribbean movie since the first in the series Curse of the Black Pearl . Of course Captain Jack Sparrow and mates are hardly hurting for booty. When you roll in sales around the world the movie has banked a whopping…

Separate Hawkeye and black cinema of widow still are discussed on the miracle

2011-05-02 17:10:12 Author: Katey Rich At this point in the attempts of Marvel Studios to dominate every blockbuster we ever see for the rest of our lives, any character in their stable of superheroes has the potential to star in their own movie– they’ve got no reason not to try with a formula that hasn’t failed yet, and seems to have another hit with this weekend’s Thor . So it’s not a huge surprise that when talking to Marvel Films co-chair Kevin Feige over the weekend, The Playlist got him to admit that they are having active conversations about stand-alone films…

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