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The Avengers
Release Date: May 4, 2012 (North America)
SubscribeGenres: Action, Comic Book MPAA Rating: PG-13
Production Phase: Released
Studio: Walt Disney Pictures Production Company: Marvel Studios
Who's In It: Robert Downey Jr. (Tony Stark/Iron Man), Samuel L. Jackson (Colonel Nicholas Fury), Chris Evans (Steve Rogers / Captain America), Chris Hemsworth (Thor), Mark Ruffalo (Bruce Banner/The Hulk)
Who's Making It: Joss Whedon (Director), Joss Whedon (Screenwriter), Zak Penn (Story), Joss Whedon (Story), Kevin Feige (Producer)
Premise: Captain America, Iron Man, Thor, Nick Fury, Black Widow, Hawkeye and the Hulk unite to battle a common foe: Loki, the trickster god of Asgard and Thor's adopted brother.... More »
Official Website: marvel.com/avengers_movie
What We Think: One of two superhero Dream Teams, the prospect of an Avengers movie has long been a hope for comic book fans. Now, with Marvel Studios on a creative and financial roll, the chances of not... More »
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Avengers movie alternate opening revealed
In the editing suite a movie can change its tone dramatically. By inserting a serious moment here, removing a comedic or lighter touch there, and presto-chango, your emotional reaction to what you see on-screen shifts.
Sometimes it works well for the movie's box office results. Other times...not so much.
Add a comment (0)Wednesday, July 4, 2012
Item 47 extra short to be included on Avengers DVD
I've got to say, I do dig what Marvel Studios is doing with these short "one-shot" films they're adding to their movie DVD releases. With the Captain America and Thor flicks, we got two day in the life of Agent Coulson stories. Now with Clark Gregg out of the Marvel cinematic universe (for the time being, if you know what I mean, wink wink), I was wondering if Marvel would keep going on with their short films.
The answer to that question is yes.
Add a comment (0)Saturday, June 30, 2012
Spec'd: Marvel's The Avengers DVD
Arriving on September 26, 2012 on home video is Marvel's The Avengers, the highest-grossing superhero movie of all-time and present third-highest grossing movie ever. Paramount Home Video is handling the home video release of the film (as per their agreement with Walt Disney, the owners/theatrical distribution studio.)
The Avengers will have three disc versions: a 4-disc Blu-ray, a 2-disc Blu-ray DVD and a single-disc DVD. Perhaps the most important bonus feature listed on the discs will be an audio commentary track by screenwriter/director Joss Whedon, so expect a lot of comic book geeking out when you pop that one on the player.
Add a comment (4)Tuesday, June 26, 2012
The Avengers movie crosses $600 million dollars of box office
Sometime today The Avengers will move past the $600 million dollar domestic box office mark, a mere 54 days after its release.
The superhero movie is already the third-highest grossing film of all-time, standing behind Titanic ($658.6 million) and Avatar ($760.5 million). The Avengers is also the third-highest grossing movie worldwide with $1.4 billion dollars in ticket sales (Titanic has $2.1b and Avatar $2.7b).
Add a comment (0)Sunday, May 20, 2012
The Avengers sinks Battleship at the box office
For the third weekend in a row Marvel's The Avengers is the number one movie at the box office. This weekend the movie grossed an estimated $55 million dollars more, propelling its total domestic gross to an amazing $457 million dollars. Worldwide, The Avengers has made $1.18 billion dollars.
Add a comment (1)Saturday, May 19, 2012
The Avengers done like Pixar characters
So it seems that others out there on the wild Internet have had the same ideas as myself: what would the heroes from Marvel's Avengers superhero team look like if Pixar had made the movie?
Sure, putting Samuel L. Jackson in his Nick Fury black leather look isn't that great a leap in the imagination since the actor also voiced the superhero character Frozone in The Incredibles, but what would Thor look like? Or Hulk? Or Hawkeye?
Add a comment (0)Sunday, May 13, 2012
The Avengers beats box office estimates again
Preliminary figures for this weekend's box office indicate that Marvel's The Avengers will perform better than originally expected. The movie is on track to gross around $103.1 million dollars in its second weekend of release, down 50% from last week's record-setting $208m.
Add a comment (1)Saturday, May 12, 2012
Avengers is on track for a $90 million dollar second weekend
Earlier today Marvel's The Avengers movie crossed the $300 million dollar mark at the domestic box office. Yesterday The Avengers took in about $29.1 million, down from the phenomenal $80 mil that the picture opened to one week earlier -- but that ain't nothing to sneeze at.
At close of business yesterday The Avengers had earned $299,143,000 -- give or take a hundred thousand or so. Factor in another $533 million dollars (so far) from the international ticket sales and the movie will stand at the cusp of one billion dollars in worldwide box office sales by Sunday evening.
Add a comment (0)Hulk has unfriended Loki on Facebook
For those of you that have seen The Avengers, you know what happens when a mouthy god of mischief meets a gamma-irradiated brute with a short temper. But what happens when Loki of Asgard sends a friend request to social media Hulk on Facebook?
I guess it's pretty much the same thing.
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
Listen to our Avengers movie audio roundtable!
Have you seen The Avengers movie yet? Are you ready to pick up the discussion about the film and the whole Marvel Cinematic Universe where The Avengers ended? If so, get thee to Comic Related and listen to The Avengers movie roundtable podcast that I participated in along with several other online gurus including Rob Keyes (editor of Screen Rant), Brant Fowler (editor of Comic Related) and Marc N.
Add a comment (1)Monday, May 7, 2012
Actual opening weekend box office for Avengers movie: $207 million dollars
The opening weekend box office estimates for Marvel's The Avengers movie pegged it at grossing $200.3 million dollars, setting a new record. A day after, now the final actuals are in and The Avengers did even better than Sunday's figures.
According to the final tally arrived at by the studio, The Avengers took in $207,438,733 from 4,349 screens across North America. Breaking it down by each day, the box office looks like this:
Add a comment (1)Sunday, May 6, 2012
The Avengers has a $200 million dollar opening weekend
This Sunday morning the weekend box office estimates have been added up and something amazing has happened: for the first time in motion picture history, a movie has grossed $200 million dollars on its opening weekend. It's The Avengers, and according to studio estimates, Disney's first Marvel superhero movie has opened to the tune of $200.3 million dollars.
Add a comment (3)Saturday, May 5, 2012
Video: The Avengers movie from 1978 you never saw!
Generation X and older people know that before there were Sam Raimi Spider-Man movies and Hugh Jackman played the X-Men's Wolverine, guys like Lou Ferrigno and Bill Bixby kicked weekly ass as Marvel's mightest heroes. Back in the late 1970s CBS had The Incredible Hulk TV show on the air. There was even a Captain America TV show that never got further than the pilot episode. While the effects budget that these superhero shows had was really limited, the excitement of just getting to see the Hulk or Captain America or some other comic book hero in live action was enough to satisfy most eager minds back in the age of Atari.
Add a comment (0)Video: The top 5 Agent Coulson moments from Marvel movies
Actor Clark Gregg has carved himself out a thin but sweet slice of fame from Marvel's Cinematic Universe. As S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent Phil Coulson, Gregg's straight-man act sandwiched between alien demi-gods, armored heroes and time-displaced super-soldiers has won him a huge audience in a short time. And if you've already seen The Avengers, then you know that Agent Coulson's role is critical to the movie's storyline.
Add a comment (0)The Avengers earns $80 million dollars on its opening day
Marvel's The Avengers opened yesterday and beat the industry expectations, taking in an estimated $80.5 million dollars in its first 24 hours playing across North America.
Even so, The Avengers didn't beat the all-time champ, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 which opened on its first day to the tune of $91.1m.
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