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Posted 04.16.12 by Ryan Another week, another barrage of preview clips from Marvel's The Avengers.
Last week saw the release of three Avengers preview clips. The first saw S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent Hill (Cobie Smulders) and Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) discuss the Tesseract (or Cosmic Cube), while the second saw Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) and Loki (Tom Hiddleston) discussing who has the best tactical advantage while Stark enjoyed a drink in Stark Tower. The week ended with a clip that showed Captain America (Chris Evans) and Thor (Chris Hemsworth) fighting side-by-side against Loki's army.
The latest clip is again, dialogue heavy, as Nick Fury (Jackson) discusses the meaning of power with Loki (Hiddleston) after the latter has been imprisoned in a S.H.I.E.L.D. cell made for the Hulk. Thor (Hemsworth), Captain America (Evans) Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson), Hill (Smulders), and Dr. Bruce Banner (Mark Ruffalo) listen in as they talk.
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Posted 04.11.12 by BrentJS The Avengers has so much potential to be a mega-hit — the superheroes of Marvel's Iron Man, First Avenger: Captain America, The Incredible Hulk, and Thor movies all "assembled" in one movie! — that it seems like everyone wants in on the action, from obvious merchandising tie-ins like coloring books, games, and toys to less obvious ones like cologne (we're not sure we want to know what the Hulk smells like, let alone smell like the Hulk).
The latest to get in on the action is the Wyndham hotel group, which recently launched the HotelsAssemble website. Through the site you can, of course, book a hotel stay, but you can also download a set of awesome wallpapers featuring the star-studded cast of The Avengers — the Hulk wallpaper offers our best look yet at Mark Ruffalo as the "jade giant" — and also play Avengers-themed puzzles and games, answer trivia, read digital comic books, and more.
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Posted 04.10.12 by Ryan Last week, Marvel released the first preview clip for The Avengers, which saw Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson) tied to a chair and talking to S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent Coulson (Clark Gregg) on a cell phone only to kick and punch her way to freedom. With the movie's release date less than a month away, promotion is at a fever pitch, and many might assume that the next preview clip might also be an action-packed scene from the upcoming comic book adaptation, perhaps more of the forest-set confrontation between Iron Man (Robert Downey, Jr.), Captain America (Chris Evans) and Thor (Chris Hemsworth) or even more of Tony Stark (Downey) talking with Loki (Tom Hiddleston) in Stark Tower about who will defeat whom before throwing Stark out a window.
Instead, while appearing on The Late Show with David Letterman, Cobie Smulders brought a clip that sees her character of S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent Maria Hill talk with Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) about the Tesseract — known as the Cosmic Cube in the Marvel comic books and previously shown in Captain America: The First Avenger and in the post-credits scene in Thor — and how to maintain security measures around it. If you like action as much as rapid-fire dialogue, consider this clip "action-packed."
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Posted 04.05.12 by Ryan Last August, Marvel Entertainment announced the release dates for two, mysterious untitled movies, one that would open on April 4th, and the other on May 16th. It was speculated by every website on the world wide web (including us) that Captain America 2 was likely for at least one of the two dates. So, it was no surprise when Marvel officially announced today that Captain America 2 would fill the April 4th release date.
The move keeps with Marvel's release pattern, which, in its brief history so far has been: Iron Man, Thor, Captain America. 2013 will see the release of Iron Man 3 and Thor 2, with Captain America 2 following in 2014. Whatever Marvel decides to put into that May 16th slot could break the pattern, even if it ends up being The Incredible Hulk 2.
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Posted 04.04.12 by Ryan We are now officially a month away from when The Avengers reaches theaters and Marvel is spreading the word with a new preview clip and a new TV spot.
Combining the collective efforts of every movie Marvel Studios has done so far — 2008's Iron Man, 2008's The Incredible Hulk, 2010's Iron Man 2, and last year's Thor and Captain America: The First Avenger — The Avengers assembles characters from each of those movies, as revealed in the latest TV spot. Titled "Team," the spot starts with Loki (Tom Hiddleston) firing on New York City, prompting Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) to declare "we are at war" and "we need a team." The TV spot then shows off each member of the team, revealing Iron Man (Robert Downey, Jr.) de-armoring into Tony Stark, Dr. Bruce Banner (Mark Ruffalo) transforming into the Hulk, Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner) strapping on his quiver of arrows, and ending with Captain America (Chris Evans) asking Thor (Chris Hemsworth) if he's "sure about this" — amongst other snippets of new footage.
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Posted 04.03.12 by reelz The Avengers may be the biggest movie of the year, let alone the summer, but that doesn't mean it's the easiest franchise to jump into. Building from five prior movies with wildly varying backstories and tones means that it's easy for anyone to be lost. To solve this problem, we made a Cliff's Notes–style primer of the team members being featured in the flick in case you've missed some of the movies. But while compiling this, we were struck by how many of the dozens of Avengers members missed the cut. So alongside the A-Team, we put together a list of some of the more, frankly, disappointing superheroes who at one time or another were on the team, and why we're glad they didn't make the cut.
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Posted 03.21.12 by Ryan With just over six weeks before the opening of Marvel's adaptation of The Avengers, several new photos from the movie have arrived online, the first since a pair of stills featuring S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent Maria Hill (Cobie Smulders) were released earlier this month.
Smulders is nowhere to be found in the latest The Avengers images, which instead feature individual shots of "Earth's Mightiest Heroes." Those expecting action might be a bit disappointed with the pics. If, however, you want to see Thor (Chris Hemsworth) standing in a forest; or Dr. Bruce Banner (Mark Ruffalo) actually working as a scientist; or another shot of Captain America (Chris Evans), Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson), and Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner) walking down a corridor in what could be the inside of the S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier, these are the pics for you. Don't worry, there's plenty to see, including a look at Iron Man's (Robert Downey Jr.) armor, and more looks at Black Widow, Hawkeye, and S.H.I.E.L.D. Director Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson).
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Posted 03.13.12 by Ryan After the release of three limited edition posters of Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson), Captain America (Chris Evans), and Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.), there are now more posters for the upcoming comic book adaptation The Avengers. Conceived as a gift to those who attend the 12-hour marathon of the movies that comprise the "Marvel Cinematic Universe" and all lead up to The Avengers, the new posters show the other characters from the movie — Thor (Chris Hemsworth); Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner) and the Hulk (Mark Ruffalo); S.H.I.E.L.D. Director Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) and S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent Maria Hill (Cobie Smulders).
For those keeping track, there's no poster yet of S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent Coulson (Clark Gregg) or the team's adversarial target, Loki (Tom Hiddleston).
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Posted 03.10.12 by BrentJS With well over 100 movies under his belt, Samuel L. Jackson is one of the most prolific actors working in Hollywood today. And, come May 4th, Jackson will add two more movies to his resume, with starring roles in both writer-director Joss Whedon's The Avengers and writer-director Chris Fisher's Meeting Evil. Jackson's role in The Avengers is pretty well established by this point, as he has already appeared as S.H.I.E.L.D. Director Nick Fury in four Marvel Studios features — Iron Man, Iron Man 2, Thor and First Avenger: Captain America — but his character in Meeting Evil is more of a mystery (except to those who have read the book by Thomas Berger on which the movie is based, of course).
When depressed suburban family man and recently fired realtor John Felton (Luke Wilson) offers assistance to a stranger named Richie (Jackson), he has no idea that he is about to become sucked into a living nightmare that forces him to question everything he knows about life and the nature of evil. Is Richie merely a cold-blooded killer or could he be the devil incarnate?
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Finally, Marvel has released a new trailer for The Avengers, the first new footage from the highly anticipated comic book movie since the arrival of its Super Bowl Ad earlier this month. Marvel has been making a bit of a promotional push for the trailer this week, revealing a new poster and allowing Entertainment Tonight to release a sneak peek of the trailer to go along with some behind-the-scenes interviews with the cast.
In the latest trailer, fans get to see S.H.I.E.L.D. director Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) assemble Captain America (Chris Evans), Thor (Chris Hemsworth) and Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.) for the "Avengers Initiative" while Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson) finds Dr, Bruce Banner, aka the Hulk (Mark Ruffalo). While the team is obviously put together to battle Loki (Tom Hiddleston), the trailer reveals another threat that Loki is using to destroy "Earth's Mightiest Heroes."
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