Tag: Marvel

‘Captain America: The First Avenger’ Starts Filming in June

Posted: December 28, 2009 at 12:04 pm   /   Local, Movie News

The release of a trailer for the highly anticipated Iron Man 2 has drummed up interest in the other projects as well. Fangoria has an interview with Captain America director Joe Johnston who is currently working in pre-production on the film, and is planning for a June start date. The project has yet to cast […]

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Fantastic Four to be Rebooted

Posted: September 1, 2009 at 9:22 am   /   Local, Movie News

The first two films of that Fantastic Four franchise did decent business, but they weren’t the blockbuster that Spider-man was. Although Fantastic 4 has never been as popular of a comic as Spider-man has been. Sure there is appeal there, but not as much as the high flying web-slinger. So it makes me wonder why […]

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Disney buys Marvel for $4 Billion

Posted: August 31, 2009 at 9:34 am   /   Local, Movie News

I can picture it now, Spidey is flinging through New York and on top of his head is mouse ears. I really don’t know how to feel about this. Marvel has finally started to realize how to market and film their characters correctly (or at least better than before), and I’m hoping the addition of […]

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Shazam! Has Found a Writer

Posted: August 19, 2009 at 10:51 pm   /   Local, Movie News

Shazam! the comic book property best known for it’s superhero Captain Marvel and his alter ego Billy Batson has finally found a writer for it’s film adaptation, writer Bill Birch. From Variety: Warner Bros. has tapped scribe Bill Birch to reboot “Shazam!,” the DC Comics’ adaptation of the Captain Marvel story that’s being developed as […]

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Scarlett Johansson joins Iron Man 2 as Black Widow as Well

Posted: March 12, 2009 at 8:33 am   /   Local, Movie News

But apparently Marvel has scrwed her in the process as she is getting low balled and is forced to appear in subsequent films.  Either way, she is replacing Blunt who was stolen by Fox due to contract obligations from the role. Johansson joins an already huge cast that recently added Mickey Rourke last night but […]

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Wolverine Origin’s Trailer

Posted: March 6, 2009 at 1:45 pm   /   Film, Local

MTV has a new Wolverine Origin’s Trailer I’m still on the fence about this one. It really looks like a cash grab. It seems like it is supposed to match continuity of the other X-Men films. It seemed in the original X-Men movie that Cyclops and Wolverine had never met before, this makes it look […]

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