High And Low: The Avengers Save Earth With Subtlety & Wit, Wong Kar-Wai's...
This week’s Low(brow) choice may have been a box-office-record-smashing mass-appeal hit, but it’s also a genre classic that sneaks a healthy dollop of wit and even subtlety into its comic-book...
View ArticleTALKBACK: Which Avengers Superhero Should Get The Next Standalone Spin-Off?
With this week's release of The Avengers on DVD/Blu-ray and Marvel's Kevin Feige entertaining all sorts of speculative queries as to the future of the superhero franchise, let's put it to the people:...
View ArticleDark Knight Rises Cinematographer Calls The Avengers 'Appalling'
They were two of the biggest movies in terms of box office this summer - and likely for all of 2012, yet the battle between The Dark Knight Rises and Marvel's The Avengers opened a new front in the...
View ArticleAl Pacino As A Decadent Rocker; Avengers Tops Halloween Costumes: Biz Break
Also in Wednesday morning's new round-up: In the run-up to the election, a major cable company is offering its customers a free viewing of an anti-Obama doc; Details on Peter Jackson's The Hobbit and a...
View ArticleJoss Whedon Trolls 'Star Wars' Fans, Talks Wasp In 'Avengers'
In our pre-Mayan apocalypse era, when you want to ensure that whatever you say is disseminated far and wide faster than the time it takes to tweet 'DID YOU SEE THIS ###$$!!!' the best advice is to...
View ArticleDomestic Box Office Rises In Dollars And Audiences In 2012
Year on year, Hollywood's box office receipts rise. And while the 2012 numbers came in higher than 2011, the year marked a specifically good turn for the movie industry: the number of actual tickets...
View ArticleLessons We Can Learn From 2012's Most-Pirated Films
Good news, everyone! 2012 has been a pretty great year for the film industry. Ticket sales were up worldwide by 5% over 2011, and a record box office haul of $10 billion means plenty of celebrating at...
View ArticleWhich 'Avengers' Cast Members Are Most Expendable?
There's an interview with Robert Downey Jr. in Collider that's got me thinking about the actors in Marvel's very lucrative superhero stable. When the website's Steve "Frosty" Weintraub asked the actor...
View ArticleWATCH: Joss Whedon Trades In S.H.I.E.L.D. For Shakespeare And Makes A Woody...
I'd love to see a Venn diagram of the intersection of two subsets: moviegoers who saw The Avengers, directed by Joss Whedon, and those who plan to see his interpretation of William Shakespeare's Much...
View ArticleWATCH: Iron Man Flips Out In Marvel Phase 2 Preview
A few weeks ago I wrote about the importance of Robert Downey Jr. to the future phases of Marvel's superhero film rollout. With Tuesday's release of the limited edition Marvel Cinematic Universe: Phase...
View ArticleRobert Downey Jr. Confirms He's The $50-Million 'Iron Man'− And Loving It
In March, I wrote about how Robert Downey Jr. is about as close to indispensable as you can get to Marvel Studios' lucrative superhero movie franchise — and now here's proof from the man himself. In a...
View ArticleINTERVIEW: 'Avengers' Actor Clark Gregg Plays A Different Kind Of Agent In...
Clark Gregg has gone from babysitting the Avengers to child actors. Gregg, aka S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent Coulson, took a break from the Marvel Cinematic Universe to write, direct and star in his second...
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