Here’s an interesting rumor: Bleeding Cool is reporting that Marvel Studios – known for locking actors into multiple-movie-deals at cut-rate prices, as well as being unafraid to recast roles (Iron Man‘s James Rhodes, Hulk‘s Bruce Banner) whenever they feel the need – has set the budget for 2012′s The Avengers surprisingly low. The site’s Rich [...]
Concerns that the multicultural characters of Marvel Comics’ Runaways would become slightly more white in their upcoming movie incarnations have been lessened after Marvel Studios released a statement assuring worried fans, and updated casting notices to ensure that their intentions were good. How did this happen?
Oh, okay; it’s not that kind of XXX screenwriter, sadly (But it makes a great headline, right?). Marvel Studios have hired Rich Wilkes, the scriptwriter behind the Vin Diesel/Ice Cube franchise xXx, to write a movie based upon the company’s 1970s kung-fu character Iron Fist.
G4 has announced that it will be the home for four brand-new anime series from Marvel, animated by respected animation studio Madhouse and masterminded by Warren Ellis, beginning next year.
After being delayed 45 minutes due to a face stabbing, the Marvel Studios panel opened with a teaser trailer from Captain America: The First Avenger. The crowd in Hall H then erupted when Chris Evans, Hugo Weaving and Joe Johnston took the stage.
It’s the announcement that everyone will be waiting for at Comic-Con today: Now that Joss Whedon has confirmed that he’ll be directing The Avengers in 2012, will Mark Ruffalo be announced as Ed Norton’s replacement Bruce Banner?
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Two concept art images from next year’s Thor and Captain America: The First Avenger movies are going to be available as posters at the Marvel booth at San Diego Comic-Con, starting tomorrow night.
Less than two weeks after it launched, Marvel’s Black Panther: Who Is The Black Panther animated series has disappeared… and Marvel isn’t exactly forthcoming with explanations as to why.
Marvel has confirmed that both Thor and Captain America: The First Avenger will be released in 3D, and that both will be “upconverted” after being shot traditionally.
With the final movies in their deal with Paramount already in various stages of production (Or, in The Avengers’ case, advanced pre-production), Marvel Studios are rumored to be rushing their first Disney-distributed movie towards shooting early next year. That movie? The big-screen version of Brian K. Vaughan’s Runaways.
