With a very successful opening earnings of $80.5 million on Friday, Marvel’s The Avengers was on board to far surpass worldwide audience’s expectations. It is with much satisfaction, as an avid Marvel comics fan. that I can report the weekend box office earnings of $200.3 million nationally and $641.8 million worldwide.
With worldwide earnings such as these, it is clear that Marvel has delivered a fantastic movie that has been enjoyed by audiences of all ages and on a global level.
Let the summer superhero blockbuster movies begin! Marvel kicks off every moviegoer’s favorite season with the witty, action-packed flick that so many of us have been waiting for, The Avengers.
With 5 years of planning and 5 movies doing a pretty fantastic job of building up this movie, The Avengers has finally been released into theaters nationwide. With so much riding on the line, it’s easy for a highly anticipated movie to fall flat of many of the fan’s expectations. However, fanboys need not worry. Marvel’s The Avengers is a phenomenal movie.
So lets get to the basics. The Avengers is equal parts drama, action, and comedy and a movie that anybody can enjoy, whether you are an avid comic book reader or not.
The movie begins where all of the previous movies left off. This includes Iron Man 2, Captain America, The Incredible Hulk, and, most closely, Thor. A familiar threat to the moviegoer audience, Loki, has returned with the help of an alien race all too familiar to fans of the comic books, the Chitauri. With the conniving mastermind at the helm of an army of aliens, S.H.I.E.L.D. director Nick Fury is forced to assemble a team to combat this threat. However, things do not always go so smoothly when you bring together an old-fashioned soldier from a past time, a billionaire-philanthropist and genius playboy with Narcissistic traits, the Norse God of Thunder that is always quick to rush into battle, a highly intelligent gamma radiation specialist with a dark side, and a former Russian spy with a piece of her past still haunting her. Read the rest of this entry »
With the theatrical release of “The Avengers” due tomorrow, we found this awesome parody of “The Birth of Venus” by artist Julian Totino Tedesco.
Another Civil War is upon us within the Marvel Universe and this time, it involves the Avengers versus the X-Men. Issue one of Marvel’s newest series was released just over a week ago and includes with it the introduction of Marvel’s latest technological innovation, Augmented Reality, or AR.
Let us start with the basics. “Avengers vs X-Men” has been out for a week and there is a reason the review is so late. It is good. It is very good and it has already been read by this reviewer several times.
*Warning* Potential Spoilers ahead for those who have not yet read the issue. *Another Warning* Potentially bad puns included. Read the rest of this entry »
Production of the follow-up to the popular “X-Men: First Class” film has been delayed and set to begin in January 2013 due to the popularity of “The Hunger Games”.
As most of you know, “The Hunger Games” released to huge box office numbers and production of the sequel, “Catching Fire”, will be using the talent of Jennifer Lawrence who plays Katniss in the films and Mystique in “First Class”.
Fox has decided to move production of “X-Men” back in order to allow Lawrence time to shoot the follow up to “The Hunger Games” and I’m sure giving her another movie to build her popularity will only make her that much more desirable for “X-Men: First Class 2″
This week, this photo was released detailing The Hulk’s face from the upcoming “Avengers” film.
Mark Ruffalo has replaced Edward Norton as Bruce Banner in the film and Joss Whedon wanted to give The Hulk a new look which is detailed below.
A new video released this week becomes a geek’s fantasy as Scarlett Johansson get’s tied down as Scarlett Johansson, her chacter in the “Avengers” movie.
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