Move over, Tony Stark–you’ve got company at the super-rich-guys’ table. According to a story at The Hollywood Reporter, Robert Downey, Jr. will make somewhere in the neighborhood of $50 million for his role in Marvel’s The Avengers, thanks to a generous backend deal that his agents negotiated after the success...
There’s a tendency when you read about a celebrity or athlete getting a huge paycheck to sigh and wonder what they did to deserve all that money. In Robert Downey Jr.’s case, everyone knows what he did. He was the sparkplug (at least on the acting side) that made the...
On today’s episode of The View, President Barack Obama was quizzed on pop culture trivia and, along with topics like Keeping Up With The Kardashians and Dancing With the Stars, he was asked to name superheroes seen in the film version of The Avengers. “I saw The Avengers,” said the...
We’ll spare you the obvious comments about the Marvel movie universe that go with this one, although there’s a minor spoiler for The Avengers buried in the story below if you haven’t seen it already. Comic Book Resources is reporting that the Guardians of the Galaxy will join The Avengers...
There are plenty of female heroes in the Marvel Universe–including Captain Marvel, who’s getting her own series soon–but when Joss Whedon told Entertainment Weekly recently that he wanted to have more female heroes in the Avengers 2, everyone at a roundtable discussion of the film agreed it was a good...
In his letter thanking his fans for The Avengers opening weekend box office, Joss Whedon downplayed the competition between The Avengers and The Dark Knight Rises. Whedon even offered up praise for Christopher Nolan calling him one of the inventors of the “true superhero flick.” But one of the actors...
Marvel’s The Avengers is a force of nature in film right now, crossing over $300 million domestically this week and projected to take #1 at the box office for the second week in a row. Disney is reporting that it will cross $1 billion globally today, there’s been a lot...
Marvel’s The Avengers is expected to pass the $1 billion mark globally today, according to a press release from Walt Disney Studios, the film’s distributor. Doing so in only 19 days, The Avengers appears to have beaten out Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 and Avatar for the...
Will the Avengers get a Best Picture nomination from the Academy? Probably not, as after all, we’re talking about a group that famously overlooked The Dark Knight a couple years back. At best, The Avengers might pick up a couple nominations in special effects categories, and Tom Hiddleston or Mark...
Unfortunately, when most superhero movies inspire laughter, it’s usually not a good thing. Comedy is a very difficult thing to pull off in a comic book movie because there is a very fine line between funny and campy. The Avengers is one of those rare superhero movies, where the humor...
What will weekend number two bring for The Avengers? Some are predicting that Avengers has a real shot at becoming the first movie in history to make over $100 million at the box office during its second weekend. The current second weekend record is held by Avatar with $75.6 million....
Yesterday, Joss Whedon took to Whedonesque.com to thank his fans for their support. In a heartfelt and humorous letter, Whedon posted, “So this is me, saying thank you. All of you. You’ve taken as much guff for loving my work as I have for over-writing it, and you deserve, in...
In a podcast interview with Eric Ratcliffe’s Why I Love Comics, superstar writer Brian Michael Bendis explained the role of the “Marvel Movie Council”–that is, a group of comic book experts including himself, Joe Quesada and Marvel Publisher Dan Buckley who were called upon to consult on the Marvel movies....
Please note that in the story below, you’ll find spoilers for Marvel’s The Avengers, out now. If you haven’t seen the movie and want to go in cold, turn back now. With this week’s announcement that Marvel was fast-tracking Avengers 2, one has to wonder: will we see any additional...
Ever since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, it’s always a bit strange watching New York be ravaged by evildoers in the movies, isn’t it? You watch some massive destruction rain down on Manhattan and you just think, “They wouldn’t be getting over this in a week or a...
