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Avengers Director’s Cut, Dark Knight Rises & More: The Week in Movie News

Last week may not have been gangbusters at the box office, but that doesn’t mean there wasn’t […]

Last week may not have been gangbusters at the box office, but that doesn’t mean there wasn’t stuff going on in Hollywood. And–as per usual these days–much of what was going on there was of interest to the comic book-reading audience. Since we know we’re updating much faster these days and a lot of our readers are missing some material, take this opportunity to look back on last week and see what you might have missed.While we usually try to keep these recaps a bit more readable and conversational, there are a few movies where so much was happening so fast, that in order for the reader to be able to navigate our links, we’ll just list them off in those cases.We started out the week with what has become a pretty big story for us here at ComicBook.com: the question as to whether the original, three-hour cut of Joss Whedon’s The Avengers would eventually make its way to theaters. We’re hearing a lot of people, including some who should know, saying that it’s going to happen but of course Marvel can’t comment. The fact that the rumor started circulating the week The Avengers was finally outpaced by Avatar, and even the most optimistic observers now believe it’s statistically eliminated from eclipsing either Titanic or Avatar for the all-time #1 at the box office, probably played into why the news broke when it did.You know what Disney actually might be making, by the way? A Marvel/Pixar animated feature.

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