$115 million – this amount was paid by Disney to Paramount for the discribution rights for the two movies.

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Everyone is thrilled with the movie version of the popular marvel comic movie The Avengers however everyone has forgot about the other superhero group that Read the rest of this entry »

Comic con gives us the big moment where the entire team of The Avengers on stage. It was pretty cool and those people who could not make it to the venue that was at Read the rest of this entry »

Superhero Hype carries and interview of Kevin Feige, Head of Production Marvel Studios, where the executive has mentioned that all the future films of Marvel are going to contain the same tone that was set by Iron man. Read the rest of this entry »

Joss Whedon is set to direct some of the most popular superheroes in his next project The Avengers! Read the rest of this entry »

In news that is sure to upset some fans, Iron Man and Iron Man 2 director Jon Favreau has confirmed to MTV that he won’t be available to direct the live-action feature film of The Avengers. Favreau will however remain as an executive producer on The Avengers.

He also confirms that Edward Norton will not be appearing in Iron Man 2 as the Hulk (although that doesn’t stop the Hulk from appearing in Iron Man 2).

The big question now is how well will Iron Man be portrayed in a film without the man that made him so successful?  Whoever ultimately scores the coveted job of directing The Avengers will certainly have their work cut out for them.

The Avengers is scheduled for release May 4, 2012.

A feature film for the DC Comic superhero The Flash has been in development for some time.  The most recent news we had was that Dan Mazeau had written the screenplay but that no director had been attached.

The Dark Knight producer Charles Roven has also been attached to the project, but apparently his involvement is now as up in the air as the feature film.

“I was involved at one point with The Flash,” Roven told IGN. “And Warner Bros. came to me and said, ‘The work that you’ve been doing hasn’t yet resulted in something that any of us, including the filmmaking team, feel could be greenlit as a movie. We’re trying to accomplish something that takes into account the entire, rich DC character world, and we’d like to pull it back. That doesn’t mean that you aren’t going to be a part of it. We just want to take a different kind of approach. Do you mind if we try that?’ If we had something that was really working…”

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Scarlett Johansson plays Natasha Romanoff (aka Black Widow) in Jon Favreau’s upcoming Iron Man 2, but she hopes to take the character further.

“She has many different incarnations and different storylines,” Johansson says, “so I’m hoping she will be able to continue in that way. I’m hoping that if the fans like the character and support the character, we’ll see her again.”

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Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury

This news is a couple of weeks old but I didn’t post anything back then so better late than never.

Samuel L. Jackson (aka Nick Fury) has told MTV News that he’ll be more or less just a talker in Iron Man 2.

“We still haven’t moved Nick Fury into the bad-ass zone,” Jackson said. “He’s still just kind of a talker.”

When asked if fans will have to wait until The Avengers to see action scenes featuring Nick Fury Jackson cryptically replied, “Looking forward to that, yeah.”

Watch the short interview clip below:

Jackson has a contract to appear in nine Marvel super-hero movies including Iron Man 2, Thor, Captain America, The Avengers, their sequels and possibly some as yet unannounced films.  So it seems we can expect a lot of Nick Fury talking until The Avengers finally premieres.  The complete Marvel release schedule is as follows:

Iron Man 2 will be released May 7, 2010
Spiderman 4 will be released on May 6, 2011
Thor will be released Jun 17, 2011
Captain America will be released July 22, 2011
The Avengers will be released May 4, 2012

With a host of Marvel movies looming on the horizon screenwriter Zak Penn (X2 / X-Men: The Last Stand / The Incredible Hulk) arguably has the toughest job of them all.  As the writer of The Avengers it is Penn’s job to bring all the crossover storyline threads together from at least Iron Man 2, Captain America and Thor. I say “at least” because there may be more overlapping threads and tie-ins to other Marvel movies that he has to deal with too, such as Spider-Man 4.  

Next week Penn has a meeting with some of the writing teams on the movies mentioned above to work out how they’re going to align the plot threads and bring them all together.

“They’re doing Captain America and Thor first, and then Avengers is coming out,” Penn said on Tuesday at the Los Angeles Film Festival. “They want to see that they’re all connected, not like the Fantastic Four can’t come into the X-Men world, like I was told [by Fox]. I’m taking a meeting next week with the Thor and Captain America people, and we are all going to get together, and I will see what is going to happen. I’ll see where they are leaving the characters; it’s pretty complicated. … There’s a board that is tracking what is happening. [We'll see] how this movie overlaps in that movie. … Marvel is autonomous now. It is night and day: Everyone has read every comic. They know how to make a cool movie.”

So does Penn think The Avengers will be a cool movie?

“It’s hard to make a good movie,” he said. “We all have the best intentions, and it still might suck.”

At least he’s being honest.

Iron Man 2 will be released May 7, 2010
Spiderman 4 will be released on May 6, 2011
Thor will be released Jun 17, 2011
Captain America will be released July 22, 2011
The Avengers will be released May 4, 2012

Source: Sci Fi Wire