Courtesy Walt Disney Pictures Robert Downey Jr., Joss Whedon, Chris Hemsworth and Chris Evans enjoy a relaxed moment during shooting of “Marvel’s The Avengers.”
Following “Iron Man 3,” Robert Downey Jr. has now wrapped up his commitment with Marvel Studios and now begins the arduous salary negotiation process to get him to reprise his iconic Iron Man/Tony Stark role in any future Avengers projects.
For his part, “Marvel’s The Avengers” Director/co-writer Joss Whedon plans to help make the negotiations go a little smoother by saying he has every intention of sitting out the sequel to the third highest-grossing film of all time if Downey isn’t back. More
Word going around the web today is that composer Carter Barwell and Marvel Studios have agreed to part ways due to the infamous “creative differences” and the former “Twilight” composer is not going to handle the score for “Thor: The Dark World.”
Whether this opens the door for Patrick Doyle, who scored the first “Thor,” to return is still being determined.
Thor: The Dark World Chris Hemsworth with Director Alan Taylor
For the comic book films save “The Dark Knight” and “The Dark Knight Rises,” there aren’t that many scores that especially stand out for me, but it’s noteworthy if for nothing else than “Thor: TDW” marks the next film in Phase 2 — the Marvel Studios initiative leading to “Avengers 2.”
But a more concerning rumor for Thor fans is that Marvel Studios may not be too pleased with the work of director Alan Taylor (“Game of Thrones”) with the quote going around that Taylor has been asked “to take a long vacation after the film opens.” More
Robert Downey Jr. is leading the effort to get his fellow “Avengers” cast mates a better payday.
Deadline.com has a pretty fascinating article up about Marvel Studios trying to low ball the Avengers cast members regarding their salaries for the follow-up to “Marvel’s The Avengers” and how Robert Downey Jr. is taking advantage of “Iron Man 3‘s” astonishing success as the second highest grossing opening weekend of all-time to navigate his “Avengers 2″ contract and that of his fellow cast mates. More
Film Frame/Marvel Studios Tony Stark/Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.) with the Mark 42 in “Iron Man 3.”
It’s probably not fair to judge comic book films against the phenomenal “Marvel’s The Avengers,” but amazingly at times “Iron Man 3” reaches that same level of intensity, fun and exhilaration, which makes it all the more frustrating that a few missteps result in it simply being a good movie and not the post-Avengers game changer it could have been. More
You’ve gotta appreciate a comic book movie where the filmmakers don’t suck all of the fun out of the hero being able to fly, shoot lasers and have super strength. As one comic book movie villain famously said recently “Why so serious?”
“Iron Man 2” happily embraces the playfulness of comic books and brings it to the big screen in a tremendously entertaining sequel that’s clearly set itself up as the summer blockbuster to beat. More
The norm now for comic book movies is that the hero’s arc is told over the course of a trilogy and with Robert Downey Jr. wrapping up “Iron Man 3″ it seems like the natural assumption that this will be it for “Iron Man” standalone films.
Wesley Snipes put “Blade” in the tomb after “Blade: Trinity,” the X-Men films were mercifully ended for the first arc after “X-Men: The Last Stand” and Sam Raimi packed up shop on his highly successful “Spider-Man” series. Admittedly, after the third installment, not too many people were upset that he was leaving. Christopher Nolan concluded his critically acclaimed Batman arc and isn’t looking back either.
And let’s be honest, it’s not like “Superman IV: The Quest for Peace” or “Batman & Robin” did much in terms of making a strong case for a fourth installment of a comic book film before the inevitable relaunch.
But with Downey Jr.’s Iron Man, we’ve got a character that audiences aren’t showing any signs of tiring of anytime soon and their appetite for more “Iron Man” movies doesn’t look to be satisfied anytime soon especially with “Iron Man 3″ grossing $198.4 million in its international opening last weekend. More
While Marvel Studios dominates the box office, the home video wing — Marvel Animation — has consistently been owned by Warner Bros. Animation department’s offerings from the DC Comics Universe.
Although featuring the golden Avenger, the latest effort — “Iron Man: Rise of Technovore” — doesn’t do much to polish the studio’s rusty reputation with a scattered, dull adventure that seems surprisingly dated for a character who’s always on the cutting edge of technology. More
This is the first video offering a sense of Tony Stark’s new upgrades, which allow him to assemble his armor piece by piece instead of having it loaded on via a massive gantry. Looks pretty sweet, right?
In what should complete the set of “Iron Man 3″ character posters, this one shows a wounded and battered Tony Stark/Iron Man clutching tight to his girlfriend Pepper Potts (Gwyneth Paltrow) while Stark’s Iron Man armada flies overhead.
Of the bunch, this is probably my favorite as it conveys a bit more of the overall film with the Iron Man armada and The Mandarin’s helicopters swarming in for the kill and Iron Man preparing for the big showdown. And it kinda reminds me of those old 1980s action movie posters with the hero clutching his love interest and bracing for the big fight. What do you think?
The norm now for comic book movies is that the hero’s arc is told over the course of a trilogy and with Robert Downey Jr. wrapping up “Iron Man 3″ it seems like the natural assumption that this will be it for “Iron Man” standalone films.
nd let’s be honest, it’s not like “Superman IV: The Quest for Peace” or “Batman & Robin” did much in terms of making a strong case for a fourth installment of a comic book film before the inevitable relaunch.
