Since
2005, Marvel Studios has been planning to make their superhero films
interlink with each other in order to setup for the ultimate superhero
film, The Avengers. All this started with the releases of Iron Man and The Incredible Hulk and now it has continued with Thor. So let’s look closer at the references to The Avengers. (Please note there will be SPOILERS).
The writers of the original Iron Man, Hawk Otsby and Mark Fergus, will script the reboot for GK Films. Deadline Hollywood reports that Graham King, a producer on the film, will likely pick an actress whose star is on the rise to embody Lara Croft as Angelina Jolie once did. The problem, however, is that she made for the ideal Lara Croft.
Welcome
to Box Office Wizard, Player Affinity’s premiere movie box office
prediction competition that you ignore every week because you don’t hath
the stones of a real wizard. Entering is and always has been simple, so
why not get your beard on and give it a try? Just read through this
post and leave a comment with, in order, what you think the top five box
office finishers will be this weekend. Finish out 2011 on top and you
will win something COOL.
In case any of you, like some of us on the Player Affinity Movies staff, are still bummed about how disappointing last summer was, we finally grant you relief: Summer 2011 — absolute blockbuster mayhem. There are plenty of sequels, actions films, superhero films, comedies and more that almost every weekend will warrant a trip to the theaters.
Listen to The Plot Hole every Tuesday at PlayerAffinity.com or download on iTunes. This week, Dinah,
John, Kieran, Simon, Steven and our special comic guest Dustin chat all
the summer’s big flicks, review Fast Five and look to next week’s big releases with an early review of Thor.
With Marvel’s Thor kicking off the U.S. summer season, Kevin Feige—the leader of Marvel Studios—has started alluding to potential projects being shopped around the Marvel offices. In talking with IndieWire, Feige notes that the 2013-2014 schedule should be revealed towards the end of summer and that a Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner) and/or Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson) spinoff is not out of the question.
By the time you read this Fast Five may have crossed $100 million domestic. If not, its total worldwide haul has surpassed $180 million, easily earning back its production budget of $125 million. Fast Five may be starting a new trend, rather expanding a phenomenon not known outside of the horror genre: never-ending sequels.
Friday the 13th, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Halloween, and Saw must have 100 pictures between them. When it comes to scary movies, including Scary Movie, audiences can expect the cow to be milked long after the udders have shriveled up. Seriously, even when a horror franchise is failing studios will continue to crank out an assembly line into theaters, or go straight to DVD if they have to. Now, an action movie has jumped into the mix.
