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“Avengers” DVD Specs & Release Date
4 hours ago | FamousMonsters of Filmland | See recent Famous Monsters of Filmland news »
In what many may deem a premature announcement, Screen Rant has the details on the three different Avengers DVD and Blu-Ray releases (and an upcoming 10 disc Marvel behemoth set). It’s only been out a month, but I guess it’s not too early to salivate over the special features and cover art. The covers are in the gallery below, and a list of the details of the discs follow, courtesy of Superhero Hype.com. You can expect the Avengers to come out DVD and Blu-Ray around September 25th.
The 4 disc 3D blu-ray combogasm set:
Audio Commentary with Director Joss Whedon Marvel One Shot: Item 147 Second Screen Gag Reel Deleted Scenes Alternate Opening – Maria Hill Interrogation Extended Scene – Loki & Barton Strategize Steve Rogers – Man out of Time Nick Fury & World Security Council Extended Viaduct Fight – Raw Footage Fury & Hill discuss World Security Council Extended Scene – Banner & Security Guard Alternate »
- Andy Greene
DVD Review: Clever First Season of MTV Hit ‘Teen Wolf’
10 hours ago | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »
Chicago – Having suffered through countless knock-offs of the “Twilight” and “True Blood” phenomena, I was kind of dreading MTV’s “Teen Wolf.” Haven’t we been here before? And way too often? So I’m more surprised than anyone to report that this “Buffy”-esque drama/comedy/horror show is pretty damn good. It’s not as landmark as the Joss Whedon creation that so clearly inspired it but it’s much closer than anyone could have predicted in terms of quality. Funny, smart, and often quite clever, check out “Teen Wolf: Season One,” now on DVD.
Teen Wolf: Season One was released on DVD on May 22, 2012
Photo credit: MGM/UA
DVD Rating: 3.5/5.0
Synopsis:
From Prison Break executive producer Marty Adelstein comes an electrifying, action-packed series, with a cast of hot new stars! Scott McCall (Tyler Posey) just wants to play lacrosse and land a date with beautiful »
- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
The Week in Spandex - The Dark Knight Rises, The Amazing Spider-Man, The Avengers, Iron Man 3, Thor 2, Kick-Ass 2 and The Hoff: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.
12 hours ago | Flickeringmyth | See recent Flickeringmyth news »
Our weekly round-up of all the big news stories from the world of movie superheroes…
Having made way for Disney's marketing blitz on The Avengers these past couple of months, Warner Bros. stepped up the promotional campaign for Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Rises in a big way this week, flooding the world wide web with a host of Bat-related goodies. It began with a new theatrical poster, and while this left some fans underwhelmed, the studio more than made amends over the next few days, starting with six character posters showcasing Batman (Christian Bale), Bane (Tom Hardy) and Selina Kyle (Anne Hathaway), along with a 'secret' Catwoman design that was discovered tucked away on the official website. Of course, this was just the beginning, and soon we had two new TV spots consisting of snippets of previously unseen footage, in addition to a whole raft of images featuring Bruce Wayne / Batman, »
- flickeringmyth
Kevin Feige Promises "A Major New Antagonist" In Thor 2 And Debunks Thanos Speculation
12 hours ago | ComicBookMovie.com | See recent ComicBookMovie news »
In the latest issue of Empire Magazine, Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige has shared his thoughts on the massive box office success of The Avengers (which just yesterday became the fastest film to gross $500 million domestically). "I was just hoping it would beat the opening weekend of Iron Man 2, which was the biggest opening weekend for any Marvel Studios movie. We did 80 or 90 million above that. As the numbers started coming in on Friday night, Saturday night, Sunday night, they just kept getting bigger and bigger, into areas I would never in a million years have believed." The Avengers was not the finale for us," he reiterates, making it clear that Joss Whedon's superhero ensemble is far from the conclusion of everything the studio has been working towards. "It was a giant, giant marker, but it was never the finale. We are already well into the plan for »
The HeyUGuys UK DVD/Blu-Ray Release Round-Up – 28th May
13 hours ago | HeyUGuys.co.uk | See recent HeyUGuys news »
Last week saw the release of Alexander Payne’s Oscar-winning The Descendants and Steven Soderbergh’s Haywire, and this week brings to our shelves the other big winner at the Academy Awards three months ago, Michel Hazanavicius’ The Artist, alongside (as ever) a slew of other brilliant films.
In tandem with the Universal 100th Anniversary Editions that have already started rolling out, Play begin releasing their exclusive Blu-ray Steelbooks of some of the films this week, and if you’re a fan of Universal’s recent and classic catalogue, you’ll definitely want to invest in more than a few of these, priced at a very reasonable £9.99. There’ll be more of these in the weeks and months to come, as well as non-100th Anniversary Steelbook re-releases, so keep your eyes peeled.
My personal picks of the week:
Drake Doremus’ Like Crazy & Sean Durkin’s Martha Marcy May Marlene »
- Kenji Lloyd
The Time Is Right For A Big Screen "Buffy" Movie From Joss Whedon
27 May 2012 5:30 PM, PDT | Horrorbid | See recent Horrorbid news »
As a fan of Joss Whedon's influential Buffy the Vampire Slayer TV series, I have long hoped that we might one day get to see a big screen movie that reunited the cast from the show. My hopes have been dashed time and again, first when I encountered quotes from Sarah Michelle Gellar indicating a marked antipathy towards returning to the role that made her a star. As recently as November of last year, Gellar claimed that she would only play Buffy a… »
Box Office: ‘Men in Black 3′ Wins The Weekend, But ‘The Avengers’ Are Still The Story
27 May 2012 3:03 PM, PDT | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »
Even though Will Smith, Josh Brolin, Tommy Lee Jones and the rest of the Men in Black III crew have serious reason to celebrate this Memorial Day weekend, beyond the fact that living in America grants them the freedom to make cartoonish movies about time traveling space alien bugs and the threats they pose to Earth’s security, they are at the beginning of their moneymaking journey. Joss Whedon and Marvel’s The Avengers, on the other hand, is full-steam ahead and knocking down seemingly every record in its path. When the dust settles, it will be MiB3 standing as the first film to topple The Avengers, bringing in $55 million in its Friday-to-Sunday run, with one more day left in the holiday weekend. Sony Pictures estimates the Will Smith-led family film will have notched in the area of $70 million domestically and $202 million worldwide over the four-day weekend, making it the second film of the summer to »
- Neil Miller
Review: Teen Wolf Season One
27 May 2012 2:06 PM, PDT | Comicmix.com | See recent Comicmix news »
The challenge in producing a teen-centric horror television show is that it will inevitably be compared to Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Joss Whedon was note perfect with the casting and theme of high school is a horror movie. It takes a brave showrunner to come up with a variation that avoids duplication and can withstand the comparison. MTV, once the home for teen centric music videos, has gone from reality television to scripted series so it made sense that sooner or later they’d dip a claw into the horror genre. What few expected was how successful they would be.
The 1985 Michal J. Fox comedy Teen Wolf was a largely entertaining film capitalizing on the actor’s immense popularity from NBC’s Family Ties and certainly had a theme worthy of adaptation into weekly television. In both the film and the series, a teen encounters a werewolf and becomes one. »
- Robert Greenberger
Mib 3 Finally Overthrows The Avengers
27 May 2012 10:53 AM, PDT | Beyond Hollywood | See recent Beyond Hollywood news »
It took Big Willy and his trademark Memorial Day opening to finally knock “The Avengers” off their box office perch. In its fourth week of release, Joss Whedon’s superhero team-up was finally bested, falling to second place with another estimated $38 million over the weekend. “Men in Black 3″, the third film starring Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones (and this time joined by Josh Brolin as a younger version of Jones), opened in first place as expected with $55 million, though still taking in well below industry expectations. Now in its fourth week, Marvel’s “The Avengers” has crossed $500 million so far in domestic box office ($513 million to be exact), and $1.29 billion worldwide. That puts it 4th on the list of All-Time Worldwide earners, just behind “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2″. With only $33 million between it and “Potter”, there’s no stopping “The Avengers” from taking over third »
- Nix
Men In Black 3 Tops Weekend Box Over The Avengers As Moonrise Kingdom Posts Gargantuan Per-Theatre Average
27 May 2012 8:05 AM, PDT | Upcoming-Movies.com | See recent Upcoming-Movies.com news »
Avengers loses top spot at box office to Men in Black 3 Sony's Men in Black III comedy sci-fi pic starring Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones and Josh Brolin, posted a first-place gross of $55 million from 4,248 venues on its debut weekend. The Barry Sonnenfeld film also starring Emma Thompson, Alice Eve, Jermaine Clement, Michael Stuhlbarg, Bill Hader and David Rasche, averaged $12,947 per theatre. M.I.B. 3 Weekend Stats By Day: - Friday: $17.9 million. - Saturday: $19.4 million. - Sunday: $17.6 million. In second Marvel's The Avengers added $36.9 million on its fourth weekend at the box office, taking its domestic cume to over $513.7 million. Overseas, the Joss Whedon film starring Robert Downey, Jr., Chris Hemsworth, Chris Evans, Tom Hiddleston, Mark Ruffalo, Scarlett Johansson and Samuel L. Jackson has now coined over $781.6 million, that's a worldwide cume of $1.285 billion thus far. »
Box Office: Marvel's The Avengers Becomes The Quickest To Reach $500M
27 May 2012 7:56 AM, PDT | ComicBookMovie.com | See recent ComicBookMovie news »
@ERCboxoffice (Exhibitor Relations) reports that Marvel's The Avengers has become the quickest film to reach $500 million in North America. The previous record was held by James Cameron's 3D epic, Avatar, which hit the $500 million mark in 32 days. The Avengers did it in just 23 (so that's yet Another record the Joss Whedon helmed film has broken then). Despite facing stiff competition in the form of Men in Black 3, it is still expected to make $47.1 million this four day holiday, taking its current total up to $523 million. Overseas, it currently sits at $781 million, resulting in a worldwide gross of $1.295 billion. That puts The Avengers well on track to take Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2's #3 spot on the all-time list of highest grossing movies. Meanwhile, Men in Black 3 has opened to an expected domestic weekend gross of $70 million (considerably less »
Box Office: Chernobyl Diaries Implodes, Exotic Marigold Hotel Expands
26 May 2012 5:14 PM, PDT | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel: Judi Dench, Celia Imrie At no. 2 on Friday, The Avengers took in $9.68m at 3,918 locations. The Marvel actioner is expected to earn $45m over the four-day weekend. Directed by Joss Whedon, The Avengers stars Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth, Jeremy Renner, Scarlett Johansson, Mark Ruffalo, and Robert Downey Jr. Massacred by critics, Chernobyl Diaries opened with about $3.54m (including $525k from Thursday midnight screenings) at 2,433 sites. That’s a weak beginning for the horror flick co-written and produced by Oren Peli, best known for the Paranormal Activity sleeper hit. Chernobyl Diaries is expected to reach only $10m-11m by Monday evening. [See also: Box Office: Will Smith / Tommy Lee Jones' Men In Black 3 Way Behind Men In Black, MIB2.] Directed by former visual-effects artist Bradley Parker (Let Me In, Peter Pan, The Time Machine), Chernobyl Diaries features Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked voice actor Jesse McCartney, Live Free or Die Hard‘s Jonathan Sadowski, Olivia Dudley, Devin Kelley, Nathan Phillips, Dimitri Diatchenko, and Ingrid Bolsø Berdal. »
- Zac Gille
British cartoonist Matt is a fan of Modern Family
26 May 2012 2:28 PM, PDT | Shadowlocked | See recent Shadowlocked news »
The Daily Telegraph cartoonist Matt is a fan of Modern Family. In the Review section of last week’s paper, on Friday 25 May, he said:
“When the current series of this brilliant family sitcom finishes tonight, I’ll have to satisfy my craving with DVDs of old episodes”.
Yes, that's right, this news isn't from the internet, but from words printed on paper (not printed out from the internet). You know, like they had in the olden days. This seems deeply weird. ("Where is the link? The link to the news? I need a link to click on...!") But what's even weirder is the fact that, twenty years ago, people would have been like, "What's the internet?"
Anyway, here is a link for clicking on; not to the news itself, but to some of Matt's recent cartoons on The Daily Telegraph website. They're topical, so you'd probably need to be »
Early Box Office: 'Men In Black 3' Beats 'Avengers'
26 May 2012 8:32 AM, PDT | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
"Men In Black 3" did what "Battleship" and "Dark Shadows" could not: dethrone "The Avengers" from the top spot of the box office.
The Will Smith-led threequel opened with $17.5 million on Friday night, roughly $8 million more than "The Avengers" earned. That puts "Men In Black 3" on track for around $75 million over the long Memorial Day weekend, which would give it the eighth biggest Memorial Day gross ever.
Of course, that doesn't mean "Men In Black 3" didn't disappoint. According to Deadline.com, many expected the film to earn around $90 million over the weekend; "Men In Black 3" -- which had a lengthy production process and cost well over $200 million -- could still come close to that goal, should it play well with family audiences over the next three days.
Overseas, "Men In Black 3" could grab an additional $100 million over more.
Meanwhile, "Marvel's The Avengers" continues to impress despite losing its box-office crown. »
- The Huffington Post
Box Office: Chernobyl Diaries Bombs
26 May 2012 3:22 AM, PDT | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Chernobyl Diaries: Devin Kelley, Olivia Dudley, Jesse McCartney Massacred by critics, Chernobyl Diaries opened with about $3m at the North American box office on Friday (including $525k from Thursday midnight screenings) at 2,433 sites. That’s a weak beginning for the horror flick co-written and produced by Oren Peli, best known for the first Paranormal Activity movie. Chernobyl Diaries is expected to reach only $11m by Monday evening. [See also: Will Smith / Tommy Lee Jones' Men In Black 3 Disappoints: Box Office.] Directed by former visual-effects artist Bradley Parker (Let Me In, Peter Pan, The Time Machine), Chernobyl Diaries features Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked voice actor Jesse McCartney, Live Free or Die Hard‘s Jonathan Sadowski, Olivia Dudley, Devin Kelley, Nathan Phillips, Dimitri Diatchenko, and Ingrid Bolsø Berdal. Carey Van Dyke and Shane Van Dyke were Oren Peli’s Chernobyl Diaries co-screenwriters. Chernobyl Diaries has an 18% approval rating among Rotten Tomatoes‘ top critics, and a 4/10 average. Also worth noting is that the horror flick had a “low budget, »
- Zac Gille
The Avengers Tops Star Wars: The Phantom Menace As #4 Film Of All Time In Us
25 May 2012 4:11 PM, PDT | ComicBookMovie.com | See recent ComicBookMovie news »
Everyone knew that The Avengers will be big at the box office. Well, almost everyone. But no one knew it would be this big. It's a monster going towards every single film for the last three weeks and crushing them with ease. Rival studios are going crazy because the Joss Whedon-directed film became a four-quadrant movie and it received a rare A+ CinemaScore. Men In Black 3 might take the #1 spot this weekend, but one thig is for sure: The Avengers will break $500M mark by Monday. Today, the film has officially topped Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace, and became fourth highest-grossing film of all time in Us. Above is the updated list of records The Avengers currently holds, and it will probably break a couple of more. It will be interesting to see where will the film stop, but as of now, it has made »
Weekly Whedon: Bored? Try A 'Buffy' Book!
25 May 2012 12:30 PM, PDT | MTV Splash Page | See recent MTV Splash Page news »
by Tami Katzoff
Do an amazon.com search for books with the words “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” in the title, and you get more than 1,500 results. Aside from novels and comics, there are official and unofficial show guides, books on “Buffy” and philosophy, “Buffy” and psychology, “Buffy” and religion, and at least one “Buffy” songbook.
There are old books and new books. One of the newest is called “The Gentleviewer’s Obsessive Guide to Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” by Kathleen Mattson. As the title suggests, the author, who owns a technical marketing company in Portland, Oregon, is an obsessive viewer of the show. She is, in fact, “a little obsessive about everything.”
Mattson came to “Buffy” a bit late, after first being a fan of “Firefly.” Once she was hooked, she started to diligently gather data. “I’d be watching an episode and I’d keep careful note of which »
- Splash Page Team
Comic Book Bites: Dwayne Johnson for Lobo; Enchantress in Thor 2; Ant-Man imminent; Ms Marvel may take flight
25 May 2012 3:42 AM, PDT | The Geek Files | See recent The Geek Files news »
While Marvel's careful world-building has paid off at the box office with its current culmination in the record-breaking Avengers, the page-to-screen journey of DC characters via Warner Bros has been far more haphazard.
Aside from Nolan's Batman saga, Green Lantern didn't glow; Wonder Woman went from Paradise Island to development hell (executives catastrophically failed to support Joss Whedon's efforts to write and direct an adaptation); The Flash isn't running anywhere; and a Justice League film was disbanded.
So what is Warner Bros offering instead? Journey 2: The Mysterious Island filmmaker Brad Peyton is to write and direct an adaptation of superhuman bounty hunter Lobo, who was created as an indictment of antiheroes like Wolverine and Punisher but instead caught on as a cult favourite.
He has no household recognition, of course, but a recent rumor seems to give the concept a bit more clout by suggesting Dwayne 'The Rock' »
- Michael Pellegrini
Motion Picture Purgatory: The Cabin in the Woods
24 May 2012 3:46 PM, PDT | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »
In this week's installment of Mpp, Trembles takes on The Cabin in the Woods as only he can. Just beware in case you haven't seen it yet - there are a few spoilers in his review.
The Cabin in the Woods stars Kristen Connolly, Chris Hemsworth, Anna Hutchison, Fran Kranz, Jesse Williams, Richard Jenkins, and Bradley Whitford. Drew Goddard directs from a screenplay written by him and Joss Whedon.
Synopsis
Five friends go to a remote cabin in the woods. Bad things happen. If you think you know this story, think again. From fan favorites Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard comes The Cabin In The Woods, a mind-blowing horror film that turns the genre inside out.
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Box Office: Men In Black 3 Looks Set Take The #1 Spot From The Avengers
24 May 2012 2:24 PM, PDT | ComicBookMovie.com | See recent ComicBookMovie news »
Marvel's The Avengers is still doing great both domestically and overseas, but The Hollywood Reporter reveals that Men in Black 3 will be the film that finally takes back the #1 spot after a solid few weeks for Joss Whedon's superhero ensemble at the top. The threequel (which had a whopping $230 million budget) looks set to dominate the Memorial Day holiday with an expected four-day gross of between $80 million and $90 million. Some analysts are even predicting $100 million. It's thought that it will also have no trouble taking around $200 million internationally. The Avengers has so far grossed $472.2 million domestically and $747.4 million internationally, steadily moving up the list of all-time highest grossing movies. It is currently on track for the #4 or #3 spot depending on how well it does over the next few weeks. Be sure to check out my 4* review of Men in »
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