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Up In The Air, Iron Man 2, Shutter Island and Last Airbender Promo Posters
Posted on Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009 by Peter Sciretta
Cinema Expo International 2009 is being held in Amsterdam this week and Film1 has snapped a bunch of photos of some of the promotional posters on display on the show floor. Let me give you full disclosure: these posters are usually just marketing mockups, and some of the time the eventual public teaser posters look completely different. That said, the style is sometimes dead on, so don’t be surprised if you see something like these one-sheets in your local multiplex soon. After the jump I’ve included the promo posters for Jason Reitman’s Up in the Air, M Night Shyamalan’s The Last Airbender, Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island and Jon Favreau’s Iron Man 2.
Back in April, Attack of the Show co-host Olivia Munn revealed on Twitter that she has been cast in two upcoming movies: One is the upcoming Steve Carell/Tina Fey comedy Date Night, and the other is some project that she was working out for but wasn’t “legally” allowed to publicly discuss yet. It turns out that she has a role in Jon Favreau’s Iron Man 2. No word on how large of a role she might play. I assume that she’ll probably be in one or two scenes, possibly as a television announcer. Munn said on Twitter that her role is “definitely” bigger than her one minute appearance in Rob Schneider’s Big Stan.
Update: Munn later commented on our story on her twitter account:
slashfilm took a guess at my role in iron man 2 and i am not playing a reporter. but that’s all i can say. :)
We’ve featured Munn previously on the site in one of Zombieland director Ruben Fleischer’s short films. Munn is also featured on the cover of the July/August issue of Playboy Magazine. You can watch Olivia unviel the cover on her show, Attack of the Show, embedded after the jump.
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How Are The First Two Iron Man 2 Photos Connected?
Posted on Thursday, June 11th, 2009 by Peter Sciretta
How are the first two official photos from Iron Man 2 possibly connected? Details after the jump.
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First Look: Mickey Rourke as Whiplash in Iron Man 2
Posted on Tuesday, June 9th, 2009 by Peter Sciretta
Paramount Pictures has released the first photo of Mickey Rourke as Ivan Vanko aka Whiplash at the Monaco Historic Grand Prix from Iron Man 2. See the full photo after the jump.
Marvel Updates: Bucky in Captain America, Two-Sided Johansson, Another Movie for 2012
Posted on Sunday, June 7th, 2009 by Peter Sciretta
FirstShowing attended the Producer Guild of America’s panel on Producing Marvel Movies where Marvel Entertainment producer Kevin Feige revealed a couple interesting bits about upcoming film projects:
- It’s a “safe bet” that Steve Roger’s sidekick Bucky is going to show up in The First Avenger: Captain America.
AICN have posted a batch of new promotional images and posters from the Licensing Show in Las Vegas, including a promotional poster for Spider-Man 4, a generic Iron Man 2 character banner and a poster featuring Shrek and Donkey for Shrek Forever After.
But the thing that caught my attention was the first promotional art for DreamWorks Animation’s Oobermind. Maybe just because we havent seen any of these character designs before. This is the superhero project being produced by Ben Stiller, formerly titled Master Mind. I’ve cleaned up some of the images and posted them after the jump. Head on over to AICN to see the promotional art in higher resolution.
New Marvel Movie Logos and Scott Pilgrim vs. The World Teaser Poster
Posted on Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009 by Peter Sciretta
A bunch of cool artwork is on display at the Las Vegas Licensing International Expo, including the first promotional poster for Edgar Wright’s big screen adaptation of Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, and updated logos for the four upcoming Marvel productions: Iron Man 2, Thor, The First Avenger: Captain America and The Avengers which have popped up over at AICN.
I’ve cleaned up the photos of the Marvel logos and Scott Pilgrim poster (corrected aspect, color corrected, sharpened…etc) and have included them after the jump. Head on over to AICN for the original higher resolution snapshots. They also have snaps of posters for Gore Verbinski’s animated Rango starring Johnny Depp, DreamWorks Animation’s How To Train Your Dragon, and Steve Carell’s Despicable Me. Head on over to AICN for more.
Mickey Rourke Talks About Whiplash’s Iron Man 2 Suit
Posted on Thursday, May 28th, 2009 by Peter Sciretta
Empire got the chance to talk to Mickey Rourke about his role as Tony Stark’s new nemesis in the Marvel comic book sequel Iron Man 2.
“I’m having the time of my life!” he enthused about joining the Iron Man franchise. “It’s been really brutal, because my Iron Man suit weighs 23lb. It’s sort of a half-suit, with half my skin showing, with lots of Russian tattoos, because [Whiplash is just] out of a Russian-zone prison.”
Rourke even visited the Butyrka prison as research for the role. The character is said to incorporate elements of Crimson Dynamo from the comics. I’m assuming that they did this in order to use Dynamo’s Russian background to connect the character with Black Widow, who’s also Russian. Iron Man 2 has just reached the half-way point of principal photography. The film will hit theaters on May 7th 2010.
I’m posting this because I sincerely believe what we have here is bona fide. Latino Review have today received via e-mail an image that they were told is concept art from Iron Man 2. I’ve posted a bit of it up above, alongside the picture of Mickey Rourke who will be playing the character in the movie, and you can also get a look at the full thing below the break.
I’m still quite confused as to whether or not Rourke’s character is to be called Whiplash. Some sources tell me he’s playing Blacklash, while others comment on how he’s a Russian character and that makes it likely he’s The Crymson Dynamo. Indeed, he’s certainly dressed in red armor in this concept illustration. I’m hoping that he’s not called any of these things, in fact, and has an actual name like an actual person.
Iron Man 2 Set Photo: Robert Downey Jr in The Suit
Posted on Thursday, May 7th, 2009 by Peter Sciretta
Last night we wrote about Iron Man 2 shooting at Randy’s Donuts in Inglewood, a famous LA landmark. Samuel L Jackson, reprising his role as Nick Fury, bursts onto the scene and begins yelling up to Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr), who is laying in the middle of the gigantic donut on the roof. People.com has gotten a photo of Downey Jr dressed partly in his Iron Man gear, laying in the donut hole in between shots.
Black Widow and Nick Fury Make Iron Man 2 Debut; and a Boring Set Photo
Posted on Thursday, May 7th, 2009 by Peter Sciretta
Jon Favreau has posted a new Iron Man 2 set photo on his Twitter account. Not much to see, just some on location filming at a famous LA landmark called Randy’s Donuts in Inglewood. Favreau revealed on the microblogging service that he was filming “the first scene with Tony Stark and Nick Fury.” Collider received word that the scene involved a blue government car racing up to the donut store, Samuel L Jackson, in the same long black trench coat from the first film, gets out and yells up at “the donut hole on the roof” where Iron Man would likely be inserted.
Scarlett Johansson, who plays Natasha Romanoff in the sequel, also shot her first scene in the Black Widow outfit earlier in the day (most likely on a stage). Favreau tweeted that “You’ve never heard a crew get so quiet so fast.” I’m sure…
If there’s one thing you need to know about ‘certain’ British newspapers its that they like their sources anonymous and, at least half of the time I suspect, completely non existent. Bear that in mind as you consider this oddity from The Daily Mail - even though this one actually seems to have some basis in reality to me.
This weekend, Mail journalist Kate Nicholl has milked an entire piece from the fact that Gwyneth Paltrow has been visiting the gym. Even worse, she’s tricked me into doing the same thing. According to Nicholl, Paltrow was working out in order to “make sure she was in perfect shape for a risqué scene in the movie Iron Man 2.”
The Mail’s description of this utterly crazy sounding “risqué scene” after the break, so that those afraid of spoilers can steer clear. And, actually, I think I know just how it might be true, and might be a little spoiler too…
