Welcome back from the weekend, everyone. We’ve got some quick superhero bits and pieces to kick off your week.
Captain America: The First Avenger star Chris Evans revealed in an interview that his character would be getting a new costume for the upcoming The Avengers film, due out 2012. This isn’t a huge surprise, seeing as this summer’s Captain America film takes place in the World War II era and next summer’s The Avengers takes place in the modern day — some updates were probably inevitable. But Evans’ talking about the new costume might indicate that the Avengers costume is significantly different from the familiar red, white and blue one we’ve already seen from The First Avenger. Evans didn’t reveal much else about what the new costume would actually look like, though he did say it was “awesome,” “really cool,” and “pretty rad.” [MTV via Movieline]
Hit the jump for tidbits on X-Men: First Class and Amazing Spider-Man.
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Marc Webb‘s 3D Spider-Man reboot The Amazing Spider-Man won’t hit theaters for almost a year and a half, yet Sony has already ordered development of a sequel. Columbia Pictures has hired screenwriter James Vanderbilt to pen a follow-up. THR reports that Vanderbilt “had a meeting with the Spider-Man filmmakers and studio execs yesterday outlining his take, getting a thumbs up, and will now begin writing.”
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In case that mouthful of a headline didn’t tip you off, we have a plethora of comic book movie news to sort through, so let’s get cracking. After the break, you’ll find an update on the new 3D technology being used for The Amazing Spider-Man, Chris Hemsworth‘s response to the first cut of Thor, news on Ray Stevenson‘s potential reprisal of the role of Frank Castle for the The Punisher franchise, final talks of Summit Entertainment acquiring the feature rights to the comic Crosshair, a teaser trailer, new images and a poster for the upcoming X-Men anime, and Stan Lee‘s deposition for the ongoing Kirby family vs. Marvel court case. Read More »
We’ve featured a bunch of Patrick Boivin’s videos in past editions of Video of the Day, including AT-AT Day Afternoon, a Batman vs. Hellboy movie trailer mash-up, Iron Man vs. Bruce Lee, Bumblebee’s stop-motion animated dance and Boba Fett’s stop-motion Mandalorian Dance. The French Canadian director has just released his newest creation, a stop-motion animated action figure short titled “Black Widow Gone Wild.” The short takes an action figure of Scarlett Johansson as Black Widow and pits her against some of movies biggest stars, Whiplash, the t1000, Rocky, Michael Jackson, Superman, Batman, Jack Bauer, Predator and Spider-Man. And what if Black Widow was War Machine? Watch the short embedded after the jump.
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One way to frame a question that comes to mind with new quotes from Avi Arad about The Amazing Spider-Man would be: is the film a total reboot or not? Quick answer: yes, it is a reboot. New actors, story that goes back to a younger version of the character, significantly different details about the character. That all adds up to reboot. So this is something that probably shouldn’t even have to be a discussion, but because it’s Friday, let’s indulge. See what Mr. Arad has to say about the film, after the break. Read More »
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The Sony-owned Columbia Pictures has finally announced a proper title for Marc Webb‘s 3D Spider-Man reboot starring Andrew Garfield. The title will be… “The Amazing Spider-Man“. What do you think of the new title? It turns out that I predicted the new title 12 months ago, when the film was first announced (see here). Not a tough guess however considering Marvel launched “The Amazing Spider-Man” comic book series in 1963. It was either going to be that, “Spectacular Spider-Man” or “Ultimate Spider-Man” — and I’m sure we all can agree that the “Amazing” title is much better.
Sony has also released the first photo of Andrew Garfield in the new Spider-Man costume, head to toe, mask on. What do you think? Read the full press release and see the new official photo, after the jump.
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What is Page 2? Page 2 is a compilation of stories and news tidbits, which for whatever reason, didn’t make the front page of /Film. After the jump we’ve included 31 different items, fun images, videos, casting tidbits, articles of interest and more. It’s like a mystery grab bag of movie web related goodness. If you have any interesting items that we might’ve missed that you think should go in /Film’s Page 2 – email us!
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