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ABC Is Set To Make ‘The Hulk’ A TV Show In 2013

Travis Woods — Tue, 15 May 2012 18:57:05 +0000

Despite writer-director Joss Whedon’s gift for florid and witty wordplay for powerful actors, ironically, the breakout star of Whedon’s Avengers was a CGI Hulk who utters exactly two words (amidst some grunting and yelling) throughout the film’s two and a half hour running time. Positive fan reaction to the Hulk has been so strong that Marvel has announced they may repeal their “No More Hulk Movies” policy, and now, ABC is pushing to make the Hulk the star of his own TV show.

There has been a long-discussed plan for ABC to broadcast its own Hulk show for some time now, with Guillermo del Toro producing. However that plan appears to have laid dormant for some time. Until now, it seems.

During the ABC upfront presentations today, ABC entertainment president Paul Lee stated that he wants “some Marvel projects come to television,” which, given Marvel’s current dominion over the box office, audiences, and pop culture itself, makes sense.

As for the big green guy, Lee stated that Hulk wasn’t quite ready for the 2012 season—but that he should be shirt and pants a-ripping by 2013. “Hulk is in development,” he continued. “It wasn’t going to be ready this season but we hope it’s going to be ready for next season.”

Very little is known in terms of what the Hulk show would consist of—will it take place in the Marvel films continuity? Will it be set in its own serialized world, a la the original show? Would Mark Ruffalo be willing to star? Looks like we’ll have to wait until 2013 to find out.

Would you watch a Hulk TV show (again)?

Source: THR

Interview: ‘The Avengers’ Cast Talks Pressure, Power and Expectations

Krystal Clark — Thu, 03 May 2012 21:00:24 +0000

After four years, five films, and countless castings, The Avengers have finally assembled. In less than 24 hours, anxious fans will see Iron Man, Thor, Captain America, Hulk, Black Widow and Hawkeye fight side-by-side on the big screen. The Avengers Hollywood premiere took place last month, and immediately after, the cast participated in a press conference where they dished on their characters and each other.

Check out some highlights below…

It all began in 2007, when Robert Downey, Jr. was cast as genius, billionaire, playboy philanthropist Tony Stark in Iron Man. The film planted a seed that would grow and spread into the next Marvel films, leading to this cinematic event.

Robert Downey Jr.: Going back to 2007 when I was cast in Iron Man and Kevin Feige over there said, you know, this is all going to lead to where we’re going to have all of these franchises come together. And, we’re gonna do something unprecedented in entertainment. We’re gonna make this Avengers movie. And I just remember, I would get nervous about it and excited about it and doubtful of it.

Initially, director Joss Whedon shared Downey’s nervousness. He knew The Avengers would be a huge undertaking, and wanted audiences to be satisfied with the finished product.

Joss Whedon: I think the exciting thing kind of speaks for itself. That bunch of characters,that bunch of actors playing them,that much money. It was kind of a no brainer. The hardest part is and always will be structure. How do you put that together? How do you make everybody shine? How do you let the audience’s identification drift from person to person without making them feel like they’re not involved. It’s a very complex structure. It’s not necessarily particularly ornate or original, but it had to be right. It had to be earned from moment-to-moment, and that’s exhausting. That was still going on in the editing room after we’d shot.

No one knows about trying to identify more than Mark Ruffalo. The actor had the tough task of replacing Edward Norton, who played Bruce Banner in 2008′s The Incredible Hulk. After being cast, Ruffalo quickly learned how harsh and critical the fanboy community can be.

Mark Ruffalo: It was terrifying. I knew what my responsibility was — or I felt it just by making the mistake of going online and reading some of the fanboy responses to the announcement that I was playing the next version of Bruce Banner. That was a mistake. I will never do that again. I’ve never had a role be more scrutinized and criticized even before I shot a single frame. Coming onto the set with all of these guys was pretty daunting. I knew that I had big shoes to fill, so to speak.

Ruffalo wasn’t alone in feeling out of his element. Chris Evans, who plays Captain America, also had to switch it up. The majority of the film’s jokes are handed off to his counterparts, while he delivers earnest dialogue. As someone who’s spent the majority of his career playing smartasses (like Johnny Storm in Fantastic Four), Cap was a welcomed change.

Chris Evans: That’s his role. It’s necessary, and that’s kind of why I like it ’cause I am used to kind of leaning on cracking jokes and being a wise ass. It’s nice to kind of play it straight a little bit. You know, that’s — I think even in this film more than the first Captain America, he, Steve Rogers has some issues, some conflict, some trouble given the fact that he is, a man out of his time. But given who he is as a man, his nature, he puts that second. He puts the mission first, and he’s just selfless.

Chris Hemsworth‘s Thor couldn’t be more different from Captain America. In his first film, he was forced to eat a huge slice of humble pie because of his arrogance. And even though he’s learned the error of his ways, Hemsworth believes Thor’s stubbornness is one of his best qualities.

Chris Hemsworth: I like the sort of visceral, gut instinct that Thor has. I always thought the childlike quality in the sense that if he believes something or, he wants to do something, he does it and says it. You know how kids own their environment and there’s no opinions that they really care about. I think Thor is — it’s there. It’s surrounded by bravado and strength and all that, but end of the day he’s pretty true to who he is and what he wants to do.

Thor will have plenty of time to show off his strength and bravado when he (once again) goes head-to-head with his brother Loki. As the film’s villain, Tom Hiddleston has the honor of battling not one but six of Earth’s Mightiest Heroes. It’s a fact the actor has a hard time wrapping his head around.

Tom Hiddleston: It’s such a great character. It’s like playing an iconic Shakespearean character or something. It’s just a privilege to be asked to do it. With a character like Loki, he’s got such a level of complexity and so many layers to him. When I read it, I couldn’t believe my luck. The film was called The Avengers and yet Loki was almost on every page. I just was so excited about it, so I was, there was no trace of fear, just a huge amount of fun.

Two-time Oscar-nominee Jeremy Renner had an interesting way of preparing for his role as Hawkeye. As the team’s master archer, he does things with a bow and arrow Katniss Everdeen (The Hunger Games) and Legolos (Lord of the Rings) could only dream of.

Jeremy Renner: I stretched a lot, and I prepared by stretching. I did take some archery, but I realized very quickly that I couldn’t really use it in the film. It ended up being superhero type archery. It is nice to know the technique behind it but then, you know, shooting behind my back and over my shoulder and using fake arrows and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. I gave it a go and shot a few bales of hay and missed a few. And yeah, you get injured, banged around every day when it’s hand-to-hand stuff.

Cobie Smulders, who’s best known for starring on CBS’ How I Met Your Mother, opened up about making the transition from TV to film.

Cobie Smulders: I made it a point to do a lot of training to prepare myself for this role with weapons and to get myself mainly comfortable using them. That was the thing that I tried to do the most. In terms of schedule, it’s very different. I’m very blessed at my job at How I Met Your Mother. We have a very nice schedule,and this too was,very good. But we had a lot of stunts to do and a lot of fun things to explode, so it’s very different.

As the director of S.H.I.E.L.D. and foreman of The Avengers, Samuel L. Jackson revealed what he really loves about his character. And why Fury is dead-set on making this team work.

Samuel L. Jackson: I just like the fact that Nick Fury believes that these unique individuals deserve the love and admiration of the world. We pretty much owe everything to [The Avengers] because there are things out there greater than us.

The Avengers opens nationwide May 4.

The Avengers: Movie Review

Damon Houx — Wed, 02 May 2012 21:00:13 +0000

The Avengers is here, and it’s the film Marvel has been planting the seeds for since Iron Man hits screens in 2008. In that time we’ve had films featuring Hulk, Thor, and Captain America to help get audiences in the mood and in the know about these characters. And knowing the characters is important for Joss Whedon’s film, because character development and – for the most part – motivation is kept to a minimum. You’ve got an all–star cast facing evil, and it all builds to a blockbuster conclusion. But too bad it’s such a rocky ride to get there.

The Players:

Written and Directed By: Joss Whedon
Starring: Robert Downey Jr., Tom Hiddleston, Chris Evans, Samuel L. Jackson, Mark Ruffalo, Scarlet Johansson, Jeremy Renner, Colbie Smulders, Clark Gregg
Music By: Alan Silvestri
Cinematography by Seamus McGarvey

The Plot:

Loki (Hiddleston) is sent back to earth to find the Tesseract (which will open a portal for invasion), and has the power to turn humans into slaves. He invades SHIELD headquarters, and that sends Nick Fury (Jackson) Agent Coulson (Gregg) and Black Widow (Johansson) to gather Captain America (Evans) Iron Man (Downey Jr.) and the Hulk (Ruffalo) to help stop Loki. Eventually – along with Hawkeye (Renner) – they become a team to fight the alien invasion (the Chitauri).

The Good:

That Third Act: New York is in the crosshairs, as The Avengers must stop an oncoming horde of aliens from taking over the planet. This is what you paid to see and it delivers some great moments of the Avengers fighting bad guys and doing cool stuff. The Hulk is a stand out here.
The Cast: It’s hard to be as excited about some of the returning actors who are doing their well-defined characters, but this is a muderer’s row of talent, and it’s the people who get something new to do who shine. Johansson gives as good as she gets, and has some of the best moments in the film, while Mark Ruffalo as Banner and as Hulk steals the movie.
Quips: It’s Joss Whedon, and they’re mostly funny.

The Bad:

Marvel: This is the big film they’ve been building to for years, and they decided with this one that they were going to shoot it flat (1.85:1) – instead of scope (2.35:1) as they have every film they’ve been behind previous. Not only does that break continuity, but it robs the film of an epic feel. It makes the movie that much smaller. On top of which it’s just a very small feeling film. Not intimate, but none of the early set pieces feel epic. Everything comes across as if it was done on a budget until New York – and even then that’s kept contained.
Nothing to Do: Loki shows up and then gets arrested in a sequence that lays out what little is going on under the surface of this movie (good versus evil, maybe a little anti-fascism) and spends the middle section of the movie waiting for things to happen. Captain America is here because he’s a soldier, and does nothing in the film all that memorable, while Tony Stark also seems to be here because they asked him (and because he’s a little curious about SHIELD himself), same with Bruce Banner. Black Widow and Hawkeye are company men, and Thor joins the group just because – and this was Nick Fury’s big plan? To have people like Thor just show up? No one is acting like they’re trying to stop the end of the world, and the moments where these iconic figures of comic book world finally meet for the first time and then decide to work together seems as powerful and iconic as a coffee date. There was a lot of wrangling that went in to getting this film made, but it seems the film doesn’t find its iconic footing until the last section, when it realizes you want to see the team together. When Banner shows up in New York to fight along side his compatriots, there’s a sense that he’s showing up more because the plot demands it than him feeling like it’s the right thing to do.
It’s a Godzilla Movie: This has been a complaint of mine for a long time with super hero movies, and – to be fair – this is more Destroy All Monsters than Godzilla Vs. The Smog Monster, but it never really functions as a team movie because at no point during the course of anything that happens during the first two thirds of the film do they work together as a team. Seriously. And when they do, they rarely work as a group so much as co-ordinate their assaults. But it’s not about using skill sets so much as random butt-kicking. The set pieces don’t build in the early sections of the film, so much as get things into place for the final act. Which delivers, but still. When they do work together – like Hawkeye and Iron Man – it’s where the movie really soars.

Overall:

If you are just happy to see these characters together, you will love this film, and the idea of this film feels unimaginable. Unfortunately, the imagination that went in to bringing the characters together and what they do once they are together is severely limited by budget and creativity. Once again, it’s an origin story with familiar characters where it feels like it’s all building to an awesome conclusion. But since there’s no real main character or thematic heft or even interesting motivation to latch on to, it’s empty spectacle.

Rating: 6.5/10

The Avengers opens May 4.

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New ‘Avengers’ Clip Features Black Widow Hiring The Hulk

Travis Woods — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 16:43:17 +0000

We’re just under two weeks until the official release of The Avengers, one of the most anticipated films of 2012. The Joss Whedon-directed superhero film features such Marvel hotshots as Iron Man, Thor, Captain America, the Hulk, Black Widow and Hawkeye teaming up to defend Earth from the threat posed by Thor’s villainous brother, Loki. And in a new clip from the film, you can see how Black Widow draws a cranky Bruce Banner/Hulk into the Avengers.

The clip finds Black Widow being sent by Nick Fury (Sam Jackson) to recruit scientist Bruce Banner into the Avengers in order to use his expertise on Gamma radiation to track an item leaking minute traces of Gamma rays. She makes it clear that the group is not looking to use Banner’s Hulk abilities, something that Banner wants to put to the test.

It’s an interesting clip for two reasons—as we’ve seen from the trailers, the Hulk definitely makes a violent appearance or two in the film, meaning that either Banner accidentally loses his temper, or that Black Widow and Fury were manipulating him to use his Hulk abilities after all. The other reason: perhaps it’s just us, but Scarlett Johansson’s acting is so wooden in the scene, it’s almost as if Mark Ruffalo himself isn’t even there, and is as CGI’d as the Hulk itself.

The Avengers is set for official release on May 4.

What do you think of the clip?

Source: MovieWeb

Get Ready for ‘The Avengers’ With a New Featurette

Damon Houx — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 18:22:14 +0000

Though The Hunger Games may have set the event film bar higher with its record-breaking $155 Million opening, the summer movie season is only a few weeks away and it’s going to kick off with The Avengers – which is looking to be a monster of a release. It’s not a sequel, per se, but it does bring together Robert Downey Jr.’s Iron Man with Mark Ruffalo‘s Hulk, Jeremy Renner‘s Hawkeye, Chris Hemsworth‘s Thor, Chris Evans‘s Captain America, and Scarlet Johansson‘s Black Widow. To get you more stoked, there’s a new featurette on the film, check it out…

This fluff piece is heavy on the previous films, and I find it funny that they talk up The Incredible Hulk, but can’t show Edward Norton‘s face as Bruce Banner, but then also don’t really show Mark Ruffalo either. Such is the actor switch-up game.

You mostly have writer/director Joss Whedon and producer Kevin Feige talking here, buffered with clips from the returning cast (Downey Jr., Evans and Hemsworth). But with many of those interview clips, it’s hard to tell if they were done for this movie or are leftover snippets from the previous films. Mostly it seems that this is trying to get people caught up with the last couple movies in the series, as it does end with an ad for those previous efforts. No surprise: This also leaves out Ang Lee‘s Hulk.

What’s interesting about this film is that – as we’ve said before – the only real movie star of the film’s superhero leads is Iron Man. Though the other comic films have done okay, Iron Man and its sequel are the only ones that have done $300 Million dollars or more at the domestic box office. The Avengers has the first week of the summer season, and there’s no Fast Five spoiler this year, so the picture will open, and open big. But if it ends up doing numbers closer to what Captain America or Thor did, it will definitely be a disappointment. The Avengers opens in a little more than a month from now, so we should start getting reviews shortly. That said, early word has been very positive.

Would you buy your Avengers tickets now?

The Avengers’ Character Posters Have Been Released

Damon Houx — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 18:45:48 +0000

Now that Summer Movie season is almost here (scary, right?), it’s fair to say that Joss Whedon‘s The Avengers came out of the gate swinging, and hasn’t stopped. Every week or so there’s been a new image or promotional item, and now that we’re less than two months away, it’s really kicking into gear. Yesterday AMC theaters announced a six film marathon of Avengers movies concluding with the new film, and now there’s heavily photo-shopped character posters (via Empire). Check them out:

There’s your team, though Mark Ruffalo is only represented in full Hulk mode. Most everyone looks horribly photoshopped, with Scarlet Johansson and Samuel L. Jackson looking like cut-out Frankensteins, and Robert Downey Jr.‘s head looking pretty pasted on. Chris Evans and Chris Hemsworth look a little better, and Jeremy Renner gets to kick it in the background twice – which is better than Cobie Smulders, who just gets one. Surprisingly, Clark Gregg’s Agent Coulson didn’t make the grade, nor have we yet to get a villain poster for Tom Hiddleston‘s Loki. Part of me wonders if you could cut the images together to form an effective diorama. My guess is no.

AMC will be running six Marvel movies starting Thursday May 3, leading up to a midnight showing of The Avengers. The films being shown are:

Iron Man
The Incredible Hulk
Iron Man 2
Thor 3D
Captain America 3D
The Avengers 3D

Honestly, that sounds pretty brutal. I rather like two of those movies, but that’s a whole lot of origins for one day. Still, it will surely sell out quickly. Tickets go on sale Sunday night, and AMC has the list of theaters and ticket info.

Joss Whedon has been out promoting Cabin in the Woods, and Collider got him for an interview where he said The Avengers is locked, it’s running at two hours fifteen minutes, and that the theatrical version is his director’s cut. At this point we’re just waiting for the film to screen, but word has already been mostly positive. So hopefully Summer 2012 kick off right.

Would you go to the six movie marathon?

A Picture Of The Incredible Hulk From ‘The Avengers’ Is Finally Released

Travis Woods — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 17:52:22 +0000

Curious as to what, exactly, the Incredible Hulk would look like in the upcoming Avengers film? Well, in case you didn’t comb through the Super Bowl trailer for the superhero film frame by frame, you may have missed the detail in the one shot of the big green guy who has yet to be as featured in the media as the rest of his teammates. And, after the jump, you can take a look at the new Incredible Hulk for yourself.

Easily putting to shame the last two CGI Hulks that always looked a little plastic and wonky on the big screen, this new Hulk appears to be taking advantage of the best and latest that CGI has to offer, looking far more “real” than previous incarnations of the not so jolly green giant (ugh, forgive me). While he doesn’t quite resemble Mark Ruffalo as much as one would expect (Ruffalo is portraying the Hulk’s alter ego, Bruce Banner), it’s still a marked improvement, and better than we expected to see.

As for you—what do you think? The Hulk has yet to avoid looking cartoonish and silly on the big screen. Do you think he’ll finally get his due in The Avengers?

Source: /Film

New Photos of The Avengers Looking At Things

Damon Houx — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:22:28 +0000

Marvel wants to get you excited about their upcoming film The Avengers. Really excited, as much of the future of their cinematic empire rests on its success, and so prepare to be inundated with ads and trailers and such until it hits theaters on May 4. Until then, Marvel.com has issued five new pictures that show stars Samuel L. Jackson, Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Jeremy Renner, Mark Ruffalo, and Scarlet Johansson looking at things. But, you know, looking intently. Take a look…

As you can see from this gallery, much of the movie involves looking at things. Some of those things include files and paperwork, while others include cast members. They talk, they stare at the camera, and perhaps perform unnecessary surgeries on unsuspecting patients. This was always a concern when Joss Whedon was hired, as he’s known for his gab-fests and elective surgery bent.

In case you forgot, the film is in 3-D. It’s interesting to note that this is rarely a selling point any more, and sometimes you have to study a poster to know for sure if what you’re seeing is going to be offered in more dimensions than two. Such should make the film’s intense “looking at things” moments all that more realistic and engaging.

If you see The Avengers, will opt for 2-D or 3-D?

Margaret: Movie Review

Damon Houx — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 23:00:18 +0000

The story of how 2011′s Margaret was made and eventually released may make a more compelling tale than the theatrical version. The film was shot in 2005 (as evinced by the theater marquees), but then entered into a lengthy editing process to which director Kenneth Lonergan found it nearly impossible to get the film into manageable shape. He could have his cut up to 150 minutes, but reports have the film running as long as (and possibly over) four hours. In the process, two of the film’s producers (Sydney Pollack, Anthony Minghella) passed away, and film has been stamped with a 2008 copyright, and it now runs a choppy 149 minutes. In this version it’s a mess, but a fascinating one. Perhaps if the longer cut emerges we’ll know for sure if it just needed to be long, or if the film got away from Lonergan in a classic example of a “sophomore slump.”

The Players:

Writer and Director:Kenneth Lonergan
Starring: Anna Paquin, Matt Damon, Mark Ruffalo, Jeannie Berlin, J. Smith-Cameron, Jean Reno
Original Music by: Nico Muhly
Cinematography by: Ryszard Lenczewski

The Plot:

Paquin stars as Lisa Cohen, a young girl whose distracting behavior unintentionally kills a passerby (Alison Janney). Her mother (Smith-Cameron) is divorced and a successful stage actress, her father (Lonergan) lives in Santa Monica with his new wife. After the accident the film is divided by Lisa’s involvement with the dead woman’s best friend Emily (Berlin), and her growing pains as an adolescent. She looks to lose her virginity with playboy Paul (Kieran Culkin) and eventually targets a young teacher (Damon) with her affections. But her guilt about the incident forces her to try to punish the bus driver (Ruffalo).

The Bad:

The Editing: It’s hard to say if whole scenes are lifted or if the film was shortened by a thousand little cuts. In its current form, Margaret features the sort of editing choices that are usually the results of poor film-making. From sequences that end abruptly to non-existent transitions into the next scene to cutaways to exteriors that are usually done to bridge takes (with no coverage), it’s hard to watch some sections and not feel like the pacing is askew, and these choices reflect poorly on the filmmaker. Whether they were done to get the film to manageable length or because of poor execution it’s hard to say, but in the released cut it looks like amateur hour.
The Pacing: The film is divided into two narratives as it goes further, Lisa’s home and sex life, and her inserting herself into the life of Emily as she tries to revise the story she told to the cops at the time of the accident. Both narratives are compelling and both have great scenes – Berlin gets a great moment to dress down Lisa for her childish poetic reading of a death – but the connective tissue between the two seems non-existent. It’s like flipping between two TV shows and trying to watch both at the same time. Perhaps that’s why when the film wraps up it feels like there’s no energy to that conclusion. You can see how the pieces are there to make some of those moments powerful or meaningful, but when Lisa finally explodes it doesn’t seem to have the weight of its intentions. Margaret is filled with highs, but the air is missing to make it whole.
Anna Paquin: The actress has a number of great moments, but in the current version, she misses her mark every once in a while.

The Good:

What Lonergan’s After: At the time, writer/director Kenneth Lonergan was making a film about New York, and obviously a post-9/11 New York. From classroom discussion (all great scenes) to the themes of the film, it’s definitely about denial and wrongheadedness in the face of great tragedy, along with a youth’s desire to insert themselves into a drama to feel. On top of that Lonergan is one of the great writers of dialogue, and so sequence after sequence has great moments and writing (even for the director himself). And he gets the fractured nature of Margaret herself, drawn to do bad things, not turned on by the nice guy, hating her mother for a myriad of reasons, and oh does he nail the sort of pretentious intellectualism of a young well educated person.
When the film digresses: J. Smith-Cameron’s character Joan is romanced by Jean Reno’s Ramon, and she gets a great moment in the bathroom, and there’s a great scene where Ramon has dinner with a table full of women and gets into a huge fight about Palestine. There are lots of great character moments, but often they feel isolated. All of the classroom scenes are also excellent, and Lonergan gets the voices of the children and their verbal fights pitch perfect.

Overall:

It’s hard to hurdle some of the faults of the movie, and it’s hard to know if the film never came together, or if it was ruined by the need to get the film down to a manageable length. Regardless, Margaret is a fascinating experience filled with great scenes next to bad ones, and great moments that are sometimes hurt by horrible editing decisions. That may not be satisfying for the casual filmgoer, but for the cineaste it’s a must-see. The film is hitting two screens in New York and Los Angeles September 29, and it’s unknown if it will expand after that.

Rating: 7/10

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The Avengers Are Assembled (Via Photoshop)

Damon Houx — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 19:25:45 +0000

Marvel studios has been building to Joss Whedon‘s The Avengers since 2008, when Robert Downey Jr. and Samuel L. Jackson had an end credit scene that laid out the possibility of Tony Stark working with a team. Since then we’ve seen Chris Hemsworth cast as Thor, Scarlett Johansson cast as Black Widow, Chris Evans cast as Captain America, Jeremy Renner cast as Hawkeye, and Edward Norton cast as the Hulk. Six out of seven isn’t bad. All of The Avengers save Jackson grace the latest Entertainment weekly cover, and features the new Hulk Mark Ruffalo. Check out the cover….

The Avengers has a teaser poster out, and we’ve been hearing word that an official trailer may hit as soon as next week on Real Steel. Which means shooting is about done, and post is already under way for the film, which opens May 4, 2012. AND THIS is the best they can come up with? What the heck is that look on Mark Ruffalo’s face?

The Entertainment Weekly story has more pictures of the shooting and suggests that the shoot went well-ish (though Robert Downey Jr. asked for lots of rewrites) which may get people excited. Bottom line is that the fanbase is pre-sold, so though this may be putting the wrong foot forward, it does get across what to expect from the film. An ensemble. Hopefully they work together better than this cover suggests.

There’s no way this would dissuade you from seeing The Avengers, right?

Matt Damon’s Latest Film is Also One of His Oldest

Damon Houx — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 17:58:16 +0000

Matt Damon and Anna Paquin are as hot as they’ve ever been, and Mark Ruffalo (now an Avenger) is coming close to being a full blown star. So what’s so fascinating about Kenneth Lonergan’s Margaret is that the film has been mired in controversy for six years. They finished shooting in 2005. Supposedly the hold up was that Lonergran had final cut but he couldn’t get it down to a manageable shape (it was declared a masterpiece by Martin Scorsese in one of those longer cuts), which led to two lengthy lawsuits. During this prolonged post-production two of its producers (Anthony Minghella and Sydney Pollack) have passed away. And now, finally, there’s a trailer. Check it out….

Thematically the script was about New York and September 11, though it’s hard to say what the movie is now. There was some hope the film would hit the festival circuit, and though this could be a two screen “get it off the books” release – there doesn’t seem to be a lot of confidence if you’re releasing a trailer four weeks before your film comes out – perhaps Fox Searchlight is going to see if critics love it before going for any academy attention.

Lonergan’s last film – You Can Count On Me – was hailed as a masterpiece, and made many best of lists for the last decade. Lonergan cut his teeth in theater, and was plucked to help work in Hollywood on such diverse projects as The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Gangs of New York, so he covers the spectrum. Just from the production history alone, this is one of most fascinating releases of 2011.

Had you heard of Margaret before this?

Mark Ruffalo and Jeremy Renner Discuss The Avengers

Krystal Clark — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 20:56:38 +0000

Two stars of the upcoming Marvel superhero movie The Avengers were in attendance at the 83rd Annual Academy Awards. Not only were they at the ceremony, but they were both nominated, and in the same category! We’re talking about Mark Ruffalo and Jeremy Renner who both lost the Best Supporting Actor Oscar to Christian Bale. The actors weren’t too sad because their careers are still flourishing with the impending Avengers project. Over at MTV, they opened up about their alter egos Bruce Banner and Clint Barton aka The Incredible Hulk and Hawkeye…

Ruffalo on The Hulk’s appearance in The Avengers:

“There’s some great Bruce Banner stuff [in 'Avengers'], kind of a slant on him that we haven’t seen before,” said Ruffalo. “He’s introduced in a really great way.” “All the great Hulk stuff, which I’ll be doing too,” he said. “I’ll be the first actor to do them both.”

Renner on the other hand was less forthcoming about his appearance in the film:

“Yes, I have [read the 'Avengers' script],” Renner said. “It’s tremendous. I can’t tell you anything about it.”

He also teased at his [possible] cameo in this summer’s Thor.”I might [have a cameo in 'Thor'],” he teased. “Go see it. Check it out.”

On an interesting side note, Renner revealed that he has yet to see his Hawkeye costume, which means his appearance in Thor may be as a civilian prior to his induction into S.H.I.E.L.D. Who knows?!

Are you excited to see their takes on Hawkeye and Hulk in The Avengers?

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Rating: 7/10

Trailer:

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