THE AVENGERS Reviews, Interviews & More
There's been talk about an Ant-Man movie even before Marvel's The Avengers were shot. There were even some rumblings about putting the small superhero in the first formation of the group onscreen, since he was one of the founding members. Years later, Edgar Wright puts our minds at rest over the latest on his long-awaited superhero film....
Ok, look, just in case the headline wasn’t enough—there are significant spoilers to The Avengers 2 and The Avengers 3 below concerning a certain green CGI rage monster who smashes gods and really doesn’t like Scarlett Johansson. Got it? Ok, so no complaining then.
Warning: The Avengers 2 and The Avengers 3 spoilers ahead.
Hard to imagine these days, but there was a time in which Joss Whedon wasn’t the most powerful people in Hollywood—while he is now essentially the grand poobah of all storylines in Marvel Studios films, there was an era in which all but one (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) of Whedon’s television shows were cancelled before their respective times. This includes a...
As the guy who directed one of the most successful films in human history (The Avengers), who now gets to essentially determine the course of every Marvel Studios film to be churned out in the next five years, and the creator of one of the greatest television shows of all time (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), you’d think that Joss Whedon would have everything he...
This has been a huge pivot point for movies in how they're made and distributed. 2012 was the year where the film industry turned its back on 35 millimeter film (which has been the standard for well over a century), with digital projection no longer just an option but the standard. At the same time a filmmaker like Paul Thomas Anderson shot a movie on 70mm - a format that hadn't been used...
2012, like any other year, had its host of good and bad films. But it's hard to recall a year that also had so many disappointing films as well (not quite the same as bad films--we'll get into that below). To the sheer, just awful dreck from such perennial underachievers as Adam Sandler, Eddie Murphy, and Tyler Perry, to the frankly shocking disappointments from filmmakers who could have...
The saying goes that your heroes are only as good as your villain, so perhaps this is good news—according to actor Tom Hiddleston, it’s looking less and less likely that Thor and The Avengers villain Loki will be making a return appearance in The Avengers 2. Not to offend The Avengers fans out there, but Loki wasn’t the most terribly...
Almost every single superhero or villain got at least a little bit of screen time to explain their origins. The only big-time Marvel character that has yet to reveal how he fell into this particular line of work is S.H.I.E.L.D. commander Nick Fury (played by Samuel L. Jackson). We know that we'll be seeing a lot more of him in the new S.H.I.E.L.D. television series, but we might get some more...
What good is the internet, if it cannot be used solely as a device to spoil the plots of comic-related blockbusters a solid year or two before they are released? Right? (Please forgive us) As such, hey, would you like the plot of Warner Bros.’ upcoming Justice League film (a.k.a., Jeez, people will pay how much to see a bunch of people in spandex fighting nonsensical...
Is anyone having a better year than Joss Whedon? Not only did he write and direct some little indie flick called The Avengers (which did so-so business) and become anointed as the King of Nerds with a rapturous Firefly 10th Anniversary panel at Comic-Con, but his labor-of-love cinematic adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Much Ado...
If there was one thing to take away from the heavy Iron Man 3 trailer that premiered in late October (aside from the fact that Ben Kingsley is the new Michael Caine—man, he’ll star in anything), it’s that the film appears to feature a massive tonal shift from the light, popcorn-flick oriented style of the breezy first two films. Tony...
As you might recall, Marvel had designed a handsome box set for their ‘Phase One’ collection of films (i.e., everything from the first Iron Man film up to and including The Avengers). The 10 disc collection was set to be housed in a box that looks just like the metal suitcase carried by Nick Fury in the films. One hitch though—the company that...
First we'd like to welcome you to Oscar Scuttlebutt, ScreenCrave's official weekly column for everything pertaining to the Academy Awards. Each week we'll be talking about a different movie or two and how it might fit into the race.
It seems everyone wants to get in on the superhero team-up genre, now that The Avengers made such a film genre an insanely lucrative project. While Marvel is setting up The Avengers 2, and Warner Bros. is hard at work putting together a Justice League film that will feature Superman, Batman and more, Guillermo del Toro is apparently pushing for his own brand of...
While not quite as anticipated as The Avengers 2 or Iron Man 3 (or even Thor: The Dark World) because, let’s face it, the character is incredibly goofy, Captain America: The Winter Soldier is building up quite a head of steam in the lead up to its April 14, 2014 release date. Just last week, rumors swirled about a possible villain for the film;...
And that, folks, is most awesomely random headline you’re likely to read today (unless President Obama, Taylor Swift, and Christopher Lloyd team up with their army of colossal biomechanical Zords to defeat Hurricane Sandy—that…that would be pretty random, too, I suppose). Yes, Joss Whedon, creator of small screen wonders like...
In case you somehow missed it yesterday, between the trailer for the trailer or the new image of arch-villain Mandarin and the official poster, Marvel Studios dropped the full trailer for Iron Man 3 this morning and my oh my—this thing is dark. And not like “this looks just as bad as Iron Man 2” dark—this one actually looks good. Check it...
Well, it’s been a big day for those of you who have been waiting patiently for official Iron Man 3 media. We just finished poring over every detail of the 15 second teaser trailer-for-the-trailer, and now we have a full teaser poster, as well as a the first image of Ben Kingsley as the film’s villain, and Iron Man’s arch-nemesis, The Mandarin (full disclosure:...
Well, it’s time for another of our near-daily "hey, here’s something else Marvel Studios is doing that will make about half a billion dollars” new updates, this time, with plot summaries! That’s right, Iron Man 3 and Thor: The Dark World have been given official plot synopses by Marvel. I’m going to go out on a limb here and guess that Tony Stark is going...
Because it’s a slow news day, longtime Christopher Nolan cinematographer (including The Dark Knight Rises) Wally Pfister decided to help us all out by attacking The Avengers, its cinematography, and the methods director Joss Whedon used to shoot the film. In fact, Pfister goes so far as to call The Avengers an “appalling...
