NEW characters for the Iron Man sequel could include Black Widow and Crimson Dynamo, according to a possible casting call posted online. I've not yet been able to verify if this is official and genuine, but information on SpoilerTV claims...
IRON MAN director Jon Favreau, who will helm the 2010 sequel and executive produce 2011's superhero team-up The Avengers, says Thor will be the biggest challenge for Marvel to establish on the big screen. The movie adaptation of Thor...
WHEN Iron Man writers Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby said the Hulk should be the villain in the Avengers movie, it caused confusion and considerable debate online. Some fans called the idea dumb, grossly misplaced, poor and a terrible way...
MARVEL has revealed details of a new Avengers animated series based on its comicbook superhero team - and it appears to offer some big clues to the live-action movie planned for 2011. An official statement just released by Marvel...
THE writer of Marvel's Thor comicbook has joined the company's editor-in-chief in backing Kenneth Branagh as the perfect choice to direct the film adaptation. I revealed earlier that Branagh - known for directing several Shakespeare film adaptations and a...
A NEW distribution deal has changed the slate of superhero movie releases and shed some interesting light on the way the future film market is shaping up. Paramount Pictures and Marvel Studios have announced an agreement under which Paramount...
For some weeks before Denny Laine and the Diplomats final appearance together, at Birmingham Town Hall, we had been rehearsing with our new line-up of the Diplomats. Another respected Birmingham band to break up at the same time as us...
ACTOR Edward Norton, who played Bruce Banner and his giant green alter-ego in this summer's The Incredible Hulk, says he has heard nothing about reprising the role in a sequel or in the Avengers ensemble movie. Norton says he's...
IT COULD well be a case of Desperate Heroes. Speculation is buzzing that Eva Longoria is up for a role in Marvel's upcoming Avengers team-up movie. Longoria, 33, was spotted leaving the Los Angeles offices of Marvel clutching a...
ACTOR Hugh Jackman has said he would be interested in his Wolverine character appearing in the upcoming Avengers team-up movie. It's not such a crazy idea as it might sound. Wolverine has become a member of two comicbook versions...
REPORTS by Hollywood Reporter and Reuters are saying that The Incredible Hulk is not going to do well enough at the box office to give the green light to a follow-up film. Director Louis Leterrier has already said he...
BRITISH film and television director Edgar Wright, who is writing the screenplay for the big-screen adaptation of Marvel comicbook hero Ant-Man, says the movie will not be an out-and-out comedy. Wright, 34, born in Poole, Dorset, UK, is best...
INCREDIBLE HULK director Louis Leterrier says the green giant could be the baddie in 2011's Avengers team movie. He says his Hulk movie deliberately set up that possibility but the final decision rests with the fans. The Avengers movie is...
A CAMEO appearance by Marvel's patriotic super-soldier Captain America was cut from The Incredible Hulk movie, but will be included on the DVD, says director Louis Leterrier. Leterrier told SOS Hollywood: "There's a point when Bruce Banner gives up...
THE DIRECTOR of this week's superhero movie The Incredible Hulk says he would love to do a sequel - and is also keen to take on the Avengers movie in 2011 which will bring together Hulk, Iron Man, Thor...
JON FAVREAU, director of the superhero blockbuster Iron Man starring Robert Downey Jr, has told comicbook fans what he thinks of The Incredible Hulk movie out this week. Favreau has also spoken about plans for a sequel to his...
AS I predicted, the Iron Man movie was a heavyweight performer at the box office - and it's already paving the way for the next batch of superhero movie projects from Marvel Studios. Marvel has just announced the box office...
HOLLYWOOD writer/director Zak Penn has revealed details of his involvement with proposed films on Young X-Men and Avengers, the upcoming Incredible Hulk film - and spoken of his feelings on the 2006 blockbuster X-Men: The Last Stand (known as X3...
THE superhero movie Iron Man is out in the UK on May 2 and, in the build-up to the release, a tie-in website has just been launched by electronics giant LG apparently offering the chance to win one of 20...
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