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ABC Still Planning ‘Hulk’ Television Series; Passes On ‘AKA Jessica Jones’

Kevin Yeoman — Wed, 16 May 2012 12:41:45 +0000

Since the Green Goliath has been instrumental in helping Marvel’s The Avengers destroy box office records, ABC thought now would be a good time to remind everyone it is still planning to make the long-gestating Hulk television series from Guillermo del Toro. Unfortunately, the network has decided the world will just have to wait a little while longer to see it.

While fans have been waiting – what seems like ages – for ol’ Jade-Jaws to smash his way across television screens once more, Paul Lee, entertainment president for ABC, recently announced during the network’s upfronts that the series is still in the works and that he’d like to see more Marvel characters grace the small screen. Considering the billion-dollar box office The Avengers is currently enjoying, it comes as little surprise that Lee would ...

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‘The Avengers’ – SR Underground Ep. 37

Ben Kendrick — Wed, 09 May 2012 15:45:30 +0000

[Note: While this episode of the Screen Rant Underground (ep. 37) released on Monday, we wanted to bump the actual post to its regular Wednesday time slot - since we know some listeners have yet to subscribe in iTunes (what are you waiting for?) and come to the site looking for the cast each week. Just wanted to clear-up any confusion - in case you're seeing this article for a second time.]

The Screen Rant editorial team is back with episode thirty-seven of the Screen Rant Underground.

Join host Ben Kendrick as well as fellow SR editors Rob Keyes, Anthony Ocasio, and Kofi Outlaw as well as Screen Rant founder Vic Holtreman for this special edition of the Screen Rant Underground podcast as we review The Avengers and discuss what’s next for the Marvel movie universe – as ...

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Weekend Box Office Wrap Up: May 6th 2012

Niall Browne — Sun, 06 May 2012 17:01:28 +0000

The Avengers came. The Avengers saw. The Avengers conquered.

Joss Whedon’s big screen comic book mash-up broke records at the box office over the weekend and managed to score the biggest opening weekend EVER! That’s right – bigger than Harry Potter ($169 million) and bigger than The Dark Knight ($158 million). The Marvel movie should gross a mammoth $200 million by Monday morning! A fantastic number given the films $220 million production budget.

The film grossed $80.5 million on Friday, (second only to Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2’s $91.1 million) kicking-off the summer season in spectacular fashion. The biggest Marvel hero opening was Spider-Man 3’s $151 million launch (it topped out at $336 million, a series domestic low) – but as he’s not part of The Avengers ...

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Pre-’Avengers’ Superhero Solo Film Recap – SR Underground Ep. 36

Ben Kendrick — Wed, 02 May 2012 14:45:30 +0000

The Screen Rant editorial team is back with episode thirty-six of the Screen Rant Underground.

Join host Ben Kendrick as well as fellow SR editors Rob Keyes, Anthony Ocasio, and Kofi Outlaw as we chat about the new Dark Knight Rises trailer, Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci hired to rewrite The Amazing Spider-Man 2, and Fringe renewed for fifth and final season, as well as hold a pre-Avengers superhero solo film recap conversation.

Screen Rant Underground is available in the iTunes Music Store (where you can subscribe as well as download individual episodes) but if you’re not near your home computer, check out our thirty-sixth episode in the player below.

Also, Screen Rant Underground is an EXPLICIT podcast. We don’t go out of our way to say controversial things or use explicit language but it does happen – ...

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Third ‘Hulk’ Movie Coming in 2015?

Ben Moore — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 19:56:12 +0000

One of the most surprising developments in The Avengers, based on early reviews and reactions, is that the Incredible Hulk is finally awesome on the big screen. In fact, it has been said on more than one occasion that the Hulk steals the entire show.

Perhaps as a result of that success, Marvel’s President of Consumer Products, Paul Glitter, recently talked about Guillermo del Toro’s upcoming television adaptation of The Hulk and spinning it off as a major motion picture in 2015. Scroll down for details.

According to Paul Glitter, courtesy of Forbes:

“[After spinning 'Hulk'] off to a stand-alone [television] program next year, [Marvel will support said program with a big-budget feature film in 2015].”

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Before They Were Movies: Early Attempts to Bring Superheroes to Life Onscreen

Paul Young — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 19:39:05 +0000

Both DC Comics and Marvel would have you think that big-budget, blockbuster films like Superman, Spider-Man, Batman, X-Men, Green Lantern and The Avengers are their only attempts to bring popular comic book characters into the live-action arena. They would like everyone to forget the sometimes absurd, ridiculous and often ugly reality: that there were numerous early – and failed – attempts to bring super heroes to both the big and small screens.

Over the next few pages you can read about these early superhero attempts and the actors who portrayed them on-screen. Some you may be familiar with, but we’ll bet you’ve never heard of many of them.

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5 Avengers Comic Book Stories to Read Before Seeing ‘The Avengers’ Movie

Ben Moore — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 20:29:30 +0000

There’s only one surefire way to be prepared for Marvel’s The Avengers come May 4th – and that’s by reading as many top-notch Avengers comic books as is physically possible in less than two weeks’ time.

But where, pray tell, does one start? After all, The Avengers (created by Stan Lee and Jack “The King of Comics” Kirby) is one of the oldest Marvel team books in existence, having been published for nearly half a century. Furthermore, the book has gone through several title changes, hundreds of different creative teams, and even more fictional members. It has been, on occasion, both brilliant and horrifically bad. So where does an interested reader begin his/her journey with five decades’ worth of comics to sift through?

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Detailed New Image of The Hulk in ‘The Avengers’

Kofi Outlaw — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 23:02:59 +0000

The Avengers promotional campaign is, at this point, threatening to go into overload mode. Stroll through the Internet these days and you’ll find a lot of fans who are starting to back away from any new trailers, TV spots, clips or featurettes about Marvel’s blockbuster superhero teamup, lest they see too much, too soon.

Then again, there are aspects of The Avengers that we could all stand to see more of – and one of those is undoubtedly The Hulk.

If you haven’t read our collection of Avengers cast interviews, you may have missed actor Mark Ruffalo talking about his role as Bruce Banner / The Hulk, and just where this Avengers team-up event finds the character in terms of development.

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The Ultimate ‘Avengers’ Mashup Trailer

Rob Keyes — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 17:51:55 +0000

For movie and comic book fans it was The Avengers who really won last weekend’s Super Bowl, with Disney and Marvel Studios displaying dominance on the movie front with the best TV spot of the big game. That short teaser came alongside the online release of the extended Super Bowl trailer for The Avengers, giving fans the best look yet at Captain America, Hulk, Iron Man, Thor, members of SHIELD and of course, some of the villains for one of this year’s biggest movies.

As epic as it was, this latest footage from The Avengers didn’t quite cut it as a new full-length movie trailer, running only a minute in length, so as fans simply wanting more, we’ve created a brand new trailer for you to correct that problem.

The official trailer for The Avengers released ...

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Creative Differences Are Knocking Directors Out of Marvel Movies

Rob Keyes — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 16:15:36 +0000

Marvel Studios now has five movies under its belt, with a sixth coming next summer in The Avengers, two confirmed for 2013 and another pair of unannounced films scheduled for 2014. All of these movies exist in a shared universe, taking part in an ongoing continuity with an overarching storyline running congruently in the background.

While seeing movies follow the comic books in this respect makes The Avengers possible, this strategy does also have its downside as we saw most evidently in Iron Man 2. Each movie by Marvel Studios must follow certain guidelines and must include certain characters portrayed in a very specific way, thus restricting the creative freedom of the filmmakers and talent involved.

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Guillermo del Toro talks ‘Pacific Rim’ and ‘Hulk’ TV Show

Ben Moore — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 22:32:53 +0000

After Guillermo del Toro’s dream project — At the Mountains of Madness — was cancelled unceremoniously, he has thrown himself into a number of new projects. Currently, he’s directing Pacific Rim, starring Idris Elba and Charlie Day, and developing The Hulk TV show.

Today, an interview with del Toro hit the Internet where he discussed both Pacific Rim and The Hulk while promoting the comic book adaptation of his vampire book series, The Strain. Check it out below.

On how Pacific Rim is coming along, courtesy of io9, Guillermo del Toro said:

“Very good, we’re at the end of our second week. We are shooting everything for the main complex in the movie, which is a huge complex in Hong Kong where the robots are maintained. We ...

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New ‘Avengers’ Banners; Marvel Confirms Alan Silvestri as Composer

Sandy Schaefer — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 18:07:55 +0000

Marvel superhero comic book movie fans will have to wait until February 2012 to get their next fix, in the form of Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance. However, the next big Marvel cinematic events is (of course) writer/director Joss Whedon’s The Avengers, which should be getting a full-length trailer sometime sooner, rather than later.

However, in the meantime, we have a pair of new Avengers characters banners for you to check out – along with some official confirmation from Marvel that (as was previously reported) composer Alan Silvestri is indeed scoring Whedon’s superhero extravaganza.

On the off-chance you’re new to this whole Avengers thing, here is the official plot synopsis:

When an unexpected enemy emerges that threatens global safety and security, Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson), Director of the international peacekeeping agency known as S.H.I.E.L.D., finds himself in need of a team to pull the world back from the brink ...

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Marvel TV Panel NYCC ’11: Ultimate Spider-Man, Hulk, Avengers Season 2 & More

Ben Moore — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 13:57:01 +0000

We already covered the DC Animated panel at NYCC ’11 – which featured DC Universe animated features coming to DVD/Blu-ray – and yesterday, we covered the Marvel Television panel hosted by Vice President of Marvel Television, Jeph Loeb.

The topics and television properties showcased in the panel were wide-ranging – from live-action (A.K.A. Jessica Jones, The Hulk, Cloak and Dagger, and Mockingbird) to animated (Ultimate Spider-Man, Hulk: Agents of S.M.A.S.H. and The Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes season 2).

There was a lot to cover, so we’ve sectioned our report in order of the topics discussed. You can jump to specific shows by using the links below:

Jessica Jones, Hulk, Cloak & Dagger
Mockingbird & Ultimate Spider-Man
Hulk: Agents of S.M.A.S.H. & Avengers: Earth’s ...

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Marvel Short Film ‘The Consultant’ Fills Gaps in ‘Avengers’ Saga

Kofi Outlaw — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 16:47:10 +0000

Marvel Studios is now ramping up to their big superhero movie crossover event The Avengers - an ambitious saga that has been in the making ever since Iron Man and The Incredible Hulk were released in 2008.

The last two years have brought us much deeper into The Avengers universe with the releases of Iron Man 2, Thor and Captain America: The First Avenger – however, despite some clear links between the respective films, there have been some gaps in the telling of how Marvel’s mightiest heroes ultimately come together.

We’ve known for some time that Marvel is planning live-action short films, which would presumably be used to test the appeal of their more obscure superhero properties (Black Panther, ...

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Teaser For ‘The Avengers’ Button At End of ‘Captain America’

Rob Keyes — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 02:47:59 +0000

In Marvel and DC comics, each character is part of larger universe. Batman fights alongside Superman and Wonder Woman in DC’s Justice League; some of the X-Men fight alongside Spider-Man and The Avengers in Marvel’s main universe. When it comes to the films however, only Marvel Studios had made the effort to realize that shared universe on the silver screen and after years of laying the foundation, the next feature from the Disney-owned studio represents the culmination of their efforts, and the ultimate comic geek fantasy: The Avengers.

If you’re reading this, looking for that first glimpse at The Avengers and are excited to see these heroes come together on screen, then you’ve no doubt been following the series to date. Iron Man and The Incredible Hulk introduced two heroes ...

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Guillermo del Toro: Hulk TV Show Is Progressing

Michael Crider — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 13:58:28 +0000

We haven’t heard much about the Incredible Hulk television series since ABC started pre-production, but Guillermo del Toro wants to assure fans that production is moving forward. The director recently finished outlines for the show and spoke with Fear Net about his version of the iconic hero.

Hulk was announced last November as one of the first live-action productions to take advantage of Marvel’s new parent company, Disney. Other comic-based shows currently in pre-production for an ABC debut are AKA Jessica Jones (based on the Alias comics) and Cloak and Dagger, though there has been even less revealed about the other two.

Del Toro has been working with David Eick, the producer of the well-recieved Battlestar Galactica reboot, on the new Hulk series. The pair have completed the beginning stages of ...

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The Avengers Updates: Production Start, Hulk, Thor & More!

Rob Keyes — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 15:28:36 +0000

Thor hits theaters in North America next week, Captain America just two months after that, the story of Iron Man 3 is in the works and The Avengers begins production today. It’s a wonderful time for Marvel fans everywhere.

Let’s talk about Joss Whedon prepping for the first day of shooting, Mark Ruffalo on the Hulk, an important scene in Thor and video game tie-ins.

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The Avengers Assemble Today!

Clark Gregg, who plays Agent Coulson of S.H.I.E.L.D. in Iron Man, Iron Man 2 and Thor (and more to come) and who’s heavily involved in the Marvel Studios marketing relating to the ‘Join SHIELD’ viral campaign, tweeted last week that The Avengers was going to start shooting today.

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Marvel Studios Viral: Join SHIELD Now!

Rob Keyes — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 14:34:57 +0000

It started with a mysterious, yet questionable email I received two months ago which explained that Marvel Studios was prepping to announce an S.H.I.E.L.D. event in New York City for spring 2011. The event would bring film stars Samuel L. Jackson (Director Nick Fury), Clark Gregg (Agent Phil Coulson), Cobie Smulders (Agent Maria Hill) and at least four other agents and have them “recruit” new SHIELD members.

This would supposedly occur during filming of The Avengers in April or May and would also continue through San Diego Comic-Con in July. We didn’t jump on it at the time, but things got interesting a while later when our own Roth Cornet attended WonderCon two weekends ago only to experience the beginning of Marvel’s SHIELD viral.

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Joe Quesada: Marvel Creators Will Be Involved In TV & Movie Development

Kofi Outlaw — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 20:26:23 +0000

Marvel’s longtime Editor-in-Chief, Joe Quesada, is moving on. Quesada has passed his former title to Axel Alonso in order to become the new Chief Creative Officer of Marvel Entertainment.

As you may already guess, being CCO of Marvel Entertainment means that Quesada’s vision for the Mouse House of Stan Lee (that’s a Disney/Marvel joke for the unaware) must now extended beyond the comic book page to TV shows, movies, video games, digital publishing…the works.

Comic Book Resources is currently running an installment interview piece aptly titled “Exit Interview”, in which Quesada talks about his time as Marvel E-i-C and what the future holds for him as Marvel Entertainment CCO. With that talk comes nice little tidbits that you Marvel TV/Movie fans likely want to hear, so we’ve highlighted portions of CBR‘s ...

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Superhero Shows ‘Hulk’, ‘Jessica Jones’, & ‘Cloak and Dagger’ Headed to ABC

Michael Crider — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 02:14:56 +0000

The Incredible Hulk, AKA Jessica Jones and Cloak and Dagger projects are likely to to make it to television – that is, if you believe ABC Entertainment President, Paul Lee.

Lee recently spoke on using Marvel’s assets, via ABC’s parent company Disney, to capitalize on audiences’ infatuation with superheroes:

“I’m thrilled we have Marvel within our family, it’s a superb opportunity for us… We would love to make a Marvel franchise work on the network.”

All three potential series are in the early stages of development. Hulk will be the most recognizable to TV and movie fans, owing to the 1970s TV show and big-budget movies in 2003 and 2008. Jessica Jones is a lesser-known Marvel superhero (though she runs in circles with the likes of The Avengers) who ...

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