In their most recent outing, the Avengers protect Manhattan from complete devastation. But disaster experts claim that the damage would still set the city back more than Hurricane Katrina or even last year’s Japanese tsunami.
The Pentagon halted its cooperation with Marvel Studios’ blockbuster movie The Avengers because the US Defense Department didn’t think a movie about superheroes, Norse gods and intergalactic invasions was sufficiently realistic in its treatment of military bureaucracy.
This supercut of three-point landings that debuted at ROFLCon this week is a gas to watch. But it also makes me realise that human beings basically don’t do this. At all.
When you’re walking through the set of a Michel Gondry film, you can’t expect that everything is going to seem normal, or even make sense. Case in point, he’s currently shooting an adaptation of Boris Vian’s The Froth on the Daydream on location in France, where Yan-Alexandre snapped these photos of a series of utterly bizarre hacked-together vehicles.
And there came a day, a day unlike any other, when Earth’s mightiest heroes and heroines found themselves united against a common threat. On that day, The Avengers were… deleted? Yes. The copy of the film being used for a screening last week was accidentally wiped from the server and delayed a room full of angry nerds (and film critics) from seeing The Avengers assembled.
The special edition versions of the Star Wars films and the recent prequels left many fanboys wondering if George Lucas maybe wasn’t the visionary filmmaker they had all worshipped and adored. But one aspect of Lucas’s vision that has never come into question is his ability to market the hell out of a franchise.
The Avengers hit cinemas a few days ago and by accounts, it’s a bit of alright. But let’s not forget all the superhero flicks that got us to this point, be they good, great or downright awful. Fortunately, all you need to do for a crash course is watch the four minutes and 42 seconds of video above.
And we have a Woz! Sam Gad, current star of the Broadway musical Book of Mormon will play Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak alongside Ashton Kutcher, who’s been cast as Steve Jobs, in the upcoming biopic Jobs: Get Inspired.
The Google Play brand looked rather pointless when it first rolled out in Australia, since it offered neither movies nor music. Google has now rolled out movie rentals for Australian customers,
It seems Peter Jackson’s upcoming film, The Hobbit, is causing a stir among those CinemaCon goers who have been treated to a 10-minute preview screening of the film. And it’s not joyful stir. Viewers complained that the movie looked too real, that it had that look of low-budget television. Yikes.
