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Lots of Marvel News! Rourke and Johannson are in Iron Man 2! Avengers Pushed to 2012!

Marvel Studios came out with a press release yesterday with revised dates for their upcoming superhero tentpoles, on the heels of confirmation that both Mickey Rourke and Scarlett Johannson have fully signed onto play the villains in Iron Man 2 — the latter playing the Black Widow, which Emily Blunt was originally offered before she [...]

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Sony to Tackle Asimov’s ‘Foundation’ Trilogy?

Roland Emmerich, the mastermind behind sci-fi epics Independence Day, The Day After Tomorrow, and the upcoming 2012 has signed on to direct an adaptation of Isaac Asimov’s Foundation trilogy for Sony Pictures. Last summer, Robert Shaye and Michael Lynne (formerly of New Line) were shepherding the project for Warner Bros., but the studio let the rights [...]

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Record Year For North American Box Office

Despite having sold less tickets than in 2007, increases in overall ticket prices has given the North American box office a record gross of $9.78 billion for the year, a 2% increase over last year’s record. The record box office has The Dark Knight to thank with its $531 million domestic box office tally which has [...]

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