It’s hard to not get excited for the newest incarnation of Spider-Man swinging into theaters this summer. It has been a long road to the Marvel Cinematic Universe for the wall-crawler, despite the fact that he and Sony have been in the blockbuster business since 2002. Now that Marvel Studios and Sony Pictures have shook […]
Marvel Comics is now almost a decade into their remodeling of their comic book universe. The old faces and traditions of their world are being revamped for the 21st century, with an emphasis on diversifying their cast to better reflect modern-day America. The most notable breakthrough was the ascension of Miles Morales as an alternate […]
Last year the first trailer for Avengers: Age of Ultron quickly became a part of pop culture, with its “no strings on me” catchphrase that instantaneously dominated meme generators worldwide. It was the first snowball that triggered an avalanche of excitement for the movie, that didn’t let up until people were watching the sequel the following summer. […]
We are a little more than a half a year away from the release of the first movie in Marvel’s third phase of films, Captain America: Civil War. The film, which is very loosely based on the comic story line of the same name, will pit many of the Avengers against each other in a nasty […]
The formula of a comic book movie has an easily identifiable blueprint. It typically includes a flawed, yet inherently good protagonist, who by a freak occurrence is bestowed with powers beyond that of normal mortals. Once they learn to master their newfound powers, they use them to defend humanity against a villain who threatens widespread destruction […]
Marvel has done an expert marketing job of giving fans just enough info, so that they aren’t hungry enough to ask for more. For example, in the upcoming Captain America: Civil War, they have given a full synopsis detailing all of the various Marvel characters that are set to appear in the sequel. The list is […]
Synchronize your watches. We have about six weeks to go until the Earth’s Mightiest Heroes engage in battle and we get to watch it all go down in the Avengers: Age of Ultron. The television campaign is ramping up, so expect to see the Marvel icons everywhere you look until you are actually sitting in […]
Since it was announced that Sony and Marvel had come to an agreement to share the character of Spider-Man, most of the focus understandably centered on how it would impact the Marvel cinematic universe. Not much attention or speculation focused on how Sony’s solo franchise would be affected since there weren’t many details available. Many thought […]
The very first image that Marvel fans saw of the Age of Ultron, was of Tony Stark’s Iron Man helmet being reforged into the face of Ultron. Marvel Studios used a brief teaser trailer to announce the villain and title of the Avengers’ sequel, to those in attendance at the San Diego Comic Con in 2013. However, […]
There is a specific reason that Marvel has been pursuing Sony to get Spider-Man involved in The Avengers franchise, because many of the franchise’s most popular members will be missing in action for the first Infinity War movie. The first part of the saga is rumored to be carried by the newer additions to the Marvel […]
The undoubted star of Marvel Studios and the Marvel cinematic universe is Iron Man’s Robert Downey Jr. Marvel’s first film Iron Man, could have gone in a much different direction and the course of movies would be in another place right now. By all accounts, the script was incomplete during shooting, leaving much of the […]
Wasting precisely zero time after releasing its newest, super-reviewed superhero movie, ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’, Marvel unleashes a 5 minute look back at the MCU’s first two “phases.” The video takes you from the studio’s first outing, ‘Iron Man’, and drops you in deep space with the new kids on the block, The Guardians. It’s […]
