Weekend Box Office Chart for July 22nd to July 24th

Posted by keithpatrick on Jul 25, 2011 in Movies, News

Captain America wins in the battle for first against Harry Potter in this weekends box office charts.

Captain America + Team America = Fun (NSFW)

Posted by keithpatrick on Feb 16, 2011 in General News, News

What’s better then the just-released Captain America: The First Avenger Super Bowl TV spot? How about a mash up with the classic Team America: World Police tune, “America, F*ck Yeah!”

Even More ‘The Avengers’ and ‘Captain America’ News

Posted by keithpatrick on Apr 16, 2010 in Movies

Rumor has is that Marvel might be ready to really hand fanboy Joss Whedon the keys to the car. Aside from Whedon directing The Avengers, reports are showing up all over the web that, not only will Whedon be directing The Avengers, but he’ll also be rewriting Zak Penn’s script. This doesn’t mean that he’ll be throwing the entire script away and starting all over, but what he will be doing is going over everything, removing and replacing some things, and adding whatever he thinks might be crucial to the story or his style of directing.

On top of all of this, Whedon is now also rumored to be taking the script for The First Avenger: Captain America and giving it the same touch-up treatment that he’ll be giving to The Avengers.

Shocking I know.

This all means that Whedon is walking into this massive pre-existing world that has been growing over the past few years, preparing to join forces, and that he’ll be responsible for bringing it all together when it finally does. And now, that doesn’t just mean taking what he’s given and making the best movie he can from it, but it means putting a massive self-signature on his movie AND Joe Johnston’s Captain America.

Speaking of Captain America, Hayley Atwell has been confirmed as Peggy Carter in Captain America: The First Avenger opposite Chris Evans by Marvel Studios yesterday. In the early comics, Peggy Carter fell in love with Captain America while they fought together in the war effort. The character will be updated for the feature adaptation.

CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER will focus on the early days of the Marvel Universe when Steve Rogers volunteers to participate in an experimental program that turns him into the Super Soldier known as Captain America.

In addition to CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER, Marvel Studios will release a slate of films based on the Marvel characters including the highly anticipated sequel, IRON MAN 2, starring Robert Downey Jr. and Gwyneth Paltrow on May 7, 2010, THOR on May 6, 2011, and Marvel Studios THE AVENGERS on May 4, 2012.

Captain America Sidekick Bucky Named

Posted by keithpatrick on Apr 2, 2010 in Movies

Rumor has it Sebastian Stan is Bucky in the new Captain America film.

Stan is one of those actors who’s been in everything, but it’s always hard to place his face. You may remember him as Chase Collins in The Covenant, or from his work in Gossip Girl. He was even rumored to have been in the running for the part of Captain America. Clearly someone at Marvel likes him, because even though Chris Evans got the role of Cap, Stan snagged the Bucky roll

From Deadline:

Now that Marvel Studios and director Joe Johnston have set Chris Evans to play the title role in The First Avenger: Captain America, the other roles have begun to fall into place. Sebastian Stan is about to be fill the role of Bucky, the sidekick who fights side by side with the shield-throwing superhero. Stan is best known for Gossip Girl and he just completed the Darren Aronofsky-directed Black Swan and the Todd Lincoln-directed The Apparition. He also was just seen playing the nemesis in Hot Tub Time Machine. Studio confirmed Stan will be in the film in a deal that has multiple options, but there is no confirmation on whether Bucky transforms into Winter Soldier, as is the case in the Marvel Comics version. Marvel is also close to setting the female lead role of Peggy, and recently tested Keira Knightley, Alice Eve and Emily Blunt for that role.

Marvel Announces The Avengers Line-Up

Posted by keithpatrick on Jul 28, 2009 in Movies, News

Got this from I09

Kevin Feige talked about the interlaced comic book plots that are tied to Iron Man 2, spurred by the Nick Fury cameo by Samuel L. Jackson, and Tony Starks cameo in the Hulk movie.

Do you know what heroes are we going to be putting in The Avengers? How close are you to discovering who the core characters are?

I think we know. I think it’s going to be Iron Man and Thor, Captain America and Nick Fury. I think it’s safe to assume that there will be some members of the Hulk universe in the film as well. In terms of the additional I think Black Widow, sure. The SHIELD organization for sure. What’s exciting, for me, about The Avengers movie is seeing those four characters interact with each other. I think anywhere from the first issues of The Avengers to Civil War the dynamic between Steve Rogers and Tony Stark is just awesome, it’s fascinating. It brings out sides in others that won’t be brought out in the other franchises. Going forward with the mix is a whole other thing, I think it will be cool. So to pile on another 15 or 10, frankly more than four would be too many.

Is the Hulk in it?

Zak Penn is outlining it as we speak, so we’ll see.

Are you going to test potential Captain America people against Robert knowing they’ll have work together at some point?

We’ve already been doing a little bit of that, to an extent. We’re certainly casting all of the actors knowing that they need to carry, whether they are the good guy or the bad guy or a small part, not only their own franchise but playing an important part in the Avengers franchise. We are definitely keeping that in mind as we are casting.

Has Chris Hemsworth [Thor] said that he would met with Robert?

Oh yes, that was the first meeting of Thor and Tony Stark, it was pretty cool.

My first thought was ‘Where’s Hawkeye, Ant-Man and Wasp?’ but that’s just me.