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Disney’s Marvel Deal Forces DC’s Hand
5:51PM Andrew Belonsky | In a battle between Mickey Mouse and Superman, most people would put their money on Superman. Well, that’s almost true. Sure, Superman would definitely kill Mickey, but the Mouse has Disney power, and that Disney power forced Superman’s company’s hand. More »
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Disney Buys Marvel, Now In Business With Every Hollywood Studio
12:49AM Brian Moylan | It was announced today that Disney shelled out $US4 billion for Marvel Entertainment, Inc. Not only does it now own Spider-Man, the X-Men, and Iron Man, but is also in business with almost every Hollywood studio. What a tangled web! More »
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Tom Cruise Hasn’t Met A Script He Hasn’t Asked To Be Rewritten
12:33AM Richard Lawson | There is little good news anymore. Today Angelina Jolie signs a pact with the devil, as does Walgreens. Tom Cruise can’t pick good scripts, and Dimension keeps puttering along. More »Mickey Rourke Now The Latest Marvel Actor To Suffer a Lowball Offer
7:25AM Kyle Buchanan | Mickey Rourke’s paycheck: less than 1/3 of Charlie Sheen’s. [/film] More »
Samuel L. Jackson Wants His Motherfucking Self Off This Motherfucking ‘Iron Man’ Sequel
2:40AM Kyle Buchanan | It’s a bad time to be a Marvel movie actor, unless you’re Robert Downey Jr. (or Gwyneth Paltrow, who’d be the first to say that it is always a good time to be Gwyneth Paltrow).
‘Captain America’ One Director Closer To Reality
5:12AM Seth | Just in time for the Re-Branding of the U.S.A.™: Effects legend and The Wolf Man director Joe Johnston has been hired to direct First Avenger: Captain America. [THR] The guys behind The Tudors are developing another Showtime series based on Camelot, the Arthurian, not Kennedian, legend. [Variety] Still in a perpetual state of contract limbo, SAG is “vigorously” enforcing the ban on any non-union work for its members—particularly in new-media productions. So you can forget that arc on David Faustino’s Star-ving, OK? [Variety] After the jump: What polarising cable pundit will be with us for four more years? More »
Spiteful ‘Iron Man’ Producers: We Never Liked Terrence Howard Anyway
9:47AM Kyle Buchanan | When it was announced that Don Cheadle would be taking on Terrence Howard’s role in Iron Man 2, a simple explanation of “financial differences” (as well as an inability to get the War Machine costume sufficiently baby-wiped) was all that was forthcoming from the filmmakers’ side. Then, Howard spoke to NPR and compared the Marvel braintrust to a non-singing network of pimps, forcing the filmmaking team to take the gloves off. Now, in a discussion with EW, sources close to Marvel and director Jon Favreau leaked the real details behind Howard’s firing, and they involve bad acting and one very surprising salary: More »
Terrence Howard At Peace With ‘Pimps’ Who Cut Him Out of ‘Iron Man 2′
4:40AM STV | In an appearance Saturday on NPR’s Weekend Edition, Terrence Howard interrupted his discussion of his new album with a Zen meditation on his recent departure from the Iron Man franchise. And if it seemed unusual last week that Howard might bow out of the blockbuster’s sequel, leaving his role as Tony Stark confidante Jim Rhodes (and his own heroic alter-ego War Machine) to the capable, cheaper hands of Don Cheadle, the scenario didn’t get any clearer as the actor wavered between the high road and calling Marvel Studios a scandalous gang of thieves and pimps: More »
Own ‘Iron Man’ For the Low, Low Price of $499 (Plus Shipping)
7:20AM STV | In what’s being labelled as an effort to snag iTunes marketshare, Dell will give PC buyers the option to preload Iron Man on its new computers. Before you laugh: That incursion is being led by a man with whom Apple settled a wrongful-termination lawsuit in 2005. Never underestimate a software-wonk scorned. [THR] And if you act now, Paramount and Marvel may throw in five more co-releases — including Thor, Captain America and The Avengers — at no extra charge through 2011! Operators are standing by! [Variety] More »
