Watch Robert Downey Jr. take the #IceBucketCallenge, shirtless in a pool no less, and check out who gets the honor of dumping the ice on his head.
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The cast, writers and director of Iron Man 3 met with members of the press to discuss the film, their characters and the production. Assembled in a ballroom at the legendary Four Seasons Hotel, in two separate press conferences, Robert Downey, Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, Don Cheadle, and Sir Ben Kingsley in the first, and Rebecca Hall, Guy Pearce, co-writer Drew Pearce (no relation), and co-writer/director Shane Black in the second, they engaged in banter among themselves and answered questions from the assembled journalists, discussing the process of making the film, its place in the Marvel universe, and the unfortunate similarity of certain plot points to recent real-world events.
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Marvel continues to build their shared universe, following up on The Avengers with the third entry in the Iron Man franchise, imaginatively titled Iron Man 3. The story grows out of the events of the big team-up movie, but is otherwise a self-contained adventure for Tony Stark and company, despite the rather obvious fact that SHIELD and the other Avengers would have certainly taken an interest in a nationwide wave of terrorist attacks rather than leaving poor Tony to deal with it alone, especially after he goes missing. That logical gap notwithstanding, the story that plays out is pretty solid, with nice character and action bits for the supporting cast, especially Pepper Potts (Gwyneth Paltrow) and Jim “Rhodey” Rhodes (Don Cheadle).
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GeekMom Sophie, a resident of the UK, already has seen Iron Man and she answers questions about whether it lives up to the Avengers, how Tony Stark is reacting to his near death experience in that movie, and what sequences might be too scary for younger kids.
Continue ReadingThe first trailer for the upcoming Iron Man 3, scheduled to hit theaters on May 3, 2013, has dropped, and it’s a heck of a ride.
Continue ReadingFinally, the first real trailer for Marvel’s The Avengers, set to hit theaters May 4, 2012, is here! It looks just as awesome as you’d hope it would, and the bits of dialogue in it are such that, even if …
Continue ReadingI can’t remember ever taking more than a passing interest in the details surrounding a book’s adaptation to film. Until now, that is. I eat up ever morsel that gets dropped as The Hunger Games makes its way to the big screen. I man Twitter and Facebook feeds to get the latest casting news as […]
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