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Superhero Showdown: The Avengers v The Dark Knight Rises

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Summer 2012 was an epic season for superhero movies. Both The Avengers and the third in the Batman trilogy, The Dark Knight Rises, were released, going head-to-head in box offices across the globe. The Avengers was a non-stop, high-octane adventure telling the story of how S.H.I.E.L.D. Director Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) must lead a […]

Gameplay footage from cancelled Avengers movie tie-in video game

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Thanks to Did You Know Gaming, we’ve got a look at some gameplay footage from THQ’s cancelled video game tie-in to Joss Whedon’s Avengers movie, which was in development between 2010 and 2011 before the publisher went bankrupt. The first-person game would have offered four playable characters in Iron Man, Captain America, The Hulk and Thor, […]

Thanos: The Unproven Titan

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Pim Razenberg on whether Thanos is the Avengers’ greatest foe, or just purple cookie-dough… Thanos. The Dark Lord. The Man Titan… The Great Bore? Introduced with a slight, grim smile in The Avengers, Marvel Comics’ powerful supervillain Thanos soon became Marvel Studio fans’ top 1 Google-search term. It didn’t take long before I started hearing […]

Jeremy Renner says it’s unlikely we’ll see The Avengers team with Guardians of the Galaxy

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With Phase Three building towards The Avengers: Infinity War Parts 1 & 2 and Thanos appearing in James Gunn’s Guardians of the Galaxy, many fans assumed we would be seeing Earth’s Mightiest Heroes crossing paths with the Guardians. Well, according to Jeremy Renner. We probably won’t. “You’ll be eighty years old by then, and I […]

The Marvel Cinematic Universe Ranked

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Chris Cooper ranks the Marvel Cinematic Universe… The Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) is now at twelve films. It’s huge, with connecting story lines and teases stretching out for years to come. Ant-Man marks the end of Marvel’s ‘Phase Two’, with ‘Phase Three’ kicking off with Captain America: Civil War next year. You know how the internet […]

Batman ’66 to team up with The Avengers

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Over the weekend it was revealed that The Dark Knight is set to team up with the Heroes in a Half-Shell for Batman/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, but that’s not the only crossover on the horizon for the Caped Crusader as Batman ’66 is set to team up with The Avengers! Now, before you get all […]

UPDATE: Fast & Furious 7 overtakes The Avengers to become the third-biggest film of all time

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UPDATE: It seems the figures that were being reported were inaccurate, with Box Office Mojo confirming that Fast & Furious 7 currently remains in fourth place at present with $1.511 billion. Universal Pictures has two reasons to celebrate this month. Not only is Jurassic World shattering box office records left, right and centre, but its […]

Jurassic World topples The Avengers for the biggest-ever domestic opening weekend

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Yesterday it was announced that Jurassic World had smashed the record for the biggest ever worldwide opening weekend, pulling in $511 million around the globe, and now with the final numbers being tallied it looks like the Colin Trevorrow-directed dino sequel has also overtaken The Avengers to claim the domestic crown. Initial estimates had put […]

Avengers: Age of Ultron, Sexism and Hollywood

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Anthony Stokes on Avengers: Age of Ultron, Sexism and Hollywood… Like many, I feel as though Hollywood has a major diversity problem, with the status quo being handsome white males.  Look no further than Avengers: Age of Ultron as an example. Marvel Studios has been trying to diversify the Marvel Cinematic Universe with the limited […]