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Monday, May 5, 2008
Iron Man sequel, Thor, Avengers announced
Wow. The ink is barely dry on Iron Man’s boffo box office reports, when Marvel announces, not unexpectedly, that Iron Man 2 is a go, set for April 30, 2010.
What IS a bit surprising is that Marvel has announced a full slate of future movies. They are Thor, due out June 4, 2010; The First Avenger: Captain America May 6, 2011; The Avengers, July 2011; and Ant-Man, which has no release date.
Marvel is understandably heady with its success, considering Iron Man, the first feature the company produced independently, opened bigger than most people expected. But I wonder if they’re moving too fast.
The Thor and Captain America titles make sense; those characters are pretty well known. But the Avengers, which are kind of a Marvel all-stars, seems like a risky venture to me this soon - just look at all the trouble WB has had getting a Justice League movie with the DC heroes off the ground. And who but ardent comic nuts cares about Ant-Man?
Marvel had better be careful - I have a sneaking suspicion that a good chunk of the goodwill they have right now will evaporate once The Incredible Hulk comes out in June. Then where will that put them?
What do you say?
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Iron Man/Favorite movie outings with kids
Well, so much for the stupid theory that the release of Grand Theft Auto IV would put a crimp in the opening weekend grosses of Iron Man. Wow.
And good news for fans of the movie - that sequel you (and I) are waiting for may hit as soon as 2010.
To get the blog going this week, however, a I’d like to pose a question. A few comments on my Iron Man review were about taking kids to the movie. It seems to be have gone over especially well with the young ones.
So I wonder: What was your most memorable moviegoing experience with a child? It doesn’t have to be the first movie, necessarily, and it doesn’t have to be memorable for happy reasons. Many of you, I’m sure, have known the trauma of taking a child to one of the tragic Disney movies (Bambi, Lion King) as lampooned in this brilliant Animaniacs short.
If you don’t have kids yourself, your answer can be about taking other kids to the movies, or hearing funny kid responses. Comment and share.
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