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Don Cheadle discusses his future in the Marvel movies. Sookie's various supernatural suitors explain what's ahead on True Blood. Russell T. Davies explains why you must watch Torchwood: Miracle Day, plus Game of Thrones casts its first season two character. More »
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New set photos confirm Spider-Man is going back to his mechanical web-shooters. Christian Bale is up for a fourth Christopher Nolan Batman movie. Chris Hemsworth addresses the "Hawkeye in Thor" rumors. Plus The Hobbit, Looper, Prometheus, and so much more! More »
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Green Lantern's production designer explains what the Lantern's mental constructs will look like. See Captain America on a motorcycle and Hydra in action in new set pictures. The story of a time-looped, alien-fighting marine might have found its star. Spoilers! More »
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Ben Snow of Industrial Light and Magic recently spoke about the CGI sleight of hand that went into Iron Man 2. He discussed the various armor designs and the movie's ties to Cartoon Network's classic cartoon Samurai Jack. Spoilers on! More »
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Incredibly detailed photos of a 1/6-scale replica of Iron Man 2's War Machine have gone online, revealing exactly how Rhodey's going to dish out the pain in the new movie. Details include guns, gauntlets, and waist joints. More »
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Last night the first ever trailer for Iron Man 2 was released, and it is jam-packed with spoilery goodies. Here's a shot-by-shot break down of what we noticed. More »
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Check out War Machine, the Iron Man dancers, and all new Tony Stark banter, in the first Iron Man 2 trailer. It seems Tony's handling his new superhero status with style: partying, jumping out of planes and pissing off everyone. More »
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Better than the close-up of a toy, here's the official teaser poster for next year's Iron Man 2, just released on Yahoo Movies. More »
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Is the toy tease of Iron Man 2's second armored superhero a mistake, or the latest in a series of glimpses meant to get us excited about next summer's Marvel Studios sequel? And if it's the latter, does it work? More »
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When it comes to superhero fiction, there are certain iconic archetypes; Superman is the iconic whitebread hero, Batman the iconic OCD loner. But did you realize that Iron Man's James Rhodes is the accidental iconic black superhero? We'll explain. More »
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Don Cheadle has been talking about the experience of stepping into James Rhodes' armored shoes in next year's Iron Man 2, revealing the questions that drove him, and explaining why there's more to him than... well, him, in the movie. More »
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One thing that jumped out at us in the new Iron Man 2 footage was the honkin big guns that one new character sported. And director Jon Favreau tells us those guns may be aimed at Tony Stark. Spoilers below. More »
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Tony Stark's powered armor won't protect him from his latest enemy. We saw the first footage from Iron Man 2, and Tony's latest challenge goes to the heart of who/what Iron Man is. Plus our first glimpse of War Machine! More »
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Here's how in the future we are: We're already craving the new comics of next year. Admittedly, that's because this week's comics are released on Friday, January 2nd 2009, but still. It totally counts. Really. More »
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We've known it was coming for some time, but Marvel Studios decided to make it official: Robert Downey Jr. has signed on for 2011's superhero team-up movie, The Avengers movie — as well as 2012's newly official Iron Man 3. And that's not all. The brand new War Machine, Don Cheadle, is coming along for the ride as well... as is director Jon Favreau. More »
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Iron Man - but not Iron Man 2 - star Terrence Howard has been talking (to NPR of all places) about finding out that he's not going to get to be Jim Rhodes in Jon Favreau's second installment of the Marvel Comics tin man movie franchise, and if what he says is true, apparently Marvel isn't big on actually telling people why they've been fired. More »
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Civil rights, international politics and superintelligent apes are in the future of Marvel Comics, according to Thursday's Mondo Marvel panel. The new series announcements moved away from the massive big events like revamping Spider-Man and tearing their heroes apart with a Civil War and more towards the obscure. Including something that confused the audience so much that they had to be told to applaud. More »
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Marvel released two highly anticipated animated trailers in preparation for their cameos at San Diego Comic Con this year. First is the DVD movie Hulk Vs., which is exactly what it sounds like. The big green giant will be smashing the comic book characters Thor and Wolverine in an epic battle. Second is a trailer of the new Nicktoons animated teen Iron Man series, including teen War Machine. More »
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Iron Man's coolest armored sidekick, War Machine will have a major role in Iron Man 2, says actor Terrance Howard. Filming for the Iron Man sequel starts next March, in the hopes of meeting the film's release date, set for April 2010, Howard told Military.com. But how does Howard's character, Jim Rhodes, become War Machine in the next movie? In the comics, he has to start wearing battle armor because Tony Stark goes on the mother of all boozy benders. But the movies may take a different tack, says director Jon Favreau. More »
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Sure, Iron Man may have seemed like harmless fun set in a vaguely "real world" setting, pitting Robert Downey Jr.'s Tony Stark against villains so cartoony as to be easy to hate while realistic enough to hit all of our hidden preconceptions about "evil" in a post 9/11 world. But as it turns out, the movie was much more of an advertisement for the US Air Force than you ever suspected. More »
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