Premier Pop C Pop Culture News – Movies, Comics, Television, Books, Toys, Games, and More Robert Downey Jr.’s Iron Man 3 made the record books as it kicked off the summer movie season with a $175.3 million opening from 4,253 theaters in North America, the No. 2 debut of all time behind fellow Marvel pic The Avengers ($207.4 million), also starring Downey as Iron Man. Iron Man 3 received a glowing A CinemaScore …
Read More »‘Pain & Gain’ Tops Box Office
Michael Bay‘s Pain & Gain starring Mark Wahlberg and Dwayne Johnson topped the domestic box office with $20 million on the final weekend before summer tentpoles begin rolling out. Overseas, however, Iron Man 3 opened to a mammoth $195.3 million, bigger than last year’s The Avengers and boding well for the threequel’s domestic launch on May 3. The top …
Read More »Iron Man 3 Flies Into IMAX Theaters
IMAX and Marvel announced that Marvel’s Iron Man 3 , the latest installment of the film franchise that has grossed more than $1.2 billion at the global box office, will be digitally re-mastered into the immersive IMAX 3D format and released to IMAX theatres internationally starting April 25 and domestically on May 3. Marvel’s Iron Man 3 marks the fourth Marvel …
Read More »New Avengers Photos Released
Take a look at the new photos that Marvel released from the summer blockbuster “The Avengers.”
Read More »Robert Downey Jr. Enters The Wayback Machine
DreamWorks Animation announced that two-time Academy Award nominee Robert Downey Jr. will voice the iconic character of Mr. Peabody, headlining the cast of the studio’s feature adaptation of animation legend Jay Ward’s classic TV series, Mr. Peabody & Sherman. The studio had previously announced that Rob Minkoff ( Stuart Little , The Lion King) will direct …
Read More »Sherlock Holmes 2 Gets a Mad Man
Just a couple of days ago word came in that Stephen Fry has joined the cast as Sherlock Holmes’ older brother Mycroft in Guy Ritchie’s sequel to 2009’s Sherlock Holmes. Now it seems that Ritchie may have found his Professor Moriarty. According to solid sources the Latino Review, it is …
Read More »Stephen Fry Cast in Sherlock Holmes 2
Stephen Fry announced on the Danny Baker Show for BBC Radio 5 that he will be portraying Mycroft Holmes in the upcoming sequel to 2009’s Sherlock Holmes. In the books by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Mycroft Holmes is Sherlock’s older brother, who is more intelligent, but lazier and is less …
Read More »The Avengers Assemble at Comic-Con
Hot on the heels of Joss Whedon’s announcement that he will direct the Avengers, he joined the principal cast onstage on Saturday night at Comic-Con. A cast, which now includes Jeremy Renner as Hawkeye and Mark Ruffalo as the Hulk, as well as Robert Downey Jr. (Iron Man), Clark Gregg …
Read More »Joss Whedon Confirms He’s Directing the Avengers
Although it doesn’t come to anyone’s surprise, Joss Whedon has confirmed that he will be directing The Avengers film during a panel with JJ Abrams at Comic Con. “It’s not an official thing, I think because Marvel couldn’t afford a press release,” said Whedon. “So can we make that an …
Read More »Raimi and Downey Jr. Will Travel to Oz
Word over the last few days was that Sam Raimi was in negotiations to direct the Wizard of Oz prequel for Disney. Now Deadline has confirmed that a deal was finalized to make Oz: the Great and Powerful Sam Raimi’s next stint in the director chair since he removed himself …
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