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Iron Man Sequel in 2010

Followed by Thor, Cap & The Avengers

In the wake of the stunning $100 million debut of its first film, Iron Man, Marvel Studios unveiled its plans for 2010 and 2011 today (largely because of the timing of the writers’ strike there will be no Marvel Studios’ films in 2009).  After the premiere of The Incredible Hulk on June 13th of this year, the next Marvel Studios film will be a sequel to Iron Man, which will debut on April 30th, 2010 and will likely feature basically the same cast and director (Robert Downey Jr., Jon Favreau, etc.) who are responsible for the current film.  The second Marvel Studios movie for 2010 will be Thor, which is slated to premiere on June 4th, 2010.  Matthew Vaughn (Layer Cake, Stardust) is set to direct Thor (see “Marvel Taps Matthew Vaughn”).

The Avengers will be Marvel Studios’ theme for 2011 starting with the May 6th, 2011 debut of The First Avenger: Captain America (working title) followed by the release of the first live action Avengers movie in July of 2011.  Evidently Marvel is no longer worried about the possible lack of interest in a Captain America movie outside these shores and calculates that its strong brand identity can overcome any anti-American sentiment regarding the Star-Spangled Hero.

The big loser in the Marvel Studios derby appears to be Ant-Man, which writer/director Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead) has been developing.  With the success of the straight forward approach to superhero action movies as demonstrated by Iron Man, we may have to wait a while to get a more humorous and twisted take on the genre—at least from Marvel Studios.

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As reported by Variety, DreamWorks SKG has acquired the rights to adapt the futuristic police thriller Ghost in the Shell into a 3-D live-action feature!

Universal and Sony were also in the hunt for the property, but it was the personal interest of director Steven Spielberg that won out in the end. Avi Arad, Ari Arad and Steven Paul are all attached to produce the film with Jamie Moss penning the adaptation. To read the article in its entirety, please visit www.variety.com.

As the fourth and final season of SCI FI’s Battlestar Galactica unfurls, fans of the show can now get a sneak peek of new episodes every Friday on SCIFI.com – 10 hours before they’re aired on cable!

Airing at 10:00 p.m. on the network’s SCI FI Friday line-up, the fourth season of Battlestar Galactica already has fans buzzing with the revelation that four key crewmembers have been, in reality, Cylon sleeper agents, and the back-from-the-dead Starbuck (who could very well be the Fifth Cylon) may know the way to Earth! A critical darling as well as a ratings superstar, Battlestar Galactica has won Emmy, Peabody, Hugo and Saturn Awards, and looks to add to that collection with its startling final season.

By Marc Strom at Marvel

Welcome to another installment of Secret Invasion Illumination, True Believer! Over the next few months, we'll be taking a look at various key players from the mega event spinning through SECRET INVASION itself as well as MIGHTY AVENGERS, NEW AVENGERS and more of Marvel's top titles, examining what role they'll play as the story unfolds.

This week the Skrull Empire takes center stage to coincide with the upcoming release of NEW AVENGERS #40 on April 30, which tracks the aliens' plan back to its very beginnings! And to help us out, we've got Executive Editor Tom Brevoort along to hit us up with expert commentary and tantalizing teases!

The Skrulls: Uglies Without a Home

An alien race of shape-shifters, the Skrulls have regularly menaced the Earth since their first encounter with the Fantastic Four in one of that team's earliest adventures.

After tussling with the fabulous foursome on several occasions, the extraterrestrial fiends came to the attention of the larger Marvel U when their war with longtime enemies the Kree spread to Earth. Luckily the Avengers, with some help from Rick Jones and the original Captain Marvel, stopped them before they could turn our world into a no-man's land with their interstellar conflict.

The Skrulls' centuries-old empire finally began to crumble, however, when the planet-devouring Galactus decided to pay a little visit to their Throneworld. Following their home base's destruction, the Skrull power structure devolved into chaos with a vacuum where its ruler once stood.

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