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Marvel Pres: 'Thor's' a Game-Changer

4 January 2010 9:15 PM, PST | CinemaSpy | See recent CinemaSpy news »

So it sounds like Thor and his fellow Asgardians have started their screen tests, and there’s at least one person who likes what he sees.

Of course, that person would be Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige, but he might be a little biased. In a retrospective on Marvel-based films posted at Marvel.com, Feige claimed the garbed Asgardians in Kenneth Branagh’s upcoming adaptation set a bold new standard in comic book movies unseen since, well, 2000’s Marvel-based X-Men.

"To be honest the thing that I'm most excited about right now though, is the screen test we just finished for 'Thor'," Feige states toward the end of the article. "We've done some costume tests and watching the Asgardians walk onto the sound stage takes me back to that first time I saw the X-Men on the set all together in Toronto. Only it was unlike anything we've ever put on film before! »

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Marvel/Disney Deal Done, Plus Stan Lee’s Pow

3 January 2010 12:34 PM, PST | newsinfilm.com | See recent newsinfilm news »

Just four months after making the shocking announcement, Walt Disney Co’s $4.24 billion acquisition of Marvel Entertainment is complete.  Thursday morning (December 31, 2009) stockholders approved the merger that would make Marvel a wholly-owned subsidiary of Disney, according to the AP.

The deal gives Disney the rights to roughly 5,000 characters created in the Marvel comic book universe.  However, since the deal was made public in August, the acquisition has come under fire from puzzled pundits, like myself, who see the major Marvel heroes tied up in the short term at other studios.

Spider-Man will remain at Sony as long as they churn out new sequels.  Execs there have wasted no time in hiring a writer for a fifth and sixth installment, even before the fourth starts principal photography this Spring.  The same goes for Venom, who they’re looking to spin-off into his own stand-alone movie.

Meanwhile, Fox is clinging to the »

- Jeff Leins

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The best comic book film adaptations of the decade?

2 January 2010 11:22 AM, PST | The Geek Files | See recent The Geek Files news »

The Process of turning comic books into movies has seen some hits, misses and very varied approaches, with few films (or TV show interpretations) given a serious treatment in previous decades.

It's often said that the first Blade film, released in 1998 and based on Marvel's vampire title, paved the way for the current era of adaptations, although many mainstream viewers won't even realise that Blade is a comic book character.

It's more likely that the catalyst was Bryan Singer's first X-Men film in 2000. The combination of a heavyweight cast to broaden the marketability and a serious, respectful take on the comics to satisfy fans proved to be a win-win situation.

Since then there have been 10 years of releases, not all of them well-regarded or financially successful.

I recently discussed those that came out this year and there is a poll on the right asking which you think was the worst, »

- David Bentley

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Kevin Feige talks Thor and a decade of Marvel, Jeremy Renner talks Hawkeye

2 January 2010 10:57 AM, PST | The Geek Files | See recent The Geek Files news »

With the decade at an end, Marvel Studios president of production Kevin Feige has been looking back on what it brought - and forward to what we can expect in the future.

In an interview on Marvel's website, Feige (pictured above) began by reflecting on the numerous comic book movie adaptations seen so far, including X-Men and Spider-Man.

Interestingly, he acknowledged that: "Spider-Man 3 and X-Men: The Last Stand were the most successful of their franchises and that says a lot about the loyalty of the fans. They were challenging films to make. Spider-Man 3 got to be too much of a good thing. With those films we learned that bigger is not always better."

Bryan Singer is now back on the X-Men franchise and Sam Raimi has vowed to get back to basics on Spider-Man 4, so it looks like the excesses will trimmed for future instalments.

And, looking to the future, »

- David Bentley

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