Weekend Box Office (06/03/12): Snow White and the Huntsman opens strong while Prometheus excels overseas.

Putting a non-existent end to the non-existent box office slump, Snow White and the Huntsman ( review / trailer / essay ) topped the weeken...

Review: Snow White and the Huntsman (2012) is a dull, drab, and aggressively passive chore.

Snow White and the Huntsman 2012 127 minutes rated PG-13 by Scott Mendelson Strange is a movie that immediately establishes its dramatic sta...

Weekend Box Office (05/06/12): The Avengers does the impossible, scoring $207 million in a single weekend. Why the numbers are even more impressive than you think...

Ten years ago, Spider-Man shocked the industry by grossing more than $100 million in a single weekend .  Five years ago, Spider-Man 3 broke...

Thoughts on the big (inevitable) Avengers plot twist...

There is really only one genuine plot twist in The Avengers .  Sure there are visual moments that will shock or delight, clever lines of dia...

Review: So close yet so far, Joss Whedon's The Avengers (2012) is an often soaring but occasionally frustrating B-movie with several A+ ingredients.

The Avengers 2012 142 minutes rated PG-13 by Scott Mendelson In a film like The Avengers , which brings together strands of several prior pi...

Press Release: Disney announces release date for Captain America 2.

The Walt Disney Studios has announced a release date for Marvel Studios’ sequel to the blockbuster Captain America: The First Avenger  on Ap...

Snow White and the Huntsman gets a second (and very expensive) trailer.

This is certainly an improvement over the first teaser, if only in that it actually highlights Kristen Stewart's Snow White over the Hun...

Updated! The Avengers gets (surprisingly not terrible) character posters.

As you can see, Geek Tyrant  snagged a full banner comprised of the posters below (individuals after the jump).  Maybe it's because the ...

The Avengers gets a hilariously bad new poster, but provides marketing insights...

First and foremost, the photo-shopping on this poster is pretty terrible.  The proportions are off, Downey Jr's head is affixed on his b...

Snow White and the Huntsman gets a trailer and posters.

I know Tilda Swinton already played 'The White Witch' in The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe , but Charl...

The Avengers trailer delivers kaboom, but it looks oddly small, soulless, artless.

Well, this is indeed a teaser for The Avengers .  I don't expect to see a ton of new footage behind what was teased in the Captain Ameri...

Avengers assemble in poorly-photoshopped Entertainment Weekly cover.

It's no great tragedy, but the photo-shopping on display is pretty terrible.  The only real harm is that this poorly constructed and awk...

A place at the table: Patty Jenkins (Monster) to direct Thor 2. Why it matters.

Variety has apparently confirmed that Marvel Studios is indeed in talks with Patty Jenkins to replace departing Kenneth Branagh in directi...

Is Richard Lester available? Disney and Marvel press ahead with Thor 2 for summer 2013, without director Kenneth Branagh.

Well, it looks like summer 2013 is the one where we find out how much the Marvel franchises truly depend on their would-be auteurs.  The sum...

Thor grosses $25.7 million on opening Friday, looks headed for $65-72 million debut weekend.

It was pretty much a foregone conclusion once the midnight numbers were released, but Marvel's Thor has opened with a rock-solid $25.7 ...

Thor grosses $3.25 million in midnight sneaks, appears headed towards $43-72 million for the weekend ($65 million sounds about right).

With pretty much every major summer tentpole doing the whole 'midnight screening' thing this season, it's going to be that much ...

Review: Thor: A 3D IMAX Experience

Thor 2011 115 minutes rated PG-13 by Scott Mendelson Despite Marvel and Paramount's best marketing efforts to convince otherwise , Kenn...