Marvel's Marmalade Scoop

since my good friend devin, has officially deemed me as a comic book geek, i officially bring you this scoop.

MARVEL IS DOING BIG THINGS over the next few years. They just posted a massive Q4 growth for the 2008 financial year. Capitalizing on this success, they are going to continue to release 5 major films....geeks worldwide, get ready:

1. WOLVERINE
Release: May 1st 2009
this currently holds the #1 spot on my 2009 most anticipated. i can't wait! i LOVE xmen. Now, if only they do a film about jean grey/phoneix. that would be bad ass!

2. THOR
Release: July 16th 2010

If you were a child of the 80s, you know all about thor. am i excited? hell yeah. although, they better cast thor accurately or i'll be disappointed. Although i'm not so sure about choosing kenneth branagh to direct?

3. CAPTAIN AMERICA
Release: May 16th 2011

Will be interesting. I'm curious how they will adapt this into a screen play.

4. THE AVENGERS
Release: July 15th 2011

Same feeling as Captain America.

and this is just in...

according to Hollywood Reporter, Samuel L. Jackson has become Marvel "It" man! He just inked a deal with Marvel to appear in 9 upcoming movies, including Iron Man 2, Thor, Captain America and The Avengers. He is definately going to be one busy bee. What are your thoughts on this? Do you think Marvel is overdosing on Jackson or are you excited? discussion please!

boo boo banana batman scoop

Attention all batman fans, our favourite dark night won't be 'off to the batmobile' anytime soon.

According to Variety, producer/director Christopher Nolan will not be working on a sequel to The Dark Night until december 2011 or summer 2012. Warner Bros is currently in the process of inking a deal with Nolan to create a summer blockbuster out of his sci-fi script entitled Inception. Production will begin this year and the film will be released in the summer of 2010.

After seeing the dark night a handful of times*, i've been engrossed in numerous conversations with fellow comic book geeks about possible villains in the sequels.

Despite this disappointing news, i would rather wait for christopher nolan. he turned the whole franchise around and gave the batman movies a new life. in fact, the dark night has easily replaced the original batman movie as my all time favourite comic book movie. besides, there were about 3 or 4 years between batman begins and the dark knight, so i suppose that i can wait for another amazing film!! but what if terminator takes off and they want to release a sequel, which will most likely happen, they better produce another batman before they do another terminator or i will be one unhappy camper!!!

*SIDE NOTE: seeing a movie multiple times rarely happens. Usually, when i've seen a movie more than once, it's because i absolutely love it.