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Marvel’s site has announced that production has begun on next year’s Avengers Movie. If your comic fans don’t already know this you can be the first to inform them. Linked below is the full article.
http://marvel.com/news/story/15733/marvels_the_avengers_begins_production
Marvel’s site is sharing a behind the scenes video for the release of Avengers: Earth’s Mightest Heroes series. The seriesis available today, April 26th and watch the video below.
For librarians that have patrons that like comic books and trading cards will want to share this information. True most patrons interested in these two collectibles will be the same, but their might be a few that just collect one type of collectible. For those patrons that only collect one type share with them that Upper Deck is producing a trading card series that when put together will form comic pages that tale the story of the Avengers: Kree-Skrull War. This is a cool cross promotional and will give librarians some talking points with your patrons. For the full article link below to ICv2.
Yahoo has a nice article about how many past and present Oscar Nominees are taking rolls in comic book movies. They are from Thor: Natalie Portman; Kenneth Branagh, Director; Adriana Barraza; and past winner Anthony Hopkins. From X-Men First Class is Jennifer Lawrence and from Avengers: Mark Ruffalo; Jeremy Renner; Robert Downey Jr.; and Samuel L. Jackson. Pretty good cast of talent hopefully this will bode well for these three movies. Time will tell…Follow the link to the full article by Matt McDaniel.
http://blog.movies.yahoo.com/blog/694-new-thor-trailer-features-oscar-hopeful-natalie-portman