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Comic Book Fan Cuts Off Nose to Become the Red Nazi Skull of His Dreams
Hudson Hongo · 02/05/15 12:00AMFirst Avengers 2: Age of Ultron Trailer Leaks Despite Marvel's Efforts
Gabrielle Bluestone · 10/22/14 08:13PMThe first trailer from Avengers 2: Age of Ultron today leaked out today, and thanks to the power of the internet you can still check it out despite Marvel's cease-and-desist efforts.
Oh Jesus, It's Time for Another Marvel Movie
Rich Juzwiak · 04/04/14 01:59PMMax Rivlin-Nadler · 05/05/13 01:06PM
Iron Man 3 made $175.3 million in the domestic box office this weekend, the second highest-grossing weekend of all-time. The first? Last year's The Avengers.
Parks and Rec Let Patton Oswalt Ramble On for Eight Minutes Straight About Whatever and the Result Is Pure Magic
Neetzan Zimmerman · 04/17/13 12:33PMOne of the two Parks and Recreation episodes airing tomorrow features a cameo by the inimitable Patton Oswalt who demonstrates at length what makes him so inimitable.
Marvel Invents New Hearing-Impaired Superhero for Child Who Refuses to Wear Hearing Aid
Neetzan Zimmerman · 05/24/12 12:25PM
After her four-year-old son Anthony told her he didn't want to wear his hearing aid to school anymore because "superheroes don't wear hearing aids," Christina D'Allessandro wrote Marvel asking if there was a hearing-impaired superhero she could use to prove Anthony wrong.
The Avengers: Don't Fuck This Up
Brian Moylan · 02/29/12 02:18PMThe Avengers: A Special Kind of Club
Richard Lawson · 10/11/11 10:14AMHere's a first trailer for the big Marvel mashup The Avengers, which puts together all the superheroes you've seen at the movies in the past few years and, well, the orgy begins.
Techie Food Snob Named 'Scammell' Caught Insider Trading
Hamilton Nolan · 08/12/11 09:02AM
The SEC has charged a 26 year-old named Toby Scammell (HEH) with insider trading, after he made nearly $200K on stock deals after learning from his Disney-employed girlfriend that Disney was going to buy Marvel. How many objectionable things do we know about Toby?
Thor: Notes On a Scandinavian Scandal
Richard Lawson · 12/13/10 04:24PMHere's a trailer for Thor, the latest addition to Marvel's growing Avengers lineup (which will soon be a movie all its own). Star Trek spacefox Chris Hemsworth (Miley's bf's brother!!!) plays the mythical Norseman stuck in the human world.
cityfile · 11/03/09 04:00PM
• The Wall Street Journal has the Times in its sights. The paper is hiring a dozen reporters to cover local news and will launch a NYC edition next year. [NYT]
• As expected, a big round of layoffs at Time Inc. is underway. [Gawker, NYT]
• Harvey and Bob Weinstein may be looking to buy back the Miramax name from Disney now that it's being disbanded. That's the rumor anyway. [Wrap]
• Bloomberg plans to make BusinessWeek "bigger, glossier, and more international." Oh, and it may start charging for access to the BW site. [MW]
• The Oscars will have two hosts: Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin. [LAT]
We're Rebooting the World!
Richard Rushfield · 09/01/09 12:00PMDoes Obama Have the Guts to Take on Big Cartoon?
Richard Rushfield · 08/31/09 01:55PMDisney Buys Marvel, NBC Gets 'More Colorful'
cityfile · 08/31/09 01:55PM• Get ready for the Spider-Man ride at Disney World: Walt Disney has agreed to pay $4 billion in cash and stock to acquire Marvel Entertainment. [NYT, WSJ]
• Because she was clearly the very best person for the job, Jenna Bush has signed on with the Today show. The daughter of the former president will be contributing stories "about once a month on issues like education." [THR]
• The Final Destination was No. 1 at the box office this weekend with a $28.3 million take; Inglourious Basterds came in No. 2 with $20 million. [THR]
• Newsstand magazine sales continue to fall. Single-copy sales fell 12 percent during the first half of the 2009 compared to the same period in 2008. [AP]
• NBC's new slogan for its fall marketing campaign? "More colorful." [Variety]
Disney Buys Marvel, Now in Business with Every Studio in Hollywood
Brian Moylan · 08/31/09 09:49AM
It was announced today that Disney shelled out $4 billion for Marvel Entertainment, Inc. Not only does it now own Spider-Man, the X-Men, and Iron Man, but is also in business with almost every Hollywood studio. What a tangled web!
Memorial Day Sales Are Upon Us
cityfile · 05/21/09 07:34PM
• Don't feel too bad if you're staying in the city for the long weekend. Take advantage of the big Memorial Day sales instead. [NYDN]
• Burberry's new Madison Avenue HQ opens on May 28; the building's sign will get switched on then, too. [Hint]
• Today in C-list celebrity fashion news: Alyssa Milano has debuted a baseball-inspired collection; and Heidi Montag is releasing a line of bikinis. [SW, SW]
Tom Cruise Hasn't Met a Script He Hasn't Asked to Be Rewritten
Richard Lawson · 04/22/09 09:33AM
There is little good news anymore. Today Angelina Jolie signs a pact with the devil, as does Walgreens. Tom Cruise can't pick good scripts, and Dimension keeps puttering along.
Mickey Rourke Now The Latest Marvel Actor To Suffer a Lowball Offer
Kyle Buchanan · 01/21/09 05:25PMMickey Rourke's paycheck: less than 1/3 of Charlie Sheen's. [/film]