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Watch Iron Man 3 Online Iron Man 3 finally opened in North American theaters last night, after setting box office records all over the world and churning up fan anticipation with ecstatic reviews. We don't yet know if it's the conclusion of Robert Downey Jr.'s time as Iron Man outside of The Avengers, but Iron Man 3 is a great note to end on if it is, a hugely celebrated movie that's like a victory lap for the character who set off the whole Marvel Cinematic Universe to begin with.
Watch Iron Man 3 Online It was hard to expect Iron Man 3 to be able to best The Avengers-- how can one superhero compete against a team-up of 7?-- but it's actually pulling it off overseas. THR says that it continues to be ahead of The Avengers when you count the worldwide grosses, which now stand at $456.6 million. The Avengers topped out at $1.5 billion last year, and with audiences responding well to Iron Man 3, it at least stands a chance of getting near that. North American audiences give it an A CinemaScore, which means word of mouth will keep it going even when newer blockbusters take over screens in the coming weeks.As you've probably read by now, we love Iron Man 3 a lot around here, and we're discussing the film with spoilers, talking about why it's a a perfect Shane Black movie and wondering if we'll ever get an Iron Man 4 throughout the weekend. Come back tomorrow for a full box office report, and let us know in the comments how you've been enjoying your surely packed screenings of Iron Man 3.
Watch Pain And Gain Online One of the more bizarre patterns spotted in writer/director Shane Black’s filmography is the number of films that begin with the letter “L.” Since kicking off his career in 1987, four of the seven movies he’s written and/or directed have started the same way, previously making Lethal Weapon, Last Boy Scout, Last Action Hero and Long Kiss Goodnight. Unfortunately, Black’s latest film Iron Man 3 doesn’t fit the alphabetical requirement, but it really doesn’t matter when you consider that the writer/director left his calling cards all over the rest of the movie.
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Watch 42 Online And it’s not just the fact that the superhero movie is set during the holidays, but the say in which the season affects the characters and the story. From Mel Gibson's Martin Riggs to Bruce Willis' Joe Hallenbeck, Black likes to write about lonely characters, and it’s not hard to see why that would be highlighted at Christmas. In Iron Man 3, Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) is surrounded by people, but also completely isolated within himself due to the trauma experienced during the Battle of New York. But Black’s films are certainly not without their warmth as well, which leads me to my next point…
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Watch Scary Movie 5 Online You Can Tolerate The Kid Characters. Kids and Christmas are two elements that regularly go hand in hand in Hollywood and Black’s films are no exception. But as every movie-watcher knows, working with children characters is often a dangerous path to tread down. Sometimes you get stuck with a young actor who, as it turns out, doesn’t know how to act, and even if the actor is perfect there’s always the potential snake trap of making the kid too cute or annoying. But Black has never had trouble. The Monster Squad, Last Action Hero, and The Last Boy Scout all have main characters played by child actors, and all of them succeed because Black writes the roles like they’re normal people who happen to be kids. What's not to love about the rebellion of foul-mouthed Darian Hallenbeck, played by a young Danielle Harris in Boy Scout, or the fun enthusiasm of Austin O'Brien's Danny Madigan as he pals around with Arnold Schwarzenegger? In Iron Man 3 Tony Stark winds up stranded in Rose Hill, Tennessee and ends up with a kid
WATCH A Good Day To Die Hard ONLINE But that's not all we have for you today!We've been thinking that this poster-a-day release has been going somewhere, and it appears that it has led to the first clip from the film. The scene is one that is partially featured in the most recent trailer, but has some great added elements, such the name of John Goodman's mysterious antagonist character and Alan's ring pop. Watch the clip below, courtesy of the movie's official Facebook page. The movie, written by director Todd Phillips and co-writer Craig Mazin, is set two years after the events of The Hangover Part II and finds Alan in bad shape after the death of his father (Jeffrey Tambor). Realizing that their friend needs help, Phil (Bradley Cooper), Stu (Ed Helms), Doug (Justin Bartha) team up to try and get Alan into a rehabilitation center. This plan goes astray when a man named Marshall (Goodman) kidnaps Doug and sends the Wolf P
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WATCH Oz The Great And Powerful ONLINE We've been talking a lot about Iron Man 3 around here this week, from trying to predict its box office based on reviews to giving it the To 3D or not to 3D test to pointing out how The Avengers made it better. Now it's your turn. In the comments below you can discuss Iron Man 3 with spoilers, and also rate it in our poll. Talk about all the stuff you can't get into with your friends who haven't seen it yet, debate where The Mandarin ranks among the Marvel villains, decide what your favorite version of the Iron Man suit is-- this is the place to do it.Anyone who was following Iron Man 3's insane grosses overseas could pretty easily predict it would have a big American opening, and the superhero threequel has lived up to most expectations. According to the early numbers at The Hollywood Reporter Iron Man 3 opened to $68.3 million on Friday, putting it on track for the $165-$170 million weekend that many insiders had predicted.
Kevin Feige: Well, sometimes. The truth is, every one of the phase one movies and so far almost every one of the Phase Two movies are built purely for the individual movie, and with Iron Man 3, the idea, before we even started shooting Avengers, the idea for Iron Man 3 was a return to the single character story line. We didn’t want to keep the universe building directly after we built to The Avengers, so the notion of taking Tony back to basics of metaphorically putting him in similar position to when his convoy explodes and he was thrown to the cave, that’s what so much of the movie was inspired by - to take him back to that level. Frankly, it’s much more the other way that as we started to develop this movie and seeing where we wanted to take Tony and where we were leaving Tony, is talking to Joss and saying, “Here’s what you’re inheriting,” and then he would take that forward. When Phase Two is all said and done, I’ll talk to you about what is the over, over, overarching thing is, that will end up threading through, of which there are threads in it here, but it won’t necessarily be apparent until the whole thing comes together.
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