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More Marvel-ous movies?
TOM SPURGEON is the editor of the Comics Report (comicsreporter.com).AS "SPIDER-MAN 3" swings high above the May box office, Marvel Entertainment Inc. is closing in on a decade at the top of the global entertainment market, superhero division. From the moment in 1998 that Wesley Snipes slipped into Kevlar and fake...Tags: Companies and Corporations, Ang Lee, Spider-Man (fictional character), Robert Downey Jr., Marvel Entertainment, Inc.
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'Hulk's' biggest obstacle: Ang Lee's version
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterCOUNTLESS comic-book bad guys have made the fatal mistake of underestimating the Hulk. Have Hollywood and the media made the same costly error? For weeks, industry gossip and news reports have focused not only on the shaky stance of Friday's “Speed...Tags: Ang Lee, Steve Carell, Spider-Man (fictional character), Tim Roth, M. Night Shyamalan
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Michelle Obama's toned arms are debated
First Lady Michelle Obama stands tall and regal in her official portrait, a double strand of creamy pearls around her neck, her figure clad in a fitted Michael Kors dress. But there's one aspect of this seemingly benign photograph that's causing something...Tags: Anne Hathaway, Barack Obama, Madonna, Celebrities, Michelle Obama
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'Get Smart' 86s box-office rivals
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterWould you believe . . . $39.2 million? The old espionage spoof trick worked to push Steve Carell's "Get Smart," the big screen update of the 1960s spy sitcom, to the top of the box office over the weekend. Although reviews were mixed, the Warner Bros....Tags: Anne Hathaway, Angelina Jolie, Politics, Steve Carell, Marvel Entertainment, Inc.
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'Twilight' taps teen-vampire romance
Special to The TimesTHIRTY miles outside town, in a wet, stunningly bleak meadow ringed by moss-draped Oregon ash, vampires are playing baseball. They're decked out in a hodgepodge of vintage jerseys, caps and striped socks, presumably collected over their last century of...Tags: Cam Gigandet, Robert Pattinson, Stephenie Meyer, Mick Jagger, Celebrities
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Edward Norton tapped to play Hulk.
Times Staff WriterCall it "The Incredible Hulk" redux. Edward Norton will star as Bruce Banner in Marvel Studios and Universal Pictures second attempt in less than five years to make "The Incredible Hulk." The revised drama, directed by Louis Leterrier ("Transporter 2"),...Tags: Ang Lee, Jennifer Connelly, Spider-Man (fictional character), Edward Norton, Eric Bana
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Hancock, Obama and the summer of heroes
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterSp far this summer, I've had my brain pummeled by Robert Downey Jr. flying around in a techno-suit, Adam Sandler as an invincible (and priapic) former Mossad agent, Steve Carell as a nerdy indestructible super spy, Harrison Ford as a Teflon 60-year-old...Tags: Barack Obama, George Reeves, Petroleum Industry, Steve Carell, Spider-Man (fictional character)
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'Incredible Hulk' outmuscles box-office rivals
Bloomberg News"The Incredible Hulk," the action movie about a man whose temper transforms him into a green beast, was the top film at U.S. and Canadian theaters this weekend with sales of $54.5 million. The movie topped director M. Night Shyamalan's "The Happening," a...Tags: News Corp., Ang Lee, Lions Gate Entertainment Corporation, Tim Roth, M. Night Shyamalan
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Making 2008's 'The Incredible Hulk' more than a shade better
Special to The TimesWHEN Marvel and Universal studios decided to reboot the Hulk just a few years after director Ang Lee brought the mean, green comic-book creature to multiplexes, they quite literally went back to the drawing board. Director Louis Leterrier's $150-million...Tags: Gaming, Ang Lee, Tim Roth, Edward Norton, Lou Ferrigno
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Hancock scores a superhero-sized debut
"Hancock," a film about a petulant, perpetually drunken superhero, proved to be review-proof as well as bulletproof this weekend, overwhelming competitors and giving star Will Smith his fifth top-selling film on a Fourth of July weekend.
Audiences came...Tags: Journey to the Center of the Earth (movie, 2008), Angelina Jolie, Marvel Entertainment, Inc., Indiana Jones (fictional character), Eddie Murphy
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Tim Roth gives clinics on how to be the villain
Special to The TimesWITH HIS 1982 film debut as a window-smashing skinhead teen in "Made in Britain" and his Oscar-nominated sadist fop in the Highlands period drama " Rob Roy," Tim Roth has routinely been considered one of film's most exciting performers. The actor, though,...Tags: Francis Ford Coppola, Quentin Tarantino, Ang Lee, Tim Roth, Science and Technology
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Iron Man and Speed Racer: The Videogame
Special to The TimesAh, May! The weather gets a little warmer, high school kids nervously attend their proms and the movie studios begin to release their would-be blockbusters, eager to start the summer box-office rush early. And do you know what that means? (Besides, of...Tags: Gaming, Video Games, Film Festivals, Robert Downey Jr., Wii
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