Marvel Films News

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Get out your calendars Marvelites and get ready to mark them up—with the film release dates associated with the continuous story arc (YES!) on the road to "The Avengers!" Plus, if your Spidey senses are tingling, that's because "Spider-Man 4" now has an official release date!

Paving the way for the production and release of "The Avengers," Marvel announced today an adjusted release pipeline for its self-produced feature film properties that reflects the first time individual super hero characters and story arcs will be inter-woven and culminate in a multi-character motion picture.

Separately, Marvel Studios confirmed today that Sony Pictures Entertainment will release "Spider-Man 4" on May 6, 2011. Additionally, Marvel Studios has revised the release dates for "Thor" and "The First Avenger: Captain America" as part of its release strategy for an uninterrupted road to "The Avengers," now debuting May 4, 2012.

A Marvel character-based film will now launch the summer box office season for three years in a row, from 2010 through 2012.

"This new schedule strongly sequences Marvel's movie debut dates, big screen character introductions and momentum. It maximizes the visibility of our single character-focused films, leading to the highly anticipated release of the multi-character 'The Avengers' film in 2012," said David Maisel, Chairman, Marvel Studios.

Sony Pictures' and Marvel Studios' "Spider-Man 4" is slated for May 6, 2011. To date, all three motion pictures in the phenomenally successful "Spider-Man" franchise have generated nearly $2.5 billion worldwide theatrically.

Below is Marvel Studios' 2010-2012 updated release schedule for its slate of self-produced and financed feature films:

Marvel Studios Feature Film Pipeline

[red]Film/Character Prior Release Date Current Release Date[/red]

IRON MAN 2 May 7, 2010 May 7, 2010

THOR July 16, 2010 May 20, 2011

THE FIRST AVENGER: CAPTAIN AMERICA
May 6, 2011 July 22, 2011

THE AVENGERS

July 15, 2011 May 4, 2012


The release date for IRON MAN 2 remains unchanged. IRON MAN 2 is the sequel to the blockbuster film, IRON MAN, which has grossed nearly $600 million worldwide.

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Found this on newsarama:

By Matt Brady
posted: 27 March 2009 05:33 am ET


Marvel Entertainment has a lot of films planned for the coming years.

Those films, of course, need writers. Teams of writers, from those fleshing out initial treatments to the final, polished screenplays.

According to Variety, Marvel is putting together a group of writers who will handle the task in a manner similar to the fellowship program Disney has been running since 1990. IN that program, the writers work to develop films for all the Disney outlets – ABC, ABC Family, Disney Channel and the Disney Studios proper.

From Variety:
Marvel will invite up to five writers each year to work on specific projects, said a source familiar with the deal. Those could include staffers behind Marvel's comicbooks. Tenpercenteries around town are currently pitching potential candidates with writing samples.

The company will provide the specific pitches it wants the scribes to tackle. Those could involve certain plot points for movies already in development or characters it would like to see in its future film slate.

Gathering of scribes will help Marvel come up with creative ways to launch its lesser-known properties, such as Black Panther, Cable, Doctor Strange, Iron Fist, Nighthawk and Vision.

So far, it has focused its efforts on more popular superheroes like Iron Man, the Incredible Hulk, Thor and Captain America.

It was especially encouraged when Iron Man, who wasn't as well known as Spider-Man, Superman or Batman, was able to cross over and launch a new franchise with a $582 million haul at the worldwide B.O.

Writers will receive a salary for the year. Disney fellows receive around $50,000. Marvel's payment could double that.

The current group of writers working on Marvel’s film projects, such as Justin Theroux, Mark Protosevich, Christopher Markus, Stephen McFeely and Zak Penn, who are currently working on Iron Man 2, Thor, The First Avenger: Captain America and The Avengers, respectively, will not be part of the group, Variety reports.

Nikki Finke has more, as a source has told her:

Marvel comic book writers are not excluded from applying. One source tells me the terms of the program "are apparently more onerous than the terms of the Disney Writers Program. Before the writers are even allowed to come in and meet, they must sign a non-disclosure agreement and a 70-page, non-negotiable contract. Among other things, the contract gives Marvel ownership over everything the writers create during the one year term of [the] deal, plus a first look and last refusal to any and all projects the writers have previously written or will write for 24 months in the future."

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CURRENT PLANNED RELEASE DATES[/u]

Thor 05/06/2011

X-Men First Class 06/03/2011

The First Avenger: Captain America 07/22/2011

Ghost Rider 2: Spirits of Vengeance 02/17/2012

The Avengers 05/04/2012

Spider-Man Begins 05/28/2012

Wolverine 2 ??/??/2012

Fantastic Four Reborn TBA