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'Walking Dead' Video Game Is Now Available

Posted 4/24/12 10:00 am EST by Josh Wigler in Image Comics, News, video games

The Walking Dead

Bummed that "Walking Dead" is off the air until October? Don't be: in addition to the comics (which are rapidly approaching the milestone issue #100), you can get your "Dead" fix with the new "Walking Dead" video game from Telltale, available for purchase today on PC, Mac and PSN.

Split into a series of downloadable episodes, "The Walking Dead" game takes place within the same universe as the comics (and by extension the "Rise of the Governor" novels), and contains more than a few links to that world. You can read a whole lot more about the video game over at MTV Multiplayer, and make sure to check out our Panels & Pixels interview with "Walking Dead" game designer and writer Sean Vanaman for more on the zombie-killing mayhem.

Get more details at MTV Multiplayer!

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'Iron Man 3' Targets Jessica Chastain For Starring Role

Posted 4/24/12 8:00 am EST by Josh Wigler in Marvel, News

The reasons to get psyched for "Iron Man 3" are endless. More Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark? Check. Returning players Gwyneth Paltrow, Don Cheadle and Scarlett Johansson? You bet'cha. Awesome actors new to the franchise such as Ben Kingsley and Guy Pearce? That's an affirmative, people.

Now we can add yet another fantastic player to the mix: Oscar-nominated actress Jessica Chastain. Deadline reports that the "Take Shelter" and "The Tree of Life" star is in talks to join director Shane Black's "Iron Man 3" in what's being touted as "a starring role."

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Scarlett Johansson's Black Widow Revealed In New 'Avengers' Featurette

Posted 4/23/12 5:39 pm EST by Terri Schwartz in Marvel, News

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Considering that we've now seen two "Avengers" clips showing the Black Widow being a badass, it seems like it was only a matter of time before we got a featurette about her character. Scarlett Johansson is front and center in this latest inside look at "The Avengers."

"I'm such a huge fan of the Black Widow and I love playing this character and, for me, suiting up again was just pretty exciting," Johansson said in the featurette. "All of these characters are sort of reluctant superheroes in a sense. All of these characters coming together in one world; it's very exciting."

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'Avengers' Marvel Legends Trailer, Fury's Seven Unleashed In Today's Tights

Posted 4/23/12 4:49 pm EST by Josh Wigler in Tights

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We love "The Avengers." We love action figures. You already know how much we love "The Avengers" and action figures together, but our love is even greater today thanks to a new fan-made video that recuts a previous "Avengers" trailer using Marvel Legends action figures with cameos aplenty. Quick spoiler alert: Vision makes everything better.

Watch the toy-studded trailer and get a whole lot more in today's edition of Tights!

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Joss Whedon Talks 'Avengers' Sequel, Deleted Scenes

Posted 4/23/12 3:02 pm EST by Splash Page Team in Marvel, News

by Ryan Rigley

The wait is almost over! Marvel's widely anticipated "Avengers" movie is now just two weeks away! Two weeks too many if you ask us.

With all of the glowing reviews that "The Avengers" has already received, it would be foolish not to expect Marvel to churn out a sequel. After all, the studio has a serious case of sequel syndrome as of late, what with "Captain America 2," "Thor 2," and "Iron Man 3" currently in development.

Yet, despite the fantastic thought of another "Avengers" movie, there still remains one important question. Will Joss Whedon be returning to helm the sequel? Speaking with MTV News, the director had this to say on the matter: "Marvel gave me so much trust and the movie that I said, 'Well, if I was going to do this I'd like to do this.' And that's the movie I made. They only ever moved it forwards and collaborated and supported me. And I gotta tell you, that's unusual from a studio."

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Charlize Theron Joins 'Apes' Director's 'Agent 13'

Posted 4/23/12 2:20 pm EST by Terri Schwartz in News

Charlize Theron

Rupert Wyatt's "Agent 13" has finally found a home and a leading lady. The adaptation of the 1988 comic book has been in development for a little over a year, and Universal has now claimed the project as its own after an intense bidding war over the weekend. Even more exciting is the news that Charlize Theron will play the female lead.

The Hollywood Reporter has the news and has been following the developments on the project ever since it started being shopped around Hollywood last Wednesday. Few details are known about the flick, but it has been said that it will have a male lead and that Theron will play a different role.

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Tom Hiddleston Pens Poetic Defense Of Superhero Movies

Posted 4/23/12 2:14 pm EST by Terri Schwartz in Marvel, News

Tom Hiddleston

Leave it to Tom Hiddleston to stand up for the integrity of the superhero genre.

"The Avengers" star wrote an editorial for The Guardian defending what has become one of the most popular types of movie in Hollywood. Hiddleston explained that, in his opinion, comic book movies are inventive and innovative, like the films the Lumière brothers made back at the turn of the 20th century, and should be treated as such.

"Big talk for someone in a silly superhero film, I hear you say. But superhero films offer a shared, faithless, modern mythology, through which these truths can be explored," Hiddleston wrote. "In our increasingly secular society, with so many disparate gods and different faiths, superhero films present a unique canvas upon which our shared hopes, dreams and apocalyptic nightmares can be projected and played out."

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'Dark Knight Rises' Features More Than An Hour Of IMAX Footage

Posted 4/23/12 1:07 pm EST by Jeremy Gordon in DC Comics, News

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Here’s an amateur hypothesis, motivated by nothing but conjecture and heresy: if you see "The Dark Knight Rises" once, you’ll probably see it again. Realistically speaking, you’ll probably see it another time after that. You may consider, then, heading to an IMAX theater for one of those screenings, as "Rises" will contain more than an hour of IMAX footage. That’s the most ever for a Hollywood feature, a decision that was motivated by director Christopher Nolan’s appreciation for the format.

"I remember looking at the audience every time a helicopter banked, and everyone was leaning slightly to the side," Nolan told the Wall Street Journal about watching IMAX movies as a kid. "I had never seen an audience so immersed in a film."

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'Avengers' Clip: Black Widow Recruits Bruce Banner

Posted 4/23/12 12:15 pm EST by Jeremy Gordon in Marvel, News

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The fight sequences in "The Avengers" will be epic, FTW, or whatever your preferred nomenclature for high quality happens to be. But there will be quieter moments as well, showcasing the characterization that makes the Avengers themselves, and not just any cookie-cutter action heroes. That’s why we care, no?

In this clip presented to "The Graham Norton Show," we see Bruce Banner and the Black Widow interacting for the first time. The clip seems to set up Banner’s involvement in the movie (apart from being the Hulk), and why he’s recruited by Fury.

"He wants you to find it," the Black Widow says of an ominous "it," which could very well be the fabled Cosmic Cube. "It’s been taken. It emits a gamma signal that’s too weak for us to trace. There’s no one who knows gamma radiation like you do. If there was, that’s where I’d be."

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'Lobo' Targets 'Journey 2' Director Brad Peyton

Posted 4/23/12 11:20 am EST by Josh Wigler in DC Comics, News

Cigar-chomping, butt-kicking Lobo has been hurtling towards the big screen for many, many years now. Guy Ritchie was attached to direct the DC Comics adaptation at one point, but he's been off the project for more than two years now. The last update we'd received was in June 2010, when producer Joel Silver expressed his desire for "Lobo" to be a 3-D movie. That would require "Lobo" to be a movie at all, of course, which itself would require a new director.

Well, a solution appears to have been found on that final point: according to Deadline, "Journey 2: The Mysterious Island" filmmaker Brad Peyton is the man for the job. Peyton "has been set by Warner Bros to rewrite and direct" the live-action take on "Lobo," a choice that's sure to raise a whole bunch of eyebrows.

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