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For the "Thor" and "Captain America" fans out there, you might be wondering what your favorite heroes might be up to beyond their very satisfying arcs in "Marvel's The Avengers," like the plotlines of "Thor 2" and "Captain America 2," for example.

Turns out the actors in question who play the two titular characters are wondering the same thing. When MTV News caught up with Chris Hemsworth and Chris Evans at the film's press day over the weekend I asked them where we might find Thor and Cap in their respective sequels.

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Christopher Nolan

Christopher Nolan might be hesitant to talk about "The Dark Knight Rises," but he doesn't hold back when it comes to discussing his filming process.

The director recently sat down and talked to the Director's Guild of America magazine and elaborated on the way he prefers shooting his movies. As fans of his work might have noticed, Nolan is one of the few directors in Hollywood to continue to choose 35mm film cameras over digital ones, and also has managed to avoid succumbing to the 3D craze. It turns out that he is pretty passionate about maintaining both of those stances.

"For the last 10 years, I’ve felt increasing pressure to stop shooting film and start shooting video, but I’ve never understood why," he said. "That’s the way everyone was doing it 10 years ago, and I’ve just carried on making films in the way that works best and waiting until there’s a good reason to change. But I haven’t seen that reason yet."

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Spider-Man

"The Amazing Spider-Man" marks the beginning of a new era for the wall-crawler on the big screen. Part of that means we get a new man behind the mask, Andrew Garfield, but we also get a new villain.

The Japanese trailer for "The Amazing Spider-Man" (via ComingSoon.net) gives us perhaps our best look yet at Dr. Curt Connors post-Lizard transformation. We still have yet to see the villain in all his green glory, but piecing together the bits we have seen from what seems like a dozen different trailers, we have a pretty good sense of his look at this point.

Check out the new international trailer after the jump!

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Oh, Loki, Loki, Loki. You're making a very desperate man out of S.H.I.E.L.D. head honcho Nick Fury. The exiled Asgardian and the eyepatch-wearing government agent are the two stars of the latest "Avengers" clip, the fifth of its kind, though they aren't the only players in the mix.

Indeed, many of Earth's mightiest heroes are on hand (from a safe distance, anyway) as Fury interrogates Loki, who has apparently been captured and placed in a S.H.I.E.L.D. holding cell. A very large holding cell, we might add, one that was probably designed for someone considerably more green. What unfolds is a tense discussion about Loki's reasons for being on Earth, and the very nature of power. These men have very different ideas about what power really is: at the very least, in Fury's eyes (or eye), power could use some reading material.

Watch the clip past the jump.

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FROM MTV GEEK: Say what you will about the "Transformers" movies and "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull," you have to give leading man Shia LaBeouf some credit: for a guy who could easily just book a panel appearance and some very specific signing schedules, the fact that the actor set up shop at the Chicago Comics & Entertainment Expo's Artist Alley over the weekend to sell his own self-written and illustrated comics is pretty damn cool.

LaBeouf made a surprise appearance at the third annual C2E2, and our pals at MTV Geek were able to catch up with him for an extended chat about his reasons for hitting the show. Find out why he chose C2E2 over all other possible cons, how fans reacted to his presence at the show, what he has in store for his comics and more in the interview over here.

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Avengers

"Avengers" action figures and other assorted awesome merchandise, assemble!

Not a week goes by without something significantly amazing swinging through Splash Page headquarters, and this week's no exception. Today, courtesy of Hasbro and the fine lads at Hunter PR, we're now the proud owners of some mighty new "Avengers" toys, including a brand new set of Hulk hands and his mean green mug to match. Just look at how nicely MTV Movies editorial assistant Kevin P. Sullivan rocks the Jade Giant's stuff in the pic above!

Keep reading for some more photos and info on our latest haul of "Avengers" spoils.

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Iron Man 3

Though inside sources repeatedly state that "Iron Man 3" won't have the Mandarin as its main villain, the film will be at least partially set in China. Today Disney, Marvel and DMG Entertainment announced that the upcoming superhero flick will be co-produced in China and will shoot there later this year.

In the press release sent out (which you can see in full over at ComingSoon.net), there was no mention of the context of "Iron Man 3's" scenes in China. All that was said was that this installment will "further build upon [the series'] compelling storyline" and that the Chinese scenes will add "a local flavor." The plan is to have "Iron Man 3" start filming in the US in May and move to China in late summer 2012.

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Avengers

As the May 4 release date of "Marvel's The Avengers" creeps closer and closer, industry insiders have tried to peg just how big the ultimate superhero meet-up will be.

A new article from The Hollywood Reporter states that early tracking for the potential blockbuster indicates that "The Avengers" could debut to more money than last month's "The Hunger Games" and even "The Dark Knight."

If the tracking for "The Avengers" is to be trusted, the opening weekend could mean a bow somewhere north of $150 million. The same early polls show general interest in the film as slightly higher than both "The Hunger Games" and "The Dark Knight."

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Bane

Whether it's better, worse, or equally good in its own way, Tom Hardy's performance as Bane in "The Dark Knight Rises" will be inexorably compared to Heath Ledger's turn as The Joker in "The Dark Knight." The latter's take on the classic Batman villain was arguably the best performance of his career, and went on to earn the Australian actor his first and only Academy Award.

The fact that Ledger died before "The Dark Knight" hit theaters earned the film a lot of buzz that it may or may not have received otherwise, and the flick went on to become one of the top-grossing movies ever made. It seems almost unfair to compare "The Dark Knight Rises" to the bar that its predecessor has set, but that won't stop us from doing it anyways. Fortunately, the stars of the film are acting the same way.

In a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly, Tom Hardy opened up about what makes Bane fundamentally different than The Joker.

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Avengers

The cast and crew of "Marvel's The Avengers" were riding high the day after the world premiere of their film. Fans, celebrities and journalists couldn't help but tweet out their ecstatic reactions to the long-await film, and it had seemed that Joss Whedon and friends may have finally put together the film we were all hoping for.

But at a press conference the next evening, Robert Downey, Jr., stated that they weren't finished just yet. The actor said that the cast was filming an additional scene that very night. The audience laughed at what seemed to be a joke from the notoriously wry Downey, but he assured the crowd saying, "I'm not kidding." He then promptly ended the press conference, leaving the world abuzz.

This was the first anyone had heard of a last minute scene, so at a later press conference, one writer put the question to director Joss Whedon, who denied the planned shoot. It seemed that lid had been blown off Downey's joke, but The Playlist caught up with Mark Ruffalo later, who confirmed the shoot.

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Cover Artist

Splash Page welcomes Ed Tadem to our cover artist family (our custom-designed theme up top). Currently working on the forthcoming "Avengers" animated series, Tadem's work can also be seen in the "Jackie Karma" issues of Image's "'76," and in "Pop Gun, Volume 1." Ed Tadem can be found online at EdTadem.com.
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