Oct 14 2008 Sort of Captain America in 'The Incredible Hulk'
Over at Film School Rejects, they're saying the above image is evidence of a Captain America cameo on the Incredible Hulk DVD. Director Louis Leterrier has previously mentioned there would be a glimpse of the patriotic hero, saying:
It’s an Easter egg. It’s not like oh, it’s Captain America and it changes everything. It’s still a Hulk movie, but it’s really Captain America and it’s there, you’ll see. It’s the real deal. You have to look for it.
So this probably is legitimate, even if it does just look like someone buried a tie-dye shirt. But in case you're still doubtful, or even just confused at what you're looking at, I've added some clarifying shots under the cut that should make it all crystal clear.
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Jun 23 2008 Weekend Box Office: 'Get Smart' Hopefully Destroyed Chances of Another 'Austin Powers'
1. Get Smart - $39.2 million, because $12 had to be spent on something new, and the newer iPods cost more than $12, and, give me a break, The Love Guru?
2. Kung Fu Panda - Another $21.7 million, thanks largely to Jack Black's fearless delivery of such lines as, "Who da man? Pan-da man!" I'm assuming that was a line in the movie.
3. The Incredible Hulk - Though it earned less than Ang Lee's Hulk in its opening weekend, the film's second weekend has fared better, grossing $21.6 million and inciting cries for director Louis Leterrier to make The Incredible Ice Storm.
4. The Love Guru - A sad, $14 million showing left Mike Myers wishing he could go back in time to write in a joke about how the ridiculously small audiences are sort of similar to how Verne Troyer is also very small. Oh well--save it for Guru 2!
5. The Happening - Still somehow clinging to the top five with another $10 million. I blame trees.
Jun 16 2008 'Incredible Hulk' Made Money Last Weekend
1. The Incredible Hulk - Looks like the Hulk wasn't the only thing that was big and green this weekend, and I'm not talking envy! Greenbacks! American dollars! Cinema theatre profits to the tune of $54.5 million! Sorry, Kermit, looks like it is easy being green! (You should read this as if you're an announcer from the '20s.)
2. Kung Fu Panda - The formula of celebrity vocal chords + anodyne, computer-generated comedy continues to prove itself, earning another $34.3 million
3. The Happening - More like the Not Happening! Assuming we consider "happening" to be making more money than other movies. ($30.5 million)
4. You Don't Mess with the Zohan - A 57% drop to $16.4 million as moviegoers decide to wait for the unrated Zohaniest edition, with new, never-before-heard accents.
5. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull - $13.5 million, but it turns out all the ticket buyers were aliens!
Jun 10 2008 Hear Hulk Say 'Hulk Smash,' Like That Toy With the Voice Backpack Did
As tends to happen, I somehow ended up watching American Gladiators last night, making it the only show I've seen every episode of while putting absolutely no effort into doing so. It's like Wolf's distinctive call (howling like a wolf) transcends the television, letting you know, wherever you are, whatever you might be doing, you should instead be watching over-muscled freaks and common man wage war with foam pads.
In last night's episode---sometime around the twentieth shot of the audience wearing giant green fists, just after the exclusive preview for The Incredible Hulk but prior to the seeing the green-painted Gladiator whose voice was dubbed over with growls--I noticed a subtle theme emerging, and I decided that I was done delivering Hulk news. American Gladiators had now covered every possible aspect of it, and done it far more ridiculously than I could have ever dreamed.
But then I saw this clip where you hear Lou Ferrigno (who was in the American Gladiators audience, incidentally--surprise!) as the voice of the Hulk (which, as I've said, makes total sense), so I thought, what the hell, one more Incredible Hulk thing. Seriously though, this is it.
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Jun 9 2008 'Incredible Hulk' Commercial Exploits 'Iron Man' Popularity
Smart thing done in this new TV commercial for The Incredible Hulk: revealing that Robert Downey Jr. has a brief cameo as Tony Stark, aka Iron Man. Stupid thing done this new TV commercial for The Incredible Hulk: revealing that Liv Tyler acting style is pretending she's a totem honoring meekness. See both chilling reveals below the cut.
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Jun 2 2008 New 'Incredible Hulk' Trailer Both Best and Most Ridiculous
According to AICN, there's currently a new Incredible Hulk trailer being handed out as a promotion at Best Buy. But don't worry, you don't need to leave the house to obtain it--it's on YouTube! This trailer really makes up for the lack of any painfully-long, nearly-laughable, narrated exposition in the previous trailers.
Also: Variety reports Lou Ferigno will be providing the voice of Hulk's primitive cries of "Hulk smash!", which makes sense, since he was the makeup-slathered body of the completely mute Hulk of the '70s show. Or maybe that makes no sense at all.
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May 14 2008 New 'Incredible Hulk' Trailer Emerges from Earth's Crust
When the new Hulk movie was announced, it was emphasized that this was a reboot of the franchise. Forget the Ang Lee Hulk; this is all new, by someone less respected than Ang Lee. So why is this new trailer stressing that this is the return of the "most powerful superhero on Earth," as if it's a sequel? And why is it so heavily-implied that Hulk is born of the Earth's crust? Is there a new, stupider origin story I don't know about? If I hadn't already bought the green body paint, I've be strongly reconsidering camping outside a theater in-costume for this.
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May 5 2008 Marvel Studios Announces Schedule up to Age of Flying Cars
Riding high on the overwhelming success of Iron Man this weekend, Marvel has decided to reveal its feature film slate for the next three years. This way, we'll say, "Ooh, goody, Thor will totally be the next Iron Man!" instead of, "A Thor movie? Are you f***ing kidding me?" Which will probably be the more likely sentiment after The Incredible Hulk. Here's the tentative schedule:
The Incredible Hulk - June 13, 2008
Iron Man 2 - April 30, 2010
Thor - June 4, 2010
The First Avenger: Captain America - May 6, 2011
The Avengers - July 2011
Ant-Man - Writer/director engaged
Here is additional schedule I've made up, but suspect may come true:
Another Stab at The Hulk - May 2012
Iron Man Ruts Against Thor (see exclusive first shot above) - June 2013
The Avengers IV - August 2013
Darkhawk: Why Not? - July 2015
Hulk: No, This Time We Got It - May 2020
Hulk 5 - June 2020
Whoever's Left - 2020-?
Marvel Reports Q1 [Business Wire]
Apr 30 2008 'Incredible Hulk' Trailer is Incredibly Dull--Except for the Part with the Power Suit
After watching this new trailer to the Edward Norton-starring remake of The Incredible Hulk, I can safely say it's not worth talking about. There's no reason to continue discussing it. It's not good; it's not bad; it's just nothing. It's everything you'd expect it to be and slightly less. So instead of wasting my time attempting to describe it to you, I've taken IMDB's summary for a far superior Hulk movie, Suburban Commando, and adapted it to fit this mundane trailer. It works well enough.
[Edward Norton] is an interstellar hero, righting wrongs, etc. His [skin] is [green] after a [gamma irradiation] with a [government] nasty and he must hide out on [Brazil?] until [he] can [cure that]. He leaves his [Liv Tyler] at home, but still finds himself unable to [stop turning into the Hulk and whatnot] and so mixes it up with bad [Gen. William Hurt], offensive paperboys, [another giant green asshole] and the like. Then the family he's staying with finds his power suit and the father tries it on.
See it in HD here, or slightly more conveniently below the cut. (Thanks to Kyle and Joe.)
Apr 30 2008 New 'Incredible Hulk' Images Alleviate No Concerns
These new images from Incredible Hulk have done nothing to ease my concerns that it will be terrible. They have, however, helped me realize that Gary Busey is a far more accurate abomination than the actual Abomination:
Apr 15 2008 Everybody Talkin' at New 'Incredible Hulk' Poster
So it's the Taxi Driver poster... but with a giant pair of jeans behind him. Fair enough.
Mar 13 2008 'Incredible Hulk' Trailer
Judging by its trailer, The Incredible Hulk may not go down as the franchise watershed moment that Batman Begins was--in fact, I'm pretty positive it won't. But at least it's got a couple giant green freaks fighting each other in the streets of Manhattan, and that's something. Hopefully it won't go the Ang Lee route and include comic panel transitions, lest we momentarily forget we're watching a comic book turned into a movie. If you didn't catch it on every single Viacom station last night, watch the new trailer, below the cut.
Mar 7 2008 'Incredible Hulk' Teaser Trailer Coming Wednesday
The disconcerting lack of footage from Edward Norton's questionable The Incredible Hulk has had many a blogger concerned about the quality of the production. Considering that the movie comes out in three months, what are they waiting for? Is it possible they've not created the gamma-irradiated masterpiece they hoped? I guess we'll find out--at least to a degree--next Wednesday, when the first teaser trailer premiers.
The first teaser trailer for hotly anticipated summer superhero epic THE INCREDIBLE HULK will have its exclusive broadcast debut in a simultaneous “roadblock” on seven networks on Wednesday, March 12. This first opportunity to see material from the motion picture will be aired at approximately 9:56 p.m. EST/6:56 p.m. PST on MTV, MTVU, MTV2, VH1, Spike TV, Nick at Nite and CMT.Following the on-air premiere, the trailer will be immediately posted on MTV.com for an exclusive period. The trailer will begin showing in theaters across the country on Friday, March 14, with prints of Rogue Pictures’ DOOMSDAY.
Since they're calling this a "teaser trailer", I'm guessing they still won't show us a clear image of the eponymous hero, but here's hoping he has that little silver backpack that makes him talk.
Feb 27 2008 'Hulk' Update: Bruce Banner Wears Grandpa Shorts
"Oh, I'm going to be turning into the Hulk? Let me throw on my high-waisted shorts real quick, so I don't ruin another pair of Dockers."
New Incredible Hulk Pics [Empire]
Dec 28 2007 First Look at How Incredible Edward Norton is in 'The Incredible Hulk'
The first two shots from The Incredible Hulk have been released, revealing that Edward Norton as Bruce Banner wears Dockers and his watch on the inside of his wrist. So cool. Summary:
Edward Norton stars in this new beginning as Bruce Banner, a scientist desperately hunting for a cure to the gamma radiation that poisoned his cells and unleashes the unbridled force of rage within him - The Incredible Hulk.
You know, if he's really desperate to find a cure, you'd think he wouldn't go by "The Incredible Hulk." The whole "incredible" thing makes the search for a cure seem sort of disingenuous. It's like someone saying, "I have to find a cure before the full moon!"
"Really? Why?"
"I'll become This Really Awesome Werewolf."
"Are you sure you're trying to cure this?"
"Yeah, definitely. You think I like how incredibly awesome I become during a full moon?"
"Well, it just seems like you really build-up how great this werewolf side is, calling it awesome all the time."
"Let me make this perfectly clear: when the full moon's light transforms me, I am a monster! Just a really, really awesome monster."
And so on. See the Bruce Banner "Docker Science Slacks" ad, under the cut.
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Nov 7 2007 'Incredible Hulk' Shooting in Brazilian Slums
Like Pelé, Bossa Nova, and Gisele Bündchen many great things have come from Brazil. So it's not a bad place to start shooting The Incredible Hulk if they're trying to remake the franchise into something more bankable, or at least more danceable.
These shots from the set still don't reveal the new Hulk's final design, but at least they show us that Edward Norton as Bruce Banner is a viable option for Gap Casual ads, or could play an adult version of one of the kids from The Sandlot.
Oct 24 2007 Some Other Crap That Happened...
- Billy Ray Cyrus has been cast as the lead in a non-PAX-sponsored movie, blowing my achy-breaky mind. [Hollywood Reporter]
- Jessica Biel will play the lead in Die a Little, a role she reportedly took in place of Wonder Woman. Meanwhile, I will have sex with an older, barely-conscious woman I find at a bar, taking the place of my fantasies of Jessica Biel as Wonder Woman. [Variety]
- Ty Burell has joined the cast of The Incredible Hulk as the green-haired, super-strong Doc Sampson. Burell can currently be seen on Fox's Back to You, which should not be considered an endorsement to watch that for any reason. [IGN]
- Pirates of the Caribbean writers Terry Rossio and Ted Elliot are working on a Lone Ranger script for producer Jerry Bruckheimer, who will mold it into a multi-billion dollar turd. (PS: Entertainment Weekly, you're really stretching with that "Kemo-savvy" headline.) [EW]
- Leslie Mann has joined the cast of 17 as the wife of Zac Efron, a man who awakens to find himself in the body of a 17-year-old boy again. It all sounds a bit ridiculous to me. I mean, Zac Efron with a wife? [Hollywood Reporter]
