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Marvel Currently Test Screening for Captain America; Shortlist Raises Eyebrows
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Can you see John Krasinski (Jim from The Office) wielding the iconic Captain America shield? Well, according to THR’s Heat Vision blog, Krasinski is currently on the shortlist along with five other actors who are under consideration to play the lead role in Marvel’s next-slated superhero blockbuster. Screen tests are schedueled to be conducted this week and next week at Marvel’s Manhattan Beach headquarters.
Marvel Stockholders Approve Disney Merger
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Back in September we posted news that Walt Disney Company had announced they reached a tentative agreement to buy Marvel Entertainment for an estimated amount of $4 billion, sending shock-waves through the movie industry in the process. Today, it was reported that Marvel stockholders approved the adoption of the Agreement and Plan of Merger entered into by Marvel and The Walt Disney Company, which provides a merger in which Marvel will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Disney.
Disney Buys Marvel For $4 Billion; Possible Pixar Superhero Movies To Come
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Now this, is huge. Ripples are blasting through Hollywood today, from the CEO of 20th Century Fox, to the boom mic operators working on set. Walt Disney Company announced Monday it had agreed to buy Marvel Entertainment for an estimated amount of $4 billion. Many fanboys might immediately see this as an abomination, that Disney will imprint its family-friendly mentality to more adult superhero franchises that Marvel has recently put out. But it actually SHOULD not be that bad of a situation for Marvel fans.
Some Quick Tidbits
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● Talk about bringing back the Scream franchise has been going on for a while, but we now have some solid indications on exactly what Wes Craven and Co. are planning to do with this successful horror series. Last week Entertainment Weekly reported that Courtney Cox Arquette and David Arquette have been approached by writer Kevin Williamson to return in Scream 4 as reporter Gail Weathers and deputy dumb-dumb Dewey respectively. Well apparently the ambitions of this return is is larger than originally thought. SlashFilm reported today that Kevin Williamson cleared the air via Twitter saying:
“It is not a remake. Scream 4. The first chapter of a new trilogy.”
