Marvel's new name and more movies!
 

http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire2005/i...d=32291&type=0

Marvel, the home of Spider-Man and X-Men, has a new name and 10 new movies in development, Variety reported. With its $525 million debt facility from Merrill Lynch closed, the company is changing its name from Marvel Enterprises to Marvel Entertainment, reflecting its new business producing and financing movies internally without a studio partner.

Along with the Merrill Lynch deal, Marvel struck a deal with Paramount to market and distribute its films for a fee, similar to Lucasfilm's arrangement with Fox, the trade paper reported.

Marvel has identified 10 new characters and groups it will develop as potential feature franchises to produce itself: Captain America, the Avengers, Nick Fury, Black Panther, Ant-Man, Cloak and Dagger, Dr. Strange, Hawkeye, Power Pack and Shang-Chi.

The deal with Merrill allows Marvel to produce films with budgets between $50 million and $165 million. If the first films are successful, Marvel will be able to replenish the facility to produce new movies in development or sequels to hits. The company is hoping to release its first movie by the summer of 2008.

Raph's Girl note: I've been saying for months that they should do an Avengers movie! Guess somebody in Marvel heard me! *L* Now hopefully the Nick Fury movie will be better than the David Hasselhoff one that aired a couple years back... ugh!

Well THANK GOD they're FINALLY getting around to the compelling life story of Ant-Man. :sweatdro:

Yo go Marvel! Fight the Hollywood system. Be free of them! w00t!

A Power Pack movie?

Just what I've always wanted...

Sure make a Hawkeye movie after you killed him.

You didn't really think that he'd stay dead, right? I mean, death in the Marvel universe goes like this:

Jean Grey: "Oh, internal.. organs... crushed... will die for sure"
Cyclops: "No, please don't die"
Jean Grey: "No choice.. not a bone... left... intact."
Cyclops: "Okay then, see you in three weeks."

Oh, yeah, I know that the thing with Scott and Jean looks different in AXM, but I thought I'd take a pair everyone knew.

Well Hawkeye IS alive in House of M....but he remembers dying in the other timeline thanks to that little girl who has the power of plot device that allows peeps to remember the true timeline. :roll:

HELL ya! a ant man movie, gee marvel you guys really know what I want.
Oh and thanks again for not selling out!

Well there you have it folks, the genius that is Major pain with his unbiased input.

Maybe youre just pissed DC isnt making more movies than Batman or Superman? Gee, movies that theyve made before...that they know will work...not taking a chance on anything else....hmmmm.....

Well, they DID make a Constantine flick that was actually pretty damn cool (despite the Keanu-factor). And there's a Swamp Thing movie in the works.

Constantine doesn't count cause it was DC/Vertigo. And yet again, theyve made Swamp Thing movies before.

...Try to find a different well, DC.

I think they should just skip the Hawkeye and Ant-Man movies and throw them into the Avengers movie.

A Shang-Chi movie will be awesome if they just treat it as a martial arts movie and not a comic book movie. Oh, and cast Tony Jaa as Shang-Chi.

Doctor Strange, if done well could be a huge hit. Just give him a bunch of demons to fight, a good director and a good script, and you've got a hit.

If Marvel ahdnles all of these movies for their more obscure characters like they handled Blade, then they should all do really well.

of course there going to start with Batman and superman movies, just like Marvel started with there biggest sellers, spiderman and x-men.

I dont have a biased opinion, I was a huge marvel fan for a long time, but I got really tired of the same stories being told over and over again.


really who gives a **** about ant man any way?

Captain America- heres hope for no rubber ears and italian red skulls

the Avengers i wonder witch team 60's,70's,80's,90's, or modern (not new)

Nick Fury the only man who can out bond bond i wonder AIM or HYDRA

Black Panther cap's strength iron-man's bank and reed's smarts it may be the only time we see Klaw in a movie

Ant-Man.....hank pym or scott lang

Cloak and Dagger holy 90's characters batman

Dr. Strange maybe up there with spider-man and blade if done right

Hawkeye could be good

Power Pack with franklin richards need to be born first me thinks

Shang-Chi.... a kung fu movie i like

Marvel, once again... not every property you own needs a movie. Plzkthx.

What's next? an updated "Howard the duck?" how about a "what the...?" movie? My gosh, do we really need some of these movies? I wish Marvel would have concentrated on making sure that F4 and Hulk didn't suck!


...howver, I am a True Believer, so I will probably spend my money on these anyway. I'll at least rent the DVD's. I wish I wasn't so impulsive to love anything and everything Marvel... ah well, goodbye money.

I try to see every comic book movie that hits theaters, though I did draw the line at Elektra and Catwoman. Ugh.

Not sure if I'd waste money on an Ant-Man flick unless, you know, it was an AVENGERS movie. Or even better, an Ultimates movie (though if they couldn't get Samuel L. Jackson for Fury then the movie should not be made).

some info about Ant-man the movie

Edgar Wright Helming Ant-Man?
Source: Superhero Hype.com

"IGN Filmforce reports that Marvel Entertainment has already found a director for its Ant-Man project, which falls under the new Paramount deal.

IGN FilmForce has learned that British filmmaker Edgar Wright is poised to direct Ant-Man. Wright apparently plans on making Ant-Man a comedy.

Wright previously directed and co-wrote "Shaun of the Dead". "

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Ant Man can work as a character in an Avengers movie, keep in mind Hery Pym has a case file as a alchaolic and wife abuser, and once had scyzophrensic tendencies leading to the creation of his Yellowjacket persona. The guy has a character, he works better in the team dynamic.

Last time I checked, the animated Ulitmates movie by Bendis will be the only Avengers movie neccersary.

Power Pack? The only significence they've ever had was being part of that disturbing comic in which Spider-Man confessed he once was freinds with a pedophile.

...Ant-Man directed by Ed? Cast Sean Penn, add a Queen soundtrack to Ant Man commanding his legions, and you can do no wrong.

Not Sean Penn, but Simon pegg.