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Paramount Pictures and Marvel Entertainment have released the official plot synopsis for their upcoming film Thor, the big screen adaptation of the popular comic featuring that guy with the hammer. I know that this isn’t the most exciting bit of news in the world, but I’m sure there are some of you out there who will find this to be interesting.

A tipster over at CinemaSpy is saying today that Star Trek lead Chris Pine was on the shortlist of actors that Paramount and Marvel were looking at for the role of Steve Rogers in the upcoming Captain America film. This is wholly unsurprising news…

It seems like a foregone conclusion, but now we have official word. Marvel Studios and Paramount Pictures will distribute Jon Favreau’s Iron Man 2 in IMAX theaters simultaneously with the film’s release on May 7, 2010.

The folks at Empire caught up with one actor who is not only in the hunt for Oscar gold, but also meeting with the folks at Marvel about a potentially great role.

Production Weekly is reporting this week that the upcoming production of Thor, the next in the long line of highly anticipated comic book adaptations from Marvel Studios, will begin shooting in Los Angeles in mid-January.

It seems as if just yesterday we were reporting that Brian Blessed — then Stellan Skarsgard — might be playing the role of Odin in Kenneth Branagh’s Thor. Well, time to think again…

What does Stan Lee have that Dominic Cooper, Matthias Schweighöfer, Robert De Niro, Jude Law and Stellan Skarsgard seem to want so badly? A role in Thor, that’s what…

Reports are streaming in from back-alley sources and “little birdies” that Marvel is toying with converting Iron Man 2 to 3D. If this sounds like a bad idea to you, you’re absolutely right…

If you didn’t have a chance to keep up with all of this Disney buying Marvel business, don’t worry, as we’ve got you covered…

We kick our Monday news cycle off this week with some potentially magical, marvelous news that already has the internet calling for a Mickey Mouse version of Spider-Man.

Actress, model and all around super-star of hotness Diora Baird is on Twitter. We are on Twitter. Perhaps we should grab drinks sometime, don’t ya think? Maybe after she’s done auditioning for a role in Thor.

Joe Johnston worked on Raiders of the Lost Ark, directed The Rocketeer, and I have no idea if he’s connected at all to Saving Private Ryan, but it looks like he’ll be bringing that signature style to Captain America.

Poor Edward Norton. He just wants to pimp is Barack Obama documentary, but all we want to know is “when do we get more Hulk?”

Director Jon Favreau is talking, Tony Stark is communicating with the world via a cocktail napkin. They are men of different worlds — one of reality, the other of fiction — but they are saying essentially the same thing: you should be excited for the future of the Iron Man franchise.

Six months after declaring that he is Iron Man, Tony Stark is still kicking. Find out some of what he’s been up to inside…

Lost star and fan favorite Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje (Mr. Eko) said a few magic word to MTV this weekend at Comic-Con. It involved “in talks” and “Black Panther.” You fill in the rest.

West Coast editor Robert Fure checks in with his own video blog reaction to the panel that blew the roof off Comic-Con’s Saturday line-up, Marvel Studios presentation of Iron Man 2.

After wowing fans with footage from Iron Man 2, Marvel Studios chief Kevin Feige sat down with a bunch of journos to talk about the future… The Avengers.

There is something about director Jon Favreau and his cronies over at Marvel Studios that leads me to believe that they are wired perfectly for this business.

Marvel just gave away some details about their upcoming slate of films that certain comic fans might just be interested in. Iron Man 2, Captain America, Thor, and more on the inside.