Three great big huge movies coming at you this year got great big huge ad exposure during the (arguably) greatest, biggest, hugest television event of the year: The Super Bowl.

First up, The Avengers, which opens May 4.  Marvel is hoping that, along with Samuel L. Jackson’s Nick Fury, the world still believes in heroes.  Since this is the extended edition, you get the bit at the end with Loki and Iron Man. Love love love Robert Downey Jr.’s deadpan line reading. “We have a Hulk” (Hulk need love too! He’s not been in nearly enough of the marketing thus far, so this is a nice change.)

Avengers (extended) “Earth’s Mightiest Heroes”

Peter Berg, a director capable of some subtlety (Friday Night Lights) has crafted what appears to be a big and loud and (probably) dumb blockbuster. If the special effects are as good as they appear in the trailer, it will probably earn the equivalent of the GNP of a small third-world country. Hopefully, at least for Universal, audiences should be enough in love with Taylor Kitsch after March's John Carter. Battleship opens May 18.

Battleship

It’s clear by now that Dwayne, The Rock, Johnson is the star of GI Joe: Retaliation and that Channing Tatum buys it early on. (Or at least we’re made to THINK he does – until they bring him back for the 3^rd installment. Yeah, I’m cynical like that.) Whatever else is going on here, ya gotta love that The Rock is quoting Jay Z and it ends with Bruce Willis’ “Call me Joe”.  GI Joe: Retaliation opens June 29

GI Joe: Retaliation

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Marvel Studios has delivered some news about its upcoming slate.  Following on the heels of this year’s The Avengers, they have on deck Iron Man 3 with a  May 3, 2013 release date, as well as Thor 2 on November 15, 2013. Signs are pointing toward Captain America 2 in early 2014, but nothing’s been confirmed yet.

I know it seems like it’s been ages since we got any The Avengers goodies from Marvel, but today we have (thanks to ComicBookMovie) five hi-res official stills, including Sam Jackson’s Nick Fury, up close and personal.  (That is some vicious looking scar.)

From Marvel’s press release:

Marvel Studios presents in association with Paramount Pictures “Marvel’s The Avengers”–the super hero team up of a lifetime, featuring iconic Marvel super heroes Iron Man, the Incredible Hulk, Thor, Captain America, Hawkeye and Black Widow. When an unexpected enemy emerges that threatens global safety and security, Nick Fury, Director of the international peacekeeping agency known as S.H.I.E.L.D., finds himself in need of a team to pull the world back from the brink of disaster. Spanning the globe, a daring recruitment effort begins.

Starring Robert Downey, Jr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner and Samuel L. Jackson, & directed by Joss Whedon from a screenplay by Joss Whedon, “Marvel’s The Avengers” is based on the ever-popular Marvel comic book series “The Avengers,” first published in 1963 and a comics institution ever since. Prepare yourself for an exciting event movie, packed with action and spectacular special effects, when “Marvel’s The Avengers” assemble on May 4, 2012.

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Joss Whedon’s The Avengers has got to be one of the top five most hotly anticipated films of 2012. It boasts an unparalleled matchup of the best of the Marvel pantheon of superheroes, including Iron Man, Thor, Captain America, The Hulk, Hawkeye and Black Widow, all played by so many big names that I get a headache just imagining the wrangling that took place with agents and reps and studio honchos in terms of billing. (My guess, they settled for alphabetical. Robert Downey, Jr. probably would have won anyway.)  The movie doesn’t open until May but we’re getting some New Year’s treats apparently. We have a new version of the trailer that’s just been posted to MSN’s Russian site. (Thanks to Comingsoon).

It’s dubbed (again with the dubbing!) but you won’t be watching this for the dialogue anyway. There is a lot of new footage and it seems to hint at the actual plot of the film a bit more. Oh, and can I say I’m digging the flip in Loki’s hair? (after Thor, Midnight in Paris, The Deep Blue Sea and War Horse, I’m a Tom Hiddleston fan.)

Enjoy the trailer!

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More shiny new images of everyone's favorite gang of super heroes, The Avengers! Yay! *demented poodle dance* Joss Whedon's eagerly awaited tie-in with Marvel's Iron Man, Incredible Hulk, Captain America and Thor movies arrives in theaters next May, but in movie promotion terms, that's right around the corner. We have another new batch of character posters for Iron Man (Robert Downey, Jr.), Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner), Bruce Banner aka The Hulk (Mark Ruffalo), Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson), Thor (Chris Hemsworth), Loki (Tom Hiddleston), Captain America (Chris Evans) and Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson), not an actual super hero, but rather the director of the international peacekeeping agency known as S.H.I.E.L.D.

We also have a couple of the Russian versions of the posters as well as a few new stills.

The premise:  An unexpected enemy emerges that threatens global safety and security. Nick Fury and S.H.I.E.L.D., finds themselves in need of a team to pull the world back from the brink of disaster.   (dun dun DUN!)

The Avengers hits screens everywhere in 3D and 2D on May 4, 2012. (For reasons unknown to me, the 3D is a post-conversion.) Isn’t it about time for a new trailer? A clip? A tv spot maybe? C’mon Joss, you know you want to. 

It’s been two months since we saw the first trailer for The Avengers, the eagerly anticipated film about the ultimate superhero supergroup. Today’s German trailer is  almost identical to the original with the exception of a few new shots…and the German dubbing. (I don’t understand the concept of dubbing. Why wouldn’t you want to hear the original actors voices, even if you don’t understand the language? Otherwise, doesn’t at least half of the performance you’re watching belong to the actor dubbing the dialogue?  Subtitles are NOT that difficult people! But I digress…)

The Avengers, directed by Joss Whedon from a script by Whedon and Zak Penn, will assemble the “superhero team of a lifetime” including Captain America (Chris Evans), Thor (Chris Hemsworth), Iron Man (Tony Stark), The Hulk (Mark Ruffalo), Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner), Black Widow (Scarlet Johansson) and Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) as they unite to battle Thor’s evil brother Loki (Tom Hiddleston) and the extraterrestrial threat he unleashes upon the Earth, is in theaters 27^th April in the UK and May 4 in the US.

By the way, I have to thank Screenrant for that cap of Jeremy Renner as Hawkeye above. I saw Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol yesterday and I’m kinda crushin’. Yes, I’ve heard the rumors. Trust me, that is in no way a deterrent. I’m kinda a magnet.)

Guy Ritchie shot Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows in London in the Fall and early Winter of 2010. Now  a year later, he’s brought the finished product back for a lavish premiere in London’s Leicester Square on Thursday December 8. Joining Guy Ritchie (and his baby mama Jacqui Ainsley) on the red carpet were stars Robert Downey, Jr., Jude Law, Noomi Rapace, Jared Harris, the lovely Kelly Reilly and even Stephen Fry! It is evident from the pics, some of which look like candids from a frat party, that they were having a ball together. Clearly the chemistry RDJ and Jude Law exhibit on screen is genuine.

In other Guy Ritchie News, Deadline has reported that

“Warner Bros is making a deal with Guy Ritchie and his new partner Lionel Wigram to come aboard The Man From U.N.C.L.E., the film that Steven Soderbergh left just recently over budget and difficulty with casting after George Clooney dropped out. Based on the classic TV show, the film has a script by Scott Z. Burns.  Ritchie and Wigram are forming a shingle together after making the Sherlock Holmes films. The intention is for Ritchie to direct the film.

This would be the first project under the new shingle for the British director and producer…”

They have a deal that starts in January. Meanwhile, Warners has been trying to make a big-screen version of The Man From U.N.C.L.E. for twenty years.

Scott Z. Burns is responsible for the scripts for The Bourne Ultimatum, The Informant and Contagion. Lionel Wigram wrote the story upon which 2009’s Sherlock Holmes was based (although he’s been a producer for more than twenty years).

Sherlock Holmes: Game Of Shadows opens December 16.