Avengers: Age Of Ultron First Trailer

The first trailer for Marvel's highly anticipated upcoming blockbuster Avengers: Age Of Ultron has been released. It doesn't give too much away, but offers the first glimpses of Ultron (James Spader), Scarlet Witch (Elizabeth Olsen) and Quicksilver (Aaron Taylor-Johnson). All of the returning heroes from the first Avengers are back as well.

Avengers: Age Of Ultron is out May 1, 2015.

Justice League Movie Confirmed

DC Comics is trying to catch up to Marvel's mega hit "The Avengers" by making a "Justice League" movie right after filming is complete on "Batman vs. Superman". That film will introduce some of the characters, obviously Superman (Henry Cavill), Batman (Ben Affleck) as well as Wonder Woman (Gal Gadot) and Cyborg (Ray Fisher).

Not much else is known about the Justice League movie yet, although Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson will apparently be in it as well. The original Justice League consisted of Superman, Wonder Woman, Batman, Green Lantern, Flash, Aquaman and Martian Manhunter, with numerous characters added in years following. No word if they'll look to go with just the original lineup, or add in a few more as well. It looks like Cyborg will be included, so maybe they'll change it up a little.

Another interesting factor is if they would bring in Arrow (Stephen Amell) from The CW's popular show "Arrow", which had been floated around before.

A Wonder Woman movie would follow the Justice League film depending on the success of it. We can assume it'll most likely make a ton of money even if it gets a lukewarm response from critics.

The Avengers Get New Members

Comic Version of Scarlet Witch & Quicksilver

The Avengers 2 is slated for release on May 1, 2015, and the group will have at least two new members. The brother/sister duo of Quicksilver & Scarlet Witch will be in the film, most likely as new members of The Avengers. Although they could play around with the material and make them villains, but that seems unlikely.

Joss Whedon was at a premiere for Iron Man 3 when he said that his draft of the sequel to the 2012 blockbuster movie contained a "brother/sister act", which has turned out to be Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver. Those two characters were also used in the X-Men universe, so it has many wondering if there could at some point be a crossover between the X-Men films and The Avengers films. There would be some hurdles, since the X-Men films are produced by FOX and The Avengers is produced by Disney. However, a ton of money would obviously be made, so its certainly possible those hurdles could be cleared in the future.

London 2012 Olympics, Day 6 & 7

There were some notable upsets at the London 2012 Olympics. Tyler Clary won a gold medal beating out Ryan Lochte, who finished 3rd. Clary broke Lochte's Olympic record from Beijing 2008, and it was Lochte's signature race. The US men's volleyball team beat #1 ranked Brazil. They also beat Brazil for the upset gold medal in 2008, so they have their number. Michael Phelps beat Ryan Lochte in their second and final meeting, so they each won one against each other. Phelps also won his final solo race today.

Gabby Douglas, aka "The Flying Squirrel" won the women's gymnastics individual all-around gold to add to her team gold. She joins Mary Lou Retton, Carly Patterson, Paul Hamm and Nastia Liukin as Americans who have won the individual all-around gold. Bela Karolyi was animated as usual with his excitement after this. In Beach Volleyball, defending men's gold medalists Rogers & Dalhausser were eliminated.

Kayla Harrison won gold in Women's -78 kg Judo. This is significant because it is the first gold medal for the United States in Judo. This leaves just 8 sports left that the USA has not won Olympic gold in. In Tennis, Roger Federer beat Juan Del Potro in the longest match in Olympic history. Serena Williams will be in the gold medal match.

NBC has said the sport averaging the most viewers on its cable networks during the day is Archery, averaging 1.5 million viewers. You can thank The Hunger Games, Brave and Hawkeye from The Avengers for the rise in the popularity of Archery. The USA Women's Soccer team, Basketball teams, Volleyball teams, etc are getting more viewers, but when you factor in all the other soccer, basketball, volleyball games then that is why archery is averaging more.

North Korea has made some news. Apparently they give Refrigerators to their medal winning athletes. Losing athletes get sent to labor camps. I wonder why none of the North Koreans who lose don't just flee the Olympic area and go into hiding? Also, its weird that they give them refrigerators when they don't have enough food to go around. Kim Jong-un you tease.

Dark Knight Rises Character Posters

We've just gotten six new theatrical posters for The Dark Knight Rises and two promotional posters (aka the ones they sell in Hot Topic/Wal-Mart). The new character theatrical posters give two each to the main characters - Catwoman (Anne Hathaway), Batman (Christian Bale) & Bane (Tom Hardy). One has each character looking bleak with the text "RISE" written above, and rain pelting them. The other poster has more of an action pose for each character, with snow all around them.

I like the difference of the three stormy/rainy posters to the three snowy blue posters. They also clearly show the contrast between the dark & gloomy Dark Knight Rises and The Avengers. Check them all out below and click for larger ones.

Catwoman:

Bane:

Batman:

And finally the two promo posters:

The Dark Knight Rises Trailer #3 Is Here!

The third trailer for The Dark Knight Rises has been released (watch it below), and will also be shown before The Avengers.  Good marketing teaming up the two biggest movies of the summer, even though one is from DC and one Marvel. There is enough money to go around, though my bet is on The Dark Knight Rises to top The Avengers. The trailer should give any fan chills. The Bane voice has been boosted and cleared up, so all of the people who said they couldn't understand him no longer have any complaints, he sounds great.

The trailer can be a little spoiler-ish. We see more of Catwoman (Anne Hathaway) this time, and the end of the trailer shows her and Batman (Christian Bale) together in one of his bad-ass vehicles. Looks like the two will be teaming up and kicking some ass, as we see in a brief glimpse of them beating up some thugs on a rooftop together. We also hear her say, "you should be as afraid of him as I am." Presumably she is talking to Bruce about Bane (Tom Hardy). So I still think she may start out alongside Bane until she realizes how crazy he is. They also have a heated conversation, with Catwoman telling him "You don't owe these people anymore. You've given them everything." His response: "Not everything. Not yet." That line certainly leaves his fate up to the imagination. I doubt he dies in the end, but some people seem to think he might. I think Batman will "die"(retire), but not Bruce Wayne.

Favorite line - Catwoman: "My mother warned me about getting into cars with strange men." Batman: "This isn't a car." The tumbler then takes off in the air! July 20 can't get here soon enough. Enjoy!