Tag: Avengers: Age of Ultron

  • Third ‘Avengers’ movie to be split into two parts

    Third ‘Avengers’ movie to be split into two parts

    MUMBAI: After creating a buzz with the Avengers: Age of Ultron trailer, Marvel Studios have announced the third Avengers film with a surprise for the fans; the movie will be broken into two parts.

     

    Named Avengers: Infinity Wars, the first part will release on 4 May 2018 while the final part will hit the theatres on 3 May 2019.

     

    The production house also laid out a nine-film roadmap that starts with Captain America 3: Civil War, which will be released on 6 May 2016 and ends with Avengers: Infinity War part II in 2019. Marvel also announced a slate of new titles, including Thor 3: Ragnarok, which is scheduled for release in 2018, and Inhumans, which is also due to hit cinemas in 2018.

     

    The studio’s first female-led superhero film, Captain Marvel, and a film based on the popular comic book character Black Panther were also announced.

     

    The complete schedule for Marvel studio releases is as follows:

     

    1 May 2015 –     Avengers: Age of Ultron

     

    17 July 2015 –   Ant-Man

     

    6 May 2016 –     Captain America: Civil War

     

    4 November 2016 –   Doctor Strange

     

    5 May 2017 –     Guardians of the Galaxy 2

     

    28 July 2017 –   Thor: Ragnarok

     

    3 November 2017 –   Black Panther

     

    4 May 2018 –     Avengers: Infinity Gauntlet part I

     

    6 July 2018 –     Captain Marvel

     

    2 November 2018 –   Inhumans

     

    3 May 2019 –     Avengers: Infinity War part II

     

    The second installment of the Avengers franchise, Avengers: Age Of Ultron, follows the first one, which grossed $1.52 billion worldwide after its May 2012 debut.

  • Scarlett Johansson coming soon on small screen

    Scarlett Johansson coming soon on small screen

    MUMBAI: Scarlett Johansson is all set to star in a new period drama for her first major TV role. According to media reports, The Lucy actress will play the lead in a limited series adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize winner Edith Wharton’s classic 1913 novel The Custom of the Country.

     

    She has starred briefly in TV before, with stop-motion animated series Robot Chicken in 2005.

     

    The 29-year-old actress will be seen as a midwestern girl, Undine Spragg, who makes it her goal to reach the heights of New York high society by any means necessary in the early part of the 20th century in the series.

     

    According to the media reports, Johansson will also be the executive producer of the eight-episode period story.

     

    Besides Johansson, there is another big name attached to the project as Oscar-winning British playwright-screenwriter Christopher Hampton is on board to write the screenplay of the limited series.

     

    Johansson will next be seen in Avengers: Age of Ultron, before starring in spin-off movie Black Widow and Disney’s live-action CGI remake of The Jungle Book.

     

    Meanwhile, Johansson has been busy juggling work and motherhood after the star gave birth to her first baby with fiancé Romain Dauriac on 4 Sept.