Jason Bailey writing over at Flavorwire:

Mashable’s Tuesday piece on “Streamageddon” prompted this response from Netflix: “Our goal is to be an expert programmer, offering a mix that delights our members, rather than trying to be a broad distributor.” Further, the company told The Verge, “The vast majority of the titles that expire on Wednesday are older features that were aggregated by Epix. We recently added many great, more recent titles such as ParaNorman (Universal), Hunger Games (Epix), Safe (Epix) andBachelorette (Weinstein).”

Now, let’s really unpack those statements. First of…

I think we have a winner this week, a big winner. In fact, almost as big as The Avengers opening weekend.

#1 - Iron Man 3

Budget: $200 Million
Totals: $175.3 Million Domestic / $504.8 Million Current Foreign Total / $680.1 Million Worldwide Total
Week Number: 1

Obviously, as we knew it would, Iron Man 3 has taken the top spot, and it has done so by a gigantic margin. Of course this film opened overseas more than a week ago and was already bringing home the big bucks before it opened here in the U.S. This being just the first week out Stateside, I think we can project this film is…

Interesting. I can’t say I know anything about the novel this film is based on. So I turned to Wikipedia and learned this:

Sometime in the near future, humanity began to explore the solar system and master interplanetary spaceflight. In doing so, they encountered an alien race known as the Formics, derogatorily dubbed “buggers” due to their insect-like appearance, scouting the system and establishing a forward base in the asteroid Eros. The Formics attacked the humans and the two races entered into two drawn-out wars. Despite political conflict on Earth between three ruling parties, the…

Sony Pictures has quietly started development on a new chapter in the “Men in Black” franchise, tapping Oren Uziel (“The Kitchen Sink”) to write “Men in Black 4,” TheWrap has learned.

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“Men in Black 3,” which found Josh Brolin and Emma Thompson joining original stars Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones, grossed $625 million worldwide last summer and was the highest-grossing film in the franchise.

Well, no wonder they’re jumping up and down to make another one. There were a lot of things I liked about the 3^rd installment so I hope they can keep up the good work. And really, the Men…

“Even while we were working on the first movie, I think we had plans for the second one.”

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“You should always know where you’ve been, you should always know where you are, but most importantly, and I learned this from Lost, you should know where you’re going.”

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“You can never see enough Klingons, and I think in this film we’ve given the audience a little taste, but there’s also a promise that there’s a larger conflict on the horizon, and that would be fun to see.”

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“Draw your own conclusions my friend. I confirm nothing and deny all.”

My conclusion, more…

“If that works the way everyone expects it to work I think that would open up another avenue, another outlet for some of those characters,” Feige acknowledes. “Maybe they guest star, I don’t know. I think they’re avoiding the cameo of the week on that show, which is very smart.”

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But, well, there is one other question: Would Robert Downey Jr. ever return to TV for a guest appearance as Iron Man?

EW asked him straight-up. Downey Jr.’s response: “You know what? There’s no telling. I am open to everything.”

It’s not very likely. But at the very least, it’s also not a hard…

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Robert DeSalvo: Kevin, for Iron Man’s third stand-alone movie, what specifically did you want to do differently from the other “Iron Man” films?

KEVIN FEIGE: Well, the most important thing was to make a good part three. The curse of the threequel is something that people write a lot about, and I didn’t want to fall prey to that. One way to try to not fall prey to that was do something different and not rely on making things bigger, bigger, bigger. Although, ironically, this has some of the biggest action set pieces in any of our movies. But, knowing that it would come a year after “The…

I’m telling you what, if clips, trailers, and footage we have not yet seen keeps rolling out at this rate, I will have seen the entire film by the time May 17 gets here. Seriously, I can’t remember the last time so much stuff has come out in advance of a film.

Most of this stuff we’ve seen before, but there are a couple of new shots, particularly a really good view of the smoking starship (presumably the U.S.S. Vengeance) falling from the sky before the same saucer section crashing into buildings shot we’ve seen in several other trailers. Plus, Kirk is in a bar doing his thing wooing the…

Wrap up the week with TJ as he breaks down last weekend’s Box Office stats, talks about the nightmare that broadcast TV may be headed for and why he thinks the model needs to change, the trailer for ‘RED2’ and why that film might be a good film, clips, goodies and analysis for ‘Star Trek Into Darkness’ that you won’t want to miss as ‘Into Darkness’ promises to be one of the big films this year, the Instacast for Mac Public Beta and how exciting that is, the last Reel-To-Reel at a particular theater and the changing of the guard that represents, a mom watches and relates the story of ‘The Matrix’, the ‘White House Down’ trailer, a review of ‘Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan’, a recommendation to catch the latest episode of ‘The MovieByte Podcast’ with special guest Dan Benjamin of 5by5, and what you might want to see in theaters this weekend.