Join TJ, Joe, and Clark to discuss this most important film installment in the Marvel Cinematic Universe: ‘Avengers: Age of Ultron’! The highs were high and the lows were low, which makes the conversation great. Also learn about Martin Freeman joining the cast of the upcoming ‘Captain America: Civil War’ and talk of the sequel to ‘Kingsman: The Secret Service’.
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Sherlock and The Hobbit star Martin Freeman is joining the Marvel Cinematic Universe!
There is 50/50 and Warm Bodies writer/helmer Jonathan Levine; Ted Melfi, writer/director of Golden Globe-nommed St. Vincent; Pitch Perfect helmer Jason Moore; John Francis Daley & Jonathan M. Goldstein, the directors/writers of the updated version of John Hughes’ Vacation; and Napoleon Dynamite and Don Verdean writer/director Jared Hess.
It was bound to happen, and now there’s some news: a Kingsman sequel is in the works at Fox.
Among other things, Disney demanded theaters stop matinee screenings of Avengers: Age of Ultron at 5 PM. It also wants to set the national average ticket price as the minimum on which it’ll split box office revenue — meaning that cinemas won’t make as much money off of Avengers: Age of Ultron if they don’t meet the national average ticket price.
One of the weirder digressions in Avengers: Age of Ultron has Thor seeking answers to questions that crop up in a nightmare sequence.
Last week’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. perfectly set up Avengers: Age of Ultron with plenty of references to the film’s opening sequence. Soon, we’ll see another Avengers sequence explained on the show.
When Tony Stark and Bruce Banner try to jump-start a dormant peacekeeping program called Ultron, things go horribly wrong and it's up to Earth's mightiest heroes to stop the villainous Ultron from enacting his terrible plans.
Critics Consensus: Exuberant and eye-popping, Avengers: Age of Ultron serves as an overstuffed but mostly satisfying sequel, reuniting its predecessor's unwieldy cast with a few new additions and a worthy foe.
Domestic Total as of May. 4, 2015: $204,499,664
Distributor: Buena Vista Release Date: May 1, 2015
Genre: Action / Adventure Runtime: N/A
MPAA Rating: PG-13 Production Budget: $250 million