Pretty far off, but apparently with the positive feedback of Iron Man they are planning an Avengers movie down the line after first introducing the characters in their own movies.

Also...a Spiderman 4!?...

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"Marvel Studios Sets Four More Release Dates! Source: Marvel Entertainment May 5, 2008 Marvel Entertainment released their first quarter report to its shareholders this morning to coincide with the announcement about the success this past weekend of Marvel Studios' first production Iron Man, which grossed an estimated $104.2 million domestically and over $201 million worldwide. The announcement included an update of Marvel Studios' feature film slate with the already-rumored Iron Man 2 announced for a release on April 30, 2010, followed by three more movies for the summers of '10 and '11. Matthew Vaughn's Thor is set for a release on June 4, 2010, and The First Avenger: Captain America (the working title) will kick off the summer of 2011 on May 6, followed by the highly-anticipated and foreshadowed The Avengers scheduled for July 2011. (Edgar Wright's Ant-Man is also listed as being in development with no release date set.) In a conference call this morning, Marvel Studios' David Maisel said that Iron Man 2 will be used to introduce Thor. Regarding more "Hulk" movies, Maisel said "We definitely plan on continuing." He added that development continues on Spider-Man 4. "I can't give any other updates other than to say it's in development and everybody's excited about 'Spider-Man 4,'" he said. With that in mind, one can start expecting a lot more announcements in the coming months about creative teams and casting for those movies including who might direct the Captain America and Avengers movies. (Whomever plays Steve Rogers AKA Captain America presumably will be making two movies at once.) "

http://www.superherohype.com/news/topnews.php?id=7165

5/5/2008 4:34:42 PM

On the topic of Spider-Man 4... I just realized something about comic book based super hero movies that have this many sequels. The first two are good. The third sucks. The fourth is atrocious.

Superman 1 and 2: Generally well received, a little cheesy but yeah good movies.
Superman 3: wtf? Tar makes Superman evil?
Superman 4: At least Lex Luthor is back, but Nuclear Man? come on...

Batman and Batman Returns: Also done very well, all the actors as well as Tim Burton were great
Batman Forever: Jim Carrey was awesome and Nicole Kidman was hot. That was about all that was good about the movie.
Batman and Robin: Do I really need to go into detail about this one?

Spider-Man 1 and 2: Both awesome, Spider-Man 2 is seen by many as being THE best comic book superhero movie out there.
Spider-Man 3: Everyone hated it
Spider-Man 4: Well... we'll see

5/5/2008 5:23:24 PM

^ Add X-Men

5/5/2008 5:33:25 PM

true. X-men 1 was amazing 2 was meh and 3 really left a bad taste in my mouth ... and fucking COLOSSUS WAS FUCKING AMERICAN GOD DAMMIT.

5/5/2008 5:45:50 PM

I thought X-Men 3 was at least decent. Not the best, but it could have been much worse. Spiderman 3 was horrible. It was just way too ambitious and fell far short of what it was trying to achieve. Batman 3 could be attributed to Tim Burton not directing. I don't know though. Batman 4 was fucking retarded.

5/5/2008 5:57:46 PM

i agree

5/5/2008 6:05:04 PM

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"Batman and Batman Returns: Also done very well, all the actors as well as Tim Burton were great"

I didn't appreciate Batman Returns until about 5 years after it came out. I never realized Christopher Walken's character was supposed to be Harvey Dent (Billy Dee Williams at the time).

5/5/2008 6:12:45 PM

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"Do I really need to go into detail about this one?"

yes, I love reading critiques of Batman & Robin

5/5/2008 8:11:49 PM

Oh yes, I forgot X-Men, I knew I forgot something.

5/5/2008 9:38:49 PM

^^ Christopher Walken's character was Max Schreck, and he was a businessman, not a lawyer.

I thought Spiderman 3 was great. People who can't appreciate it are looking for far too much in a comic movie directed by Sam Raimi.

5/5/2008 9:40:26 PM

Really? I think most of us were just wishing it would be on par with Spiderman 2. Instead, it went all emo and straight into the crapper.

5/5/2008 11:10:52 PM

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"Oh yes, I forgot X-Men, I knew I forgot something."

and Blade

5/5/2008 11:58:35 PM

Concerning superhero sequels, Marvel's changing the game.

5/6/2008 1:31:48 AM

Marvel did not make the Spider-Man, X-Men, Blade, or the first Hulk movies.

That's why they turned out shitty. The spider-man costume has the raised webbings so they could avoid the copyright issues on the suit's image. As it stands, Marvel cannot make a movie for X-Men or Spider-Man because they do not have the rights to them.

This is why there is a new Hulk movie coming out. The first one sucked such bad nuts that Marvel was able to buy back the rights to creating a movie based on the Hulk and make their own.

...at least, that's what my friend told me

5/6/2008 1:57:26 AM