Cotdamn Tessa's in it, shit is gonna be crazy!!!!
New Infinity War trailer just dropped
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There's a lot of speculation as to who may die, but it won't be Cap. At least not in this one. I just saw an article that said he's done with the role after the next Avengers film.
He may die in this....and be resurrected (with the snap of a finger) in Avengers 4 and walk away at the end of that one.
‘Avengers: Infinity War’ Posters Unite the Heroes of the MCU
Time to put on the blinders, folks. We’re just a few weeks out from Avengers: Infinity War, which means the Disney marketing machine is on full blast in the lead-up to one of the most-hyped entries in the long-running superhero saga. After months of silence and secrecy, recent weeks have brought a wave of new information on the latest MCU movie from Winter Soldier and Civil War helmers Joe and Anthony Russo, not to mention a brand new trailer. So, it’s officially time to avert your eyes if you want to go in clean.
Today’s new material isn’t exactly a spoilerfest — it’s a set of new posters uniting the heroes of the MCU in what must have been one of the most delightful rounds of talent negotiation in the history of cinema. The folks over at Vulture did a pretty great job reading into the details of the cast breakdown, and you better believe there was plenty of attention paid to who got to be Big Face and so on in these posters. The results are pretty much what you’d expect — with the MCU OGs getting top poster placement, the new generation of headlining heroes behind them, and supporting characters filling out the smaller spots.
The only real head-scratcher is Scarlet Witch, who gets prime placement on one poster despite only appearing as a supporting character in two films, so it’s probably a safe bet she’s got a pretty significant role in the film. Her boyfriend does have an Infinity Stone in his head, after all. The other point of interest is the continued absence of two familiar heroes — Hawkeye and Ant-Man, both of whom have been MIA from a lot of much of Infinity War’s key promo materials. Now, we know Ant-Man and the Wasp is just around the corner so that one’s not too curious, but Hawkeye is a whole other matter. The Russos have said that he’s in a “special spot” and on his own journey in the film, and from the looks of the promo materials, we definitely shouldn’t expect to see much of him.
http://collider.com/avengers-infinity-war-posters/#black-panther
Time to put on the blinders, folks. We’re just a few weeks out from Avengers: Infinity War, which means the Disney marketing machine is on full blast in the lead-up to one of the most-hyped entries in the long-running superhero saga. After months of silence and secrecy, recent weeks have brought a wave of new information on the latest MCU movie from Winter Soldier and Civil War helmers Joe and Anthony Russo, not to mention a brand new trailer. So, it’s officially time to avert your eyes if you want to go in clean.
Today’s new material isn’t exactly a spoilerfest — it’s a set of new posters uniting the heroes of the MCU in what must have been one of the most delightful rounds of talent negotiation in the history of cinema. The folks over at Vulture did a pretty great job reading into the details of the cast breakdown, and you better believe there was plenty of attention paid to who got to be Big Face and so on in these posters. The results are pretty much what you’d expect — with the MCU OGs getting top poster placement, the new generation of headlining heroes behind them, and supporting characters filling out the smaller spots.
The only real head-scratcher is Scarlet Witch, who gets prime placement on one poster despite only appearing as a supporting character in two films, so it’s probably a safe bet she’s got a pretty significant role in the film. Her boyfriend does have an Infinity Stone in his head, after all. The other point of interest is the continued absence of two familiar heroes — Hawkeye and Ant-Man, both of whom have been MIA from a lot of much of Infinity War’s key promo materials. Now, we know Ant-Man and the Wasp is just around the corner so that one’s not too curious, but Hawkeye is a whole other matter. The Russos have said that he’s in a “special spot” and on his own journey in the film, and from the looks of the promo materials, we definitely shouldn’t expect to see much of him.
http://collider.com/avengers-infinity-war-posters/#black-panther
‘Avengers: Infinity War’ Posters Unite the Heroes of the MCU
Time to put on the blinders, folks. We’re just a few weeks out from Avengers: Infinity War, which means the Disney marketing machine is on full blast in the lead-up to one of the most-hyped entries in the long-running superhero saga. After months of silence and secrecy, recent weeks have brought a wave of new information on the latest MCU movie from Winter Soldier and Civil War helmers Joe and Anthony Russo, not to mention a brand new trailer. So, it’s officially time to avert your eyes if you want to go in clean.
Today’s new material isn’t exactly a spoilerfest — it’s a set of new posters uniting the heroes of the MCU in what must have been one of the most delightful rounds of talent negotiation in the history of cinema. The folks over at Vulture did a pretty great job reading into the details of the cast breakdown, and you better believe there was plenty of attention paid to who got to be Big Face and so on in these posters. The results are pretty much what you’d expect — with the MCU OGs getting top poster placement, the new generation of headlining heroes behind them, and supporting characters filling out the smaller spots.
The only real head-scratcher is Scarlet Witch, who gets prime placement on one poster despite only appearing as a supporting character in two films, so it’s probably a safe bet she’s got a pretty significant role in the film. Her boyfriend does have an Infinity Stone in his head, after all. The other point of interest is the continued absence of two familiar heroes — Hawkeye and Ant-Man, both of whom have been MIA from a lot of much of Infinity War’s key promo materials. Now, we know Ant-Man and the Wasp is just around the corner so that one’s not too curious, but Hawkeye is a whole other matter. The Russos have said that he’s in a “special spot” and on his own journey in the film, and from the looks of the promo materials, we definitely shouldn’t expect to see much of him.
http://collider.com/avengers-infinity-war-posters/#black-panther
dope posters....and very nice pic of my wife in your sig.
Analyzing the Crazy, Complicated Credits of Avengers: Infinity War
By Kyle Buchanan@kylebuchanan
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Photo: Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
I’ve long been obsessed with star billing, the delicate art of negotiation that decides the order of where actors will be placed in the credits of their project. It involves contractual wrangling and supersized egos, and sometimes the results can be as revealing as any industry exposé. Do you remember when Richard Gere was billed over Julia Roberts on the poster for Pretty Woman, only for her to vault over him when they reteamed for Runaway Bride? Or when Gene Hackman took his name off the poster for The Firm because he was miffed by Tom Cruise’s above-the-title billing? Hell, if I was stabbed in the street, had only 15 seconds to live, and flagged over a stranger to help, I think I’d probably just spend that time with my Good Samaritan whispering, “Did it make any sense to you that American Horror Story: Coven billed its two black Oscar nominees Angela Bassett and Gabourey Sidibe as guest stars the whole season, even though they appeared in more episodes than most of the main cast?”
So when Avengers: Infinity War was announced, while most people were wondering which Marvel characters would die at the hand of supervillain Thanos, I was saving all my speculation for the billing block. The movie is an unprecedented team-up of characters that far outstrips even the last two Avengers casts, and it has to construct a plausible credit order for dozens of actors who have become big stars in their own franchises, and aren’t used to being 16th billed. How would Marvel manage it?
The answer is deliciously complicated. Let’s do a deep dive into the billing block at the bottom of thatInfinity Warposter, which has the tricky business of sorting 27 stars and leaving a few notable Marvel heroes out entirely.
Photo: null
The first five names in the billing block are the core, OG Avengers: Robert Downey Jr., Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Evans, and Scarlett Johansson. Even within that tried-and-true group of superheroes, though, there are some interesting credit placements. For example, this is the first time that Downey Jr., Marvel’s biggest star, has received a below-the-title credit since the original Iron Man. Is that his concession to the supersized ensemble? I’ve also got to hand it to Hemsworth’s lawyers: Though Evans was second-billed after Downey Jr. in the first Avengers movie, Hemsworth has taken that spot in the movies since, and now Evans is billed fourth after Ruffalo, who’s never even had a solo Marvel franchise. There remains only one constant: In every Avengersfilm, Johansson has been billed fifth. Call it the superhero glass ceiling.
Photo: null
Things get a little more interesting in the next section, where six more stars join the fray: Benedict Cumberbatch, Don Cheadle, Tom Holland, Chadwick Boseman, Paul Bettany, and Elizabeth Olsen. I’m surprised that Cumberbatch scored the highest billing of this group, likely owing to the fact that his solo Marvel film Doctor Strange debuted earlier than Holland’s Spider-Man: Homecoming or Boseman’s Black Panther. The other actors, who all appeared in Captain America: Civil War, are credited in the same order they were sorted in that film, aside from Holland, who swung past Boseman and landed just behind Cheadle, one of Marvel’s supporting stalwarts since Iron Man 2. Given that Boseman just toplined what will be the biggest Marvel movie ever made, it seems a little eyebrow-raising that he’s billed behind the likes of Cumberbatch and Holland, but again, it seems like Marvel mostly decided that order based on who had a solo franchise entry first. Still, when they make a fifth Avengers film, expect Boseman to get an overdue promotion in the billing block.
Photo: null
Names 12 to 17 mostly feature the supporting actors from other Marvel movies: Anthony Mackie and Sebastian Stan from the Captain America franchise, Thor’s Tom Hiddleston and Idris Elba, newcomer Peter Dinklage, and Doctor Strange’s Benedict Wong. Give it up for Team Mackie, since this is the first time he’s jumped above Stan in a Marvel billing block. Hiddleston and Elba are likely billed lower since they don’t feature into the movie as heavily, but it’s interesting that Dinklage, the only person in the credited cast who has never appeared in a Marvel film before, still slid in there before Wong.
Photo: null
The most eccentric crediting comes with the Guardians of the Galaxy, who are joining the Avengers cast after two successful space-faring films on their own. The Guardians are last in the billing block before we get to all the special designations, but the normal billing order of their core human cast has been reversed: Recent addition Pom Klementieff (Mantis) is first, then Karen Gillan (Nebula), Dave Bautista (Drax), and finally Zoe Saldana (Gamora), who is the female lead of that franchise. (Vin Diesel and Bradley Cooper, who provide the voices of Groot and Rocket, are listed last.) Why would Saldana agree to flip the credit order like that, given that she is a big star with an important Infinity Warpresence? Perhaps for the same reason Chris Pratt hasn’t even been listed yet: At a certain point, it’s more chic to attract attention in the back of the billing block.
Photo: null
And now we get to the special designations. Gwyneth Paltrow earning the first “with” makes me cackle because it reminds me that she was billed above Zendaya for her five-second gig in Spider-Man: Homecoming. Look, if you want Gwyneth for a cameo, you’ve got to meet her terms!
Photo: null
And then there are the three final names in the billing block: Benicio del Toro, who also gets a “with”; Josh Brolin, who gets both a “with” and an “as”; and Chris Pratt, who earned this stacked cast’s only “and.” Let’s take these one by one, shall we? I suspect that del Toro, who was cast in the first Guardians of the Galaxy before Brolin came onboard, likely had a contractual precedent that came into effect again here and led to him being billed first. Then again, maybe Brolin wants that same back-of-the-pack cool factor that Pratt got for being the last, most distinctive credit in the main cast. Today alone, I’ve seen two different trailers that bill their most famous stars last: Erstwhile Avenger Jeremy Renner (who is conspicuously absent from the Infinity War poster) got the “and” credit for his new movie Tagdespite being the biggest movie star in the ensemble, while Amy Poehler’s Wine Country finished its teaser by “featuring” Tina Fey.
If Pratt had really wanted to wade into the credit melee, he could have had a shot at nabbing Hemsworth’s second billing, since he has a big non-Marvel franchise in Jurassic World; instead, he staked out what feels like a cooler perch. Clever! But even now that we’ve named the 27 stars in that billing block, there are still some head-scratchers: How come we see Black Panther’s Danai Gurira and Letitia Wright on the poster but their names didn’t make the bottom block? Is Renner pulling a Gene Hackman by sitting this one out entirely? And can anyone explain to me why B.J. Novak was always in the opening credits ofThe Office despite playing such a marginal supporting character? That one doesn’t have anything to do with Marvel, but hey, I’d still like to know.
By Kyle Buchanan@kylebuchanan
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Photo: Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
I’ve long been obsessed with star billing, the delicate art of negotiation that decides the order of where actors will be placed in the credits of their project. It involves contractual wrangling and supersized egos, and sometimes the results can be as revealing as any industry exposé. Do you remember when Richard Gere was billed over Julia Roberts on the poster for Pretty Woman, only for her to vault over him when they reteamed for Runaway Bride? Or when Gene Hackman took his name off the poster for The Firm because he was miffed by Tom Cruise’s above-the-title billing? Hell, if I was stabbed in the street, had only 15 seconds to live, and flagged over a stranger to help, I think I’d probably just spend that time with my Good Samaritan whispering, “Did it make any sense to you that American Horror Story: Coven billed its two black Oscar nominees Angela Bassett and Gabourey Sidibe as guest stars the whole season, even though they appeared in more episodes than most of the main cast?”
So when Avengers: Infinity War was announced, while most people were wondering which Marvel characters would die at the hand of supervillain Thanos, I was saving all my speculation for the billing block. The movie is an unprecedented team-up of characters that far outstrips even the last two Avengers casts, and it has to construct a plausible credit order for dozens of actors who have become big stars in their own franchises, and aren’t used to being 16th billed. How would Marvel manage it?
The answer is deliciously complicated. Let’s do a deep dive into the billing block at the bottom of thatInfinity Warposter, which has the tricky business of sorting 27 stars and leaving a few notable Marvel heroes out entirely.
Photo: null
The first five names in the billing block are the core, OG Avengers: Robert Downey Jr., Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Evans, and Scarlett Johansson. Even within that tried-and-true group of superheroes, though, there are some interesting credit placements. For example, this is the first time that Downey Jr., Marvel’s biggest star, has received a below-the-title credit since the original Iron Man. Is that his concession to the supersized ensemble? I’ve also got to hand it to Hemsworth’s lawyers: Though Evans was second-billed after Downey Jr. in the first Avengers movie, Hemsworth has taken that spot in the movies since, and now Evans is billed fourth after Ruffalo, who’s never even had a solo Marvel franchise. There remains only one constant: In every Avengersfilm, Johansson has been billed fifth. Call it the superhero glass ceiling.
Photo: null
Things get a little more interesting in the next section, where six more stars join the fray: Benedict Cumberbatch, Don Cheadle, Tom Holland, Chadwick Boseman, Paul Bettany, and Elizabeth Olsen. I’m surprised that Cumberbatch scored the highest billing of this group, likely owing to the fact that his solo Marvel film Doctor Strange debuted earlier than Holland’s Spider-Man: Homecoming or Boseman’s Black Panther. The other actors, who all appeared in Captain America: Civil War, are credited in the same order they were sorted in that film, aside from Holland, who swung past Boseman and landed just behind Cheadle, one of Marvel’s supporting stalwarts since Iron Man 2. Given that Boseman just toplined what will be the biggest Marvel movie ever made, it seems a little eyebrow-raising that he’s billed behind the likes of Cumberbatch and Holland, but again, it seems like Marvel mostly decided that order based on who had a solo franchise entry first. Still, when they make a fifth Avengers film, expect Boseman to get an overdue promotion in the billing block.
Photo: null
Names 12 to 17 mostly feature the supporting actors from other Marvel movies: Anthony Mackie and Sebastian Stan from the Captain America franchise, Thor’s Tom Hiddleston and Idris Elba, newcomer Peter Dinklage, and Doctor Strange’s Benedict Wong. Give it up for Team Mackie, since this is the first time he’s jumped above Stan in a Marvel billing block. Hiddleston and Elba are likely billed lower since they don’t feature into the movie as heavily, but it’s interesting that Dinklage, the only person in the credited cast who has never appeared in a Marvel film before, still slid in there before Wong.
Photo: null
The most eccentric crediting comes with the Guardians of the Galaxy, who are joining the Avengers cast after two successful space-faring films on their own. The Guardians are last in the billing block before we get to all the special designations, but the normal billing order of their core human cast has been reversed: Recent addition Pom Klementieff (Mantis) is first, then Karen Gillan (Nebula), Dave Bautista (Drax), and finally Zoe Saldana (Gamora), who is the female lead of that franchise. (Vin Diesel and Bradley Cooper, who provide the voices of Groot and Rocket, are listed last.) Why would Saldana agree to flip the credit order like that, given that she is a big star with an important Infinity Warpresence? Perhaps for the same reason Chris Pratt hasn’t even been listed yet: At a certain point, it’s more chic to attract attention in the back of the billing block.
Photo: null
And now we get to the special designations. Gwyneth Paltrow earning the first “with” makes me cackle because it reminds me that she was billed above Zendaya for her five-second gig in Spider-Man: Homecoming. Look, if you want Gwyneth for a cameo, you’ve got to meet her terms!
Photo: null
And then there are the three final names in the billing block: Benicio del Toro, who also gets a “with”; Josh Brolin, who gets both a “with” and an “as”; and Chris Pratt, who earned this stacked cast’s only “and.” Let’s take these one by one, shall we? I suspect that del Toro, who was cast in the first Guardians of the Galaxy before Brolin came onboard, likely had a contractual precedent that came into effect again here and led to him being billed first. Then again, maybe Brolin wants that same back-of-the-pack cool factor that Pratt got for being the last, most distinctive credit in the main cast. Today alone, I’ve seen two different trailers that bill their most famous stars last: Erstwhile Avenger Jeremy Renner (who is conspicuously absent from the Infinity War poster) got the “and” credit for his new movie Tagdespite being the biggest movie star in the ensemble, while Amy Poehler’s Wine Country finished its teaser by “featuring” Tina Fey.
If Pratt had really wanted to wade into the credit melee, he could have had a shot at nabbing Hemsworth’s second billing, since he has a big non-Marvel franchise in Jurassic World; instead, he staked out what feels like a cooler perch. Clever! But even now that we’ve named the 27 stars in that billing block, there are still some head-scratchers: How come we see Black Panther’s Danai Gurira and Letitia Wright on the poster but their names didn’t make the bottom block? Is Renner pulling a Gene Hackman by sitting this one out entirely? And can anyone explain to me why B.J. Novak was always in the opening credits ofThe Office despite playing such a marginal supporting character? That one doesn’t have anything to do with Marvel, but hey, I’d still like to know.
Yes, she is bad.
Thanks for the drop.Analyzing the Crazy, Complicated Credits of Avengers: Infinity War
By Kyle Buchanan@kylebuchanan
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Photo: Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
I’ve long been obsessed with star billing, the delicate art of negotiation that decides the order of where actors will be placed in the credits of their project. It involves contractual wrangling and supersized egos, and sometimes the results can be as revealing as any industry exposé. Do you remember when Richard Gere was billed over Julia Roberts on the poster for Pretty Woman, only for her to vault over him when they reteamed for Runaway Bride? Or when Gene Hackman took his name off the poster for The Firm because he was miffed by Tom Cruise’s above-the-title billing? Hell, if I was stabbed in the street, had only 15 seconds to live, and flagged over a stranger to help, I think I’d probably just spend that time with my Good Samaritan whispering, “Did it make any sense to you that American Horror Story: Coven billed its two black Oscar nominees Angela Bassett and Gabourey Sidibe as guest stars the whole season, even though they appeared in more episodes than most of the main cast?”
So when Avengers: Infinity War was announced, while most people were wondering which Marvel characters would die at the hand of supervillain Thanos, I was saving all my speculation for the billing block. The movie is an unprecedented team-up of characters that far outstrips even the last two Avengers casts, and it has to construct a plausible credit order for dozens of actors who have become big stars in their own franchises, and aren’t used to being 16th billed. How would Marvel manage it?
The answer is deliciously complicated. Let’s do a deep dive into the billing block at the bottom of thatInfinity Warposter, which has the tricky business of sorting 27 stars and leaving a few notable Marvel heroes out entirely.
Photo: null
The first five names in the billing block are the core, OG Avengers: Robert Downey Jr., Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Evans, and Scarlett Johansson. Even within that tried-and-true group of superheroes, though, there are some interesting credit placements. For example, this is the first time that Downey Jr., Marvel’s biggest star, has received a below-the-title credit since the original Iron Man. Is that his concession to the supersized ensemble? I’ve also got to hand it to Hemsworth’s lawyers: Though Evans was second-billed after Downey Jr. in the first Avengers movie, Hemsworth has taken that spot in the movies since, and now Evans is billed fourth after Ruffalo, who’s never even had a solo Marvel franchise. There remains only one constant: In every Avengersfilm, Johansson has been billed fifth. Call it the superhero glass ceiling.
Photo: null
Things get a little more interesting in the next section, where six more stars join the fray: Benedict Cumberbatch, Don Cheadle, Tom Holland, Chadwick Boseman, Paul Bettany, and Elizabeth Olsen. I’m surprised that Cumberbatch scored the highest billing of this group, likely owing to the fact that his solo Marvel film Doctor Strange debuted earlier than Holland’s Spider-Man: Homecoming or Boseman’s Black Panther. The other actors, who all appeared in Captain America: Civil War, are credited in the same order they were sorted in that film, aside from Holland, who swung past Boseman and landed just behind Cheadle, one of Marvel’s supporting stalwarts since Iron Man 2. Given that Boseman just toplined what will be the biggest Marvel movie ever made, it seems a little eyebrow-raising that he’s billed behind the likes of Cumberbatch and Holland, but again, it seems like Marvel mostly decided that order based on who had a solo franchise entry first. Still, when they make a fifth Avengers film, expect Boseman to get an overdue promotion in the billing block.
Photo: null
Names 12 to 17 mostly feature the supporting actors from other Marvel movies: Anthony Mackie and Sebastian Stan from the Captain America franchise, Thor’s Tom Hiddleston and Idris Elba, newcomer Peter Dinklage, and Doctor Strange’s Benedict Wong. Give it up for Team Mackie, since this is the first time he’s jumped above Stan in a Marvel billing block. Hiddleston and Elba are likely billed lower since they don’t feature into the movie as heavily, but it’s interesting that Dinklage, the only person in the credited cast who has never appeared in a Marvel film before, still slid in there before Wong.
Photo: null
The most eccentric crediting comes with the Guardians of the Galaxy, who are joining the Avengers cast after two successful space-faring films on their own. The Guardians are last in the billing block before we get to all the special designations, but the normal billing order of their core human cast has been reversed: Recent addition Pom Klementieff (Mantis) is first, then Karen Gillan (Nebula), Dave Bautista (Drax), and finally Zoe Saldana (Gamora), who is the female lead of that franchise. (Vin Diesel and Bradley Cooper, who provide the voices of Groot and Rocket, are listed last.) Why would Saldana agree to flip the credit order like that, given that she is a big star with an important Infinity Warpresence? Perhaps for the same reason Chris Pratt hasn’t even been listed yet: At a certain point, it’s more chic to attract attention in the back of the billing block.
Photo: null
And now we get to the special designations. Gwyneth Paltrow earning the first “with” makes me cackle because it reminds me that she was billed above Zendaya for her five-second gig in Spider-Man: Homecoming. Look, if you want Gwyneth for a cameo, you’ve got to meet her terms!
Photo: null
And then there are the three final names in the billing block: Benicio del Toro, who also gets a “with”; Josh Brolin, who gets both a “with” and an “as”; and Chris Pratt, who earned this stacked cast’s only “and.” Let’s take these one by one, shall we? I suspect that del Toro, who was cast in the first Guardians of the Galaxy before Brolin came onboard, likely had a contractual precedent that came into effect again here and led to him being billed first. Then again, maybe Brolin wants that same back-of-the-pack cool factor that Pratt got for being the last, most distinctive credit in the main cast. Today alone, I’ve seen two different trailers that bill their most famous stars last: Erstwhile Avenger Jeremy Renner (who is conspicuously absent from the Infinity War poster) got the “and” credit for his new movie Tagdespite being the biggest movie star in the ensemble, while Amy Poehler’s Wine Country finished its teaser by “featuring” Tina Fey.
If Pratt had really wanted to wade into the credit melee, he could have had a shot at nabbing Hemsworth’s second billing, since he has a big non-Marvel franchise in Jurassic World; instead, he staked out what feels like a cooler perch. Clever! But even now that we’ve named the 27 stars in that billing block, there are still some head-scratchers: How come we see Black Panther’s Danai Gurira and Letitia Wright on the poster but their names didn’t make the bottom block? Is Renner pulling a Gene Hackman by sitting this one out entirely? And can anyone explain to me why B.J. Novak was always in the opening credits ofThe Office despite playing such a marginal supporting character? That one doesn’t have anything to do with Marvel, but hey, I’d still like to know.
Funny article. 
There is a much simpler explanation, imo...
Here's my theory..... just by looking at it, seems like they probably divided the information into 'manageable chunks' so folks can digest it quickly (with just a glance). If so, the content could be organized something like this...
SIDENOTE: Here's a video that also helps explain the 'secret sauce' used to create movie poster billing....
Still no Adam Warlock. How?
Advanced Screenings Will Be Limited To Selected Footage
Avengers: Infinity War is Marvel’s biggest secret to date, and the directors want to keep it that way. In a letter penned to “the greatest fans in the world,” sibling filmmakers Joe and Anthony Russo have formally asked audiences to keep any spoilers about the film to themselves.
“We’re about to embark on the Avengers: Infinity War press tour. We will be visiting fans all over the world screening only a limited amount of selected footage from the film in order to avoid spoiling the story for future viewers,” the duo wrote, as shown in a photo posted to social media.
“We will not screen the film in its entirely until the Los Angeles premiere shortly before the film’s global release,” the letter continued. “Everyone involved with the film has worked incredibly hard for the past two years maintaining the highest level of secrecy.”
Adding to Infinity War‘s growing mystique, they noted, “Only a handful of people know the film’s true plot.” Hmm. Interesting.
“We’re asking that when you see Infinity War, in the coming months, that you maintain that same level of secrecy so that all fans can have an equal experience when they watch it for the first time,” they concluded. “Don’t spoil it for others, the same way you wouldn’t want it spoiled for you.”
http://ew.com/movies/2018/04/03/avengers-infinity-war-spoilers-directors-letter/
Avengers: Infinity War is Marvel’s biggest secret to date, and the directors want to keep it that way. In a letter penned to “the greatest fans in the world,” sibling filmmakers Joe and Anthony Russo have formally asked audiences to keep any spoilers about the film to themselves.
“We’re about to embark on the Avengers: Infinity War press tour. We will be visiting fans all over the world screening only a limited amount of selected footage from the film in order to avoid spoiling the story for future viewers,” the duo wrote, as shown in a photo posted to social media.
“We will not screen the film in its entirely until the Los Angeles premiere shortly before the film’s global release,” the letter continued. “Everyone involved with the film has worked incredibly hard for the past two years maintaining the highest level of secrecy.”
Adding to Infinity War‘s growing mystique, they noted, “Only a handful of people know the film’s true plot.” Hmm. Interesting.
“We’re asking that when you see Infinity War, in the coming months, that you maintain that same level of secrecy so that all fans can have an equal experience when they watch it for the first time,” they concluded. “Don’t spoil it for others, the same way you wouldn’t want it spoiled for you.”
http://ew.com/movies/2018/04/03/avengers-infinity-war-spoilers-directors-letter/
so is Peter playing Dink?Analyzing the Crazy, Complicated Credits of Avengers: Infinity War
By Kyle Buchanan@kylebuchanan
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Photo: Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
I’ve long been obsessed with star billing, the delicate art of negotiation that decides the order of where actors will be placed in the credits of their project. It involves contractual wrangling and supersized egos, and sometimes the results can be as revealing as any industry exposé. Do you remember when Richard Gere was billed over Julia Roberts on the poster for Pretty Woman, only for her to vault over him when they reteamed for Runaway Bride? Or when Gene Hackman took his name off the poster for The Firm because he was miffed by Tom Cruise’s above-the-title billing? Hell, if I was stabbed in the street, had only 15 seconds to live, and flagged over a stranger to help, I think I’d probably just spend that time with my Good Samaritan whispering, “Did it make any sense to you that American Horror Story: Coven billed its two black Oscar nominees Angela Bassett and Gabourey Sidibe as guest stars the whole season, even though they appeared in more episodes than most of the main cast?”
So when Avengers: Infinity War was announced, while most people were wondering which Marvel characters would die at the hand of supervillain Thanos, I was saving all my speculation for the billing block. The movie is an unprecedented team-up of characters that far outstrips even the last two Avengers casts, and it has to construct a plausible credit order for dozens of actors who have become big stars in their own franchises, and aren’t used to being 16th billed. How would Marvel manage it?
The answer is deliciously complicated. Let’s do a deep dive into the billing block at the bottom of thatInfinity Warposter, which has the tricky business of sorting 27 stars and leaving a few notable Marvel heroes out entirely.
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The first five names in the billing block are the core, OG Avengers: Robert Downey Jr., Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Evans, and Scarlett Johansson. Even within that tried-and-true group of superheroes, though, there are some interesting credit placements. For example, this is the first time that Downey Jr., Marvel’s biggest star, has received a below-the-title credit since the original Iron Man. Is that his concession to the supersized ensemble? I’ve also got to hand it to Hemsworth’s lawyers: Though Evans was second-billed after Downey Jr. in the first Avengers movie, Hemsworth has taken that spot in the movies since, and now Evans is billed fourth after Ruffalo, who’s never even had a solo Marvel franchise. There remains only one constant: In every Avengersfilm, Johansson has been billed fifth. Call it the superhero glass ceiling.
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Things get a little more interesting in the next section, where six more stars join the fray: Benedict Cumberbatch, Don Cheadle, Tom Holland, Chadwick Boseman, Paul Bettany, and Elizabeth Olsen. I’m surprised that Cumberbatch scored the highest billing of this group, likely owing to the fact that his solo Marvel film Doctor Strange debuted earlier than Holland’s Spider-Man: Homecoming or Boseman’s Black Panther. The other actors, who all appeared in Captain America: Civil War, are credited in the same order they were sorted in that film, aside from Holland, who swung past Boseman and landed just behind Cheadle, one of Marvel’s supporting stalwarts since Iron Man 2. Given that Boseman just toplined what will be the biggest Marvel movie ever made, it seems a little eyebrow-raising that he’s billed behind the likes of Cumberbatch and Holland, but again, it seems like Marvel mostly decided that order based on who had a solo franchise entry first. Still, when they make a fifth Avengers film, expect Boseman to get an overdue promotion in the billing block.
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Names 12 to 17 mostly feature the supporting actors from other Marvel movies: Anthony Mackie and Sebastian Stan from the Captain America franchise, Thor’s Tom Hiddleston and Idris Elba, newcomer Peter Dinklage, and Doctor Strange’s Benedict Wong. Give it up for Team Mackie, since this is the first time he’s jumped above Stan in a Marvel billing block. Hiddleston and Elba are likely billed lower since they don’t feature into the movie as heavily, but it’s interesting that Dinklage, the only person in the credited cast who has never appeared in a Marvel film before, still slid in there before Wong.
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The most eccentric crediting comes with the Guardians of the Galaxy, who are joining the Avengers cast after two successful space-faring films on their own. The Guardians are last in the billing block before we get to all the special designations, but the normal billing order of their core human cast has been reversed: Recent addition Pom Klementieff (Mantis) is first, then Karen Gillan (Nebula), Dave Bautista (Drax), and finally Zoe Saldana (Gamora), who is the female lead of that franchise. (Vin Diesel and Bradley Cooper, who provide the voices of Groot and Rocket, are listed last.) Why would Saldana agree to flip the credit order like that, given that she is a big star with an important Infinity Warpresence? Perhaps for the same reason Chris Pratt hasn’t even been listed yet: At a certain point, it’s more chic to attract attention in the back of the billing block.
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And now we get to the special designations. Gwyneth Paltrow earning the first “with” makes me cackle because it reminds me that she was billed above Zendaya for her five-second gig in Spider-Man: Homecoming. Look, if you want Gwyneth for a cameo, you’ve got to meet her terms!
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And then there are the three final names in the billing block: Benicio del Toro, who also gets a “with”; Josh Brolin, who gets both a “with” and an “as”; and Chris Pratt, who earned this stacked cast’s only “and.” Let’s take these one by one, shall we? I suspect that del Toro, who was cast in the first Guardians of the Galaxy before Brolin came onboard, likely had a contractual precedent that came into effect again here and led to him being billed first. Then again, maybe Brolin wants that same back-of-the-pack cool factor that Pratt got for being the last, most distinctive credit in the main cast. Today alone, I’ve seen two different trailers that bill their most famous stars last: Erstwhile Avenger Jeremy Renner (who is conspicuously absent from the Infinity War poster) got the “and” credit for his new movie Tagdespite being the biggest movie star in the ensemble, while Amy Poehler’s Wine Country finished its teaser by “featuring” Tina Fey.
If Pratt had really wanted to wade into the credit melee, he could have had a shot at nabbing Hemsworth’s second billing, since he has a big non-Marvel franchise in Jurassic World; instead, he staked out what feels like a cooler perch. Clever! But even now that we’ve named the 27 stars in that billing block, there are still some head-scratchers: How come we see Black Panther’s Danai Gurira and Letitia Wright on the poster but their names didn’t make the bottom block? Is Renner pulling a Gene Hackman by sitting this one out entirely? And can anyone explain to me why B.J. Novak was always in the opening credits ofThe Office despite playing such a marginal supporting character? That one doesn’t have anything to do with Marvel, but hey, I’d still like to know.
Who is Lawrence Fishburne playing?
Or is he doing a voice over for a CGI character?
Hold on.....he did do the voice of Silver Surfer in that Fantastic Four movie.
I was wondering the same thing maybe just happy to escape from DC.
This shit crazy. I'm still amazed how they screened Civil War and NOT A WORD about Ant Man going giant in the movie. And I downloaded that shit. Had no idea. When that mufucka grabbed War Machine me and Spiderman said "Holy SHIT!" the exact same time.lol
I hope they can keep things under wrap. This'll be the second flic I see in theaters in over 15 years or so...
where the fuck is hawk eye?
