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The offi­cial announcement:

The bil­lion­aire Super Hero in the iron suit is back in Mar­vel Stu­dios’ and Para­mount Pic­tures’ thrilling sen­sa­tion IRON MAN 2, debut­ing on Blu-ray, DVD, and dig­i­tal down­load Sep­tem­ber 28, 2010. Packed with fan­tas­tic bat­tles, stun­ning visual effects and an all-star cast, the new block­buster adven­ture will be avail­able to own as a three-disc Blu-ray/DVD combo pack with dig­i­tal copy, as a lim­ited edi­tion two-disc DVD with dig­i­tal copy, or as a sin­gle disc DVD. In this highly-anticipated sequel, Robert Downey Jr. (Sher­lock Holmes, Tropic Thun­der) reprises his role as Tony Stark, a.k.a. Iron Man, in a thrill-a-minute story filled with explo­sive action, new suits and pow­er­ful new vil­lains. The phe­nom­e­nal cast includes Gwyneth Pal­trow (Iron Man), Don Chea­dle (Oceans series), Scar­lett Johans­son (He’s Just Not That Into You) as the seduc­tive Black Widow, Mickey Rourke (The Wrestler) as the venge­ful Whiplash, as well as Sam Rock­well (Charlie’s Angels) and Samuel L. Jack­son (The Other Guys).

To date, with over $300 mil­lion at the domes­tic box office, IRON MAN 2 has delighted audi­ences with its com­bi­na­tion of high-intensity action, intel­li­gence and humor. The Blu-ray/DVD combo pack comes fully loaded with immer­sive and inter­ac­tive bonus mate­ri­als includ­ing an in-depth, feature-length doc­u­men­tary of the mak­ing of the film, reveal­ing fea­turettes about Nick Fury, Black Widow and War Machine, a look inside the cre­ation of Stark Expo, deleted scenes and an exclu­sive peek inside the Mar­vel Super Hero Uni­verse through the S.H.I.E.L.D. Data Vault.

IRON MAN 2 Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack

The Iron Man 2 Blu-ray is pre­sented in 1080p high def­i­n­i­tion with Eng­lish 5.1 DTS-HD Mas­ter Audio, French 5.1 Dolby Dig­i­tal, Span­ish 5.1 Dolby Dig­i­tal and Brazil­ian Por­tuguese 5.1 Dolby Dig­i­tal and Eng­lish, Eng­lish SDH, French, Span­ish and Brazil­ian Por­tuguese sub­ti­tles. The DVD is pre­sented in widescreen enhanced for 16:9 TVs with Dolby Dig­i­tal Eng­lish 5.1 Sur­round, French 5.1 Sur­round and Span­ish 5.1 Sur­round and Eng­lish, French and Span­ish sub­ti­tles. The disc break­down is as follows:

Disc 1 (Blu-ray):

* Fea­ture film with optional com­men­tary by Jon Favreau (HD)
* S.H.I.E.L.D. Data Vault (HD)— Extend your knowl­edge of the Mar­vel Cin­e­matic Uni­verse with high-level clear­ance into S.H.I.E.L.D.‘s dig­i­tal data vault. Inter­act with select scenes from the movie that include new lay­ers of graph­ics and insider infor­ma­tion. View case files, dossiers, S.H.I.E.L.D. train­ing films, tech details and more.
* Pre­vi­su­al­iza­tion and Ani­mat­ics (HD)

Disc 2 (Blu-ray):

* Ulti­mate Iron Man: The Mak­ing of Iron Man 2 (HD)
o Rebuild­ing the Suit—An all-encompassing look at the begin­ning stages of this mam­moth block­buster.
o A Return to Action—From Mar­vel Stu­dios to the streets of Monaco, Jon Favreau takes view­ers through the tri­als and tri­umphs of con­tin­u­ing Iron Man’s story.
o Expand­ing the Universe—From the amaz­ing sets of Stark Expo to Tony Stark’s home and beyond, the Mar­vel Uni­verse con­tin­ues to unfold into new and excit­ing places.
o Build­ing a Legacy—From film­ing to edit­ing, scor­ing and visual effects, Favreau and his team face the chal­lenges of bring­ing the sequel to the big screen.
* Fea­turettes (HD)
o Cre­at­ing Stark Expo—A look at how the sets and computer-generated ele­ments com­bine to cre­ate the mas­sive set piece.
o Prac­ti­cal Meets Digital—How the “prac­ti­cal” props inform the “dig­i­tal” work that ulti­mately brings our hero to life on screen.
o Illus­trated Ori­gin: Nick Fury—A com­pre­hen­sive jour­ney into cre­at­ing one of the most mys­te­ri­ous and influ­en­tial heroes in the Mar­vel Uni­verse.
o Illus­trated Ori­gin: Black Widow—An excit­ing look at the new femme fatale intro­duced in Iron Man 2.
o Illus­trated Ori­gin: War Machine—A look at the intro­duc­tion of the char­ac­ter and how his friend­ship with Tony Stark res­onates with fans.
o Work­ing with DJ AM—Jon Favreau remem­bers work­ing with Adam Gold­stein.
* Deleted Scenes with optional com­men­tary by Jon Favreau (HD)
o Alter­nate Open­ing
o Coul­son at the Sen­ate
o The Sub-Orbital Jet
o Tony’s Work­shop (extended)
o Natalie Wears the Gaunt­let
o Fly­ing Party Girl
o Mark II Secu­rity
o Ele­ment Redis­cov­ered (extended)
* Con­cept Art Gallery
* The­atri­cal Trail­ers (HD)
* Music Video: AC/DC “Shoot To Thrill”

Disc 3 (DVD):

* Fea­ture Film
* Dig­i­tal Copy

IRON MAN 2 Two-Disc DVD

The Iron Man 2 DVD is pre­sented in widescreen enhanced for 16:9 TVs with Dolby Dig­i­tal Eng­lish 5.1 Sur­round, French 5.1 Sur­round and Span­ish 5.1 Sur­round and Eng­lish, French and Span­ish sub­ti­tles. The disc break­down is as follows:

Disc 1:

* Fea­ture film with optional com­men­tary by Jon Favreau

Disc 2:

* Deleted Scenes with optional com­men­tary by Jon Favreau
o Alter­nate Open­ing
o Coul­son at the Sen­ate
o Natalie Wears the Gaunt­let
o Ele­ment Redis­cov­ered (extended)
* Fea­turettes
o Cre­at­ing Stark Expo
o Prac­ti­cal Meets Dig­i­tal
* Music Video: AC/DC “Shoot To Thrill“
* Dig­i­tal Copy

The single-disc DVD includes the fea­ture film with com­men­tary by Jon Favreau.

An early Christ­mas present for us! Apple has the exclu­sive Iron Man 2 trailer reveal, in full 1080p high def­i­n­i­tion.
Iron Man 2 trailer at Apple.

And of course, it’s also on YouTube, for those that pre­fer not to use Quick­time:

Screen­shots and analy­sis com­ing soon!

We’ve got our first big Iron Man 2 tease as an early Christ­mas present. A high res­o­lu­tion Iron Man 2 poster fea­tur­ing War Machine with right shoul­der mounted gun. As teaser posters go, this one’s pretty awesome.

We’ve also got a host of new screen­shots fea­tur­ing Tony Stark, Whiplash and Scar­lett Johans­son as the Black Widow.

As always, click on the images for their larger versions.

New toy pack­ag­ing and Iron Man 2 fig­ures have appeared online, the most excit­ing of these is a ‘Mark VI’ armor, seen below. Pic­tures come via Mar­velous News.

French TV sta­tion Canal have posted an extended 7 minute behind the scenes look at Iron Man 2. The video starts off in French but the inter­view with direc­tor Jon Favreau is in Eng­lish; you’ll here him talk about Stark’s home made par­ti­cle accel­er­a­tor. There’s also an inter­view with Robert Downey Jr., talk­ing about the chal­lenges of film­ing a sequel. An insight­ful look at the Iron Man sequel and def­i­nitely worth the watch.

From the bumpy golf buggy, Jon Favreau shared some Avengers infor­ma­tion with MTV. First up, he will not be direct­ing The Avengers movie. Sec­ondly, Ed Nor­ton will not have a cameo appear­ance in Iron Man 2.

“We want to rein­force a lot of the stuff we started to tip off,” Favreau told MTV News. “‘The Avengers’ is a much larger con­cern for Mar­vel and Kevin Feige, who runs Mar­vel. They’re going to be doing ‘Thor’ and ‘Cap­tain Amer­ica,’ and the way we might start to tease those things in this movie, some of it is stuff that we’ve dis­cussed [and] some of the stuff you do last-minute as you fig­ure out how that stuff is com­ing together.”

“It’s an evolv­ing, amor­phous thing,” he explained. “If we decide and com­mit too early, the secret always gets out.”

“They’ll have to [find a dif­fer­ent direc­tor], because I’m not going to be avail­able,” he explained. “It’s some­thing I’m being the exec­u­tive pro­ducer on, so I’ll def­i­nitely have input and a say.”

“It’s going to be hard, because I was so involved in cre­at­ing the world of Iron Man and Iron Man is very much a tech-based hero, and then with ‘Avengers’ you’re going to be intro­duc­ing some super­nat­ural aspects because of Thor,” he con­tin­ued. “How you mix the two of those works very well in the comic books, but it’s going to take a lot of thought­ful­ness to make that all work and not blow the real­ity that we’ve created.”

“That’s why it’s good that you have the guys from Mar­vel like Kevin Feige, who knows the books well and has been involved with the mak­ing of all the movies, and he’ll be very involved with ‘Thor’ and ‘Cap,’” said Favreau. “You need some­body who has the per­spec­tive of all the dif­fer­ent fran­chises to bring them together. I have the myopic vision of just know­ing and lov­ing Iron Man.“

This opens up the ques­tion, who should direct the Avengers movie?

EW​.com have posted a new image show­ing Tony Stark in his Iron Man suit at a diner, pre­sum­ably Randy’s Donuts, which we’ve seen in film­ing. Accord­ing to the SDCC footage, which pre­ma­turely leaked on the inter­net, this scene will fea­ture Stark talk­ing to Nick Fury (Samuel Jack­son), Jack­son was also spot­ted in the vicin­ity of Randy’s Donuts dur­ing filming.

The sixth video from Enter­tain­ment Tonight’s exclu­sive Iron Man 2 set visit is now up. This time Don Chea­dle talks about his roles in the sequel, namely as Rhodey and the already infa­mous War Machine. Video after the break…
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