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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.

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?

This ET set visit, unlike pre­vi­ous ones, comes chock full of tasty behind the scenes moments. Whiplash attack­ing a Rolls Royce as Pep­per tries to escape, shots of Natalie (Black Widow/Scarlett Johans­son) in leop­ard skin try­ing on the Iron Man armor, explo­sive For­mula 1 scenes, the love tri­an­gle and plenty more.

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Enter­tain­ment Tonight are run­ning an Iron Man 2 fea­turette this Thurs­day, you can catch a quick pre­view below. Be warned, it’s filled with quickly zoom­ing in and out cam­eras and quotes such as, “A set so big we sent two reporters”. Scar­lett Johans­son also, “kicks some seri­ous seri­ous ass”.

Bid­ding to meet Scar­lett Johans­son at the pre­mière of Iron Man 2 has started, in sup­port of Oxfam Amer­ica. At the time of writ­ing they are going for $3,500 with 11 bids.

More Oxfam auc­tions are also up for grabs, includ­ing lim­ited edi­tion Scar­lett Johans­son vinyl and signed photos.

Q: WHAT IS INCLUDED IN THIS AUCTION?
A: You are bid­ding on tick­ets for two (2 seats) to the U.S. pre­mière of IRON MAN 2, the oppor­tu­nity for you and your guest to meet Scar­lett Johans­son, and a com­pli­men­tary hair & makeup/grooming ses­sion at Christophe Salon (for 1 per­son). Please note: All travel, hotel, and any local trans­porta­tion arrange­ments are the respon­si­bil­ity of the win­ner and are not included in this auction.

Q: WHEN & WHERE IS THE PREMIERE?
A: The pre­mière is cur­rently sched­uled for May 2010 in Los Ange­les. Early arrival at the pre­mière is rec­om­mended. The date and loca­tion are sub­ject to change, but the win­ner will be given an oppor­tu­nity to attend the changed date/location should that occur. The seller will not reim­burse any travel costs incurred due to a changed date/location.

Jon Favreau pre­miered the first Iron Man 2 footage at this years Comic Con. Many descrip­tions have appeared online, I’ve included two in-depth descrip­tions in the full post and sum­ma­rized below.

- The footage opens in the giant donut and a con­ver­sa­tion between Tony Stark and Nick Fury — Stark doesn’t want to join the team.
– It then cuts to a court­room scene that sees the gov­ern­ment attempt­ing to strip Stark of his Iron Man suit
– Rhodey enters to tes­tify against Stark.
– Whiplash is out to get Tony as revenge for the Stark fam­i­lies’ atroc­i­ties, explained by a voiceover whilst Rourke con­structs a suit of his own.
– There’s a quick shot of Black Widow in action and then Whiplash flick­ing his two great electro-whips.
– Justin Ham­mer (Sam Rock­well) is now seen, talk­ing about Iron Man suit mod­i­fi­ca­tions “fire­power” — retro­fitting guns and armor. Rhodey says he’ll take it.
– Then there’s a quick shot of the com­plete War Machine suit.

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We’ve seen Tony Stark and Whiplash in Iron Man 2, now’s our first look at the next major new char­ac­ter, the Black Widow (also known as the Russ­ian spy Natasha Romanoff), played by Scar­lett Johans­son. These shots come cour­te­ous of EW and Leroy.

Plot details

The arti­cle also offers up some very inter­est­ing plot details.

As we already know, Sam Rock­well is play­ing the weapons man­u­fac­turer Justin Ham­mer, “who fan­cies him­self the next Tony Stark”. Rourke plays the new vil­lain Whiplash, aka Russ­ian crim­i­nal Vanko — Vanko cre­ates his first suit whilst impris­oned, his final suit fires “dev­as­tat­ing, whip-like beams.”

Whiplash and Ham­mer join forces to take on Iron Man. Mean­while Natasha Romanoff is hired as Stark’s assis­tant (to replace Pep­per Potts, now CEO of Stark Indus­tries). This ulti­mately leads to roman­tic tensions.

Rourke also reveals that his char­ac­ter enjoys talk­ing to a cock­a­too whilst drunk.

Attack of the show co-host Olivia Munn made it known, via Twit­ter, that she would have a role in Iron Man 2 — though couldn’t legally dis­cuss it yet. On Twit­ter she sug­gested her role was big­ger than a one minute appear­ance, watch “Big Stan” for details.

@awalker2334 thx! im excited. @jonfavreau is awe­some! http://​www​.vari​ety​.com/​a​rti…

@tr1gun it is def­i­nitely a big­ger role than “big stan”..

Before jok­ing,

@JammedHands haha.. yes, spoiler. I am play­ing the role of War Machine in Iron Man 2. Ter­rance Howard, Don Chea­dle and now Olivia Munn! ha!

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