Iron Man Blu-Ray best sell­ing ever in 48hrs, or so Jon Favreau announced on Thursday’s Howard Stern Show.  This is yet to be con­firmed by offi­cial sources, but who wouldn’t believe him.  It cer­tainly isn’t surprising.

Well, Los Ange­les Times, hosted a live chat with Jon Favreau.  Click the link for the tran­script.

Dell and Para­mount Pic­tures are try­ing to com­pete with iTunes Store when it comes to sell­ing dig­i­tal con­tent.  They are now offer­ing Iron Man pre-loaded on new Dell com­put­ers for the price of $20.  This is the first of many to be sold in this way if they can get oth­ers on board.  We shall see how pop­u­lar this proves to be.

See the full announce­ment below:

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DVD and blu-ray has released in lots of dif­fer­ent ‘exclu­sive’ pack­ag­ing depend­ing on the store you buy from. 

Tar­get — Tar­get Deluxe Edi­tion includes exclu­sive Mark III mask pack­ag­ing. Avail­able on both the Ulti­mate 2-Disc Edi­tion and 2-Disc Blu-ray.

Oth­ers include:

Cir­cuit City — Access to exclu­sive Mar­vel Dig­i­tal Comics fea­tur­ing the art­work of Adi Grano

Cus­tom Lith­o­graph cre­ated by Mar­vel artist Ger­ald Parel.

 Costco — Gift­set includes the Ulti­mate 2 Disc Edi­tion DVD and 3 Iron Man Bob­ble­heads, with all 3 Iron Man suits from the film. Gift­set includes the “Bat­tle Dam­aged Mark II”, avail­able exclu­sively in this gift­set at Costco.

Wal­mart — Two exclu­sive SKUs. Ulti­mate 2 Disc Edi­tion packed with an exclu­sive comic book chron­i­cling the Nick Fury story. The sin­gle disc gift­set is packed with the 1st episode of the new Iron Man ani­mated series 

Bor­ders — On pack col­lectible book fea­tur­ing orig­i­nal sketches by Bob Lay­ton and the top 24 comic cover of Iron Man.

Ain’t it cool have just released an inter­view with key artist Christo­pher Swift and model shop super­vi­sor David Mer­ritt from a visit to Stan Win­ston Stu­dio.  It is quite a tech-heavy dis­cus­sion but really gets down to the nitty gritty of how the suit we see in the film came into being.  If thats your thing enjoy.…

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The much awaited Iron Man is released on DVD and Blu-ray today. Com​ing​soon​.net has posted deleted scenes, along with the DVD cov­ers.

But more excit­ing news is that Para­mount Pic­tures have just got a new deal with Mar­vel Enter­tain­ment to dis­trib­ute the studio’s next five self-produced film projects which include Iron Man 2 (May 7, 2010) and Iron Man 3 (Date Not Yet Announced)

The deal is an exten­sion of the orig­i­nal agree­ment for Iron Man, and includes world­wide distribution.

The Iron Man DVD is released next Tues­day (Sep­tem­ber 30).  Yahoo have posted some cool con­cept art by comic artist Adi Gra­nov.  Check out the early sketches and orig­i­nal ideas for his armor etc.

Wow — this is a very excit­ing char­ity auc­tion that is cur­rently being bid on over at Ebay. End­ing on Sep­tem­ber 15th and already sit­ting at $5600, this is a once in a life­time oppor­tu­nity to have a slice of the Iron Man 2 pie (expe­ri­ence). The pro­ceeds will go to “Stand up to Cancer”.

View the auction

A visit to the set of Iron Man 2 (one shoot­ing day)
A meet and greet with the cast
A walk-on/ extra role in the film for the auc­tion win­ner
Photo tour of the set with an Iron Man unit pho­tog­ra­pher to doc­u­ment the tour. Pro­fes­sional pho­tos will be given to the win­ner of the expe­ri­ence.
Tick­ets to the Los Ange­les pre­mière for you and a guest
Win­ner and Guest will walk the première’s red carpet

About Stand up to Can­cer:

Stand Up To Can­cer, forg­ing a new way to develop break­throughs that will end can­cer is putting together the best and bright­est minds in can­cer research, invest­ing in their projects and tak­ing the bureau­cratic obsta­cles out of their way. We’re build­ing inter­dis­ci­pli­nary Dream Teams of sci­en­tists, clin­i­cians, tech­ni­cians and oth­ers, who’ll focus on a spe­cific can­cer prob­lem. We’ll track their progress in real time, so that all who invests can see how their par­tic­i­pa­tion is cre­at­ing real change.