Bleeding Cool’s Brendon Connelly has an interesting theory about the Labor Day Weekend re-release of Marvel’s The Avengers:
Marvel’s Facebook page tell us:
Don’t forget to stay through the credits…
Because there’s something new? Or just because there’s two little fun scenes already in there?
I would like to think it’s the former. Nobody in their right mind would court the kind of fan anger that would come from empty teases, would they? Are Marvel’s Facebook PR people really so naive?
He suggests that, just maybe, there’s a sneak preview of next summer’s Iron Man 3 for people to see. I have to admit, I’m doubtful, if only because I wouldn’t have thought any footage from the movie would be ready by now – It’s still shooting, isn’t it? – but it’s definitely not impossible, and that Marvel Facebook post is pretty weird if there’s not anything new in the credits… Still, as a tease, it’s worked; I didn’t have any plans to see the movie in theaters again this weekend, but now I am kind of tempted…
August 30th, 2012 at 6:09 pm
Perhaps everything that was shown at SDCC?
August 30th, 2012 at 10:19 pm
I haven’t been able to confirm this anywhere but Avengers opened 2 weeks ago here in Japan. I saw it last Friday and have since listened to a few podcast reviews from the U.S. and U.K. from back in May when it opened for you guys.
A couple of the reviews mentioned the running time as 2hrs 20-odd minutes.
Now here’s the thing: I’m reasonably sure I was in that cinema for very close to 3 hours. (I didn’t run my stopwatch to time the length of the movie) but the way Japanese cinemas operate is that they advertise the starting time of the movie -not the trailers- when the actual movie will begin.
So I checked the homepage for the cinema I went to and it lists Avengers as having a running time of 154 minutes that’s about 11 minutes longer than the U.S. release as far as I know.
As I say, I can’t really confirm that it ran longer than the earlier release you guys would have seen, but it seems like t might have a few extra scenes and that’s maybe what you’ll get with the upcoming U.S. re-release.
It did seem odd that the Japanese release date was delayed so long compared to the rest of the world.
September 10th, 2012 at 12:38 am
As I say, I can’t really confirm that it ran longer than the earlier release you guys would have seen, but it seems like t might have a few extra scenes and that’s maybe what you’ll get with the upcoming U.S. re-release.
September 10th, 2012 at 10:37 pm
I would like to think it’s the former. Nobody in their right mind would court the kind of fan anger that would come from empty teases, would they? Are Marvel’s Facebook PR people really so naive?