Johansson was recently featured in Iron Man 2 and has two more films in production.
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They included Spider-Man 2 together with the original Spider-Man on one DVD as a two-for-one "special offer".
At the very least, Dragon will have IMAX screens all to itself until Iron Man 2 opens May 7.
It has a chance to draw filmgoers looking for a lighter alternative to the testosterone-heavy Iron Man 2 and Robin Hood.
So if a pirate breaks the code on Spider-Man 2, he wouldn't necessarily be able to break the code on Elf.
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Huang sees a day when mobiles with graphics cores will be able to identify objects through a camera, much like Tony Stark's visor did in Iron Man 2.
Disney would neither confirm nor deny a report from the Wall Street Journal which stated that Paramount Pictures marketed and distributed Iron Man 2 for a 8% fee.
Most had Spider-Man 2, along with other movies not yet out at UK cinemas including Tom Hanks' The Terminal, Keira Knightley's King Arthur and Garfield - The Movie.
Amazon recently signed a deal with Epix that gives the company access to movies from Paramount, MGM and Lionsgate including The Hunger Games and Iron Man 2.
We just saw an early screening of Iron Man 2, and it turns out Tony Stark is not the only brilliant, larger-than-life, megalomaniacal technology executive to grace the screen.
One copy of Spider-Man 2 was purchased to check its quality - and another was immediately produced by one of the traders to take its place on the blanket.
But Dragon held on, with ticket sales dropping by less than 35% each weekend (compare that to Iron Man 2 which saw ticket sales drop 60% its second weekend out).
Released last week, Man 2.0: Engineering the Alpha is the passion project of John Romaniello and Adam Bornstein and the first of two books in a seven-figure publishing deal.
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The release of Iron Man 2, which stars Robert Downey Jr. along with a number of other stars, comes before Disney is scheduled to release its first quarter results on Tuesday.
Most of its recent hits, like Iron Man 2 and How to Train Your Dragon, are films that the studio only distributes, meaning it only gets about 12% of the revenue.
The concept of flying around as a virtual Tony Stark has great potential, and there was plenty of time between Iron Man 2 and 3 to at least try to develop a solid game.
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Since Burger King nabbed merchandising deals with two of the most popular movies of the summer, Shrek 2 and Spider-Man 2, same-store sales have been strong, with those in U.S. franchises up 11.8% in June.
The reason was the strong performance of Toy Story 3 and Iron Man 2 in the third quarter of 2010, as opposed to the weaker performance of Cars 2 and Thor in the current quarter.
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"The Amazing Spider-Man 2" is expected to create 3, 500 jobs, but one issue is that much of the job creation happens in already wealthy areas of the state such as New York City and Long Island.
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The likelihood of Iron Man 3 coming close to matching the super team-up movie are low, since that would require the third Iron Man film making as much money domestically as Iron Man 2 took in worldwide.
Since it's now OK for ClearPlay to create filters that make Spider-Man 2--produced by Sony (nyse: SNE - news - people )--less violent, it's also legal for bowdlerizers to create filters that would serve other purposes.
That may be part of the reason why Paramount decided not to go ahead with Anchor Man 2 which between Ferrell, Steve Carell and Paul Rudd would have cost a big chunk of change in star salaries alone.
In a deal poised to shift the media landscape, Netflix confirmed plans for an instant streaming service that would allow its subscribers to watch popular flicks like Iron Man 2 and Dinner for Schmucks at the click of a mouse.
Amazon.com announced a new licensing agreement with EPIX for movies including The Avengers, Iron Man 2, The Hunger Games, Super 8, Thor, and more, expanding its catalog of title offerings for Prime Instant Video to more than 30, 000 movies and TV episodes.
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" But the whole movie keeps going back and forth -- between his domestic distress and his troika of adversaries, none of whom musters a scintilla of the evil allure exuded by Alfred Molina's Doc Ock, the tentacled cyborg who enlivened "Spider-Man 2.
His Amazon Prime video streaming service is a direct competitor to Netflix (in the release, the company announced it reached a licensing agreement with EPIX giving their users access to movies like The Avengers, Iron Man 2, and the Hunger Games, meaning the cable channel ended its exclusivity with Netflix) and, to a certain extent, the Apple iTunes store.
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