release, "Marvel's The Avengers," production on the highly anticipated
release, Marvel's "Captain America: The Winter Soldier" has commenced
in Los Angeles, Calif., with production also including locations in
Cleveland, Ohio, and Washington D.C.
Directing the film is the team of Anthony and Joe Russo
from a screenplay written by Christopher Markus & Stephen McFeely.
Marvel's "Captain America: The Winter Soldier" returns
Chris Evans as the iconic Super Hero character Steve Rogers/Captain
America, along with Scarlett Johansson as Black Widow and Samuel L.
Jackson as Nick Fury. In addition, film icon Robert Redford has joined
the all-star cast as Agent Alexander Pierce, a senior leader within
the S.H.I.E.L.D. organization. "Captain America: The Winter Soldier"
is set for release in the U.S. on April 4, 2014.
"Captain America: The Winter Soldier" will pick-up where
"Marvel's The Avengers" left off, as Steve Rogers struggles to embrace
his role in the modern world and teams up with Natasha Romanoff, aka
Black Widow, to battle a powerful yet shadowy enemy in present-day
Washington, D.C.
Based on the ever-popular Marvel comic book series, first
published in 1941, Marvel's "Captain America: The Winter Soldier"
features an outstanding supporting cast that includes Sebastian Stan
as Bucky Barnes/Winter Soldier, Anthony Mackie as Sam Wilson/Falcon,
Cobie Smulders as Agent Maria Hill, Frank Grillo as Brock Rumlow and
Georges St-Pierre as Georges Batroc.
Rounding out the talented cast are Hayley Atwell as Peggy
Carter, Toby Jones as Arnim Zola, Emily VanCamp as Agent 13 and
Maximiliano Hernández as Agent Jasper Sitwell.
Marvel Studios' President Kevin Feige is producing the
film. Executive producers on the project include Alan Fine, Louis
D'Esposito, Victoria Alonso, Michael Grillo and Stan Lee. The creative
production team on the film includes director of photography Trent
Opaloch, production designer Peter Wenham, editors Jeffrey Ford,
A.C.E. and Mary Jo Markey, A.C.E. and three time Oscar®-nominated
costume designer Judianna Makovsky.
Marvel Studios' upcoming release schedule this year
includes "Iron Man 3" on May 3 (April 24 in the Philippines), and
"Thor: The Dark World" on November 8. The studio most recently
produced the critically acclaimed "Marvel's The Avengers," which set
the all-time, domestic 3-day weekend box office record at $207.4
million. The film, which shattered both domestic and international box
office records, is Disney's highest-grossing global and domestic
release of all time and marks the studio's fifth film to gross more
than $1 billion worldwide.
In the summer of 2011, Marvel successfully launched two
new franchises with "Thor," starring Chris Hemsworth, and "Captain
America: The First Avenger," starring Chris Evans. Both films opened
#1 at the box office and have grossed over $800 million worldwide
combined. In 2010 "Iron Man 2," starring Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth
Paltrow, Don Cheadle, Scarlett Johansson, Sam Rockwell, Mickey Rourke
and Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury took the #1 spot in its first
weekend with a domestic box office gross of $128.1 million.
In the summer of 2008, Marvel produced the summer
blockbuster movies "Iron Man" and "The Incredible Hulk." "Iron Man,"
in which Robert Downey Jr. originally dons the Super Hero's powerful
armor and stars alongside co-stars Terrence Howard, Jeff Bridges,
Shaun Toub and Gwyneth Paltrow, was released May 2, 2008, and was an
immediate box office success. Garnering the number one position for
two weeks in a row, the film brought in over $100 million in its
opening weekend. On June 13, 2008, Marvel released "The Incredible
Hulk," marking its second number one opener of that summer
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