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War Machine Toy Captures The Essence Of Don Cheadle
6:30PM Luke Plunkett | In the upcoming Iron Man movie sequel, Tony Stark won’t be going it alone. He’s got James Rhodes, aka War Machine, to help him out. And you know what that means: yes, Don Cheadle action figures. More »
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1:6 Scale Iron Man Is Almost As Good As 1:1 Scale Iron Man
10:35PM Luke Plunkett | You know, it’s Toy Fair week, people have toys on the brain, so let’s run with it. Hong Kong craftspeople Hot Toys weren’t able to make it to New York, but they did slip some Iron Man in our inbox. More »
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Iron Man 2 To Go Beyond New Movie, Comics, Includes Crimson Dynamo
1:20AM Brian Crecente | Iron Man 2 will feature an original story by comic book author Matt Fraction which will include elements from both the movie and comic books, Sega announced. More »
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Sega Debuting Iron Man II Game, More At Comic-Con
9:20AM Michael McWhertor | The video game presence at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con is quickly expanding, as Sega has revealed what it’s bringing to the pop culture convention. That list includes Iron Man 2, which the publisher will debut at the show. More »Summer Blockbuster Maximise Licenced Crap Profit
8:40AM Michael McWhertor | Summer blockbusters don’t just line the pockets of film studio executives and actors working on a percentage of the gross, it looks like they help resellers of licenced games too. According to a bit of research from the Video Game Price Charts blog—I’ve used them in the past when selling my unwanted games via eBay—the time to strike when selling your copy of Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine or Iron Man / X-O Manowar in Heavy Metal is when the movie adaptations hit theatres. Yes, there’s even a market for the terrible PlayStation Speed Racer game! Plenty of interesting charts and graphs await hopeful auctioneers at VGPC. I’m off to put a spit shine on my copy of The X-Files for PSone in anticipation! Summer Movies Increase Game Prices. Go Speed Racer! [VGPC] More »
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Iron Man Game Rentals Beat Out GTA IV (Sorta)
6:00AM Brian Crecente | Iron Man the movie wasn’t the only Marvel enterprise to do well against GTA IV over the weekend, it looks like Iron Man the video game also held it’s own, at least for rentals. In GameFly’s weekly run down of top releases they show that while Grand Theft Auto IV for the Xbox 360 took the top spot and Grand Theft Auto IV for the PS3 took the number three spot, Iron Man managed to wedge itself between the two, creating a crunchy GTA sandwich. The game based on the movie was also the top PSP and PS2 rental last week. Not bad. Hit the jump to see the full list of cross-platform rentals for the week of GTA. More »
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Marvel Plans Iron Man Sequel After Big First-Quarter Cash-In
4:40AM Kotaku US Edition | $US 100.75 million opening day results for the Iron Man flick helped boost Marvel’s sales for the first fiscal quarter to $US 112.6 million, the company announced today. While sales are down over the same period last year when the company raked in $US 151.4 million, Marvel said Iron Man was the 10th best opening weekend ever and the second-best non-sequel film debut ever, second only to Marvel’s Spider Man. In total, Iron Man has generated about $US 201 million globally to date. More »
Iron Man Movie Does Fine Despite GTA Release
2:20AM Mike Fahey | Following the poor box office performance for movies released around the time Halo 3 came out, the film industry began to blame the major game release for causing the poor attendance rather than the poor quality of their films. Insiders began to speculate that the release of Grand Theft Auto IV would have significant impact on this last weekend’s big movie release, Marvel’s Iron Man. Well consider the whole video game versus movies theory shot down, as Iron Man earned an estimated $US 104.3 million this weekend including preview showings on Thursday, the second-highest grossing opening weekend ever for a non-sequel behind Spider-Man. I did my part, seeing the film twice over the weekend, and enjoying it immensely both times. Considering the fact that Iron Man is much lower on the public’s radar than Spider-Man and the fact that GTA was a multi-platform release compared to the 360-exclusive Halo 3, we can safely assume that poor movie performance can still be blamed on poor movies. ‘Iron Man’ Blasts Off [Box Office Mojo] More »
