‘Avengers’ sequel to drop three years from now & other news...

Fanboys groan the world over: Joss Whedon-directed Avengers movie will be back, only in three years, according to Disney and its Marvel Studios unit. They announced that the follow-up to this year’s biggest hit will arrive in theatres on May 1, 2015. It was announced last week that Whedon will be back to write and direct the as-yet-untitled sequel.

Still in Avengers-ville, actor Vin Diesel added an image of the character Vision as his profile picture, while making comments hinting that he might be playing everyone’s favourite synthezoid. The sequel could indeed debut the character, even if it’s on the now-infamous-but-enjoyable end-credits scenes.

Released in May, ‘The Avengers’ gathered characters Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.), Captain America (Chris Evans), the Hulk (Mark Ruffalo) and Thor (Chris Hemsworth). The film has taken in nearly $1.5 billion worldwide.

Dandy, UK’s longest-running comic, will close in December

Mega-poular British comic book's final issue, #3616, will be out 4th of December, bagged with a facsimile copy of the very first Dandy. The comic was pretty popular in Nigeria some decades back.

DC Thompson, publisher of the longest-running comic book in the UK, The Dandy, is pulling the plug on the publication. It was first published in 1937, beating rivals in sales and longetivity.  Featuring characters like Korky the Cat, Desperate Dan and Banananano, it constantly thrashed anthology-style British comics like The Beano and The Beezer on the newsstands. The final issue, #3616, will be out 4th of December, bagged with a facsimile copy of the very first Dandy. The comic was pretty popular in Nigeria some decades back.


Dreamworks’ racing snail movie slow to come out?

 Okay, fine, we couldn’t resist the headline pun. Production folks released a new image from ‘Turbo’ from Dreamworks, simply described as one about a super-fast snail. But wait for this, one of the writers of the movie is Robert Siegel, he who scripted ‘The Wrestler’. Let’s see how well he does with a, er...super-fast snail. While headline writers around the world rejoice, Ryan Reynolds is providing the voice of Turbo the snail. Samuel L. Jackson, Paul Giamatti and a host of others.