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Chris Hemsworth Cast as Marvel's Thor

With the success of superhero movies as of late, including Iron Man and Wolverine, Marvel Comics is wasting no time and has already begun casting The Avengers. Chris Hemsworth of Star Trek fame has been cast as Thor. He will transform himself into the mystic superhero in his own self-titled film as well as in the The Avengers along with Captain America and others in 2011....  read more

Sufjan Stevens' Illinoize features Outkast, Aesop Rock, more

Montreal-based producer Tor is gunning for the King of Unlikely Samples title with his new, free mixtape, Illinoize, which mixes Sufjan Stevens with Outkast, Brother Ali, Aesop Rock and Big Daddy Kane, amongst others....  read more

Marvel links with Paramount; Iron Man 2, more on way

Marvel Studios was once content to have its properties (Spider-Man, X-Men, Fantastic Four) creatively slapped around and sold by Hollywood studios, but somewhere between record weekends and the contemporary re-invention of the comic-book movie, the company finally came to its senses. This summer, the surprise smash Iron Man and The Incredible Hulk became the first two films the studio produced on its own, and especially in the case of Iron Man, the only question left afterward was, "Hey, what took you so long?"...  read more