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31 Jul, 2014

Theater plays wrong movie

Guardians of the Galaxy0 Comments

Regal Cinemas theater in New Jersey accidentally airs Rise of the Guardians instead of Guardians of the Galaxy. A theater in Virginia has the same issue.

22 Oct, 2014

Avengers: Age of Ultron trailer

Jeremy RennerMark RuffaloRobert Downey Jr.Samuel L. JacksonScarlett JohanssonThe Avengers0 Comments

Marvel releases the trailer for Avengers: Age of Ultron, the much anticipated sequel to The Avengers, early due to the influx of faux fan trailers. Although released a week early, Marvel took to twitter jokingly blaming the early release on a comic nemesis, Hydra.

Marvel's "Avengers: Age of Ultron" - Teaser Trailer (OFFICIAL)

10 Nov, 2014

Collaboration announcement

CM PunkAnnouncement0 Comments

Marvel announces that Punk will write the story for Thor Annual project. Punk comments on the deal:

I think I just pestered all the right people and the right things kind of popped up. How exactly it came up, I can’t really, exactly remember. I can’t remember who said, ‘Hey. Wanna do Thor?’ You know what I mean? That pretty much blew my mind. I have to say, it’s been a long process.

Jun 2015

Spider-Man Toy precedent upheld

U.S. Supreme CourtJudgement0 Comments

In a 6-3 decision, justices decline to overrule a 50-year-old decision on patent royalties. Stephen Kimble invented a web-shooting toy and obtained a patent on the device in 1991.  He sued Marvel Enterprises in 1997, alleging the company used his ideas to create a toy named the Web Blaster without paying him. The two sides settled in 2001, agreeing on terms that included Marvel paying a running 3% royalty rate on sales of the toy.  When the patent expired, Marvel asserted that its obligations to pay would end. Lower courts agreed, as did the Supreme Court, saying  in a 6-3 decision that Kimble hadn’t presented the court with a compelling “special justification” for abandoning the principle of stare decisis, or sticking with past precedent. Kagan:

What we can decide, we can undecide. But stare decisis teaches that we should exercise that authority sparingly.