Iron Man 3
Director: Shane Black
Screenwriter(s): Drew Pearce, Shane Black
Cast: Robert Downey Jr., Don Cheadle, Gwyneth Paltrow, Ben Kingsley, Guy Pearce, Rebecca Hall
Walt Disney Studios
Rated PG-13 | 129 Minutes
Release Date: May 3, 2013

Directed and co-written by Shane Black (Kiss Kiss Bang Bang), Iron Man 3 is both an end – the definitive conclusion to the Iron Man trilogy – and a beginning; the first entry in Phase Two of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

It’s New Year’s Eve, 1999. A disheveled, bespectacled scientist by the name of Aldrich Killian (Guy Pearce) approaches Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) at a technology summit in Bern, Switzerland. Killian invites Stark to join his think tank, Advanced Idea Mechanics (AIM), but the billionaire playboy (not yet a philanthropist) is too busy puttin’ the moves on fellow scientist and all-around hottie Dr. Maya Hansen, played by Rebecca Hall.

Fast-forward 13 years where Aldrich Killian has become a charismatic titan of industry. His new human enhancement program, Extremis, turns crippled test subjects into super soldiers – most of the time. Sometimes candidates become human H-bombs and explode, vaporizing everyone around them into shadows and dust. That’s OK though because Killian has aligned himself with the Mandarin (Ben Kingsley), leader of the international terrorist organization The Ten Rings, who needs soldiers (and bombs) for his movement.

Part of the fun of following the developing of each Marvel Studios movie is wondering what amazing surprises would go into their now customary post-credits scene. The first Iron Man paved the way with Samuel L. Jackson’s appearance as Nick Fury to recruit Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) in “the Avenger Initiative” at the very end, while The Avengers simultaneously closed out Phase One and kicked Phase Two into high gear with the revelation that the cosmic evil pulling the strings the whole time was none other than Thanos, one of the Marvel Universe’s most powerful and fearsome villains. That last scene was inserted into the middle of the end credits, so if you stuck around until its final seconds you got to see the Avengers themselves chowing down on a shawarma dinner – a scene filmed only days before the movie’s theatrical debut.

Iron Man 3 held its premiere over the weekend in Paris and according to a source at Latino Review, the Shane Black-directed sequel continues Marvel’s proud tradition of closing their films out in surprising fashion.

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When we found out that Tony Stark’s latest armor would be the Mark XLVII in Iron Man 3, it confirmed that he created many more suits since the events of The Avengers.

The latest trailer for the Shane Black-directed film confirmed that notion by displaying numerous suits. Whether or not we will see the 40 new suits in one film remains to be seen, but rather than have us guessing, the marketing team is showing us what armors we could see in the new film.

Check out the two new armors below.

With big budget movies comes some big budget product placement. Sony Pictures has a huge habit of placing Sony computers, laptops, and phones across their film board. But Wreck-It Ralph spread the love with not only video games titles, but things like Subway and Nesquik. Now for Marvel’s latest film, Iron Man 3, you can expect to see some product placement for Audi, and another big tech brand, TCL.

Watch the latest video for Iron Man 3 here below featuring the TCL brand name.

Now with the Avengers assembled, you would think that it would be easy for any of the members to just pick up a phone – maybe not for Thor – and call his or her fellow teammate for some help. After watching the new Iron Man 3 trailer, we saw that Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) had a clear opportunity to call any one of them to help him fight the Mandarin (Ben Kingsley).

But it appears that he is stuck with Rhodey (Don Cheadle). But why doesn’t he call the others for help?