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A little more info about what's to come in November's Thor: The Dark World has come to light thanks to USA Today, including what role Natalie Portman's Jane Foster will play in the proceedings, as well as where a big chunk of the action will take place...

In theaters this fall is Thor: The Dark World, the sequel to Marvel's previous film starring the God of Thunder, and the second follow up to last summer's The Avengers. Some set pictures have already popped up online, and today the studio has released the first poster for the film, with news that a trailer will arrive online Tuesday on iTunes Trailers...

Captain America's live action footage debut was complimented on Super Bowl Sunday by a new commercial featuring previously unseen footage from Thor, another Marvel Studios film based the classic Avengers superheroes. In the new Thor ad, we see more of Natalie Portman in her role as Jane Foster, who seems incredulous as to the mysterious Thor's origins as a god of the Norse pantheon...

In the first not-an-obviously-fake-casting-rumor news since the confirmation of Tom Hardy last month, it appears that Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Rises is suffering an embarrassment of riches with respect to its potential female leads...

A brief video clip didn't make a huge deal about outing Sir Anthony Hopkins' look for Kenneth Branagh's "Thor" movie this week. Hopkins appeared front and center during a montage of set shots, though, which also displayed leading man Chris Hemsworth in costume and a brief interview about how things have been progressing...

Several major casting announcements have come down the pipeline for upcoming supehero movies, including Ryan Reynolds -- who recently starred as the Marvel vigilante Deadpool in "X-Men: Origins: Wolverine" -- beating out Bradley Cooper and Justin Timberlake for the starring role in the "Green Lantern" film about the ring-wielding DC superhero...

A few months ago I was writing profiles for Time.com's online poll leading up to the magazine's annual Time 100 list--basically 100 Person of the Year issues all rolled into one to sell twice as much ad space as the Person of the Year. In any event, my job was to come up with one reason why a person is influential, and one reason why they're not, theoretically giving the online reader the chance t