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Marvel Studios is one of the most successful business ventures in moviemaking history, but not everything is sunshine, happiness, and rainbows behind the scenes. It seems like every time another Marvel movie is announced, a director leaves a previous project citing those two heebie-jeebies-inducing words: “creative differences.” The making of Iron Man 3 was no picnic, as both its director Shane Black and one of its stars Rebecca Hall can attest.

Dwayne Johnson has been rumored for Shane Black’s long-developing adaptation of Doc Savage for some time now. The director of The Nice Guys has been vocal about Johnson being his top choice, and a recent Instagram post only fueled speculation as Johnson revealed he was planning on filming something with Black in 2017 — that something is indeed Doc Savage, confirmed by Johnson in yet another Instagram post earlier today.

Another week, another exciting Instagram update from our crazy-busy, impossibly charming and totally ripped pal Dwayne Johnson. Despite his increasingly crowded schedule, it looks like Johnson may have finally found some time to devote to Shane Black’s long-developing Doc Savage movie — thus confirming our suspicions that The Rock may actually be an advanced A.I. that requires no sleep.

Often times the movie business is not at all about movies, but the merchandise that springs off of big studio productions. Because why make a superhero movie if you don’t plan to sell a ton of action figures along with it?

Today, a dynamite interview with The Nice Guys director Shane Black ran over at Thrillist. It’s a good read — not only does Matt Patches get at some nifty insights about violence on film and working with Ryan Gosling, but he extracts two tantalizing tidbits from Black that will only enflame fan anticipation for his upcoming projects.

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Following a screening of Iron Man 3 on Sunday night, director Shane Black, screenwriter Drew Pearce and stars Rebecca Hall ("Maya Hansen") and Guy Pearce ("Aldrich Killan") met with the press at a conference in Beverly Hills on Monday to answer questions about the new Marvel Studios film based on the superhero created by Jack Kirby, Don Heck, Stan Lee and Larry Lieber... Read

What exactly is Ben Kingsley's The Mandarin going to be up to in Iron Man 3? According new 90-second featurette from Marvel Studios, he's going to be weaponizing an invention that'll be quite familiar to readers who have kept up with Shellhead's adventures over the past decade or so...

Check out the new teaser poster for Iron Man 3, the new Shane Black film based on the Marvel Comics superhero created by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Larry Lieber and Don Heck. Said to be based loosely on Warren Ellis and Adi Granov's popular "Extremis" comic book, the film finds Tony Stark (Robert Downey, Jr...