More on Uncle Ben's death in Spider-Man 4?

Actor Michael Papajohn (who played Uncle Ben's 'killer' in Spider-Man 1 and 3) told Superherohype.com that he would be back for Spider-Man 4. What can this possibly mean? Why would they need this actor to shoot more footage, if not to reveal more information about Uncle Ben's death? And what could that information possibly be?
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Jon Favreau posts new 'pic of Iron Man 2 set'

What a comedian :)
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Zak Penn discusses Avengers

Read what he had to say at scifiwire.com. Most promising quote:

"...There's a board that is tracking what is happening. [We'll see] how this movie overlaps in that movie. ... Marvel is autonomous now. It is night and day: Everyone has read every comic. They know how to make a cool movie."

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Joe Quesada on the set of Iron Man 2

Read about his experience and his conversations with a few of the actors, primarily Mickey Rourke, over at CBR.
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Rasputin sighting

ScreenRant has some shots that may or may not be Iron Man 2 set pics. Oooh, George Lucas is going to be so jealous!
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Heavy Metal

Iron Man 2 promo poster from Cinema Expo International at film1.nl.
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Iron Munn

Olivia Munn lands part in Iron Man 2.
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Marvel Comics Editor in Chief Joe Quesada discusses Branagh and Thor, Favreau and Iron Man

Pop over to CBR for the interview, which was posted on Tuesday.
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Eye in the sky tracks Rasputin

Jon Favreau reports on his twitter feed that helicopters are attempting to spy on the set of Iron Man 2. While it must be annoying for the crew and actors, on a positive note it does speak to the level of interest in the film . . .
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Who do you think will be the Spider-Man 4 villian?

Leave a comment with your thoughts...only clue we have right now is producer Todd Black's comments:

"We’re just coming up with who the villain is now,” he said. “We’ll be shooting in New York again. Trust me, people will appreciate who we pick, because it’ll be a big part of New York.”

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/detectives

The guys over at /film should moonlight as private investigators - they really scrutinized the two official Iron Man 2 pictures that have been released so far and have come up with some theories on how the two pictures might be related. Nice work guys! [Warning: if their theories are correct, the article contains some mild spoilers]
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Sam Rockwell aka Justin Hammer

Sam Rockwell is one of my favorite actors. I've enjoyed his work ever since first seeing him as 'Wild Bill Wharton' in The Green Mile. He was interviewed recently and touched very briefly on Iron Man 2. He mentions in the interview that he received the Iron Man 2 script only one week before shooting (which seems like a crazy short amount of time to prepare to me), and that one way Iron Man 2 production differs from that of other big studio films is that director Jon Favreau really likes to improvise, which he says allows the actors to 'play' more than usual. Rockwell is already a star and I'm hoping Iron Man 2 vaults him into mega-star status. The guy is great.
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No Burger King Iron Man 2 marketing initiative

Wow. I never gave one second of thought to how these things happen. Evidently the 'franchisor' (sort of Burger King 'corporate', I guess?) floats marketing ideas to the 'franchisees' (individual restaurant owners), who then vote on those ideas. Looks like the Burger King franchisees didn't like whatever Iron Man 2 marketing plan the franchisor had proposed, and voted it down. Yeah, I don't really understand what I just wrote either, but if you're into that kind of stuff, you can read about it here.
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What those tattoos on Rourke/Whiplash say (well, some of them)

So we've all seen the picture of Mickey Rourke as Whiplash - the one where we can see that his body is covered in tattoos. I was wondering what the tattoos said, so I asked my friend to ask his friend, who is from Russia, what she thinks they might mean. Here's what he came back with:

ok - its hard to make out - but this is what she thinks...

under the boat is the clearest - "will make me free" - but she said it is future tense and the phrase implies that many people "will make me free"....as in, the conjugation of the phrase...

the curved sentence on top of the boat, she said it could be many words so she isn't sure at all...the only word she can make out is the word "boat" which is the last word in that sentence - left side of his body, right side of the picture....

but right above what looks like "bro" in that curved sentence above the boat - as in, on the right side of HIS body (left side of the picture) are three letters that she says are common is a phrase used for praying - "save"...like saying to God "save me" - she said it is written on many crosses, including the one she wears....

then on his arm, above the strap (above the strap in relation to his arm - but "below" the strap in relation to us looking at the photo - as in, between the strap and the medal on his arm) - it says, "to live" - but she couldn't make out the other word on the other side of the strap....

then she couldn't make out what it says on his neck...

So there you have it (at least some of it)!
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