{"id":21718,"date":"2012-08-16T14:16:47","date_gmt":"2012-08-16T18:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=21718"},"modified":"2023-11-30T18:07:06","modified_gmt":"2023-11-30T23:07:06","slug":"avengers-2-release-date-set","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2012\/08\/16\/avengers-2-release-date-set\/","title":{"rendered":"AVENGERS 2 Release Date Set"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/AvengersLogo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"161\" \/>And in the biggest no-brainer story of the week, Marvel Studios has announced officially that the release date for <strong>The Avengers 2<\/strong> has been set for May 1, 2015. This is a confirmation of the date that was reported <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2012\/08\/10\/and-the-avengers-2-may-be-debuting-on\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">last week<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It is a no-brainer as the studio had already filled their 2013 and 2014 schedule. Additionally, the studio has traditionally released a movie the first weekend of May in order to coincide with the comics industry-wide Free Comic Book Day initiative.<\/p>\n<p>What is interesting in the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20130719034711\/http:\/\/marvel.com:80\/news\/story\/19240\/marvels_the_avengers_sequel_coming_may_1_2015\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announcement from the studio<\/a> is that they refer to the film as &#8220;<strong>Marvel&#8217;s Avengers Unnamed Sequel<\/strong>.&#8221; I&#8217;m thinking that there may be a subtitle in the sequel&#8217;s future. <strong>The Avengers: The Thanos Imperative<\/strong> anyone?<\/p>\n<p>It was also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2012\/08\/07\/joss-whedon-signed-for-avengers-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">last week<\/a> Marvel when announced that <strong>Avengers<\/strong> director was officially on board to\u00a0 write and direct the follow up as well as help consult on the rest of the films currently on the studio&#8217;s slate as well as an untitled television project that they are in the process of developing for ABC.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Avengers 2<\/strong> is the culmination of Marvel Studios\u2019s \u201cPhase Two\u201d which kicks off with next summer\u2019s<strong> Iron Man 3<\/strong> and continues with <strong>Thor: The Dark World<\/strong>, <strong>Captain America: The Winter Soldier<\/strong>, <strong>Ant-Man<\/strong> and <strong>Guardians Of The Galaxy<\/strong> across the remainder of 2013 and 2014. Presumably some plot elements for the <strong>Avengers<\/strong> sequel will be threaded into these films.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Not much of a surprise really&#8230;<\/div>\n<p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2012\/08\/16\/avengers-2-release-date-set\/\" title=\"AVENGERS 2 Release Date Set\">[click for more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[1671,4405],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-21718","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-joss-whedon","8":"tag-the-avengers-2"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[2],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21718"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=21718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}