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Tuesday Trending Topics: Some Avenging Required

Published Wed, 29 Feb 2012 01:59:09 -0600

Last updated Wed, 29 Feb 2012 01:59:23 -0600

The Avengers UK release had everyone twittering today for 1) being retitled Avengers Assemble to avoid confusion with the classic British spy-fi of the same name, and 2) featuring a poster which is a pretty obvious photoshop job. Point 1) raised quite a few more eyebrows than I would have expected. It's still a cool title, and the underlying reasoning for the change is at least arguable. But as for point 2), as someone in my twitter stream implied, if your big sfx movie has a budget of $2-300 million, you might hope for better.

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