Marvel TV Stars Help First Book and Disney/ABC to Help Get One Million Books to Kids Across the Country

From the First Book website:

"Join First Book and Disney | ABC to help get one million books to kids across the country. Be inspired to share the magic of storytelling. Every $5.00 donated provides two brand new books to a child in need."

A few Marvel Cinematic Universe TV stars helped out by making cute videos of themselves reading popular children's books as fast as they could for ten seconds.

Here are Hayley Atwell (Agent Peggy Carter) and James D'Arcy (Edwin Jarvis) from Marvel's Agent Carter:



Chloe Bennet (Agent Skye/Daisy Johnson/Quake) and Clark Gregg (Director Phil Coulson) from Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.:



Nick Blood (Lance Hunter) and Adrianne Palicki (Bobbi Morse/Mockingbird) from Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.:



E N J O Y ! ! !

Marvel One Shots (All embedded on one page with links!)

If you're familiar with the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), you might know that there are also five short films, called Marvel One-Shots, that were released with the DVD release of a number of films. If you've seen all of the MCU movies and watch the "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." TV show, you should know that these one-shots are also considered part of the MCU.

I know some MCU fans that have yet to see all of these short films. I suspect some of this is because these were released with the DVD of the Blu-Ray for their corresponding films but are not on the DVD that you would get from Netflix (nor are they available to stream on Netflix).

Since it was announced that, like "Captain America: The Winter Soldier", the "Guardians of the Galaxy" DVD release on December 9th will not have a one-shot, I decided to post the five one-shots so far below, with a little description for each one. The title is also a link to the site where the embedded video is located.

Please note that some of these were uploaded by users in other countries so a couple of the videos have subtitles.

ENJOY!!!

The Consultant - Released on September 13, 2011 as part of the "Thor" DVD release:


Marvel One-Shot - The Consultant (Full Version... by Lyricis


A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Thor's Hammer - Released on October 25, 2011 as part of the "Captain America: The First Avenger" DVD release, it displays the full badassery of Agent Phil Coulson.

Marvel One-Shot - A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To Thor’s Hammer Sub Thai By Agent K - CGT from ComicsGuideThailand on Vimeo.

Item 47 - Released on September 25, 2012 as part of "The Avengers" DVD release. Incidentally, I read somewhere that this one-shot was the reason Marvel decided to go ahead with producing an "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." TV show.

(3) 2012 - Marvel One-Shot - ITEM 47 (Subtítulos español) from Jesús Tobar Sánchez on Vimeo.

Agent Carter - Released September 3, 2013 with the "Iron Man 3" digital release. This is my favorite of the one-shots and is also the reason Hayley Atwell is getting her own eight episode "Agent Carter" TV series in January 2015 that will air during the "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." time block on ABC.


Marvel One-Shot: Agent Carter (2013) by limukohou


All Hail the King - Released February 4, 2014 with the "Thor: The Dark World" digital release. This one stars Ben Kingsley (Gandhi himself!) in his role from "Iron Man 3".


(5) 2014 - Marvel One-Shot - ALL HAIL THE KING... by aquiestajesus

How Captain America: The Winter Soldier Should Have Ended

If you've never seen any of the HISHE videos, they're pretty funny. The latest is no exception.

Stephen Colbert's "HAIL HYDRA"

Marvel's web site has a great post on Stephen Colbert sneaking in a "HAIL HYDRA" into the opening credits of the April 21st episode of The Colbert Report.  Here's a screen shot of it:



The entire Marvel post is pretty good and worth reading if you're a fan of both, Marvel and Stephen Colbert.

The first ten minutes of Captain America: The Winter Soldier!!!

I saw a clip yesterday that was in Spanish and has since been removed. Not sure how long this one will be out there but catch it if you can:

UPDATE: Well, just like the Spanish clip from the day before I posted this video, this one has been removed too. Honestly, just go see the movie itself. It's one of the better movies of the last few years.

"This one here is our booty!"

Okay, I'll be the first one to admit that if this film wasn't part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, I probably wouldn't see it.  However, I'm glad it is because from all the buzz and the trailer and features released this week it looks pretty good:

Full-length trailer:


No Rocket in the trailer but this feature has Bradley Cooper as Rocket saying the one line in the post title:


There's also a great feature onGamora, played by Zoe Saldana, which shows some of the filming of her fight scene with Karen Gillan's Nebula. While the response to the trailer release has been reported to be overwhelmingly male, I have a feeling having two strong female characters with a reputation as assassins is going to strike an chord with the female audience.


Marvel also release features on the other characters:

Groot (voiced by Vin Diesel):


Drax:


Star-lord/Peter Quill:

Captain America Trailer #1 and its Corresponding Lego Version

Just for kicks, try playing these at the same time side by side, even with the sound on.  It's pretty funny how accurate the Lego version is (except for the Batman and Spiderman easter eggs, which are obviously not in the original).

Here is the original trailer:

And the Lego one:

"Visual Guide to Marvel Character Movie Rights" Infographic

A nifty visual guide for people like me that are fans of the movies but not the comic books: