It looks as if Paramount will be releasing Iron Man in the U.S. beginning at 8pm on Thursday May 1st with the U.K. getting screenings as early as 11.50am on the same day.

OWF have people in place to see the movie in a special preview on Monday night and I believe I’m seeing the film either on Tuesday or Wednesday. Next week will most certainly be Iron Man week where we should have several reviews of the movie going up.

The summer kicks off next week and runs pretty much non-stop with huge movie after huge movie.

Not all of them can possibly live up to the hype but I’m really hoping the ratio of good/bad is way better than last year and the summer of 2006 both of which were TERRIBLE.

Can anyone predict a figure on Iron Man? Transformers, probably the last movie which had a similar amount of hype opened to $70 million on it’s long weekend. I think this movie might open around the $55 million, I can’t see it doing more than the big giant robots.

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