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Disney announced today that it is buying distribution rights to The Avengers and Iron Man 3 from Paramount for $115 million. Paramount will reportedly still earn the 8% and 9% fees it would have received from distributing the films but it won’t have to put in any advertising money or muscle.

Marvel Studio's "Iron Man 2" soared to the top of the domestic rankings with an estimated $52.4 million in boxoffice from its first day in release on Friday.

"Iron Man 2" rocketed into domestic multiplexes with an estimated $7.5 million from its 12:01 a.m. Friday performances.

Film News: Advance online ticket sales are boffo -- The franchise sequel opened to $100.2 million in 53 overseas markets.

Take a look at never-seen-before footage of Tony Stark and Whiplash in this new video.

The trailer for the summer 2010 sequel to "Iron Man" is out. "Iron Man 2" reunites Robert Downey Jr as Tony Stark with Gwyneth Paltrow as Pepper Potts. The film also adds Scarlett Johansson and Mickey Rourke and swaps in Don Cheadle for Terrence Howard. Like the first it is directed by Jon Favreau.

The movie is out May 7.

Entertainment Tonight , in their usual let's cut up everything and "we're number one" style, has aired the first footage from Iron Man 2 in a promo for Wednesday's show that you can watch using the player below. Stay tuned to the program on Wednesday for possibly more footage.

Paramount Pictures debuted a brand new teaser poster featuring Oscar nominee Mickey Rourke as Whiplash, the villain in "Iron Man 2."

We told you earlier in the week over on SciFi Squad that Entertainment Tonight would be unveiling a whole ton of set footage from their trip to visit Iron Man 2, and in case you missed the program last night, that footage is now online.

Yes, we know, these screenshots are really crappy, but... it's the first photos of Scarlett Johansson as Black Widow in Iron Man 2 ! The pics, which were showing during "Entertainment Tonight," come from Friday's issue of Entertainment Weekly , so we should have some hi-res versions of all of them soon, stay tuned. Opening in theaters on May 7, 2010, the Jon Favreau-directed sequel is wrapping up filming this week as well.