After helping with Sunday night’s podcast, I began my weekly contribution to SciFiPulse.Net by writing up many of the stories that will appear on the site on Monday morning, thus giving site head honcho Ian Cullen a well-deserved night off. But since we in the club are so very interested in what happens behind the camera as well as what happens in front of it, I’m printing it here as well. I won’t do this very often, but I think this one is really worth double-dipping it.
>>Will Iron Man 2 do well in the U.S. as some have predicted? Apparently so, if you can go by box offices around the rest of the world this past weekend, according to comingsoon.net.
The sequel to the 2008 hit grossed $100.2 million in 53 countries worldwide over the weekend, according to numerous reports. Returns from the U.K. ($12.2 million), Mexico ($7.3 million) and Russia ($8.2 million) are way ahead of opening-weekend numbers for the first Iron Man, which bodes well for its domestic release on Friday, May 7.
>>It happened during the very emotional sequence at the end of “The Time Of Angels” as it aired on the BBC in the UK.