Well I'm sorry... but I'm not Tony Stark.

Figured I'd start this thing off with a subject very dear to my heart. You guessed it, I'm talking about Iron Man.

I was a huge Iron Man fan back in the day, and when they announced the movie it seemed that May of '08 was waaaay too far away. Now it has arrived, I've seen it like 3 times, and I absolutely loved the movie. Quite possibly the best comic book/superhero movie released to date, or at the very least it's in the top 5.

As of yesterday, Iron Man had reached the $201 million mark worldwide since its Thursday release... this means that it had the 10th biggest movie opening of all time, and the 8th biggest May opening. Go, Tony.

Last week, Marvel execs said that if Iron Man "performed as expected" then they would be releasing a sequel in 2010. After the above-expectations opening weekend, a new statement was released today confirming that Iron Man 2 would hit theatres on April 30th, 2010. Looks like they're shooting for the same start-of-summer weekend that did them so well this time.

Given all of the hype about the scene after the credits and the possibilities of an Avengers movie, Marvel also jumped on the grenade and announced several other release dates when they announced Iron Man 2. Thor, the character based on the Norse god of thunder, will be hitting the big screen on June 4th, 2010, and Captain America (in a film currently titled "Captain America: The First Avenger") will show up on May 6th, 2011. These three movies, along with the current Iron Man flick and the upcoming Incredible Hulk movie, all set the stage for the release of The Avengers in July of 2011. Since Marvel is making their own movies now, there's a major push toward creating a full movie continuity with the same actors reprising their roles in cameos or starring positions in other Marvel films.

If you're a Marvel buff, you can also look forward to the release of Punisher: War Zone on December 5, 2008 and Xmen Origins: Wolverine on May 1st, 2009; other announced-but-with-no-release-date-set films Ant Man, Magneto, and Spiderman 4. A script has apparently been written for a "Young Xmen" movie that would serve as a prequel to the first, but who knows where that's going to go.