Avenger Trailer Breaks Download Record

                      This past week on Tuesday, October 11^th, iTunes debuted the first trailer to the upcoming Marvel Studios and Paramount Pictures movie The Avengers. Written and directed by Joss Whedon, The Avengers is an upcoming hero movie about various marvel comic book characters that team up to stop a powerful villain for the sake of mankind. The heroic ensemble includes The Hulk, Iron Man, Thor, Captain America and The Black Widow, who all have debuted in the theaters with their own previous movies in the past few years. The movie has had a lot of hype going for it for quite sometime from original comic book fans and fans of the movies alike but I didn’t anticipate the record the very first trailer released would break. Within 24 hours of the trailers release on Tuesday, The Avengers’ trailer was downloaded over 10 million times. It surpassed the previous titleholder for most downloads in 24 hours, Transformers: Dark of the Moon, who only had 6.4 million downloads (Macale, 2011). Being one of the many who downloaded and shared the trailer the first day it was released, I can very well see why so many people downloaded it. Beyond the fact that it’s based off of heroes who are very well known, the way the actors bring the characters to life is worth seeing in it’s own right. The puns made by Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Man are always charismatic as ever. The sexy Scarlett Johansson as the fierce fighter Black Widow, along with the acting style of Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury. Not to mention the writing of the great Joss Whedon. It’s no wonder that The Avengers destroyed the most viewed trailer record on iTunes. It’s a blockbuster that I will definitely be waiting to hit the theaters on May 4^th, 2012.

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Macale, S., (2011, October 15). Marvel’s The Avengers trailer breaks iTunes record at 10M downloads in 24hrs. Retrieved from http://thenextweb.com/apple/2011/10/15/marvels-the-avengers-trailer-breaks-itunes-record-at-10m-downloads-in-24hrs/

Avengers Movie Poster [Fan made Poster]. (2011). Retrieved October 16, 2011, from:
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