Marvel plans to stay ‘faithful to the source material and completely traditional’ with their Captain America movie. ‘The First Avenger: Captain America’ will be a period piece taking place during World War II, just like the comic book, Marvel’s Kevin Feige said.

A couple of weeks ago, some websites claimed Matthew McConaughey was Marvel’s top choice for Captian America. While it would be pretty early to start casting for a movie released in during the summer of 2011 first of all, Feige says it’s simply not true. We all know how the internet works I guess.

Was the movie really that good or did ‘Iron Man’ just wake everybody up after all those slow weeks? Whatever the reason is, the balls are rolling and this is what came out of the success of ‘Iron Man.’

First, the confirmed sequel. Set for release in 2010, but who is involved? Robert Downey Jr. has been confirmed to be under contract for another film, but Jon Favreau hasn’t signed yet. “We’ve been speaking informally about it, and in concept we would all love to work together again. But I found out about the announcement last night, so it’s not something that — we would definitely love to collaborate more with the sequel,” Favrau told EW. Those are some careful words. Apparently Jon Favreau didn’t know about the confirmation of ‘Iron Man 2′ until Marvel announced it last Monday. You would think a man like him shouldn’t have to find out on the news.

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The only thing we didn’t have was an official word from Marvel, but now we have it. ‘Iron Man 2′ has been confirmed for April 30, 2010. Jon Favreau and his crew already hinted at how they’d like to do a sequel. They said it in like every other interview last week. If it wasn’t for the possible actors’ strike, they might have already been working on it. But Marvel didn’t want to take any risks by setting the release date for next summer.

Marvel Entertainment stock jumped almost 10% as we expected, but settled to around 7.5% later in the day. This while the market was down overall, mostly caused by the failed Yahoo deal and concerns about mortgage lender Countrywide’s suitor backing out as well.

In 2006, Marvel Entertainment started raising $525 million to produce its own movies. Before that it was only licensing its characters, like ‘Spider-man’ to Sony. Their second film will be ‘The Incredible Hulk’ in June and the third will be the just announced ‘Iron Man’ sequel. Marvel also announced their fourth feature called ‘Thor,’ which is planned for June 4, 2010. They sure like their summer season.