Disney has announced via a release schedule that The Avengers will be released in Australia on 25 April 2012. This puts it over a week ahead of the US release date of 4 May 2012.
The move is not an unprecedented one, with this year’s Thor released in Australia by Paramount two weeks prior to the US release. In that case, we also got the deluxe World Premiere treatment and full press junket with the stars. However, Roadshow Film’s Green Lantern was famously released several months after the US screenings.
Continuing the epic big-screen adventures started in Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk, Iron Man 2, Thor and Captain America: The First Avenger, Marvel’s The Avengers is the superhero team up of a lifetime. When an unexpected enemy emerges that threatens global safety and security, Nick Fury, Director of the international peacekeeping agency known as SHIELD, finds himself in need of a team to pull the world back from the brink of disaster. Spanning the globe, a daring recruitment effort begins.
Starring Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner and Samuel L. Jackson, and directed by Joss Whedon, Marvel’s The Avengers is based on the ever-popular Marvel comic book series The Avengers, first published in 1963 and a comics institution ever since. Prepare yourself for an exciting event movie, packed with action and spectacular special effects, when ―Marvel’s The Avengers assemble in 2012.
