Avengers Confidential: Black Widow & Punisher (Marvel Animated) - March 25, 2014

[MifuneFan]

Sony Pictures will be releasing a new Marvel animated feature titled "Avengers Confidential: Black Widow & Punisher" on March 25th.

Avengers Confidential: Black Widow & Punisher Blu-ray Pre-order

Synopsis

When The Punisher takes out a black market weapons dealer with stolen S.H.I.E.L.D. tech, he inadvertently stumbles upon a much larger terror plot under investigation by Black Widow, agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. Detained by the clandestine law enforcement organization, Nick Fury offers the Punisher his freedom in exchange for one mission; To work with Black Widow and stop the terrorist group known as LEVIATHAN.

Trailer:

Marvel's Avengers Confidential: Black Widow & Punisher Trailer 2014 - YouTube

[Mandalorian]

I have no faith in their animation, but I'll reserve judgement.

[Lt. Brannigan]

Looks interesting. Might get this one.

[duggie walker]

Interesting that they're attempting to get The Punisher into the collective consciousness. Wonder if that means they have live-action plans?

[EricJ]

Originally Posted by duggie walker

Interesting that they're attempting to get The Punisher into the collective consciousness. Wonder if that means they have live-action plans?

Think they're test-marketing BOTH, as it's clearly trying to weigh the idea of just how silly a "Black Widow spinoff movie" really would look, coupled with the eventual reacquisition of Punisher's rights.
(And the idea of de-historizing the LG movies, even though "War Zone" came as close as anyone's gotten so far.)

Like the animated Iron Man, and Thor vs. Hulk, they always test these things out in animation first.

[detective392]

Looks to be another Marvel animation failure. They do so well in the live action department but totally suck when it comes to animation.

Kinda the opposite of DC who always hits it out of the ball park with animation but besides Batman and Superman hasn't found a good grasp in the live action adaptions yet.

[rickah88]

I really like the anime style, and I'm glad Sony is keeping with it. I like Iron Man: Technovore, so I'm sure I'll like this!
I just wish they could release the previous Marvel Anime that is only out on dvd.
Preordered!

[MasterChief3624]

Originally Posted by detective392

Looks to be another Marvel animation failure. They do so well in the live action department but totally suck when it comes to animation.

Kinda the opposite of DC who always hits it out of the ball park with animation but besides Batman and Superman hasn't found a good grasp in the live action adaptions yet.

Hm... I have heard this comparison a lot, but still haven't watched any Marvel animated features to test it out for myself. I bought a Fantastic Four Animated Series set for like $10 from Best Buy but have yet to watch it.

Honestly the story for this movie sounds interesting, and I do like The Punisher and Black Widow, so I might give it a shot.

[tylergfoster]

Well, it certainly looks entirely different from the terrible Iron Man & Hulk: Heroes United. Even if it sucks, at least they're making new mistakes.

[pro-bassoonist]

PRESS SHEET:

https://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=13048

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has officially announced that it will release on Blu-ray Avengers Confidential: Black Widow & Punisher. In this action-packed animated film, two of Marvel's most popular characters, Black Widow (voiced by Jennifer Carpenter) and the Punisher (voiced by Brian Bloom) team up alongside Iron Man, Thor, Hulk, and the rest of the Avengers. The release will be available for purchase on March 25th.

Official synopsis: After interfering with a top secret mission, THE PUNISHER is taken into custody by S.H.I.E.L.D. AGENT and AVENGER, BLACK WIDOW. At the orders of Director Nick Fury, Punisher and Black Widow are sent on a mission to stop LEVIATHAN, a global terrorist organization that plans to sell stolen S.H.I.E.L.D. technology to the highest bidder. Now, the vigilante and spy must work together to prevent this technology from falling into the wrong hands. The fate of the world, and of the AVENGERS, hangs in the balance.

Avengers Confidential: Black Widow & Punisher was directed by Kenichi Shimizu, with a story by Marjorie Liu and screenplay by Mitsutaka Hirota. It was produced by Marvel, Sony Pictures Entertainment (Japan) Inc. and Madhouse Inc.

Special Features:

Espionage and Punishment featurette -- This featurette looks at the exciting versions of these popular Marvel characters as adapted in this stunning style of anime. From early concept art and storyboards to the final film, all aspects of creating the compelling story of this unique anime feature are explored.

The Vigilante Vs. The Spy featurette – A look at the Marvel's Frank Castle (The Punisher) and Natasha Romanoff (Black Widow). Each of these characters feature dark and complex origins that led them to extreme action and extraordinary lives.

Conceptual Art Gallery - Blu-ray exclusive

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[Mandalorian]

Originally Posted by tylergfoster

Well, it certainly looks entirely different from the terrible Iron Man & Hulk: Heroes United. Even if it sucks, at least they're making new mistakes.

Well, not really. This is from Sony and the same Japanese animation studio that put out that crappy Iron Man: Rise of Technovore. Disney is responsible for the Hulk and Iron Man animated film. So, while you're right that it look different, it wouldn't be a new mistake.

[Doctor.Who]

I'm a sucker for anything with Black Widow

[Mandalorian]

At the moment, I'm more interested in these black widows...

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[Doctor.Who]

Ok you have my attention and wow that's really interesting

Originally Posted by Mandalorian

At the moment, I'm more interested in these black widows...

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[Walts Ghost]

Originally Posted by duggie walker

Interesting that they're attempting to get The Punisher into the collective consciousness. Wonder if that means they have live-action plans?

Wouldn't be surprised if he shows up in the new DareDevil show...

This doesn't look great though. I'll check it out, but right now...Meh.

[Batmon77]

Netflix

[solarrdadd]

on a slightly different note, Stan "the man" Lee is rolling a new animated superhero flick (which will actually be a trilogy) on the "Hub Network" FIOS/CABLE & maybe SAT and it's on at 8pm Saturday February 1st it's called the Stan Lee's Mighty 7 (yeah i know how that sounds and how many folks are gonna roll on that "7" thing! )

here's a link about it, good, bad or otherwise, it's animation and Stan the man is one of the animated characters in the movie playing, himself! as a fan of marvel, of comics and of animation, i owe it to myself and Stan to check it out. Nuff Said!

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[blackwidowavenger1964]

I don't like animation films like this but it looks cool!

[Adcatalano]

Originally Posted by detective392

Looks to be another Marvel animation failure. They do so well in the live action department but totally suck when it comes to animation.

Kinda the opposite of DC who always hits it out of the ball park with animation but besides Batman and Superman hasn't found a good grasp in the live action adaptions yet.

They were good until Disney bought them. The Marvel Animated Features canon under lionsgate was getting soo good but then they were cut off. Same goes on the tv side - finally great Spider-Man and Xmen shows again, plus good iron man and avengers shows... That were all canceled way too soon to make way for the current garbage lineup.

[Grimshaw23]

These Japanese-inspired Marvel animated features are great in the art/animation department, but they always choose terrible storylines to go along with it, for example the Iron Man: Technovore and most of the Marvel anime series. So they always ends up bad and disappointing, overall. With that said, I'm hoping for the best for this movie because the animation style is great.

Here's a pic: