Somedays, those blasted press-releases with their long-winded, carefully-worded, ass-kissing ways can actually contain some pretty sweet information…

“Coming off of Iron Man’s incredible success this summer, we could not be more excited about extending our relationship with Marvel,” said Rob Moore, Vice Chairman of Paramount Pictures. “Marvel’s iconic brand, its popular characters and its proven ability to create compelling and visually spellbinding films complement Paramount’s great history of filmmaking. We look forward to a long and successful run together.”
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“Paramount is an excellent partner and an outstanding global distributor,” said David Maisel, Chairman of Marvel Studios. “Through our experience on Iron Man, Paramount has demonstrated a passion and ability to release Marvel properties theatrically, allowing us to focus on making great movies for the largest audience possible.”

If you noticed that there are only 4 titles teased in the image above, you’re one smart cookie! A cookie who is probably smart enough to assume that the fifth picture is Iron Man III. But now, we’re just talking to cookies again.

And we thought this cold-turkey thing was going fine.

We were wrong.