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The film featuring a team of Marvel Comics heroes pulled in $80.5 million in its domestic debut Friday, the second-best haul ever on opening day.<br />"The Avengers" trails only last year's "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2," which took in $91.1 million in its first day on the way to a record weekend of $169.2 million

Today’s trend appears to be learning crucial bits of spoilery information from toys tied in to major blockbusters. After Amazing Spider-Man toys tipped us off to a possible photo of Rhys Ifans’ Lizard character, we’re now hearing that a villain from Marvel movies past might have a significant part in Joss Whedon’s The Avengers, due out in theaters in May.

And now you can see him in animated form in the new film Happy Feet Two. On the occasion of the film’s release, Common spoke to HitFix about his special connection to the movie. “It’s fun and it’s still a good story, and you feel it, you feel the emotions of it because it is real situations that we experience as fathers, as children, as parents,” Common said. “I’m a father anyway, so I have a certain natural thing about being a father, but at the same token, just being with other artists and creating, we were able to come up with new things.” He plays Seymour, a penguin who helps his son find his voice as a rapper.

The Friday crew is coming together. More than 15 years after the film became a cult classic, spawning two sequels, Ice Cube is pushing for a third. Cube has been reaching out to the original cast of the hit franchise (including Chris Tucker and Tiny Lister), and most recently talked to John Witherspoon to reprise his role as Cube's father Willie Jones.

It's a crazy, dysfunctional love story set in the 'hood," said Singleton, according to Shadow and Act. The director wouldn't share any plot details or reveal where the film would be shooting or when it would be released. It is known, however, that the project reunites Tyrese Gibson and Taraji P. Henson, who last worked together on Singleton's Baby Boy in 2001.