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With its re-release this past weekend in theaters, The Avengers grossed an additional $2 million dollars stateside. That little bit of change was enough to push the movie over the $1.5 billion dollar threshold in worldwide box office.

To promote the upcoming DVD release of The Avengers, Marvel has released online the first of the movie's post-credits scenes featuring a purple-skinned villain named Thanos. Watch it below!

There are almost daily clips being released for The Avengers now. Here's one of the latest showing a moment in the battle for New York City and how Captain America and Thor are dealing with Loki's alien army:

A new clip from The Avengers has debuted exclusively on MSN. In it we see Loki, the Asgardian supervillain, held in a SHIELD prison aboard the Helicarrier and speaking with Nick Fury:

Disney recently released a new image from The Avengers showing the Hulk, and for the first time we get a real sense of Mark Ruffalo's facial features in this version of the emerald superhero.

Check out this new TV spot for The Avengers movie. There's two new and cool things that you'll see in it:

• our first look at SHIELD's Helicarrier rising up from the ocean waters
• Captain America telling the Hulk to go do that thing he does the best: "Smash."

If you know a lot of friends on Facebook that want to see The Avengers two weeks ahead of everyone else, you have a shot at making it a reality. On the movie's official Facebook page there's a contest to see what North American cities can rally the most number of likes for the page by April 9. Already Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, Houston and Miami have "unlocked" a fan screening of The Avengers, and the next top five cities that get the most likes by 4/9 will also host their own local early showing of the film. Get crackin'!

Promotional videos aren't new to movies, but even so, it's unusual to see a software product like Norton anti-virus software being used to promote a superhero movie like The Avengers. Yet that's exactly what the Symantec software company has done.

The three-minute video features interviews with one of the movie's stars, Robert Downey Jr., director Joss Whedon and producer Kevin Feige, talking about the whys and wherefores of assembling several Marvel movie heroes in one big superhero movie.

Marvel has two new images of Cobie Smulders as SHIELD Agent Maria Hill for you to look at. We've got one, the other can be seen on the Marvel website.

The second full trailer for The Avengers is now out!

Marvel Studios debuted the new North American one-sheet for The Avengers today. It was also learned that in the United Kingdom the movie will be retitled to Marvel's Avengers Assemble, to avoid confusion with the popular 1960s TV series The Avengers. [Full story]

Did you miss seeing the full one-minute TV ad for The Avengers that aired during the Superbowl? Fear not, friends, for your opportunity to view the Marvel mayhem is just below:

A 10-second taste of this coming Sunday's ad spot for The Avengers movie is being offered by the folks at Marvel. If you want to see the rest of it, tune in to the Superbowl and don't change the channel when the commercials are on.

Composer Alan Silvestri has been hired to score The Avengers. A veteran of movie soundtracks, Silvestri's scores include the Back to the Future trilogy, The Abyss, Predator, Grumpy Old Men, Forrest Gump, Lilo & Stitch and last summer's other Marvel movie, Captain America: The First Avenger.

"This is actually a very unique experience [for me]," Silvestri said on Marvel's website. "I've worked on films where there have been a number of stars and certainly worked on films where there have been characters of equal weight in terms of their level of importance and profile in the film, but this one is somewhat extreme in that regard because each of these characters has their own world and it’s a very different situation."

Asked how he'll approach the movie's score and multiple main characters, Silvestri commented, "It's very challenging to look for a way to give everyone the weight and consideration they need, but at the same time the film is really about the coming together of these characters, which implies that there is this entity called the Avengers which really has to be representative of all of them together."

Here it is: the first trailer for Marvel's The Avengers movie, still on course to arrive in theaters next May.

Starring Robert Downey Jr (Iron Man), Chris Evans (Captain America), Chris Hemsworth (Thor), Scarlett Johansson (Black Widow), Samuel L. Jackson (Nick Fury), Jeremy Renner (Hawkeye) and Mark Ruffalo (The Hulk), The Avengers is directed by Joss Whedon and comes out May 2012.