Captain America: The First Avenger 2011 movie

Directed by                          :   Joe Johnston
Produced by                        :   Kevin Feige
Screenplay by                      :   Christopher Markus
                                               Stephen McFeely
Based on Captain America by Joe Simon Jack Kirby
Starring                                :   Chris Evans
                                                Tommy Lee Jones
                                                Hugo Weaving
                                                Hayley Atwell
                                                Sebastian Stan
                                                Dominic Cooper
                                                Neal McDonough
                                                Derek Luke
                                                Stanley Tucci
Music by                               :  Alan Silvestri
Cinematography                    :  Shelly Johnson
Editing by                              :  Robert Dalva
                                                Jeffrey Ford
Studio                                    :  Marvel Studios
Distributed by                        :  Paramount Pictures
Release date(s)                      :   July 19, 2011 (2011-07-19) (Los Angeles premiere)
                                                 July 22, 2011 (2011-07-22) (North America)
Running time                          :  124 minutes
Country                                 :   United States
Language                               :  English language
Budget                                   :  $140 millio
Gross revenue                        :  $65,827,000



Cast:
Chris Evans as Steve Rogers / Captain America
Tommy Lee Jones as Col. Chester Phillips
Hugo Weaving as Johann Schmidt / Red Skull
Hayley Atwell as Peggy Carter
Sebastian Stan as Bucky Barnes
Dominic Cooper as Howard Stark
Neal McDonough as Dum Dum Dugan
Derek Luke as Gabe Jones
Stanley Tucci as Dr. Abraham Erskine
Kenneth Choi as Jim Morita
Bruno Ricci as Jacques Dernier
J. J. Feild as James Montgomery Falsworth

Plot:

In the present day, scientists in the Arctic uncover a mysterious object with a red, white and blue motif. In March 1942, Nazi officer Johann Schmidt (Hugo Weaving) and his men invade a castle in Tønsberg, Norway, to steal a mysterious tesseract which Schmidt calls "the jewel of Odin's treasure room." In New York City, Brooklyn native Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) is rejected for World War II military duty as 4F. Rogers' friend, Sgt. James "Bucky" Barnes (Sebastian Stan), takes Rogers to the Modern Marvels of Tomorrow exhibition, where famous inventor Howard Stark (Dominic Cooper) demonstrates an experimental flying car. Rogers slips into a recruitment center for another attempt at enlisting. When Barnes attempts to dissuade him, Rogers' fervent conviction about serving his country catches the ear of expatriate Bavarian scientist Dr. Abraham Erskine (Stanley Tucci), who is with the U.S. government's Strategic Scientific Reserve. He recruits Rogers to a squad of soldiers at Camp Lehigh in New York state. There, under Colonel Chester Phillips (Tommy Lee Jones) and SSR officer Peggy Carter (Hayley Atwell), one will be chosen as the first in a "super-soldier" experiment. Phillips suggests Gilmore Hodge (Lex Shrapnel), but an act of self-sacrificing bravery by Rogers convinces Erskine to use Rogers. In Europe, Schmidt and scientist Arnim Zola (Toby Jones) attempt to harness the power of the cube-like tesseract.

In a secret lab behind a Brooklyn antique store, Erskine and others gather with Senator Brandt (Michael Brandon) and U.S. State Department employee Fred Clemson as Rogers is given micro-injections of serum and then doused with what Erskine calls "vita-rays". Rogers emerges from a chamber tall and muscular — and his abilities are put to the test immediately when Clemson is exposed as assassin Heinz Kruger (Richard Armitage) who kills Erskine. Rogers gives chase as the spy flees to a car, but Carter kills the driver. Rogers eventually pulls Kruger from a submarine, but Kruger commits suicide with a cyanide capsule.

With the experiment dead, Brandt has Rogers don a colorful costume and tour the nation promoting war bonds. At a show for U.S. soldiers in Italy in November 1943, however, Rogers is jeered. When he hears Barnes is among a number of soldiers captured by Schmidt, also known as the Red Skull, Rogers convinces Carter and Stark to fly him behind enemy lines for a solo rescue mission. Breaking into what turns out to be a base for the Skull's private terrorist group, HYDRA, he frees Barnes and the others and briefly confronts the Skull — Erskine's first super-solider before the scientist's escape. The Skull and Zola retreat, and Rogers returns the men to base, along with high-tech guns that use tesseract energy.

To destroy HYDRA's bases, Rogers recruits a team consisting of Barnes, Timothy "Dum Dum" Dugan (Neal McDonough), and (unnamed except in the end-credits) Gabe Jones (Derek Luke), Jim Morita (Kenneth Choi), James Montgomery Falsworth (J. J. Feild), and Jacques Dernier (Bruno Ricci). Adopting a circular shield made of a substance Stark calls vibranium, which absorbs vibrations, Rogers and his squad take out all but one base. Finally, Rogers and Barnes zipline onto a train transporting Zola; during the ensuing battle, Barnes falls into a deep gorge.

Rogers, using information Phillips has gleaned from Zola, leads the commandos to the Skull's final redoubt. Rogers scrambles onto the Skull's jet as it takes off on a mission to obliterate the U.S. using the tesseract energy, eventually confronts the Skull. The Skull attempts to use the tesseract but instead disintegrates into light that shoots into space. The tesseract melts through the plane and falls to Earth. Rogers, as Carter listens on radio, ditches the disabled plane.

In the present-day, Rogers awakens in a room designed to appear as if he were still in the 1940s. Deducing the truth and escaping to Times Square, Rogers learns from S.H.I.E.L.D. leader Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) that he has been asleep for 70 years, and they had wanted to acclimate his reentry into modern times.

Soundtrack:

In June 2011, Buena Vista Records announced the details for the soundtrack release of Captain America: The First Avenger. The album includes the original score by Alan Silvestri, as well as the original song "Star Spangled Man" with music by Alan Menken and lyrics by David Zippel. The soundtrack was recorded at Air Studios in London and was released on July 19, 2011

Release:

The world premiere of Captain America: The First Avenger was held on July 19, 2011, at the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood, California. The film will also be screened at the 2011 San Diego Comic-Con International on July 21, 2011. Captain America: The First Avenger was commercially released in the United States and Canada on July 22, 2011.

Paramount opted against altering the American-centric title when distributing to foreign territories, instead offering international markets a choice between the official title and the alternative The First Avenger. Many international distributors chose to retain the original title, believing the franchise name is more identifiable than the alternative and they would otherwise risk losing ticket sales. Three countries chose the alternative title: Russia, South Korea, and Ukraine. An "insider" speaking to The New York Times described the reasoning behind the name change in these countries as stemming from cultural and political concerns, though Marvel and Paramount both declined to state an official reason. Additionally, the film may not be released in China due to a policy that allows only 20 foreign films to be screened in the country per year.