Captain America: The First Avenger the film would not be released in China because of a policy limiting the number of foreign films screened there each year, but it eventually opened there in the second weekend of September. Days before the film's release, a teaser trailer for "The Avengers" that served as a post-credits scene of "Captain America: The First Avenger" was briefly leaked online. "Entertainment Weekly" speculated it came from a preview screening and described the footage as "shaky, fuzzy, flickering and obviously filmed on a cell phone". "Captain America: The First Avenger" was formatted and screened in IMAX for the first time on
Captain America in other media serial "Captain America" has the main character District Attorney Grant Gardner, who is loosely based on the Marvel character Captain America. His nemesis is the Scarab and his love interest and sidekick is Gail Richards. The first feature-length depiction of Captain America was the 1990 film "Captain America". Development began when the film rights were purchased by The Cannon Group founders Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus in 1984, with "Death Wish" helmer Michael Winner to direct. Scripts written by James Silke ("Revenge of the Ninja", "Sahara"), Stan Hey ("Auf Wiedersehen, Pet"), Stan Lee and Lawrence Block ("The Funhouse") were rejected