Robert will be on some talk shows in the upcoming days. Here is the list:

THE TONIGHT SHOW WITH JAY LENO – 26th October
LATE SHOW WITH DAVID LETTERMAN – 1st November
LIVE WITH REGIS AND KELLY – 2nd November

Columbia Pictures has optioned the rights for the non-fiction book Emergency!: This Book Will Save Your Life by Neil Strauss to be developed into a feature film produced by Robert Downey Jr., Susan Downey, and Michael DeLuca, it was announced today by Doug Belgrad and Matt Tolmach, presidents of Columbia Pictures. The project is being considered as a possible starring vehicle for Downey. Allan Loeb (Wall Street 2, Dilemma) is writing the screenplay.

Emergency traces one man’s story of a dangerous world–and how to stay alive in it or die trying. It is Strauss’s white-knuckled journey through a country that’s lost its sense of safety, as one man equips himself with the tools necessary to save himself and his loved ones from an uncertain future. He sets out to move his life offshore, and in the process, he learns to survive in the wild, and remake himself as a gun-toting, lock-picking, plane-flying, government-defying survivor. It’s a tale of paranoid fantasies and crippling doubts, of shady lawyers and dangerous cult leaders, of billionaire gun nuts and survivalist superheroes, of weirdoes, heroes, and ordinary citizens taking their families off the grid.

Tolmach said, “Neil Strauss is a tremendous talent and we think Emergency! is his best work yet. It’s a hugely entertaining read that couldn’t be more timely or topical. We think there is a fantastic film in this book and Robert and Susan, and of course, Mike are the perfect producers to take on the themes of this project.”

De Luca added, “The book is a study in male panic and since I specialized in that throughout the 90’s I felt a true kinship with the material.”

David Gambino will oversee the project for Team Downey. Josh Bratman will develop the project along with De Luca and Tolmach and Andrea Giannetti will oversee the title on behalf of Columbia Pictures. [SOURCE]

Robert will be on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on 26th October! [SOURCE]

Marvel have announced the release date for Iron Man 3 as May 3rd 2013. [SOURCE]

Warner Bros. have hired Anthony Peckham (Sherlock Holmes, Invictus) to pen Yucatan with Robert Downey Jr. in mind for the lead role.

Yucatan will center a renegade deep-sea salvage expert hired to steal a mysterious hidden treasure hidden deep underwater in the Mayan ruins of Yucatan.

The film is based on an original idea by Steve McQueen and has been set up at Warner Bros. since 2005.

Robert and Susan Downey’s production company, Team Downey, will co-produce alongside Warner Bros.

Downey Jr. will next be seen in Todd Phillips’ Due Date, which hits UK cinemas on November 5. [Source]

Nissan is rolling out their new advertising campaign this weekend called “Innovation For All” –replacing the “Shift” tagline that has been used for eight years. “Innovation For All” will be launched with a series of five TV commercials with actor Robert Downey, Jr. at the helm as the new voiceover announcer.

Iron Man 2 will be available as a three-disc Blu-ray/DVD combo pack with digital copy, a limited edition two-disc DVD with digital copy, or a single disc DVD. Scheduled street date for Iron Man 2 is September 28, 2010.

Iron Man 2 on Blu-ray Disc is presented in 1080p resolution with English 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio. Highlights include optional feature commentary by Jon Favreau, a documentary “Ultimate Iron Man: The Making of Iron Man 2? in HD, Featurettes in HD, Deleted Scenes with optional commentary in HD, Previsualization and Animatics in HD, and a look into the Marvel Cinematic data vault — referred to as S.H.I.E.L.D.

Disc 1 (BD 50) contains the movie in HD with optional commentary.
Disc 2 (BD 50) contains the making-of documentary, featurettes, and deleted scenes.
Disc 3 (DVD) contains a digital copy and the movie in standard-definition.

Here are the full details on the Blu-ray 3-Disc release: (more…)

The top 100 on the Annual Forbes List of 100 Most Powerful Celebrities have been posted, and Robert made it to number 73 on the list. You can check out the top 100 at Forbes’ website.

Robert Downey Jr. – ‘Iron Man 2′

He Plays: Mega-millionaire inventor Tony Stark, aka Iron Man.

Where Else You’ve Seen Him: As a more than usually dashing Sherlock Holmes, and a desperate drug addict in Brat Pack classic ‘Less Than Zero.’

Why He’s Hot:  RDJ was a pretty boy back in the ’80s, but he’s grown into an incredibly handsome man. We love him even more now that he’s bulked up his bod to match that Holmesian brain. Anybody could be under that Iron Man suit, but it takes Downey Jr.’s superhero-like smarts to wear the maverick character of Tony Stark as well as he does. [SOURCE]