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Nick Fury is assembling the Avengers for a brand new mission… the Oscars! The Academy announced today that Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Samuel L. Jackson, Jeremy Renner and Mark Ruffalo will be presenters at the February 24 ceremony.

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Check out this first trailer for the highly anticipated "The Avengers," starring Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Man; Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury; Chris Evans as Captain America; Chris Hemsworth as Thor; Mark Ruffalo as The Hulk; Scarlett Johansson as Black Widow; and Jeremy Renner as Hawkeye.

"The Avengers" roar into theaters May, 2012!

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Actor Samuel L. Jackson talked with "Extra" about the importance of the Children's Defense Fund's Beat the Odds Program at the organization's 20th anniversary celebration.

"We're all doing our best to ensure a better future for these kids," Jackson said. Watch the interview!

For more information and ways to help, go to ChildrensDefense.org!

Brains, beauty and now box office bragging rights -- Emma Watson has it all!

According to the Guinness Book of World Records, Watson, 19, is the highest-grossing actress of the decade.

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Watson's role as Hermione Granger in six "Harry Potter" films helped her rake in $5.4 billion at the box office, or roughly $900 million per film. The actress' co-star, Dame Maggie Smith, who plays Hogwarts teacher Minerva McGonagall in the films, followed as the second top-earner of the decade.

Guinness names Samuel L. Jackson as the highest-grossing male actor of the decade -- thanks in large part to the "Star Wars" films -- but Entertainment Weekly insists that Jackson, 61, was beat out by Orlando Bloom.

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Bloom's roles in the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy and "Pirates of the Caribbean" films earned a whopping $6.5 billion in global ticket sales.

Watson, currently an Ivy League student at Brown University, will appear in the two "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows" films, out in 2010 and 2011.

Demi Moore, Michael Phelps and Kobe Bryant were some of the hot stars at the ESPY Awards last night in L.A., but there was one person we weren't expecting on the red carpet!