The rumors of an X-Men vs. Fantastic Four movie have been swirling for a while now, and with good reason. The year 2013 was a big one for the Fox mutant franchise with the strong box office performance of The Wolverine, the ever-growing anticipation for X-Men: Days of Future Past and the announcement of X-Men: Apocalypse in 2016, move Wolverine solo films and an X-Force movie that would expand the X-Men film universe. Read More »
Earlier this month, director Bryan Singer announced via his Twitter account that the sequel to 2014's X-Men: Days of Future Past would be released in 2016. Though this was definitely exciting news for fans of the series, the announcement of X-Men: Apocalypse was reportedly not well received by the cast members who have to work on the film. Apparently they did not know about this new project and learned just how everybody else did. Now there are reports that two stars, Jennifer Lawrence and Nicholas Hoult (who happen to be dating), are contemplating quitting the franchise because of the short notice and scheduling difficulties! Read More »
The 2014 superhero blockbuster X-Men: Days of Future Past will feature mutants from both the original X-Men trilogy and the 2011 film X-Men: First Class, which took place in the 1960s. But one mutant, and the actress who plays her, will no longer be in the film. Read More »
James Marsden was busy filming Anchorman: The Legend Continues (aka Anchorman 2) and so he was unable to be a part of X-Men: Days of Future Past. But the recently announced 2016 sequel X-Men: Apocalypse led some fans to wonder if the actor would put on the mutant's sunglasses again and play Cyclops in a few years. Read More »
James McAvoy plays a young Professor Charles Xavier in the 2014 blockbuster X-Men: Days of Future Past. News broke last week that a sequel to that film entitled X-Men: Apocalypse would come out in 2016. And apparently, McAvoy learned this at around the same time as the rest of us. Read More »
The X-Men movie franchise is in a very interesting place right now. The blockbuster X-Men: Days of Future Past comes out in a few months and news broke last week that a potentially bigger follow-up, X-Men: Apocalypse, will come out in 2016. Simon Kinberg, a screenwriter who has worked on several of the X-Men films, has signed a three-year deal with Fox to develop a movie universe similar to what Marvel is doing. But is some or all of this going to happen without Hugh Jackman? Read More »
One of the major points of contention for some comic book fans about the upcoming superhero blockbuster X-Men: Days of Future Past is that the movie will divert in a pretty significant way from the comic book miniseries of the same name from the 1980s. Read More »
One thing we know is that every X-Men movie has had incredible viral marketing over the years. The latest installment, X-Men: Days of Future Past, is definitely one of the better examples of how to properly implement the viral marketing in order to promote a film. Attacking a tough American issue like the assignation of President John F. Kennedy seems like a perfect way to get some attention. With "The Bent Bullet," a website diving into the accusations that Magneto (Michael Fassbender) killed the President; we are introduced to some great teasers and intriguing work done for promoting the new movie. Read More »
Hugh Jackman will grace the silver screen as Wolverine for the seventh time in next year's X-Men: Days of Future Past, which makes him the longest-running superhero in Hollywood. So needless to say, the actor knows the character inside and out. And in a recent interview, he delved into the psychology of the mutant. Read More »
Director Bryan Singer and the cast and crew of X-Men: Days of Future Past shot in Montreal for much of the summer, but some of them will return to the Canadian city for reshoots. Read More »