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Boyd Holbrook to play the main villain in Wolverine 3

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With production on Wolverine 3 set to get underway next month, Deadline is reporting that 20th Century Fox has found its main villain for Hugh Jackman’s final outing as the adamantium-clawed mutant. According to the site, Narcos star Boyd Holbrook has signed on to play “a relentless, calculating and intense head of security for a […]

The Week in Disappointment – Ghostbusters, Wolverine, Matt Damon as Daredevil, Prometheus 2, Hayden Christensen returning to Star Wars and more

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Every week the entertainment world provides us with the unfortunate, the inexcusable, and the questionable. Here are this week’s disappointments. Annie Potts and Sigourney Weaver to appear in Ghostbusters reboot. None of this is surprising or even worthy of mention. When they figure out how to get Harold Ramis to appear in the film, wake […]

Wolverine 3 will explore Logan’s father/son relationship with Professor X

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Hugh Jackman is set to play the character Wolverine one last time in a third standalone film in 2017. Jackman has already revealed a few things about the project, teasing the Old Man Logan storyline, as well as Patrick Stewart returning as Professor X. Whilst promoting Pan with Collider, Jackman has now given an update […]

Movie Review – X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)

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X-Men: Apocalypse, 2016. Directed by Bryan Singer. Starring James McAvoy, Jennifer Lawrence, Michael Fassbender, Oscar Isaac, Sophie Turner, Nicholas Hoult, Rose Byrne, Tye Sheridan, Alexandra Shipp, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Ben Hardy, Olivia Munn, Lana Condor, Evan Peters, Josh Helman, Lucas Till, and Hugh Jackman Synopsis: With the emergence of the world’s first mutant, Apocalypse, the X-Men […]

SDCC: Hugh Jackman teases Old Man Logan for Wolverine 3

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Not only were such films as Fantastic Four, Deadpool and Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials shown off at Fox’s San Diego Comic-Con panel, but actor Hugh Jackman also revealed some information about his future in the X-Men film universe. Jackman confirmed what most already knew: 2017’s third Wolverine solo film will be his last outing as Logan/Wolverine. On top of […]

Second Opinion – X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)

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X-Men Apocalypse, 2016. Directed by Bryan Singer. Starring James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Oscar Issac, Nicholas Hoult, Rose Byrne, Evan Peters, Sophie Turner, Tye Sheridan, Lucas Till and Kodi Smit-McPhee. SYNOPSIS: With the emergence of the world’s first mutant, Apocalypse, the X-Men must unite to defeat his extinction level plan. Going to see a […]

X-Men producer confirms Patrick Stewart’s Professor X for Wolverine 3

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Patrick Stewart (Green Room) is officially returning to perhaps his most iconic role as Charles Xavier/Professor X, the world’s most powerful telepathic mutant, in 2017’s Wolverine 3.  Frequent Fox superhero movie producer Hutch Parker announced the news in an interview with Collider. He said, “I am [involved in Wolverine 3], in fact I’m on loan from them […]

Rumour: Hugh Jackman set for X-Men: Apocalypse reshoots

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We’ve known for a while that Hugh Jackman is set to don the claws as Wolverine for a final time with 2017’s third solo movie, but we haven’t heard a definitive answer on whether we’ll see his Logan back on the big screen before then as part of next year’s X-Men: Apocalypse. Well, if a […]

Sabretooth was originally going to make an appearance in Logan

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Way back when 20th Century Fox was in early development on Logan, Hugh Jackman asked fans what they would like to see in his X-Men swansong, with the actor subsequently revealing that there was a lot of support for Sabretooth making his return to the big screen. Liev Schreiber – who played the character in […]