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The X-Men return in latest Avengers: Doomsday trailer

January 6, 2026 by Gary Collinson

We’ve had teases and cameos ever since Disney completed the acquisition of 20th Century Fox, but now the original X-Men are set to make their return – presumably for one final ‘last stand’ – as part of the superhero epic Avengers: Doomsday, with the latest trailer for the Marvel blockbuster offering a glimpse at the […]

Filed Under: Gary Collinson, Movies, News, Trailers Tagged With: avengers: doomsday, Ian McKellen, James Marsden, Marvel, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Patrick Stewart, X-Men

Returning to The Lord of the Rings Trilogy

December 25, 2025 by Tom Jolliffe

For three consecutive years it was a huge Christmas big screen event, so how does The Lord of the Rings trilogy hold up today? Does it sometimes feel like the Christmas season can lack a really standout, all-consuming big screen event? Over the years, there have been some huge movies drop over the Christmas holidays […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: Christopher Lee, Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, J.R.R. Tolkien, John Rhys-Davies, Orlando Bloom, Peter Jackson, Sean Astin, Sean Bean, The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, Viggo Mortensen

Ian McKellen and Tramell Tillman join Ebenezer: A Christmas Carol with Johnny Depp

November 7, 2025 by Ricky Church

The Charles Dickens classic A Christmas Carol is getting yet another big screen adaptation with Johnny Depp starring as Scrooge in Ebenezer: A Christmas Carol, and now as reported by Deadline, the film has added Tramell Tillman (Severance) and Ian McKellen (The Lord of the Rings) to the cast of this latest horror-tinged take on the holiday classic. […]

Filed Under: Movies, News, Ricky Church Tagged With: Andrea Riseborough, Ebenezer: A Christmas Carol, Ian McKellen, Johnny Depp, Ti West, Tramell Tillman

20th Century Fox X-Men cast returning for Avengers: Doomsday

March 26, 2025 by EJ Moreno

During Marvel Studios’ insane cast rollout for Avengers: Doomsday, it was revealed that we will again see some of our favorite versions of the X-Men. At the time of reporting, Patrick Stewart (Charles Xavier), Kelsey Grammer (Beast), Ian McKellen (Magneto), Alan Cumming (Nightcrawler), Rebecca Romijn (Mystique), and James Marsden (Cyclops) have joined the upcoming superhero […]

Filed Under: EJ Moreno, Movies, News, Top Stories Tagged With: Alan Cumming, avengers: doomsday, Channing Tatum, Fox, Ian McKellen, James Marsden, Kelsey Grammer, Marvel, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Patrick Stewart, Rebecca Romijn, X-Men

Marvel announces Avengers: Doomsday cast with live video as production begins

March 26, 2025 by EJ Moreno

Marvel Studios is trying out live stream-style announcements for its latest projects, but is this the best way to debut these types of stories?  We shall see, as the public is just now finding out the cast for the upcoming superhero epic Avengers: Doomsday in a newly released video announcement. In a live-stream event across […]

Filed Under: EJ Moreno, Movies, News Tagged With: Alan Cumming, Anthony Mackie, avengers: doomsday, Channing Tatum, Chris Hemsworth, Danny Ramirez, David Harbour, Disney, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Florence Pugh, Ian McKellen, James Marsden, Joseph Quinn, Kelsey Grammer, Letitia Wright, Lewis Pullman, Marvel, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Patrick Stewart, Paul Rudd, Pedro Pascal, Rebecca Romijn, Robert Downey Jr., Sebastian Stan, Simu Liu, Tenoch Huerta, Tenoch Huerta Mejía, Tom Hiddleston, Vanessa Kirby, Winston Duke, Wyatt Russell

Beast Kingdom’s Gandalf the Grey The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring figure revealed

November 15, 2024 by Gary Collinson

Sideshow has announced that pre-orders are now open for Beast Kingdom’s Dynamic 8ction Heroes 8-inch Gandalf the Grey figure, which is based upon Ian McKellen’s portrayal of the wizard from Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. Limited to just 3000 sets, the figure is priced at $133; check out […]

Filed Under: Gary Collinson, Movies, News, Toys Tagged With: Beast Kingdom, Ian McKellen, Sideshow, The Lord of the Rings, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

Ian McKellen talks potential Gandalf return in The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum

September 2, 2024 by Matt Rodgers

His Middle-earth alter-ego made many a triumphant return in Peter Jackson’s blockbuster Tolkien adaptations, and now Sir Ian McKellen has hinted that cinemagoers could once again “look to my coming at first light on the fifth day” as the legendary actor has suggested that he has been approached to play Gandalf the Grey in The […]

Filed Under: Matt Rodgers, Movies, News, Top Stories Tagged With: Andy Serkis, Ian McKellen, The Lord of the Rings, The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum

Ranking Fox’s X-Men Franchise from Worst to Best

June 1, 2019 by Harrison Abbott

Harrison Abbott ranks Fox’s X-Men franchise from worst to best… With X-Men: Dark Phoenix bringing the curtain down on the franchise, now feels like an appropriate time to look back on everything that Fox’s X-Men series gave us over the past two decades. Granted, there have been peaks and troughs. However, I maintain that the […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Harrison Abbott, Movies Tagged With: Brett Ratner, Bryan Singer, David Benioff, Deadpool, Deadpool 2, Frank Miller, Ian McKellen, James Mangold, James McAvoy, Logan, Marvel, Matthew Vaughn, Patrick Stewart, Paul Wernick, Rhett Reese, Ryan Reynolds, Skip Woods, The New Mutants, The Wolverine, Tim Miller, X-Men, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, X-Men: Apocalypse, X-Men: Dark Phoenix, X-Men: Days of Future Past, X-Men: First Class, X-Men: The Last Stand, X2: X-Men United

First trailer for The Critic starring Ian McKellen and Gemma Arterton

July 2, 2024 by Amie Cranswick

The first trailer has arrived online for The Critic, director Anand Tucker’s u[coming adaptation of Anthony Quinn’s novel Curtain Call. Set in the 1930s, the period thriller stars Ian McKellen as a feared theatre critic who takes pleasure in regularly tearing down actress Nina Land (Gemma Arterton), until his newspaper is taken over and he […]

Filed Under: Amie Cranswick, Movies, News, Trailers Tagged With: Alfred Enoch, Anand Tucker, Ben Barnes, Gemma Arterton, Ian McKellen, Lesley Manville, Mark Strong, Romola Garai, The Critic

Ian McKellen would return as Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum on one crucial condition

June 9, 2024 by Matt Rodgers

Ian McKellen has revealed that he would return to Middle-earth and reprise his Academy Award nominated role of Gandalf the Grey for The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum on one rather crucial condition. In typical McKellen fashion, the legendary actor told The Times of London that he had heard “stirrings in Tolkien […]

Filed Under: Matt Rodgers, Movies, News, Top Stories Tagged With: Andy Serkis, Ian McKellen, The Lord of the Rings, The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum

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