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Channing Tatum’s Gambit movie to start shooting in March

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20th Century Fox’s X-Men spinoff Gambit has had a bit of a rocky road through development, with Channing Tatum’s on-off involvement in the lead as Remy LeBeau, and Rise of the Planet of the Apes helmer Rupert Wyatt vacating the director’s chair following creative disputes with the studio. Well, with Tatum now firmly on board, […]

UPDATE: Leaked hoodie for Captain America: Civil War may hint towards Spider-Man costume design

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Over the weekend it was reported that a first look at a Spider-Man hoodie from Captain America: Civil War is set to be unveiled this coming Friday, January 15th, suggesting that this week may bring us our first look at Tom Holland’s wall-crawler from the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Well, it seems said hoodie has now leaked […]

Jon Hamm is Rob Liefeld’s dream pick for Cable

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Although it seemed for a while that Cable would make his big screen debut as part of 20th Century Fox’s planned X-Force movie, things have since fallen quiet on the potential X-Men spinoff. Nevertheless, creator Rob Liefeld has taken to Twitter to reveal his dream pick to play the character, sharing a mock-up of Mad Men […]

Simon Kinberg says X-Men: Apocalypse is “biggest X-Men film we’ve ever done”

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It’s a big year for 20th Century Fox and its superhero movies. First up out of the gate is the R-rated Deadpool, followed by Bryan Singer’s latest X-Men adventure X-Men: Apocalypse – the first instalment in the “rebooted” timeline following the events of X-Men: Days of Future Past. During a fan Q&A, writer-producer Simon Kinberg […]

The Week in Disappointment – Captain America: Civil War, Doctor Strange, Star Wars: the Force Awakens, Indiana Jones

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Anghus Houvouras with this week’s disappointments from the entertainment world… “George Lucas calls Disney “white slavers”, suggests he’s not a fan of “retro” tone of Star Wars: The Force Awakens“ Remember when George Lucas accused film audiences of being racist because they didn’t turn out to see the awful Red Tails? And you cringed at […]

Rumour: Marvel wants a female villain for Thor: Ragnarok

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We know that The Hulk will be teaming up with The God of Thunder for Thor: Ragnarok, but a new rumour is suggesting that Marvel could be looking to introduce its first female villain. “I have heard that Marvel is also planning on bringing their first major female villain into their cinematic universe,” gossip site of […]

Marvel officially announces production is underway on Doctor Strange, synopsis released

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We’ve already seen a few set photos earlier this month [see here and here], but now Marvel has officially confirmed that production is underway on Doctor Strange and will shoot in several locations around the world, including London, New York, Hong Kong and Kathmandu. As part of the announcement, we also got the first brief […]

What we learned from the Doctor Strange concept trailer

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Luke Owen reports on the concept trailer for Marvel’s Doctor Strange… With Doctor Strange now in production (see set photos and videos here, here, here and here), we were lucky enough to be shown the concept art trailer for the movie which was shown at a sneak peek of Disney’s 2016 slate of films that also […]

Scott Adkins joins Marvel’s Doctor Strange

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British martial artist and action star Scott Adkins is the latest addition to the cast of Marvel’s Doctor Strange, according to The Wrap. A source from production claims Adkins has joined the project, however both Marvel and Adkins’ reps are yet to confirm the casting. There has been no indication who Adkins will play in the film, […]