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UPDATE: Comcast makes huge new bid for 20th Century Fox film and TV assets

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UPDATE: Following the news that AT&T’s proposed Time Warner merger has been approved, Comcast has now launched a whopping $65 billion dollar all-cash bid to acquire Fox’s film and TV assets. Disney’s bid currently stands at $52.4 billion in stocks, and it is said that the Mouse House has five days to make another offer. […]

Anna Paquin’s Greatest Performances

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Earning an Oscar at the tender age of 11 in your first film role would be considered peaking too soon by some, but Anna Paquin has gained success throughout her impressive career so far – from child actor to blockbuster star, indie darling to TV series frontrunner. To celebrate the 25th anniversary release of The […]

Empire’s Grace Byers joins the Hellfire Club for The Gifted season 2

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Marvel has announced the first piece of casting for the second season of its X-Men TV series The Gifted, with Empire’s Grace Byers signing on to portray the Hellfire Club member Reeva. The official description describes Reeva as “smart, charming, authoritative, elegant, beautiful woman who is ruthless in her efforts to fight for her people. […]

Domino tries her luck in Marvel Contest of Champions

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Following her big screen debut in Deadpool 2, X-Force’s Domino is now set to try her luck in Marvel Contest of Champions! Check out Domino’s gameplay trailer, bio and stats and abilities here… https://youtu.be/7I-FKlQhQyE Neena Thurman a.k.a. Domino is the lucky result of an unlucky government weapons program designed to breed the perfect weapon. After escaping […]

X-Men: Dark Phoenix actor Evan Peters says the film is about the “X-Men family”

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Evan Peters, one of the stars of X-Men: Dark Phoenix, has said that the new film is more “serious” than past entries and is about the “X-Men family”. The X-Men franchise might be one of the most complicated and hard to follow superhero series in history. With its multiple timelines, origin movies, and future set […]

Evan Peters says X-Men: Dark Phoenix is closer in tone to First Class than Apocalypse

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We’ve heard on several occasions from director Simon Kinberg that X-Men: Dark Phoenix will be more “grounded” than past instalments in the main X-Men franchise, in an effort to “course correct” the series after the mixed reception to 2016’s X-Men: Apocalypse. Now, in an interview with Collider, actor Evan Peters – who plays the speedster […]

Preview of Dazzler: X-Song #1

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Alison Blaire takes centre stage in her own series this coming Wednesday with the release of Dazzler: X-Song #1; check out a preview of the issue here… The Brooklyn punk scene has never been cooler with DAZZLER’s new band taking center stage. But while she’s trying to find herself and reconnect to the one thing she’s […]

SPOILERS: X-Men: Dark Phoenix plot details surface following test screening

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Back in March it was announced that 20th Century Fox had pushed back X-Men: Dark Phoenix from its original November 2nd 2018 release date to February 14th 2019, which was followed by a report that the film would be undergoing reshoots in response to feedback from a test screening. Well, it seems that we now […]

The Most Disappointing: Deadpool 2

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Anghus Houvouras on Deadpool 2… Sequels are often a disappointing proposition. They come from a creatively suspect place. Hit movies demand replication, but replicating their success means a lot of copying and pasting. None of it feels as fresh as the original, and often we’re left with something unoriginal—and even more sinful, unnecessary. Unoriginal movies […]