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Deadpool congratulates Wonder Woman on its success

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As Wonder Woman overtakes the domestic box office total of Deadpool (it is currently sitting at $368.5 million vs $363.1 million) and is also poised to eventually surpass it in the international box office, the Merc with a Mouth has taken to social media to congratulate the Amazon Princess on her success. Naturally, there is a […]

The 10 Best TV Shows of 2017

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Samuel Brace with his ten best TV shows of 2017… Wow. What a year it’s been. 2017 has been a true standout for high quality television; featuring never better returning favourites, premium series finales, and new shows announcing their arrival onto the stage. There’s been a bit of everything in 2017 but just which of […]

Bryan Singer passes the torch to new X-Men director Simon Kinberg

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Bryan Singer has given his blessing to the director of X-Men: Dark Phoenix. News arrived yesterday that Simon Kinberg would be directing the next X-Men film in the franchise, Dark Phoenix. Singer has been perhaps the most influential person on this particular movie franchise, having directed all but two of the main team movies. But […]

Stranger Things’ David Harbour was told he was too fat to play The Blob in X-Men Origins: Wolverine

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Stranger Things star David Harbour has revealed to The Wrap that he auditioned for the role of Fred Dukes – a.k.a. The Blob – in 2009’s X-Men Origins: Wolverine, only to be told by the casting directors that he was too fat for the role! “I auditioned for one of the ‘Wolverine’ movies and I […]

Director Gore Verbinski exits Fox’s Gambit movie

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Well, just when you thought the Gambit movie was finally set to become a reality… Yes, that’s right – 20th Century Fox and Channing Tatum’s long-gestating X-Men spinoff movie has hit another major roadblock, with director Gore Verbinski exiting the project in what Deadline describes as an “amicable split” due to scheduling issues. Verbinski only […]

Legion has been praised by the character’s creator Chris Claremont

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X-Men hall of famer Chris Claremont has praised the TV show Legion, 30 years after he helped create the star character with Bill Sienkiewicz. Legion was certainly proved to be a different beast from your usual superhero TV content when it debuted last year. The FX series by Noah Hawley was visually audacious and kept […]

Star Wars: Episode IX director revealed, X-Men: New Mutants logo, Metal Gear Solid movie and more – Daily News Roundup

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STAR WARS DIRECTOR After the news last week that Colin Trevorrow had left Star Wars: Episode IX over “creative differences”, Disney and Lucasfilm officially announced that Star Wars: The Force Awakens director J.J. Abrams will be stepping in to helm the galaxy far, far away again. I guess Patty Jenkins was busy? “With The Force […]

Production gets underway on X-Men: The New Mutants

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Director Josh Boone (The Fault in Our Stars) has taken to Instagram to reveal that production is now underway on X-Men: The New Mutants, with the filmmaker sharing an image of a clapperboard, complete with the movie’s working title ‘Growing Pains’. https://www.instagram.com/p/BWWI_RDj9Ct/   New Mutants is now the second X-Men movie that Fox has in […]

Promo images for Marvel’s The Gifted Season 1 Finale – ‘eXtraction/X-roads’

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Following yesterday’s promo [watch it here], a batch of images have arrived online for the season finale of Marvel’s The Gifted, entitled ‘eXtraction/X-roads’; check them out in the gallery below… Dr. Campbell attends an anti-mutant summit, attempting to take the Hound program national, and some of the team at Mutant HQ goes on a dangerous […]