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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 boarded the […]

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 audiences […]

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 DIRECTORAfter 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 Awakens, […]

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 production, with Deadpool […]

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 mission […]

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

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Fox has released a promo for the two-hour season finale of Marvel’s The Gifted, entitled ‘eXtraction/X-roads’; watch it here…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 mission to stop his efforts. Polaris learns more about her past and […]

Promo for Marvel’s The Gifted Season 1 Episode 9 – ‘outfoX’

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A promo has arrived online for the ninth episode of Marvel’s The Gifted, entitled ‘outfoX’;  take a look below…SEE ALSO: Promo images for Marvel’s The Gifted Season 1 Episode 9 – ‘outfoX’MUTANT LIVES HANG IN THE BALANCE ON AN ALL-NEW “THE GIFTED” MONDAY, DECEMBER 4, ON FOXThe team develops a risky plan to help mutants who […]

Promo for Marvel’s The Gifted Season 1 Episode 11 – Midseason Premiere

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With The Gifted now on a midseason break until January 1st, Fox has released a promo for the returning episode of the X-Men series; take a look at the promo here…SEE ALSO: Marvel’s The Gifted Season 1 Episode 10 Review – ‘eXploited’SEE ALSO: Follow all of our coverage of The Gifted hereThe Gifted airs on […]

Anna Paquin believes a Gifted cameo would be “distracting”

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X-Men’s Anna Paquin thinks that a cameo in The Gifted would be a “distraction”.One of the original stars of the film franchise, portraying Rogue back in 2000’s X-Men and a number of subsequent features, Anna Paquin has revealed her thoughts on a cameo appearance in the latest X-Men themed TV series The Gifted.The Gifted stars […]

Promo images for Marvel’s The Gifted season premiere – ‘eXposed’

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With a little over a week to go until the season premiere of The Gifted, Fox has released a huge batch of images from the first episode of the upcoming X-Men series, entitled ‘eXposed’; check them out here and click on any of the images for hi-res versions…   Action-adventure family drama THE GIFTED, from […]