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Deadpool movie to start shooting in March

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It looks like 20th Century Fox has finalised a start date for the Merc with the Mouth’s long-gestating solo movie, with Global News reporting that filming on Deadpool will get underway in March, with the studio booking two months at North Shore Studios in Vancouver. Deadpool is to be directed by Blur Studio chief Tim […]

Oscar Isaac comments on being cast as Apocalypse

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Not only can Oscar Isaac be seen piloting an X-wing in next years Star Wars: The Force Awakens but he has also recently been cast in another big blockbuster as the titular villain in Bryan Singer’s X-Men: Apocalypse due out in May 2016. Isaac recently spoke to MTV at the Gotham Independent Films Awards about […]

Jennifer Lawrence speaks briefly about X-Men: Apocalypse

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With Jennifer Lawrence doing the promotional rounds for The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1, it’s inevitable that the actress will be fielding questions about her upcoming role in 2016’s X-Men: Apocalypse, and during a chat with IGN the actress has briefly spoken about where we’ll find her character Mystique in the mutant superhero sequel: […]

Jennifer Lawrence says X-Men: Apocalypse will be her last X-Men movie

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Last week X-Men: First Class and X-Men: Days of Future Past star Nicholas Hoult revealed that his contract as Beast is up with next year’s Bryan Singer-helmed sequel X-Men: Apocalypse, although the British actor admitted that he’s open to the idea of signing on for more mutant adventures. Well, it seems that Jennifer Lawrence’s contract […]

Shortlist of actors for Cyclops and Jean Grey in X-Men: Apocalypse

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With casting underway on X-Men: Apocalypse, it seems that 20th Century Fox and director Bryan Singer have identified a shortlist of candidates to take on the roles of Cyclops and Jean Grey, played of course by James Marsden and Famke Janssen in the previous X-Men movies. According to The Wrap, Chloe Moretz (The Equalizer), Elle […]

Hugh Jackman talks about the Wolverine/Professor X movie rumour, “I’m not going to deny it”

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A few days ago, buried under the news of Spider-Man joining the Marvel Cinematic Universe, a rumour surfaced from Patrick Stewart that he would be reprising his role as Charles Xavier/Professor X for the third solo Wolverine movie alongside Hugh Jackman. While nothing is official yet, Jackman himself spoke out about while on a promotional tour […]

Anna Paquin open to X-Men return as Rogue

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With Fox introducing younger versions of much of its X-Men roster with Bryan Singer’s X-Men: Apocalypse and Hugh Jackman hanging up the claws with the third Wolverine movie, it looks like we may have seen the last of the original trilogy cast members in X-Men: Days of Future Past. Nevertheless, Anna Paquin has revealed that she’s interested […]

Run time revealed for X-Men: Days of Future Past Rogue Cut

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This summer fans of Anna Paquin are in for a treat with the release of the Rogue Cut of X-Men: Days of Future Past, which restores the True Blood star’s action sequence which was cut from last year’s mutant superhero blockbuster, and now it has been revealed that the extended version will include 11 minutes […]

How much of Matthew Vaughn’s X-Men: Days of Future Past script made it into the movie?

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X-Men: First Class director Matthew Vaughn was originally set to return to direct X-Men: Days of Future Past but eventually bowed out in favour of directing another project of his, Kingsman: The Secret Service. Vaughn had written the original screenplay alongside Simon Kinberg, but it was unclear how much of his story made it onto the […]