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The New Mutants director feels less pressure following the poor performance of X-Men: Dark Phoenix

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Josh Boone, the director of The New Mutants, says he feels less pressure knowing he has to follow X-Men: Dark Phoenix – a film that tanked at the box office upon its release last year. It looked like The New Mutant‘s epic production saga and drama was coming to an end. However, due to the […]

The New Mutants character promos for Mirage, Cannonball and Wolfsbane

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Despite The New Mutants now being on indefinite delay due to the coronavirus, Disney is keeping the promotion for the X-Men horror spinoff movie ticking over with the release of three new character promos for Dani Moonstar/Mirage (Blu Hunt), Sam Guthrie/Cannonball (Charlie Heaton), and Rahne Sinclair/Wolfsbane (Maisie Williams); take a look below… SEE ALSO: Karma […]

Karma and Warlock would have appeared in The New Mutants 2, reveals director Josh Boone

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The long saga of The New Mutants has been extended once again, with the troubled X-Men spinoff having been pulled from the release calendar due to the coronavirus pandemic. However, before yesterday’s announcement, director Josh Boone had been out on the promotional campaign for the movie, during which he shared a few details about what […]

Disney delays Mulan, The New Mutants and Antlers over coronavirus pandemic

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With more and more countries taking measures to try and slow the coronavirus pandemic, including the closing of cinemas in an increasing number of markets, Disney’s Mulan and the Fox acquisitions The New Mutants and Antlers have been pulled from the global release schedule, following hot on the heels of today’s delays to Fast & […]

The New Mutants features a same-sex love story between Maisie Williams’ Wolsfbane and Blu Hunt’s Mirage

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After years of waiting for the release of The New Mutants, director Josh Boone is finally opening up about the journey and some of the film’s more important details. Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, Boone has revealed that while the film is described as supernatural horror, there’s “a beautiful love story” at the center of the […]

Josh Boone and Maisie Williams discuss The New Mutants, confirm there were no reshoots

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20th Century Fox’s The New Mutants is one of the most interesting news stories in recent years. From multiple delays and rumours of extensive reshoots to being caught up in the middle of the Disney/Fox merger, the latest entry in the X-Men franchise has seen its fair share of issues. With its long-overdue release now […]

The New Mutants director teases Demon Bear with behind-the-scenes photo

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With less than a month to go until the release of The New Mutants, Fox’s troubled and oft-delayed X-Men spinoff movie, director Josh Boone has taken to Instagram to reveal that he’s completed post-production work on the superhero horror – and in doing so, he’s also offered up a glimpse of the movie’s villain, the […]

Drew Goddard to write and direct X-Force movie, Deadpool and Cable confirmed

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Having flirted with the superhero genre on Sony’s abandoned Spider-Man spinoff The Sinister Six and Netflix’s Marvel series Daredevil, Drew Goddard has now signed on to write and direct the X-Men spinoff X-Force for 20th Century Fox. Deadline reports that regular X-Men producers Simon Kinberg and Lauren Shuler Donner will produce along with Deadpool star […]