With Disney’s acquisition of Fox having been completed, it means that franchises such as X-Men will be returning to Marvel. So the big question is, when will Marvel fold the X-Men into the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU)? We know that this is almost a guarantee, with it only being a matter of time. Advertising Unfortunately, […]
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20th Century Fox In March, the ongoing Disney-Fox deal was made final, thereby signing over dozens of massive tentpoles and titles over to the entertainment behemoth that got its start with a simple cartoon mouse. One of the more prominent examples of this is the X-Men and Fantastic Four film franchises, which have been licensed […]
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Fox After avoiding questions about numerous allegations against Bohemian Rhapsody director Bryan Singer, the film’s Oscar-winning star, Rami Malek, finally addressed the situation when he described his experience as “not pleasant.” Nearly two months later, X-Men: Dark Phoenix and Game of Thrones star Sophie Turner paraphrased Malek’s language to do the same in a new […]
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Fox Back in the day — as in about two years ago — it was still considered an insult for a movie to not play actual movie theaters. Now it’s the new normal. On the same weekend that a new Ben Affleck-Oscar Isaac action movie bowed on Netflix, it was discovered that The New Mutants […]
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Getty Image Fox’s Gambit spinoff — Channing Tatum’s sexy heist movie about X-Men‘s Gambit — has been in development seemingly forever, cycling through at least three directors who have walked away (Rupert Wyatt, then Doug Liman, then Gore Verbinski). Nonetheless, Tatum has been trying to get the movie made, and Fox still has it on […]
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Sophie Turner and Maisie Williams are on the most successful show on television, Game of Thrones, but their respective X-Men movies have been plagued with issues. The former’s Dark Phoenix, with Turner reprising her role as Jean Grey from X-Men: Apocalypse, was supposed to come out in March 2018 until it was pushed back to […]
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Alexandra Shipp attends the InStyle And Warner Bros. Golden Globes After Party 2019 on January 6, 2019 in Beverly Hills, California. Photo: Rich Fury (Getty Images) Watch out—there’s a storm afoot. Of Alexandra Shipp’s own making. In “making something out of nothing” news, Shipp tweeted something on an otherwise innocuous Monday evening. “Black twitter is […]
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Alexandra Shipp attends the InStyle And Warner Bros. Golden Globes After Party 2019 on January 6, 2019 in Beverly Hills, California. Photo: Rich Fury (Getty Images) Watch out—there’s a storm afoot. Of Alexandra Shipp’s own making. In “making something out of nothing” news, Shipp tweeted something on an otherwise innocuous Monday evening. “Black twitter is […]
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[embedded content] Share This Video Last month, Deadpool‘s titular Deadpool Ryan Reynolds told Deadline, “Fox has been asking for a PG-13 [Deadpool movie] basically since the start in 2006. I’ve said no since 2006. Now, this one time, I said ‘Yes’ on two conditions. First, a portion of the proceeds had to go to charity. […]
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21st Century Fox The Marvel Cinematic Universe is about to enter Phase 4, but that’s not the biggest change coming to MCU. It took $71.3 billion, but Disney recently acquired 21st Century Fox (or at least it will be completed on January 1, 2019), and with the deal comes the rights to Deadpool and X-Men. […]
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Stan Lee, a legend in the comics and entertainment industry, passed at the age of 95 on Monday. Even if you aren’t into comics, you’ve definitely heard of Stan Lee, or at the very least some of the comics he brought to the world. Over the course of his career, he co-created superheroes that are […]
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This article originally appeared on VICE Canada. As young black man who loves comics, the sudden news of Stan Lee’s death at 95 looms over me like a cloud. He wasn’t just the creator of Black Panther, X-Men, and Spider-Man, he was a bold ally of people of color. Stan Lee made his lack of […]
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Fox Dark Phoenix, the next movie in the X-Men cinematic universe, has been pushed back again, this time to June 7, 2019. Much like a teenage mutant coming to grips with his or her powers, Dark Phoenix, the 12th in the X-Men franchise, is still trying to figure some stuff out. Originally slated for a […]
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The Jean Grey/Phoenix saga was one of the greatest plot lines in the history of X-Men comics. In the late 1970s, Uncanny X-Men introduced the story of Jean Grey who, after coming in contact with some radiation while on a space mission or something, gains some overwhelming new telekinetic powers. Wrestling with the weight of […]
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[embedded content] Share This Video “She’s all rage, pain, and it’s all coming out at once.” – Professor X“I’ve seen evil, and I’m looking at it now.” – Magneto Professor X and Magneto might not agree on much, but in the first X-Men: Dark Phoenix trailer, they both recognize what’s at stake as a powerful […]
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