...e case of ASTONISHINGX-MEN, at least, it's a change for the better. Even before reading the first issue, both comics critics and readers alike suspected that this title would be the only one in the entire "ReLoad" line-up worth a damn, and while that ...
Most COMICSCAPE readers know that I don't care as much for Joss Whedon's writing as the rest of the human race. I usually find his work a bit too coy and clever in its self-awareness. However, I'd heard positive things about his run on ASTONISHINGX-MEN a...
The creative dream-team of writer Warren Ellis and artist Simone Bianchi begin their run on AstonishingX-Men with a mutant murder mystery. After Storm returns to the team from Wakanda, the group leaves from its new base in San Francisco to examine a...
A community of mutants have tried to establish a utopian society at the South Pole, but something has gone horribly wrong, resulting in half of them killing themselves and each other and the other half going mad. The culprit is someone or something called...
Marvel Comics is trying to entice comic retailers into placing sizeable orders for Joss Whedon's new X-MEN comic book series, ASTONISHINGX-MEN, by offering a special Wolverine "chase" variant cover. SECRET WAR artist Gabriel Dell'Otto pencilled the cover...
...y writing ASTONISHINGX-MEN for Marvel Comics, so he's not rusty either.No pressure, Fox. After all, there's less than two years left and all before X-MEN 3 is supposed to come out. [Sci Fi Wire, Coming Soon, Cinescape.]September 16, 2004... While spea...
...s writing ASTONISHINGX-MEN, Chuck Austen not writing UNCANNY X-MEN), there's been equal trepidation about others (Chuck Austen writing X-MEN, formerly known as NEW X-MEN). All Austen-bashing (deserved or not) aside, the only thing we can say for certa...
Before you read the first issue of Ultimate X-Men, you’ve got to do one important thing: Forget everything you know about Professor Charles Xavier’s merry band of mutants.Forget the heroes you love. Forget the villains you hate. Forget the costumes. Forge...
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Hu...
...including AstonishingX-Men, Ultimates and Adam in Chromaland.
In this introspective interview, we talk to her about her earliest days in the industry on staff at WildStorm, her present coloring techniques and find out where comic fans mi...
...tally pen AstonishingX-Men, having released a grand total of five issues in 2006. Though, to be fair and balanced, the title went bimonthly when it returned from a four-month hiatus in February of this year, only to print monthly again in Sep...
...icking up ASTONISHINGX-MEN just because it was a new series. "Also, it's a way for them to kind of keep their socially unfriendly club like fan bases from burning their sometimes belligerent and overly politicized issues in a trash can. I mean, they k...
... this?
AstonishingX-Men Ghost Boxes #1 (Of 2) $3.99
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Ben: I am so sick of Secret Invasion and all the tie-ins. Please just let it end.
Captain America Theater Of War Operation Zero Point $3.99
Daredevil #1...
...it run on AstonishingX-Men comics, Whedon is the kind of director that had the fanboys frothing. But it was too good to be true. Reportedly said he wouldn't direct it if he couldn't write the script, and Fox and Marvel weren't interested in an auteu...
...L COMICS AstonishingX-Men #17 $2.99Al: Uh...chick fight!Kurt: Are they going to make out afterwards? AstonishingX-Men Sketch Var #17 $2.99 Blade #1 $2.99Al: Once more into the breach! Marvel has tried a few times to revive this property - and ...
...ople...2. ASTONISHINGX-MEN: Just about everyone and I mean everyone - mentioned Joss Whedon's thrilling and fresh take on a franchise that's long needed a healthy dose of thrills and freshness. "Dj" writes, "Everything in this comic just hit the jack...
...take over AstonishingX-Men for 24 issues, beginning next year. The series will retain the enumeration of the current series, but will run with a slightly modified title – AstonishingX-Men: Second Stage. The series will occur in the af...
Comics2Film's
Jim Harvey caught up with Craig Kyle, one of the head producers for X-Men:
Evolution, to talk about not only his work on the hit animated Kids'WB!
series, but how he got into animation and what attracted him to doing X-Men:
Evolution. An...
Zak Penn, writer on 'X2: X-Men United', 'X-Men 3' and 'Elektra' is also expected to develop a film at the studio to direct, possibly a spinoff of the 'X-Men' franchise. The movie would not be the either of the currently in-development 'Wolverine' or 'Magn...
"The script, I believe, is the best script of the three." he said "It's very intense, it's very emotional, it's very personal about the individuals that we've already got to know in the first two movies. It has some astonishing set-piece sequences. It has...
When Activision invited Cinescape to check out the newest build of X-MEN LEGENDS, we jumped at the chance. After getting several hours with the game, it may go down as the best X-MEN game ever.X-MEN LEGENDS is for all intents and purposes a beat 'em up ga...
Men of Valor by Uros "2Lions" Jojic (Wed 10-27-2004)
Since 2015 revolutionized the military-based first person shooter genre, you can't swing a dead cat in a videogame store without knocking over piles of WWII and Vietnam based shooter games. For those of you not in the know, let's hop in the Action...
"You have voted; we have tallied the results; and come October and November, we will reveal to you the 100 GREATEST MARVEL COMICS OF ALL TIME, celebrating Marvel's 40-year history," said Director of Editorial Operations Bob Greenberger to a packed Comic-C...
So, you`re all ready to see what`s supposed to be the summer`s next blockbuster, X-Men, only there`s one problem. You have absolutely no idea what an `X-Man` is. Sure, you`ve seen the sly Senator Kelly mock-TV ads, which warn that mutants are nasty and ev...
NEW YORK, NY - December 9, 2007 - Marvel Entertainment and Del Rey Manga, an imprint of Ballantine Books at the Random House Publishing Group, announced today plans to publish two new manga series based on Marvel Entertainment's highly popular X-Men serie...
The year's most under-appreciated genre movie comes home to DVD this week. 'Serenity' is based on the also outstanding but underwatched TV series 'Firefly', created by Joss Whedon of 'Buffy' and 'AstonishingX-Men' fame. Do yourself a favor and snag a cop...
The X-Men film may not be out until July 14, but Christopher Golden is already excited. After all, the paperback version of his X-Men novel, X-MEN: CODE NAME WOLVERINE, will be out May 1. `Of all the media tie-in stuff I`ve done, it`s one of the books I`m...
...will last?ASTONISHINGX-MEN #10 $2.99You gotta love the cover of this one, which looks like they just found a bald guy and Xeroxed his face.CAPTAIN AMERICA & THE FALCON #14 $2.99DISTRICT X #13 $2.99Sinister Al: Part one of a new arc called "One Of ...
When I first heard of the new animated series based on the Marvel`s X-Men, what didn`t impress me was the subject matter. I`ll be honest and say the last series on Fox Kids left me cold with its over-dramatic, if not darn right soap-operatic, tone and hon...
The buzzwords in the comics industry these days seems to be `Let`s Reboot!` With Marvel Comics> currently relaunching `from scratch` Ultimate books for Spider-Man> and X-Men, this activity has extended to Marvel`s animated series such as Spider-Man Unlimi...
"Yeah, you can tell from the last movie [the Phoenix sagas is] where we were heading. Obviously, it won't be the same as it was in the comic book," says 'X-Men 3' screenwriter Zak Penn. "No matter how you slice it, it's pretty important, but there's no si...
In a quiet Connecticut town, two children, a girl and a boy, run from their house in the middle of the night. Their parents have been slain before their eyes, and now they run, without thinking, to the grounds of their elementary school. Their parents’ ki...
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Comics Continuum
scored a first look at box art and promotional materials for the upcoming DVD
release X-Men 1.5 Collectors' Edition. As has been reported, this
is an updated edition of the original X-Me...
The recently released Sabretooth action figure comes with one additional doll, a dead policeman. Bryan Singer pointed out that the cop`s face is actually his own. So, he admits, he does have his own action figure, even if the way it came about he finds ra...
There`s something odd about Marvel`s pumping out a collection like X-Men Visionaries: Joe Madureira. Here, Marvel urges the reader to simply enjoy the art—which is remarkable—and ignore the stories, which have great gaping holes struck through them. Why? ...
In this interview, Ellen Page, Shawn Ashmore, Ben Foster and Anna Paquin talk about their high school experiences, who impressed them on the red carpet, and how their friends reacted to their roles in the film.
In terms of heroes and villains, the X-Men universe is filled with some of the coolest and most colorful characters around. It must have been hard to nail down who should appear in the movie. Once that was determined, it should have been even more difficu...
The Xavier Institute is about to get a little more crowded. When the second season of Kids' WB!'s X-MEN: EVOLUTION which takes the bulk of Marvel's mutant characters and turns them into teenagers for a Saturday morning audience gets underway on Sept. 29...
`Invisibility!` laughs actor Bruce Davison. `My favorite super power, I guess, would be invisibility. As an actor, I always try to be invisible as possible. That’s how I felt in life. As a kid, I was always trying to be the invisible person.`Bruce Davison...
If you think Wolverine`s creator enjoyed the great outdoors and beauty of the backwood trails of Canada while growing up, you`re wrong. Len Wein was born and raised in the Bronx in New York City, attended college out on Long Island, Farmingdale specifical...
One of the most overlooked aspects of writer Chris Claremont’s original run on the Uncanny X-Men was his ability to create endless, completely believable worlds for his heroes to visit. Whether the X-Men visited the Japanese underworld, the Scottish coast...
In a dimly lit distillery turned seedy Canadian redneck trucker bar, something`s about to go down. An enraged and hulking patron with a sharp knife suddenly lunges at a stranger sporting a distinctive pointy hairstyle, a leather jacket, and lumberjack shi...
One of the most overlooked aspects of writer Chris Claremont’s original run on the Uncanny X-Men was his ability to create endless, completely believable worlds for his heroes to visit. Whether the X-Men visited the Japanese underworld, the Scottish coast...
Evil has many faces. But what if one day you woke up and discovered that one of them was your own? To make matters worse, what if it was one you didn’t even recognize? Sound confusing? Then welcome to Cyclops’ world. Struck with amnesia and merged with on...
About a decade ago, television networks began absorbing and/or tying up independent animation studios. The payoff is it`s now much harder for independent animation studios to survive. Networks that used to be interested in buying new series from them are ...
The beat 'em up is a genre that has quietly faded to the side and hasn't had many revolutions on the consoles in recent years. X-MEN LEGENDS takes that style of gameplay, adds a ton of depth to it, four-player support and quite frankly is one of the best ...
X-Men: Road Trippin` is a diverting if highly uneven collection of stories--culled helter-skelter from about twenty-five years of X-Men and X-Men-related comics--that play in some way or another off the concept of the `road trip,` or at the very least the...
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Marvel
recently announced volume two of the Marvel Encyclopedia series,
due in book stores in April. The book is specifically timed to come out in
conjunction with the X-Men movie. That's because this volum...
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We're less than
two weeks away from the start of an exciting new season of the hit animated show
X-Men: Evolution....
Fox sent out a
press release officially announcing the start of production on X-Men 2
yesterday. We're encouraged that the new press materials have dropped the cheesy
X' moniker. Here's the release:
Twentieth
Century Fox has announced that production...
Liberation Entertianment has released details of its DVD release of the X-Men animated show:
Born into a world that hates and fears them the X-Men are mutants, genetically gifted human beings with superpowers – The next link in human evolution an...
From a press release
NEW YORK, March 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Nicktoons Network, Nickelodeon's 24-hour animation channel, has joined forces with Marvel Entertainment, Inc. NYSE: MVL, to bring iconic heroes Wolverine and Iron Man from the page and big screen ...
Now
that production on X-Men 2 is in full swing, there is a whole slew
of news on the upcoming film. A scooper identified only as "April 27th"
talked to Dark Horizons
about the screen time devoted to certain characters in the movie.
The scooper says ...
To prepare for this summer`s X-Men movie, Marvel Comics has released three X-Men movie prequel comics: X-Men Movie Prequel: Magneto, X-Men Movie Prequel: Rogue and X-Men Movie Prequel: Wolverine. And who can blame them? If all goes well, the movie could f...
Theroux gives a peek into the 'Iron Man 2'/'Avengers' creative process. ToonZone gives you a peek at 'Hulk Vs'. New book gives you a peek at the 'X-Men 3' that might have been. More peeks and sneaks from around the interwebs in this round up for Nov...
That fate of mutant
and mankind has been decided. What happened? Sorry we won't know till May
of next year, when X-Men 2 hits the big screens.
Anderson Jones of
E! Online
reported in his Movie
Scoop column that principal photography has wrapped on...
Marvel Comics has released a preview of X-TREME X-MEN: X-POSE #1, the two-issue mini-series that launches on Nov. 13.X-TREME X-MEN: X-POSE is written by Chris Claremont, with art by Arthur Ransom and covers by Rodolfo Migliari. It involves two TV reporter...
With Thanksgiving already a few days cold, the holiday season (along with all of its consumer-driven trappings) has officially arrived and though economists predict lean shopping numbers for the end of this year, you wouldn’t know it by the sheer vo...
Hello Maniacs, and welcome back to another edition of the All-New, All-Different Comicscape. This week, rather than give you a long-winded rant on one subject, I’m going to take a look at a several different news items that have interested me over ...
The epic battle to save humankind continues on the PSP system with the release of X-Men Legends II: Rise of Apocalypse. Building on the deep customization and storyline of the console games, X-Men Legend II: Rise of Apocalypse for the PSP features fo...
"X2: X-Men United" is
arguably one of the best (if not the best) comic book superhero movies of
all time. It gave the summer box office an early start and spent two weeks at
#1. In all likelihood, it'll rank as one of the top ten highest grossing mov...
Bantam Spectra has provided Cinescape with an excerpt from George R. R. Martin's upcoming A Feast for Crows. The novel will be released on November 8, 2005. THE PROPHET The prophet was drowning men on Great Wyk when they came to tell him that the king was...
...NY X-MEN, ASTONISHINGX-MEN, EXCALIBUR, NEW X-MEN, DISTRICT X, X-FORCE (but don't worry, it's almost gone), and EXILES. Then we get the solo titles: NIGHTCRAWLER, WOLVERINE, ROGUE, MYSTIQUE, GAMBIT. Then there are the miniseries (X-MEN: PHOENIX ENDSON...
Several months before 'X-Men: The Last Stand' went into production, Matthew Vaughn ('Stardust', 'Thor') was hired to direct the film. A short time later he exited the movie. The publicly stated reasons: he was uncomfortable spending so much time away from...
He`s the X-Man you never knew. Shortly before X-Men finally opened on July 14, many fans were surprised to learn that an unknown screenwriter named David Hayter was receiving sole `Screenplay` credit. Director Bryan Singer and executive producer Tom DeSan...
X-Fan
reported that Marvel is planning two prequel comic books to coincide with
the release of X-Men 2 next year. The first comic features Wolverine
and is written by Brian Vaughn with art by Tom Mandrake. The comic is called
X-Men 2 Movie Prequel: Wo...
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Weekly was given an X2 Exclusive with the publication
of seven new publicity shots from the movie, and an additional eight
images as online exclusives. Here is a samp...
Diamond Select Toys and Collectibles recently signed its newest license, Marvel character based upcoming blockbuster X-MEN: THE FINAL STAND. Under an agreement with Marvel Entertainment, DST will start development and production of several collectible pro...
Well, it has taken almost 40 years, but finally, X-MEN has come to town. In the beginning it was Professor X, Cyclops, Beast, Marvel Girl, Iceman, and The Angel donned in blue and gold and sporting the familiar X insignia versus Magneto, Mastermind, Toad...
While promoting his work on OSMOSIS JONES at the Comic-Con International: San Diego, producer Zak Penn let loose his latest project screenwriting chores on the upcoming X-MEN 2. How can this be, cry loyal fan boys the world over? Apparently, both David H...
Last week's mixed-bag review of X-MEN: THE LAST STAND generated a small truckload of mail. The reactions ranged from complete agreement with my review, to total disagreement from fans that thought the film met or exceeded the previous two. Regardless, t...
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In part
one of the press X-Men 2 conference, Comics2Film heard
from half of the panel that attended. Today we explore the comments made by H...
After proving to be a critical and commercial hit with consumers, Activision has announced plans to create a sequel to their best-selling X-MEN LEGENDS video game. Raven Software, the developer of the first game, will return to create the follow-up (which...
DVD
File has published the final specs for the X-Men 1.5 Collectors'
Edition DVD. Here's an excerpt from that site:
"Presented
in 2.35:1 anamorphic widescreen with Dolby Digital and DTS 5.1 tracks, disc one
features an audio commentary with di...
Well, for X-Men fans, the dream has finally come true: a multi-million dollar, star-studded movie version of their favorite comic book characters. I’ll leave it to those fans to debate whether this is a worthy adaptation of the source material. As for the...
X-Fans got a treat at the Los Angles comic Book and Science Fiction Convention on Sunday May 21, when Tyler Mane (who plays Sabertooth in the highly anticipated film) showed up on stage to answer questions from the audience. Fliers for the event had impli...
`I am Apocalypse,` imitates director Bryan Singer, adapting the villain`s voice from the popular cartoon series. Okay, so someone`s in a jovial mood and why not? Singer and Executive Producer Tom DeSanto have had some pretty impressive toys to play wit...
MYSTERY MEN by Frederick C. Szebin (Wed 01-26-2000)
The mythology of the superhero, with which nearly every member of society is familiar in some way or another, is a fertile field for satire, as was once the super spy genre, and MYSTERY MEN very nearly pulls off a good one, but stumbles with a good lookin...
While speaking with the Canadian Press, X2 co-screenwriter Dan Harris revealed what one of the ideas for Bryan Singer's X-MEN 3 was going to be before he left to helm Warner Bros. SUPERMAN movie. According to Harris, "We were going to do X-MEN 3 for a lit...
Column News: With the switch over to the new site design, I thought I’d make a couple of minor changes in High Def Revue. The most notable one is that the Blu-ray discs will be listed first in the Upcoming Discs section from now on. ...
Alex Summers' first day as an X-Men team leader isn't going all that well. Not only has he started the morning with a falling-out with his wife over her possible involvement with Bobby Drake, he's getting pretty cold treatment from Bobby himself. But none...
'X-Men The Last Stand' hits theathers later this month, but that is not the only new X-Men movie available to fans. Art Asylum along with Diamond Select Toys and the D.A.V.E. shcool have released an original 9-minute CGI DVD mini-movie, 'X-Men Darktide' a...
With Activision's latest X-MEN game, WOLVERINE'S REVENGE, coming out this month the company has unveiled its next mutant hero project that it's got in development -- X-MEN: LEGENDS. The game will be a real-time role-playing game (RPG) that will finally a...
Bryan Singer on 'Superman':
"['Superman Returns'] is strictly a working title. But it is a return story. It puts the first films in a kind of vague history. So what it doesn't do is tread over the 1978 Richard Donner film, it doesn't tread over 'Smallv...
Marvel Comics is launching an X-MEN ICONS: CHAMBER mini-series in August. The four-issue mini-series is written by Brian K. Vaughan, with art by Lee Ferguson and Norm Rapmund and covers by Chris Bachalo. Here's how Marvel is soliciting the first issue: ...
The Ultimate X fansite claims to have received word from a 20th Century Fox representative who has some good news about 'X-Men 3'. Says the source, "We are working very hard to find the perfect director to do 'X3.' The studio has it narrowed down to a few...
The January issue of Previews Magazine will feature the first photos of the actions figures accompanying Twentieth Century
Fox's upcoming X-Men 2.
The Diamond Comics Toy Chest has a few preview images from various product line offerings, inclu...
The Comic
Continuum reports Kids' WB! has announced a new episode of X-Men:
Evolution.
The episode is titled "The Stuff Of Heroes" and
will air on Saturday, Sept 21. It was written by Bob Forward, who was a story
editor during the show's first seas...
From the casting of Colossus and the confirmations of Beast, Jubilee, Shadowcat, and Siryn to the scheduled appearance of director Bryan Singer at this year's International Comic-Con, the past few days have provided a wealth of information concernin...
Producer Lauren Shuler says she is looking forward to continuing with the 'X-Men' franchise and that 'X-Men 3' will continue with the Dark Phoenix saga. After 'X-Men 3' there may be a 'Wolverine' movie as well. More...
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20th Century Fox Home Entertainment have just sent over some revised artwork for the region one release of the X-Men Collection which features the two disc releases of X-Men and the hit sequel X-Men 2. More...
The Ultimate X website has received a reply from a representative of 20th Century Fox regarding the status of X-MEN 3 -- and for the first time the mentioning of a replacement for departed X-director Bryan Singer has taken place."We are working VERY hard ...
...y writing ASTONISHINGX-MEN for Marvel Comics, so he's not rusty either.No pressure, Fox. After all, there's less than two years left and all before X-MEN 3 is supposed to come out.Got a scoop? Know something that you need to tell us about? Send it t...
In a recent post on his blog, X-Men: Evolution character designer and director Steve Gordon announced that he will be serving as a director on the new Wolverine And The X-Men series, which will be produced by Boyd Kirkland. The series will not be in conti...
You won't be able to escape the X-Men this summer, what with the upcoming X-Men III movie and all manner of tie-ins.
One thing worth looking forward to, though, is the mobile game, sensibly titled X-Men III.
More...
Scribe Zack Penn has been talking about the writing of the X-MEN 2 script... both of them.While talking to Prevue Magazine, the writer spoke of the process, which involves him and David Hayter writing separate scripts from a single treatment which will la...
Let`s face facts. It`s hard enough to track of all of Marvel`s merry mutants, let alone recall the exact issue in which Rogue joins the X-Men, the specifics of her initial meeting with Colossus at the X-mansion`s doorstep, or her being belted into outer s...
With Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith reportedly looking for $20 million each to do MEN IN BLACK 2, this new series of novels by sci-fi author Dean Wesley Smith (STAR TREK, SPIDER-MAN, X-MEN, ALIENS, PREDATOR, SHADOW WARRIOR, etc) might be as close as we ge...
Collider.com presents a video interview with screenwriter Zak Penn, who talks about a few things comics-to-filmic.
With regards to the 'Young X-Men' project, Penn said, "Theoretically that still will happen. They're waiting until Wolverine comes out...
Producer Lauren Shuler Donner and composer Michael Kamen have been taking about the coming X-MEN 2.While talking to IGN Filmforce, Shuler Donner confirmed recent word on the film's production scheduled start date saying that X-MEN 2 "will film in the late...
"Well, first and foremost, ['X-Men 3' director Brett Ratner] starts from a love of the comics. He's got an immense respect for the X-Men universe," says screenwriter Simon Kinberg. "He's also got a lot of respect for Bryan's films, so he's not trying to c...
A band of unique power-possessing mutants called the 'X-Men' live in a world where their kind are hated and persecuted by humans. Under the guidance of their leader, Professor Charles Xavier, the X-men strive for a world where humans and mutants can peace...
"You will see new characters and beloved X-Men characters in the third film, and they will play major roles - at least one of them will play a major role," says 'X-Men 3' screenwriter Simon Kinberg in an extensive interview.
The writer also discusses ...
Buena Vista's second DVD featuring episodes from Fox's X-Men cartoon was released in Region 2 today. Dubbed X-Men: Wolverine's Story, the DVD featured episodes focusing on Wolverine.
The DVD features the following episodes:
# Repo Man
# Weapon X, L...
Disney
is hoping to capitalize on this summer's big screen invasion of marvel
super heroes. According to DVDtoons.com
Disney is releasing Special Edition DVDs featuring episodes of the X-Men
and Incredible Hulk animated shows. The discs will be si...
Twentieth Century Fox and Marvel Entertainment set Brett Ratner on Friday night to replace Matthew Vaughn as the director of 'X-Men 3,' the third installment of the 'X-Men' franchise.
A comic book enthusiast, Ratner was among the helmers considered to...
Kelsey Grammer, who plays Hank McCoy/Beast in the upcoming SF sequel X-Men: The Last Stand, told SCI FI Wire that he knew very little about the character or the X-Men comic books before signing on for the film. "I don't know much about X-Men except the fi...
Marvel Comics, which has declared October as "Claremonth" in honor of writer Chris Claremont, has released a preview of X-TREME X-MEN #19.Here's how Marvel describes the issue:"With the quick pace of life, it's not often that old friends get to take a bre...
With the 4th of July looming on the summer horizon, Transformers fans won’t have to wait the next seven weeks to find out what happens in Michael Bay’s film adaptation of the franchise giant. Random House Publishing Group and novelization guru...
'Wolverine' is now targeted for a May 1, 2009 debut. The film will feature other mutants, and possibly introduce Gambit. Actor Liev Schreiber will likely take over the role of a younger Stryker (previously played by Brian Cox in 'X2'). That's the scoop fr...
After a record-setting first weekend, X-Men: The Last Stand took a big plunge and placed second over the weekend.
Dropping 67 percent from its first weekend, X-Men: The Last Stand brought in $34.4 million. "I'm not shocked at that drop," 20th Century ...
As
reported on Comics2Film, things are heating up with X2,
and fans are rabidly consuming information on anything X-Men,
and Fox Home Video is planning on capitalizing on that for the new special edition
release of the original X-Men film ...
The movie
version of Mike Allred's G-Men From Hell is on track for DVD and
VHS release this June from Framework Entertainment.
"The
Framework executives understand fantasy," Rick Albert, the film's producer
at Sawmill Entertainment, told ...
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Weekly was given an X2 Exclusive with the publication
of seven new publicity shots from the movie, and an additional eight
images as online exclusives. Here is a samp...
A battle
will be fought to decide the fate of the world next month in Kananaskis
Alberta. The
Calgary Sun reported that this location will be where the climatic
battle to next summer's X-Men 2 will be filmed. The Sun wrote,
"The
area will se...
The
Comics Continuum talked to both Craig Kyle of Marvel Studios and X-Men:
Evolution story editor Greg Johnson about the upcoming season premiere.
The third season opener, called "Day of Recovery" deals with Professor
Xavier's disappearance and the...
Bryan Singer took time after presenting a preliminary teaser clip from
X-Men 2 to sit down with a small group of journalists to discuss filmmaking and expand on some of his earlier, more cryptic comments from the Twentieth Century Fox panel at t...
"It's not just about including everyone," said 'X-Men 3' and 'Elektra' screenwriter Zack Penn. "It's really more about how you give everyone more and better screen time.The answer is that you can't, and you have to make really difficult choices. That's ac...
The game itself is not a re-telling, or re-playing if you will, of the story of the film, but is a bridge between X2: X-Men United and X-Men: The Last Stand, leading up to the start of the new film (that explains, among other things, why Nightcrawler does...
An interesting little title appeared over at Production Weekly in regards to Marvel and 20th Century Fox's X-Men property. A new title is currently in development for the production partners called X-Men: First Class. The question is whether this is anoth...
While 'Justice League' director George Miller is trying to convince the Australian government to extend a tax credit to lure big-budget Hollywood productions to that country, 'X-Men Origins: Wolverine' producer Ralph Winter is singing the praises of such ...
Director Brett Ratner say the box office success of 'X-Men: The Last Stand' is not what gives him warm fuzzies.
"[The X-Men franchise already] had a huge core audience, [so] the movie was going to be successful. The thing that I was personally excited ...
"Did 'X-Men: The Last Stand' succeed? Yes. If you can forgive about 30 percent of the film, the product as a whole really works, and is a fitting chapter in the X-Men saga. It's better than the first X-Men, and is mostly on par with X2."
'Gossip Girl' writer Josh Schwartz revealed to BlackBook Media that he's on board Fox and Marvel's 'X-Men' franchise, to pen the next film, which looks to be a prequel.
"I'm very well aware that I'll be bludgeoned by purists, but I love its mythol...
Despite internet buzz that fans prefer Joss Whedon to helm the third 'X-Men' movie, Whedon said, "Nobody has approached me about the X-Men franchise."
That doesn't mean he hasn't thought about it. "Would I like to make an X-Men movie? That would be bit...
When the eagerly anticipated X-Men movie reached theatres this summer, it turned out to be a rarity: a big-budget Hollywood adaptation of a comic book that pleased both fans and newcomers. The result paid off handsomely for distributor 20th Century Fox; n...
Last time I reviewed NEW X-MEN, I made a big deal of it and said that this series, amongst others, was heralding a new golden age for the X-books. I still believe that, though this particular issue shows that even gold can sometimes lose some of its brill...
As a film`s success grows, so does our thirst for information on those associated with it. With Ray Park, we`re now talking about three successful franchises (Mortal Kombat, Star Wars, X-Men) and a one-hit wonder (SLEEPY HOLLOW). In Part One of my inter...
In a recent television interview, Patrick Stewart confessed that before he took on the role of Professor Charles Xavier, he had virtually no idea what the X-Men were all about. `I was as ignorant of the X-Men as I was of Star Trek 14 years ago,` he told t...
Michael Kamen’s orchestral score for X-MEN is a pulsating exercise for orchestra and synthesizer, as much a mutation of the acoustic and the electronic as the super-powered humanistic anomalies that are the film’s heroes. Lacking a strong, recurrent theme...
X-MEN UNLIMITED #39 in November will be the start as the book as 48-page monthly. X-MEN UNLIMITED editor C.B. Cebulski says he wants to change the perception of the book not having impact or meaning in the X-Men Universe. "We're going to make the book ...
Marvel Comics recently discussed their plans to contribute to the hoopla around this year's release of X-MEN 2, the highly anticipated follow-up to Bryan Singer's first X-MEN film."Unfortunately a few years ago when X-MEN came out, we really dropped the b...
The X-Men
return in February! No, we're not talking about the X-Men 2
sequel. We're talking about the expanded re-release of the original X-Men
movie on DVD.
According to DVDFILE.COM
the disc set (dubbed "1.5 Collector's Edition") will b...
Canadian stunt performer James Bamford has just updated his personal page on the Stunts Canada website where he is now listed as "Gambit - Stunt Actor" for X-Men 2.
X-Men 2 fans will remember that director Bryan Singer has previously hinted at an appeara...
THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATIONJohn Powell (THE BOURNE IDENTITY, ICE AGE 2: THE MELTDOWN, SHREK) has composed a magnificent, melodic, and powerfully reverent score for X-MEN: THE LAST STAND, released last week by Varese Sarabande Records. The music has plenty ...
3DO has indebted history with its FRP Might & Magic series (which recently got its eighth member) and the unsurpassed strategically oriented trilogy Heroes of Might & Magic, which will surely get the title of VIG (very important games) in some probable Co...
Blizzard Entertainment unleashes their first novel surrounding the Ghost assassin Nova, Paul Kearney and James M. Ward blend good old-fashion magic with maritime warfare, and Mercedes Lackey debuts another novel in the Scepter’d Isle sequence wi...
Zak Penn screenwriter of X-men 3 and the upcoming Incredible Hulk, admitted that he was originally signed on to write and direct a "young X-Men film," but that's recently changed. Says Penn, "The original idea was to have me do a young X-Men spin-off, a s...
...ok titled ASTONISHINGX-MEN.Also confirmed in the solicitation material:The return of UNCANNY X-MEN writer Chris Claremont to the book that made him a legend. Claremont will take over writing duties on UNCANNY X-MEN with issue #444, joined by EXCALIBUR...
X2: X-MEN UNITED is a worthy continuation of the 2000 X-MEN, which brought the Marvel superhero (and supervillain) mutant metaphors to the big screen. Like its predecessor, X2 works as both straight huge-budget science-fiction and as a parable for the dif...
It's only when we read a collection like MASTER MASTERWORKS: X-MEN that we realize just how far the X-Men have really come ? and how little Stan Lee's writing has really changed between 1963 and his latest work for DC. But even with all their faults, thes...
Chuck Austen is the new writer of UNCANNY X-MEN, taking over with #410 of the Marvel Comics title. Austen says he's "nervous, but really, really excited" about the assignment on one of Marvel's best-selling titles. "I never expected ...
There was some concern about the X-MEN franchise changing directorial hands on its third installment, with Brett Ratner taking over after Bryan Singer had succeeded in making most people very happy with installments one and two. Ratner demonstrates immedi...
It appears
this summer that the X-Men will have to contend with the might of a rogue
U.S. general in X-Men 2. It is not clear what forces the X-Men's
foe General Stryker has at his disposal The
Toronto Sun's Jim Slotek printed a very cryptic quote fr...
Sidebar:
Entertainment
Weekly was given an X2 Exclusive with the publication
of seven new publicity shots from the movie, and an additional eight
images as online exclusives. Here is a samp...
Sidebar:
Entertainment
Weekly was given an X2 Exclusive with the publication of
seven new publicity shots from the movie, and an additional eight images
as online exclusives. Here is a sampling of those imag...
From a press release by the New South Wales Government:
Hugh Jackman's latest movie 'X-Men Origins: Wolverine' has begun shooting in Sydney and will inject an estimated $60 million and 250 full-time equivalent jobs into the city's economy.
The NSW Gover...
The X-Men travel to Hong Kong, where they investigate a black market trade in mutant organs, organs which will be used by U-Men mutant wannabes. The trail leads them to Ao Jun, a mutant with one of the worst mutant gifts ever, and the mutant he's guarded...
May 26th, 2006 sees the release of the next chapter in the 20th Century
Fox film franchise "X-Men." With "X-Men 3" currently filming in Vancouver, Canada,
C2F's George Tramountanas traveled to the Great White North to see what
the film makers have...
When I was a kid, superhero movies sucked. No, not just in movies that were poorly made, but all of them. Comic-books presented the kinds of stories that just couldn't be made into movies, which is one of the reasons readers cherished them so much. Anythi...
Rich Johnston at Comic Book Resources says Marvel is lining up a fleet of direct-to-video features that will fly under the 'X-Men Origins' banner, along side the theatrical movies 'X-Men Origins: Wolverine' and 'X-Men Origins: Magneto'.
Could there be an...
From a press release
NEW YORK, SANTA MONICA, Calif., and VANCOUVER, British Columbia, July 31 /CNW/ -- Lionsgate (NYSE: LGF), the premier independent filmed entertainment studio, announced this week that it has acquired the home entertainment distributio...
Yes, the upcoming third X-Men movie subtitled The Last Stand will have a movie tie-in game from longtime X-Men game publisher Activision that will be titled (somewhat unoriginally) X-Men: The Official Game. However, this movie tie-in will be different tha...
Toronto is prepping for 'X-Men 3', the third feature in Fox 'X-Men' movie franchise, based on Marvel Comics mutant super-hero characters.
Although the first 'X-Men' film was shot in Toronto, the second, 'X2: X-Men United' was filmed in British Columbia. ...
Sitting in the theatre watching X3, it feels like a Wednesday; it's sort of like new comic day as we sit in anticipation of our latest installment of the X-Men, with its brand new creative team. And as the movie gets rolling, it feels more like a comic ...
Fans of the "X-Men" franchise will certainly be happy to know there's lots more material that can be developed for future episodes: "I hope there's a fourth and an eighth and a tenth," says 'X-Men' producer Lauren Shuler Donner. "I mean, look, there's 40 ...
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AstonishingX-Men #23 $2.99
Criminal #10 (MR) $2.99
Kurt: This wraps the second arc of this series by man-god Ed Brubaker.
Dark Tower Gunslinger Born Prem HC $24.99
Ben: I’m super stoked for this.
Fantastic ...
While promoting MONSTERS BALL in New York, Halle Berry fielded questions about X-MEN 2 and JAMES BOND 20.When asked if she was going to be in the next Bond film, Berry answered, "You know what, I don't know and the truth is I'm trying to work out the date...
In a recent interview with Empire Online, Joss Whedon discussed his role as script-doctor for the X-Men feature film. `They wanted me to punch up the last fight. I said, `I think you`ve got a greater problem than that,` ` explained the creator of Buffy th...
Ray Park seems to be making a living out of playing villains cloaked in makeup. This is true of his latest role, that of Toad in X-Men, but the character allowed him to break the mold at least a little bit: although still covered in green greasepaint, his...
Like the way Mystique looks in the X-Men movie? Think Wolverine`s claws are cool? You can thank Gordon Smith, X-Men`s makeup supervisor for all the magic. Smith, who spends a great deal of time in research and development, came up with a wide assortment ...
Today's Variety
reports on the impending re-release of X-Men as an all new,
super-special edition DVD. In addition to previously discussed extras Variety
reports a promotional incentive of special interest to C2F readers:
The new edition
will have ...
20th Century Fox has released new info about the 'Wolverine' movie, due out May 1, 2009.
'X-Men Origins: Wolverine' is set to star Jackman and will be directed by Gavin Hood (Tsotsi, Rendition). The producers are Lauren Shuler Donner and Ralph Winter (...
`They were the X-MEN,` former Marvel Comics editor and Blade-creator Marv Wolfman gleefully blurts after a screening of X-Men. `I think the characters translated wonderfully on screen.` Why is the Wolfman howling for joy? He sternly adds, `Because there ...
It seems that ever since UFO phenomena entered the public consciousness, researchers have had a sideline mystery to puzzle them. Witnesses describe strangers that arrive where UFOs have been sighted, asking a lot of questions and not offering any in retur...
The
Comics Continuum reports the first DVD from the X-Men: Evolution
animated series will arrive in stores next spring, before X-Men 2
reaches theaters. The Continuum talked to Marvel Studios' Craig Kyle about the
DVD, from Warner Home Video, which ...
One of the bright spots of this past summer's movie lineup was Bryan Singer's X2: X-MEN UNITED. Featuring the return of nearly all the heroes and villains from the first X-MEN movie plus a ton of mutants from the comic books brought to life on the silver ...