...three new X-Men movies. One of the stars who isn't is actress Halle Berry, and director Bryan Singer is unsure whether the Oscar-winning actress would sign a new contract for any future X-Men sequels. "I don't know about Halle," Reuters quoted Singer a...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
"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...
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...
...the first X-Men Graphic Novel, published back in 1982, a chilling, violent little tale of fear and loathing in the Marvel Universe. The opening salvo of infanticide is a cue that you’re in for something more serious and even a little grander than we we...
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? ...
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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...
...ure film, X-MEN, is such a success. It needed a director who would harbor no bull malarkey around him. And as anyone who`s followed the making of this film knows, the distractions came in by the ton. Another thing about X-Men: This is Singer`s movie, n...
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...
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...
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.
...ly in The X-Men, it was an opportunity to jump into a project with a 30-year cultural history. Davison joined a cast of high profile, recognizable actors mixed with some exciting new talent. Star Trek: The Next Generation`s Patrick Stewart as Professor...
...on of the X-Men franchise, which had been languishing in reprint hell for 28 issues. He and artist Dave Cockrum created a whole new, distinctive mythology for the X-Men when they opted to add an international flavor to Marvel`s repertoire of mutant sup...
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...
...ovie, The X-Men. Shot in Toronto with a reported $75 million budget, it`s this city`s biggest on-location movie to date. With special effects galore and characters like Wolverine, Storm, Rogue, Sabretooth and Magneto, it`s a fanboy`s wet dream. And pin...
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 ...
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...
...ne of the X-Men’s greatest foes, Apocalypse, that’s the dilemma facing him in X-Men: The Search for Cyclops, the new four-issue mini-series by writer Joe Harris and artist Tom Raney that’ll resolve the fate of the X-Men’s founding member.For months, Cy...
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 ...
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...
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
"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...
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...
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 ...
...e and the X-Men" (a co-production with Toonz Entertainment Pte Ltd., Singapore and First Serve International Ltd.). Debuting exclusively on Nicktoons Network in first quarter 2009, Wolverine and the X-Men and Iron Man each feature 26 action-packed...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
...d in
the X-Men 2 sequel, Comics2Film was allowed a glimpse of
drawings and photos of the set designs. There were over 64 sets used in filming
in 38 different locations, so the Production end of the film was quite an
undertaking.
One of the sets
u...
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...
...ravaganza X-Men movie. With only a few days left of shooting since principal footage began Sept. 27, the dynamic duo should be relieved it`s all finally winding down, but there`s something you should remember: Singer and DeSanto may be passionate about...
...here: the X-Men weren’t scared to meet you people; they didn’t want to come here and see me again! How do you think that dude got into the wheelchair!`The presentation, which included two versions of the trailer, was part of 20th Century Fox’s promotio...
MYSTERY MEN by Frederick C. Szebin (Wed 01-26-2000)
...gers, the X-Men and others whose amazing powers make them gods among men, and MYSTERY MEN takes a good whack at it. There are swipes at silly character premises in an amusing barbecue gathering in which the three original members, the Shoveler, Mr. Fur...
Heidi and James Meeley on the set of X-Men 2 - Click for larger image
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...
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...
... summer's X-Men 2.
Beast, Colossus, Jubilee, and Siryn are all reportedly scheduled to appear in X-Men 2 as cameos according to Countingdown.com. With the exception of Siryn, there have been previous rumors surrounding appearances by the afforementi...
...
“X-Men: The Last Stand” on Blu-ray this month: According to Home Video Retailing magazine, Fox is hoping to cash in on both the holiday season and the new PS3’s Blu-ray capability by rushing the last X-men film to the HD f...
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: ...
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...
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...
... leaving 'X-Men 3' behind:
"I had a very strong vision for the next 'X-Men' picture. But 'Superman' has always been a dream of mine. Things weren't moving as quickly as...it was difficult, and I love those actors and I have a strong relationship wit...
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...
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...
'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...
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...
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...
...up.
'X-Men Origins: Wolverine' is slashing its way back theaters soon, bub.
With that in mind we're offering this unique collectible for the true Weapon X Fan...
It's the digital press kit of 'X-Men: The Last Stand'!
You can't buy this bit of...
...he set of X-Men 2
for a press conference and set tour. The "Million Dollar" press
conference, which boasted no less then 12 of the movie's stars and it's
director, was filled with a lot of humor and even an anecdote or two. It was
apparent that Dir...
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 ...
We may have accidentally set in motion a chain of events that, at the worst, could develop into a full-blown rumor. The best case scenario? 20th Century Fox may have found their replacement for Bryan Singer on X-MEN 3.BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER creator Joss...
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...
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...
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...
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...
"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...
"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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
...title is 'X-Men Origins: Wolverine'.
'Wolverine' is expected to feature many other mutants -- some new to the film franchise and some from one or more of the three 'X-Men' films.
The first weekend in May, pegged as the first official weekend of ...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
...a for the X-Men 2 movie. Comics2Film was on hand as
twelve stars of the film and Director Bryan Singer were on hand to take
questions from the online press. Singer tackled most of the general questions
about success, a sequel, and the other Marvel h...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
While it's been the subject of gossip columns and message board discussions for months in the comic book community, the lid was unexpectedly torn off yesterday concerning Marvel's plans for its upcoming X-MEN: RELOAD event, scheduled for this coming May. ...
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...
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...
...it to the X-Men 2 set, Comics2Film was allowed
access to character designs and ideas in the conference room of the Production
offices at Vancouver Film Studio. Production Designer Guy Dyas led us through
inspirations and ideas that did and did not m...
...he set of X-Men 2
for tour of the Vancouver production and Q & A session termed the
"Million Dollar Press Conference." Comics2Film was there. Here
we present the first of a series of articles detailing the visit:
It is clear from
the upcoming trai...
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...
...about the X-Men, when I never imagined when I was reading the stories that inspired them that even a decent cartoon could be based on them. Adapting a successful comic-book series to movies can be more difficult than adapting a novel or a play. A comic...
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...
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...
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...
...& The X-Men.' Under the terms of the arrangement, Lionsgate retains the United States home distribution rights to all 26 action-packed half-hour episodes of 'Wolverine & The X-Men',(a co-production with Toonz Entertainment Pte Ltd., Singapore a...
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 ...
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 (...
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...
`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 ...
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 ...
OPINION: While it's too soon to say whether the X-Men "ReLoad" event will be a success, it's equally true that it's too soon to say (to paraphrase Douglas Adams) it has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. Reactions to M...
While Captain Picard himself, Patrick Stewart, is gearing up to promote the upcoming tenth film in the STAR TREK franchise, NEMESIS, he's also talking a bit about the progress of that other franchise he's involved with: X-MEN. Specifically, the actor rece...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
After a long
wait by fans in the U.S. it looks like Mike Allred's G-Men From Hell
will enjoy a direct-to-video release this year.
In a recent
posting on his message
boards the comic creator told fans, "I was recently invited to join the commentar...
It all began last week with Dark Horizons. A week ago the Australian-based film website published a rumor that singer and emerging actress Jessica Simpson (MTV's NEWLYWEDS) had sent off an audition tape to the producers of X-MEN 3, in the hopes that a rol...
Brian from Comic
Book Conventions.com has told Comics2Film about an X-Men 2
promotional tape.
"The first
thing that struck me as funny was the way they kept referring to the movie as
X-Men 2, not X2," Brian says. He adds that
...
Director Bryan Singer told SCI FI Wire that he's saddened not to be directing the upcoming third X-Men movie after launching the franchise with X-Men and its sequel, X2. But the filmmaker, who ceded the X-Men 3 director's chair to Brett Ratner (Red Dragon...
Patrick
Stewart talked to the Calgary
Sun's Louis B Hobson about the epic, intense and almost wacky climax
of X-Men 2. What Stewart told Hobson may contain small spoilers.
So read ahead but be forewarned.
The scene involved the escape
from General ...
Are
you trying to keep track of all the comic book characters that might appear
in X-Men 2? The school invasion scene has the potential for a multitude
of mutant cameos. E!
Online's
Anderson Jones revealed two things you will not be seeing in X-Men ...
Not rumors but new casting announcement for 'X-Men 3'. Fox and Marvel have announced that Vinnie Jones has been cast as Juggernaut and Kelsey Grammer [misspelled in linked article] as Dr. Henry J. McCoy A.K.A. Beast. They are in discussion with 'Lost''s...
Mike Elizalde of FX group Spectral Motion provides an update on their work on 'X-Men 3':
"It's progressing at an alarming rate...We already have our team in place in Vancouver. Bart Mixon is heading the make-up applications department again, as he did ...
Ingenious Media has unveiled plans to invest $200 million (£110 million) in 11 films, defying the gloom that was pervading the British film industry after the revision of tax breaks. The fund is putting cash into titles ranging from X-Men 3, from Fox, the...
While doing press for 'Layer Cake', director Matthew Vaughn revealed, "The project I'm on we just did the script in 6 days so I've done both extremes now."
When asked what the 6-day wonder was the director said, "X-men. Which we can't talk about! There...
IGN FilmForce confirms rumors that Kitty Pryde will have an expanded role in 'X-Men 3' and likely be re-cast from the actress who played the cameo in 'X2'. According to thier credible sources, Kitty will be a much bigger character in X3. She will also be ...
X-Men 3 Casting Call for really interesting looking kids and adults of all ethnicities. Also twins, triplets, quads, albino, really big or tall, really short or small, ugly and strange looking.
'X-Men 3' screenwriter Zak Penn offered a few choice tidbits about the 2006 film. First, Warren Worthington's father will not be the antagonist in the new film. Penn also made note that he's read a number of message boards and sites on the web and that he...
'The Sandman' creator and writer Neil Gaiman talks up his recent visit to the X-Men 3 production offices, the behind-the-scenes problems the film is facing and also spills a bit on the final battle sequence. More (Beware of spoilers!)...
The Legislative Assembly of the Province of British Columbia(Canada) say X-Men 3 has booked (studio)space and should be filming this summer. The total value of projects announced to be filming in British Columbia: considerably north of $350 million. This ...
The 'Fantastic Four' movie will have a little nod to the X-Men franchise, it was revealed during the recent press tour of the sets in Vancouver, British Columbia. Click for details...
Claudia Schiffer, wife of, former 'X-Men 3' director, Matthew Vaughn, says being away from family was not the sole reason for his departure.
"Actually, there were several reasons he turned it down," she says. "We would have all travelled together and l...
X-Men: Evolution: Mystique's Revenge, the eighth in the series of the animated series on DVD, is scheduled for a release on Nov. 23 from Warner Home Video.
Upcoming episodes of Mutant X in syndication include "Dream Lover" the week of Aug. 30 and "The...
Sources at 20th Century Fox are apparently saying that Halle Berry's character Storm will appear in 'X-Men 3' with or without the Oscar-winning actress. Click for additional rumors about the future of the X-franchise and potential spin-offs.