...in making X-Men3, the actor who plays Wolverine is -- at least according to one of the film's producers. "[I'll] never do an X-Men without Wolverine, so production on a third film will depend on Hugh's availability," producer Lauren Shuler-Donner told...
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...
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...
Men of Valor by Uros "2Lions" Jojic (Wed 10-27-2004)
Since 2015 revolutionized the military-based first person shooter genre, you can39;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, let39;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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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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...
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.
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? ...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
...plans for X-Men3. He said the fate of a third X-Men film
is ultimately up to moviegoers. He said, "We'll know whether we'll make
an X-Men3 or not on May 3, 2003. Hopefully, everyone who wants
an X-Men3 will show up then. Tell each fan they have ...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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Producer Lauren Shuler says she is looking forward to continuing with the 'X-Men' franchise and that 'X-Men3' will continue with the Dark Phoenix saga. After 'X-Men3' there may be a 'Wolverine' movie as well. More...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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-MEN3.BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER creator Joss...
The Ultimate X website has received a reply from a representative of 20th Century Fox regarding the status of X-MEN3 -- and for the first time the mentioning of a replacement for departed X-director Bryan Singer has taken place."We are working VERY hard ...
While speaking with the Canadian Press, X2 co-screenwriter Dan Harris revealed what one of the ideas for Bryan Singer's X-MEN3 was going to be before he left to helm Warner Bros. SUPERMAN movie. According to Harris, "We were going to do X-MEN3 for a lit...
... leaving 'X-Men3' 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...
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 Ultimate X fansite claims to have received word from a 20th Century Fox representative who has some good news about 'X-Men3'. 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...
'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...
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...
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...
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: ...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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. ...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
...a wink to X-MEN3. Hey, is it just me, or does Iceman (Shawn Ashmore) look just like a younger Bryan Singer?DVD Shopping List is our weekly DVD column. Brian Thomas is the author of the massive new book VideoHound's DRAGON: ASIAN ACTION & CULT FLIC...
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...
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...
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...
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. ...
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...
...l to give X-MEN3: THE LAST STAND some crowd-pleasing punch. What's missing here is a subtle element that gave the first two movies an added dimension grace notes of character development and humor. In fairness to the filmmakers, it may have been felt...
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...
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...
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 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...
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 ...
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 ...
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-Men3 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 ...
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 ...
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-MEN3, in the hopes that a rol...
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...
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...
May 26th, 2006 sees the release of the next chapter in the 20th Century
Fox film franchise "X-Men." With "X-Men3" currently filming in Vancouver, Canada,
C2F's George Tramountanas traveled to the Great White North to see what
the film makers have...
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...
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...
`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 ...
Kitty Pryde, formerly Shadowcat, formerly Sprite, formerly Ariel, has returned to the Xavier Institute to become the new student advisor and computational theory instructor. Given that Logan and Scott are still fighting over Scott's "abandonment" of Jean ...
Rumors that X-MEN director Bryan Singer had been in talks with Marvel Comics to do some kind of comic book work have been heard for months -- but it wasn't until today that we found out what's in store for fans of Marvel's ULTIMATE X-MEN. While breaking t...
Newsarama has confirmed with Marvel Comics that X-TREME X-MEN will cease publication with issue #46 (an April publication date.) Then, following in May, a new ongoing EXCALIBUR comic book series will launch.Nothing else has been revealed about which chara...
X-MEN producer Lauren Shuler Donner spoke about the latest plan to make X-MEN3 at last Wednesday's Saturn Awards. Shuler Donner revealed that ideas for the third film outing of Marvel's mutant superhero team are starting to coagulate, and that she antici...
YAHOO! MOVIES has a version of the X-MEN 2 trailer online it's not available in Quicktime, only in Windows Media or Real Media formats.Go here to see the clip.Questions? Comments? Let us know what you think at feedback@cinescape.com.
Continuing our exhaustive coverage today of the latest cinematic version of everyone's favorite band of merry mutants, here are six more images hot off the X-MEN 2 web site.Questions? Comments? Let us know what you think at feedback@cinescape.com.
Even before western author Cormac McCarthy's next novel, NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN, has been published the screen rights for the property have sold to Paramount Pictures. Veteran Hollywood producer Scott Rudin (THE STEPFORD WIVES, TEAM AMERICA: WORLD POLICE ...
Continuing our exhaustive coverage today of the latest cinematic version of everyone's favorite band of merry mutants, here are six more images hot off the X-MEN 2 web site.Questions? Comments? Let us know what you think at feedback@cinescape.com.
We've got the goods for all you X-MEN fans today! Here and in three other news items today, check out our coverage of the latest cinematic version of everyone's favorite band of merry mutants with a load of images hot off the X-MEN 2 web site.Questions? C...
IGN covers the February 11 release of the X-MEN 1.5 DVD with a detailed review and a preview of some of the new content.The preview is here. The disc offers a multitude of additional material as well as reprising the original disc's released material.Ques...
Xmenfilms.net has released some various updates on the movie. MTV talked with Ben Foster said, "The bulk of X-MEN3 has been shot. We're gonna be going back to do some re-shoots pretty soon, but the scenes that we've seen look spectacular." Also Stan Lee ...
There will be no X-Men: 4, but there will be 4 different spin-offs.Up first is the WOLVERINE film starring Hugh Jackman. Soon after will come a film based on Magneto (no plot details are yet available). Two additional spin-offs are being explored: One wh...
Woody Harrelson and Stephen Root have signed on to a contemporary Western thriller, NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN. They join Tommy Lee Jones, Josh Brolin and Javier Bardem in the cast.The film is based on a Cormac McCarthy novel, and follows a battle between go...
The Toronto Sun runs a feature (at canoe.ca) on an X-MEN 2 set visit in which Patrick Stewart has some clues to the plot of the film.Among other things, he says, "You'll see the four cyborgs, three characters from the comic book, and another character who...
X-MEN: THE LAST STAND will come to DVD in the fourth-quarter of this year. 20th Century Fox will reportedly announce on Friday that the movie will hit shelves on October 3, according to the Hollywood Reporter.The film has made over $233 million at the bo...
A seven-minute preview of X-Men: The Last Stand has shown up online via Dell. You can view the clip here.The clip features the two newest characters: Beast (Kelsey Grammer) and Angel (Ben Foster). Storm and Wolverine are also in the clip.While there, yo...
Sony Pictures Entertainment has set Sam Raimi to direct THE WEE FREE MEN. Pamela Pettler will write the script, which will be based on Terry Pratchett's bestselling young-adult novel.The story centers on a 9-year-old farm girl who heads off to a parallel ...
Twentieth Century Fox and Marvel Entertainment have hired Brett Ratner to direct X-MEN3.Ratner will be filling the spot left by Matthew Vaughn when he exited the project last week. He'll be working from the script by Zak Penn and Simon Kinberg. The orig...
ComicBookMovie.com is reporting a fan rumor that CARNIVALE's Nick Stahl might be joining the cast of X-MEN3 as the mutant known as Angel.We have no more information at this time but an offical announcement might be coming this week.The site is also repor...
Apple.com is offering the X-MEN3 "announcement" trailer online. The film hits theaters on May 26, 2006.Click here to watch.Thanks to 'Phil' for the heads up.
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...
The X-Men animated series on Fox ran for over three years and adapted some of the best comics of both the Claremont/Byrne and Lobdell-Nicieza runs, and in the process improved the plots to the point where they actually made sense, not an inconsiderable ac...
Last week's admittedly meandering column about sex and women in popular comics didn't garner much mail, but it lit the comment section on fire. I thought that a column about everybody's favorite subject (or at least mine and Al's) would at least get me a ...
Each December, I feel obligated to write one of these wretched “year in review” columns that gives you, the reader, my perfunctory thoughts on comic books through the last 12 months. These things hardly satisfy anyone, least of all me...
According to Variety, Universal Pictures has acquired the rights to the novel, Three Men Seeking Monsters: Six Weeks in Pursuit of Werewolves, Lake Monster, Giant Cats, Ghostly Devil Dogs, and Ape-Men. They will develop the film as a possible starri...
Last Monday, we ran a brief excerpt of Tyler Mane`s question-and-answer session with X-Men fans at the Los Angeles Comic Book and Science Fiction Convention. Here are some more of his comments regarding playing the role of Sabretooth and working with the ...
I got a great batch of mail from last week's column about Marvel's Ultimate and DC's All-Star imprints. But before we get to your letters, a couple of things happened in the comic world upon which I must opine. The X3 trailer hit the web on Monday. You ca...
It’s been nearly a year since television audiences have seen Jack Bauer, but the counter terrorism battle rages on. For fans who can’t wait until January 2009 for the return of ‘24’, Degree Men® presents The Rookie: Day 3 ...
The Australian Classification Board have approved a 2 minute video for 'X-Men Origins: Wolverine' for an upcoming DVD. The site does not specify the nature or content of the footage, nor what DVD it may be released on, but we can presume it'll run on an u...
The James Tiptree, Jr., Memorial Award (named for the nom de plume of the late science fiction author Dr. Alice Sheldon) is given each year for an outstanding work of role-expanding speculative fiction. On the last weekend of July 2000, during the awards ...
Winning the Tiptree Award for feminist science fiction caps a fascinating chapter in the writing life of Suzy McKee Charnas. Thirty years after the writing of the first book in the dystopian Holdfast Chronicles, Charnas finishes the series with THE CONQUE...
Greetings and welcome to yet another COMICSCAPE, and on a week when the books don't ship until Thursday, no less (damn holidays!). Last week, I threw together an admittedly uninspired "Best of 2005" column, but even I'm entitled to suck once in a while. R...
Bryan Singer has been talking about the fast developing X-MEN 2 project and its challenges.While talking to Comics2Film, Singer spoke generally of how much easier it's been heading into the second film... while noting its difficulties, saying, "There's mo...
UNCANNY X-MEN writer Joe Casey says that #400 will feature a new villain, the Supreme Pontiff, head of the Church of Humanity."I was talking to the editor, Mark Powers, about this after I turned in the script," Casey says. "I said that every time in the p...
Patrick Stewart isn't only jazzed about the prospects for STAR TREK: NEMESIS. He's also talking up his hopes for the other high profile sequel on his plate, X2,the X-MEN sequel. "The story [of X2] goes in a direction that I thought was quite unexpected, w...
I originally lost interest in all things X long before Colossus died in the controversial UNCANNY X-MEN #390, but for some reason I thought he had died long before that. Perhaps his character's effectiveness had drawn to a close long before he drew his la...
The comics world seems slowly to be catching up with the real one once again in its sensitive depiction of gay characters, especially this month. First Judd Winick brought us the story of Kyle's gay friend getting beaten nearly to death by homophobes in t...
Renowned Japanese artist Kia Asamiya has done several covers for Marvel Comics, but is now full bore into sequential art as one of the rotating artists on UNCANNY X-MEN. Asamiya's first issue is UNCANNY X-MEN #416, which goes on sale Dec. 4. Marvel has re...
A few days ago we were happy to see the teaser for Bryan Singer's X-MEN 2 go up on a movie website, giving fans the first glimpse of at least the marketing ideas for the film. Unfortunately the site, which will remain nameless here, required fans to regis...
A brief teaser for Bryan Singer's X-MEN 2 has turned up online, but it's at a site which requires registration in order view the bit. It also doesn't have much footage, as the film only started shooting last week. If you'd like to see it, click on the sou...
Gil Junger has signed on to direct a supernatural action-comedy called D-MEN. The project will be produced by Andrew Lazar (SPACE COWBOYS) under the Mad Chance production banner. Based on a Martin Olson's story "Encyclopedia From Hell," the film will tell...
20th Century Fox has officially announced the release date for X-MEN 2. The film is set to hit theater screens on May 2, 2003. That release date sets up a summer that will also likely include THE MATRIX RELOADED, TERMINATOR 3: RISE OF THE MACHINES and THE...
MEN IN BLACK is coming to DVD... for the third time. Columbia Home Video has announced a new MEN IN BLACK Deluxe Edition, a two disc treatment of the film coming out just in time to get fans excited for MEN IN BLACK 2 this summer. Not only will the discs ...
Only two days after the HOLLYWOOD REPORTER announced Ethan Embry (FREAKYLINKS) had been cast as Nightcrawler in Bryan Singer's X2, VARIETY pipes up with news Alan Cumming (SPY KIDS) has been cast in the role. Both papers report newcomer Aaraon Stanford ha...
During an exclusive visit to the X-MEN 2 film production in Vancouver, B. C., director Bryan Singer shared several gag clips compiled over the course of shooting. Singer remarked, "I've played these for so many people they just keep 'em loaded for me."The...
The Legislative Assembly of the Province of British Columbia(Canada) say X-Men3 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 ...
Ian McKellen said he fears he won't be asked to resume his role as Magneto in the spin-off X-Men movie about the comic book character -- because he's too old.
"I have heard of a story being developed," he said. "A Magneto spin-off would probably be abo...
IGN FilmForce confirms rumors that Kitty Pryde will have an expanded role in 'X-Men3' 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 ...
Actor Alan Cumming continues to insist 'X-Men3' will go before the camera this summer. "I'm filming 'X3' in July," says Alan Cumming, who plays Nightcrawler. As for the plot, he swears, "I know nothing about it. The script isn't finished yet. At least I ...
Patrick Stewart is still waiting to hear when he is expected to show up for work on X-Men3. "It will happen," he told 'The Telegraph'. "We don't have a director because Bryan Singer pulled out, he's directing the next Superman film, but the studio insist...
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...
Sources at 20th Century Fox are apparently saying that Halle Berry's character Storm will appear in 'X-Men3' with or without the Oscar-winning actress. Click for additional rumors about the future of the X-franchise and potential spin-offs.
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...
Not rumors but new casting announcement for 'X-Men3'. 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-Men3':
"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 ...
Claudia Schiffer, wife of, former 'X-Men3' 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...
"Wolverine is the most popular of the X-Men, and Fox is talking about with Hugh Jackman making a WOLVERINE film which would qualify in a sense as 'X-Men 4'." said Cuneo. "That may very well in fact be out in 2008 or certainly by 2009 if they go ahead, but...
X-Men3 Casting Call for really interesting looking kids and adults of all ethnicities. Also twins, triplets, quads, albino, really big or tall, really short or sm