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EXCLUSIVE: CAA has signed actress Alexandra Shipp. Shipp recently wrapped filming Lin-Manuel Miranda and Netflix’s Tick, Tick… BOOM!, she is the female lead opposite Andrew Garfield and Vanessa Hudgens, for Netflix. She is best known for her role as 'Storm' in Twentieth Century Fox's X-Men franchise films Apocalypse…

It’s been more than a quarter-century since the X-Men animated series invaded small screens — and 22 years since it ended — but a new copyright-infringement suit appears to suggest that the entire X-Men universe that has exploded into the zeitgeist wouldn’t have happened if not for that series’ theme song. A Florida…

For Simon Kinberg, the buck stops here when it comes to the failure of Dark Phoenix to live up to the commercial and critical success of previous films in the X-men franchise. "I'm here and I'm saying when a movie doesn't work, put it on me," Kinberg said on the KCRW podcast The Business. "I'm the writer/director of…

After 12 films in 20 years including sequels, prequels and spinoffs, we are now told this is the end of the road for the enormously successful, sometimes good, sometimes not-so-good X-Men franchise. Of course, in the Marvel world you should learn to never say never, but following the Avengers: Endgame finale and now…

Just before today’s WonderCon panel, featuring the filmmakers and cast of Dark Phoenix (the latest X-Men film from Fox), a message over the public address system informed the crowd at the Anaheim Convention Center that no time would be allotted for audience questions. There was an amused murmur from the crowd that…

Dark Phoenix has a new trailer: 20th Century Fox has released the new clip for the latest installment of the X-Men franchise, which is set to be released on June 7 2019. The film stars James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Nicholas Hoult, Sophie Turner, Tye Sheridan, Alexandra Shipp, Kodi Smit-McPhee…

Lauren Shuler Donner is ready to hand off the X-Men franchise to Disney and Marvel’s Kevin Feige, and she has no worries — it’s in good hands. “Kevin (Feige) and I started the first movie, he worked for me, he has a great story sense when it comes to weaving each world together, I trust him and I trust where he will…

The Dark Phoenix saga is one of the most memorable and pivotal stories in the X-Men comics and after waiting with bated breath, we finally got a look at the latest installment of the highly anticipated sequel to the mutant franchise tonight in the new trailer. In the video above, we see Sophie Turner’s Jean Grey as…

FX has released the first trailer for Season 2 of Marvel Entertianment’s Legion, which arrives April 3. Check out the new footage above. Created and executive produced by Noah Hawley and based on the Marvel Comics by Chris Claremont and Bill Sienkiewicz, Legion is set in the X-Men universe. It’s the story of David…

Stan Lee has been released from Cedars Sinai hospital in Los Angeles, and reports that he’s “feeling good.” In an exclusive Skype interview with ABC Los Angeles station KABC last night, the 95-year-old Lee said, “All I really want to do is tell you that I’m feeling great. I’m glad I spent that evening in the…

Logan director James Mangold spoke for many when he described himself during an awards-season event as “very curious” about the future of 20th Century Fox, the 82-year-old studio where he has made more films (four) than any other. A game-changing sale of assets owned by studio parent 21st Century Fox is expected to be…

EXCLUSIVE: When Bret Tyler Skopek first met director Bryan Singer at a Halloween party in 2013 shortly after the aspiring songwriter arrived from Arizona, the 18-year-old had no idea who the guy wearing the Catholic priest costume was — though he realized it obviously was someone famous, since a friend urged him to…