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X-Men: Dark Phoenix finishes its theatrical run as the lowest grossing X-Men movie ever

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20th Century Fox’s X-Men series drew to a close back in June, the franchise ending with a bomb but no bang as Simon Kinberg’s X-Men: Dark Phoenix was ravaged by critics and suffered the worst opening weekend of any X-Men movie in its near-20 year history. Things went from bad to worse with the steepest […]

Disney isn’t impressed with X-Men: The New Mutants, according to reports

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According to a recent report, Disney isn’t too impressed with some of their Fox acquisitions such as the X-Men spinoff The New Mutants. Along with all the yet to be developed properties and Marvel characters that Disney purchased from Fox, the Mouse House also acquired already produced films like New Mutants. Unfortunately for Disney, they […]

X-Men’s Brian Cox is open to returning as Stryker in the MCU

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Brian Cox has stated he is open to returning as William Stryker in the X-Men franchise once implemented into the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Those familiar with the X-Men franchise will remember Brian Cox portrayed the memorable villain William Stryker in X2: X-Men United (arguably the best instalment in the series). Stryker has a desire to […]

Disney blames X-Men: Dark Phoenix for the studio’s disappointing Q3 earnings

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Disney has decided that X-Men: Dark Phoenix is to blame for the studio’s disappointing Q3 earnings. There is no question that Dark Phoenix was a massive disappointment financially, becoming one of the biggest box office bombs of all time, and now that Disney owns the franchise, it’s their finances which are taking a hit. During […]

Disney’s Bob Iger reiterates that X-Men, Fantastic Four and Deadpool are “part of Marvel Studios”

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Since the historic merger between between the Walt Disney Company and 20th Century Fox, the one question fans have been asking is if Fox’s Marvel characters will be integrated into the Marvel Cinematic Universe. During Disney’s Q3 earnings call, CEO Bob Iger reiterated that the X-Men, Fantastic Four, and Deadpool are “part of Marvel Studios”, […]

Taron Egerton would love to join the MCU but unsure if he’d get Wolverine role

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Taron Egerton, the star of Kingsman, says that he would love to join the MCU but is unsure about whether he’d be considered for the role Wolverine. With the pending introduction of the X-Men into the MCU, one of the names being thrown about for the part of Wolverine is Taron Egerton. But would he […]

Ryan Reynolds teases Phase 5 MCU debut for Deadpool

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Although Disney’s acquisition of 20th Century Fox doesn’t seem to have impacted Marvel Studios’ plans for Phase Four of the MCU, Kevin Feige did tease the introduction of the Fantastic Four and the X-Men during the studio’s big panel at San Diego Comic-Con. When and how that will happen remains to be seen, but Deadpool […]

Comic Book Preview – Powers of X #1

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Marvel’s Powers of X series launches this coming Wednesday, and you can take a look at a preview of the first issue here… SEE ALSO: Marvel unveils the next era of X-Men with six new series Superstar writer Jonathan Hickman (INFINTY, NEW AVENGERS, FF) continues his revolutionary new direction for the X-Men. Intertwining with HOUSE […]

Marvel unveils the next era of X-Men with six new series

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Ahead of the release of House of X #1, Marvel has announced six brand new ongoing X-Men titles which will build directly from the universe-shifting House of X and Powers of X to take mutantkind further than its ever gone before; check out details of the six new series here… X-MEN #1 Written by JONATHAN […]