This Week: X-Men hit a rough patch with Apocalypse, the painful letdown of Preacher, and farewells to Banshee and Penny Dreadful. ► It’s like all the good will Bryan Singer brought back to the X-Men franchise with the last two movies got squandered with X-MEN: APOCALYPSE. Too many characters, a ho-hum script and a boring villain bring... Read More...

Bryan Singer‘s X-Men movie universe is about to make its way to television with FX‘s Legion. And according to Singer, who is an executive producer on the series, it will have deep ties to the movie universe. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Singer told an audience at the Edinburgh Television Festival that Legion and a currently untitled X-Men project for FOX will “relate to future X-Men movies.” But he also said the series will be accessible to those who have never watched an X-Men film.

While a guest on the Empire Spoiler Podcast with executive producer Simon Kinberg, director Bryan Singer revealed that he has a small cameo in the film.  His cameo is brief, as he's dispatched pretty quickly by Wolverine/Weapon X.  Singer begins discussing the scene and getting Jackman aboard at the 24:00 minute mark.  Below, we've included a quick transcription for those of you on mobile or tablet devices. "I have a little cameo, I'm the guy with the machine gun..screaming. When I look at it, I couldn't recognize myself so I knew no one else could.

In the tradition of ScreenCrush series like You Think You Know Movies and You Think You Know TV comes a new YouTube series: Top Five! Each week (or so; we’ve got a lot of other stuff going on), ScreenCrush editor and critic Matt Singer will count down a particular topic from the world of movies (and probably write these introductory posts in the third person). Continue reading…

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