Despite the countless number of mutants to call themselves X-Men, the only two who were ever given their own film in the franchise are Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) and Deadpool (Ryan Reynolds). It's not for lack of trying, but every other X-MEN spin-off wound up stuck in development hell (looking at you, Gambit), including a potential film centered around Beast (Nicholas Hoult). John Ottman,… Read More...

Director Simon Kinberg reveals he wanted to showcase the strength of the female mutants in his directorial debut, X-Men: Dark Phoenix.

In X-Men: Dark Phoenix, Magneto will be ruler of the island nation of Genosha and will run into Jean Grey. It’s gradually becoming clear that next year’s X-Men: Dark Phoenix will be very different to the comic book story. One of the major differences is clearly the fact that Michael Fassbender is reprising the role of Magneto in the film. The character wasn’t part of the original comic book storyline, and fans have been excitedly speculating as to just what role the Master of Magnetism will play.

The X-Men Cinematic Universe is definitely a unique beast among the superhero universes. Marvel Studios pioneered the idea of shared universes, and since 2008, things have been relatively straightforward in that world. The same could be said of the DC Extended Universe. While the future of the film franchise is still getting shuffled around after Justice League, the actual narrative structure of the movies are easy enough to follow.The same can not be said of the X-Men films.

The historical rivalry between two of the 19th century’s greatest minds, electricity magnates Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse, will be the subject for two upcoming film projects. Whereas Black Bear Pictures The Last Days Of Night will explore these events from the perspective of a lawyer dealing with the inventors’ battle over patents, The Weinstein Company’s project The Current War looks set to focus on these two extreme central personalities.