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Today's Challenge: Can you find a link to connect Charles Xavier/Professor X (James McAvoy) to Christina Aguilera, who sometimes goes by Xtina? Also, did you know that on June 6, 1654 Charles X abdicated the Swedish throne to Queen Christina?
Our first Facebook movie game, ClusterFlick, plays off that old "six degrees of separation" theory — you know, the one that has a certain Kevin at the center of the Hollywood universe. It's easy to play, but not so easy to win. The goal is to use the major cast of movies to get from Point A to Point B in the smallest number of moves.
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Posted 06.06.11 by reelz -
Now that director Matthew Vaughn's X-Men prequel X-Men: First Class is in theaters, speculation over a sequel can only increase while this weekend's box office is tallied. Vaughn has already expressed interest in helming a sequel, explaining an idea for a sequel that would include the X-Men in the JFK assassination. All it would take for a sequel is for the movie to be a success.
James McAvoy, who plays Professor X in First Class, told The LA Times that while he hopes a First Class sequel is made "because they found a story they like," the actor admits that he has ideas about what should happen in a sequel.
What would McAvoy like to see in a sequel? >> Posted 06.03.11 by Ryan -
Today's Challenge: X-Men: First Class, starring James McAvoy, opens nationwide today and Beginners, with Ewan McGregor, opens in limited release. Can you find a movie link to connect the two leading men?
Our first Facebook movie game, ClusterFlick, plays off that old "six degrees of separation" theory — you know, the one that has a certain Kevin at the center of the Hollywood universe. It's easy to play, but not so easy to win. The goal is to use the major cast of movies to get from Point A to Point B in the smallest number of moves.
Play ClusterFlick >>
Posted 06.03.11 by reelz -
While it's hard to ignore that Thor is the comic book movie of the moment, X-Men: First Class will follow in June and Fox is keeping the promotional machine working on all cylinders. Last month saw the release of a new theatrical trailer and photos, a series of international trailers and posters, and a TV spot, to name a few.
The latest First Class promos come from MTV in the form of character videos that give a brief introduction to the characters of Beast (Nicholas Hoult), Havok (Lucas Till), and Banshee (Caleb Landry Jones). The videos offer new footage of each character, particularly Banshee, who hasn't shown up too often in the movie's trailers.
watch the videos >> Posted 05.05.11 by Ryan -
While the trailer and TV spot for director Matthew Vaughn's upcoming X-Men prequel, X-Men: First Class, shows a potentially exciting comic book movie, the posters have seemed like an afterthought.
The poster campaign started innocently enough, with a teaser poster that featured the school crest for Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters. Two character posters followed, one which showed Charles Xavier, a.k.a. Professor X (James McAvoy), standing in front of the Xavier School, and another that showed Erik Lensherr, a.k.a. Magneto (Michael Fassbender), standing in front of a concentration camp — a part of the character's origin that was first explored in 2000's X-Men.
more about First Class' posters >> Posted 04.19.11 by Ryan -
Plans for Wanted 2 began as soon as Wanted scored $341 million in worldwide box office in 2008. Bringing back the principal cast would be difficult, but, a year later, director Timur Bekmambetov revealed that he had devised a plan that would bring back Angelina Jolie, even after her character perished in the original movie (sorry if that's a spoiler, but, really, the movie came out in 2008).
Whatever Bekmambetov's plan was, Jolie obviously wasn't in love with it, and pulled out of the sequel last February (she later explained that she preferred to stay dead since her character did, in fact, die). A decision was made to move on without Jolie, with comic book creator Mark Millar revealing that he didn't see why they couldn't replace Jolie's character with "another cool character."
More recently, Bekmambetov revealed last August that they were "discussing Wanted 2 every month" and that progress might resume the director finishes work on his upcoming adaptation of Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. Millar countered less positively a month later, remarking that "if it happens, great. If it doesn’t, I’m not bothered."
IGN recently spoke to Wanted actor James McAvoy about the possibility of Wanted 2, and McAvoy's comments didn't sound like a sequel was around the corner.
Wanted 2 without McAvoy? >> Posted 04.15.11 by Ryan -
Tom Hanks is officially set to star in Cloud Atlas, the adaptation of David Mitchell novel comprised of six interconnected stories that span from 1850 to the end of civilization far in the future. Hanks was rumored to appear in the movie last November when Halle Berry spilled that she, Hanks, and Natalie Portman were going to appear in the movie.
Director Tom Tykwer (Run Lola Run, The International) was originally adapting the book for producers Andy and Lana Wachowski (The Matrix), but Deadline reports that Tykwer and the Wachowskis will write and co-direct the movie.
what's Cloud atlas about? >> Posted 04.14.11 by Ryan -
Director Matthew Vaughn's upcoming X-Men prequel, X-Men: First Class, is less than two months away from release and, from all the promotional material released so far, is about the friendship between Professor X (James McAvoy) and Magneto (Michael Fassbender) and its inevitable dissolution. While that scenario follows comic book lore, McAvoy explained to Italian site Comicus that the catalyst for the friendship split differs from X-Men comic book history.
It’s about the burgeoning tension between these two characters, Erik Lehnsherr, played by Michael Fassbender, and my character, Charles Xavier. And on a greater level, it’s about where this new species of mutants is going to go. It can go two ways: they can regard themselves as the next step of human evolution or they can regard themselves as an entirely new species in conflict with humanity.I think Charles regards himself as a human who has evolved—an evolutionary human. And Sebastian Shaw, played by Kevin Bacon, regards himself as somebody who is vying for the finite resources of the world with an entirely different species: human beings. He doesn’t regard himself as one.
So the film becomes about whether Erik will fall on that side or Charles Xavier’s side. And in terms of the comic books he goes back and forth, really, for a long, long time. It’s not like the eternal constant war you think it is in the movies, where Ian McKellen has always been the bad guy.
what could happen in a First Class sequel? >> Posted 04.13.11 by Ryan -
Screenwriter Steve Kloves, who worked on seven of the eight Harry Potter movies, was brought in to polish the script for the upcoming live-action adaptation of Akira, Warner Bros. is looking to cast the two leads of the movie.
Based on the popular, Japanese manga series by Katsuhiro Otomo, follows Shotaro Kaneda, the leader of a biker gang in a dystopian Tokyo, who has to stop his best friend Tetsuo Shima after he gains psychic abilities that slowly send him over the edge. Akira was adapted into the, now classic, animated version in 1988.
who's up for the roles? >> Posted 03.22.11 by Ryan -
The first trailer for X-Men: First Class was released last month and included footage of almost all the mutants in action, including Lucas Till as Alex Summers, aka Havok, blasting away, Nicholas Hoult as Beast both with and without fur and January Jones as Emma Frost changing into her diamond skin form, to name a few.
The Russian trailer revealed even more footage, including the first look at Caleb Landry Jones as Banshee using his sonic powers, more of Hoult's transformation into Beast, James McAvoy as Professor X in the fire-filled room depicted in the latest still image, and Michael Fassbender entering the icy blue hall of mirrors shown in a previously released image.
Watch the trailer >> Posted 03.15.11 by Ryan