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X-Men Origins: Wolverine

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A Moment of Silence for the Kitty Pryde Movie, Destroyed by Wolverine: Origins

by Susana Polo | 1:59 pm, April 3rd, 2013

I’ll be the first person to stand up and defend Wolverine: Origins as a solidly entertaining movie with almost zero nutritional value. The fact is, that after X-Men: The Last Stand, the last thing I wanted was a movie that tried to get all philosophical with its mutant metaphor and instead presented its main characters as amoral hypocrites. I was perfectly ready for what Wolverine turned out to be: Hugh Jackman, a series of awkward celebrity cameos, and a See’s Candy assortment of gleefully wire-fu fight scenes strung along on the thinnest of plots like brightly colored beads on a wire.

But I’d be perfectly willing to trade Wolverine: Origins for a Kitty Pryde movie from all of the people who brought us Juno, because oh my gosh what would that movie even be like?

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Power Grid

7 Ways to Save The X-Men Franchise From Itself (Or At Least Give It a Kick in the Pants)

by Zoe Chevat | 12:52 pm, September 26th, 2012

With a new official image from upcoming sequel prequel (?) The Wolverine surfacing all over the nerd ‘Net – not to mention announcements about the sequel prequel (ok, we need a word for these) to X-Men: First Class – it got me thinking about my favorite group of neurotic post-humans and how things are going for them at the box office. While the fact that we even need a word for the sequel to a prequel makes me want to burn my film degree and run screaming into the woods… it’s also a symptom of the larger diseases plaguing the X-franchise.

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Cautiously Optimistic

Ready Your Claws: Hugh Jackman To Begin Filming Wolverine In Three Weeks

by Kellie Foxx-Gonzalez | 2:46 pm, July 5th, 2012

Our favorite adamantium-coated mutant is set to return to the big screen soon, hopefully in a feature film not quite as terrible as X-Men Origins: Wolverine.

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Excelsior!

James Marsden Thinks the World Could Use a Cyclops Movie

by Jamie Frevele | 4:15 pm, December 23rd, 2011

According to James Marsden, who played Scott Summers/Cyclops in the first two X-Men movies, those first two movies didn’t have a whole lot of James Marsden in them. At least he didn’t think so. So he thinks it’s high time Hollywood made a movie about Cyclops and only Cyclops. Now, it understandable for an actor to feel like he may have been overshadowed in a big ensemble film. But is it the right time to throw around the idea of a Cyclops movie? Considering we just got over X-Men Origins: Wolverine? It might be too soon, James Marsden. Too soon. Or too late.

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Foolish Samurai Warrior

Man Going To Prison For Pirating X-Men Origins: Wolverine

by Jill Pantozzi | 11:46 am, December 20th, 2011

A man from New York has been sentenced to a year in federal prison for downloading and distributing Fox’s X-Men Origins: Wolverine before it was released in theaters. He’s now wondering why Cable wasn’t sent back from the future to tell him not to bother. 

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Cautiously Optimistic

Hugo Star Offered The Title Role In Ender’s Game

by Jill Pantozzi | 2:03 pm, November 18th, 2011

Orson Scott Card’s science-fiction novel Ender’s Game has been in Hollywood’s pipeline for a little while now and it seems they may have finally found their star. Asa Butterfield, star of Martin Scorsese’s upcoming Hugo has been offered the role of Ender.

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the internet is serious business

Guy Who Leaked X-Men Origins: Wolverine Before Release Faces Prison

by Jamie Frevele | 12:26 pm, April 1st, 2011

Not an April Fool’s Day joke: Bootlegs might land you in prison. Back in 2009, Gilberto Sanchez bought a bootleg of X-Men Origins: Wolverine off the street and uploaded it to MegaUpload weeks before its official May 1 release. He was arrested and pleaded guilty to “one count of uploading a copyrighted work being prepared for commercial distribution.” Now, he faces sentencing on September 19, which could mean three years in prison and/or a $250,000 fine or “twice the gross gain or gross loss attributable to the offense, whichever is greater.” Yikes. But what’s a little disturbing about this is that Sanchez was not the person initially responsible for the leak. That person has yet to be found.

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