Avengers Vs X-Men: The Arc Released In Time For The Avenger Film

The final battle! Again! (Via)

Looks like Marvel's really trying to be blunt. In a a twelve-issue series/arc that's literally called Avengers Vs X-men we see the return of the Phoenix entity, who is rocketing toward Earth looking for a new host (which USA Today teases might be Hope Summers, the young girl considered both the messiah and the harbinger of doom for the mutant race AND daughter of Cable). The lines are drawn as the X-Men want to prepare Hope for her new role as Phoenix, while the Avengers want to spare her from that fate. A giant fight will follow.

The writers will be writing in rotation. Brian Bendis, Matt Fraction, Jason Aaron, Ed Brubaker, and Jonathan Hickman have been confirmed. The same goes for the artists with John Romita Jr., Oliver Coipel and Adam Kubert in the bank. It's an interesting idea but it sounds like it could become a bit of a mess, like Fear Itself and most other crossover arcs Marvel have put out over the few years. I'm interested but lets put excitement on the back-buner for this one.

The series will launch sometime in April 2012, and I'm guessing a movie adaptation/Capcom fighting game might follow soon after.

Wolverine Movie Spin-off Sequel Confirmed

At the Comic-Con panel for his upcoming robot boxing movie Real Steel, X-Men star Hugh Jackman revealed that the villain of the next Wolverine movie -- a 2012 film tentatively titled The Wolverine -- will be familiar nemesis Silver Samurai. First appearing in Daredevil #111 (1974), he is a mutant with the ability to generate a tachyon energy field from within his body. He typically focuses this field through his sword, allowing it to cut through almost any substance. Basically the power of being bad-***.

This confirms that the movie is happening & that the story will revolve around Japan, and possibly Logan's time in Japan, long rumoured to be in production. I really hope they don't drop the ball like with X-Men Origins. That piece of s*** really didn't even try to be a good film, and I've never meet anyone who has enjoyed it. At least it couldn't be worse, right?

X-Men: First Class Gets First Class Fan Opening Titles

The new X-Men film is set in the Sixties. So why not create a title sequence in the style of the films from that era? Joe D! decided to give it a go, and the result is just stunning.
Set during the midst of the Cuba Missile Crisis, X-Men: First Class tells the story of the first team coming together, before they would become the heroes and villains we know from the original X-Men Trilogy.

In his own words:
This sequence was designed to give a very brief primer on the time period, the setting, as well as show the relationships of the characters in this film, as they are very different from the previous movies and audiences shouldn't be confused as to why Professor X and Magneto, enemies in the original trilogy, are the best of friend in this prequel.

Super Punch held a contest redesigning the posters for the film, which played it safe by sticking very close to the correlation to the original trilogy, and winding up rather mundane compared to the slick trailer rife with espionage, red fear, and 60s hair. Several people were quick to make posters in the Mod, Saul Bass, and James Bond style that I had in mind, so it was decided that I'd make a title sequence instead.

X-men: First Class will be released internationally on the 3rd of June.

X-Men: First Class Posters

If only they looked down!  This entire film could have been avoided.  Alas, they didn't and we have these awesome posters for the future release of X-Men: First Class, showing Charles and Erik in their prime and the future glimpsed in the reflection of the puddle.  Beautiful work.
X-Men: First Class is scheduled for release on June 3, 2011.