X-Men: First Class

In an online era where non-domestic movie trailer bonuses can sometimes seem... underwhelming to say the least, Russia's new X-Men: First Class promo footage is substantial enough to click with confidence. Sure, there's only 20 or so seconds of extra footage in the Russian trailer, but in that brief span viewers get more Magneto, Banshee, Havok and a friggin' jetpack...

Movies: Havok (played by Lucas Till) seems more like a Pyro in a new X-Men: First Class image. Webcomics: Wired UK reveals that Angry Birds co-founder Mikael Hed wrote a webcomic series called August Jessor in a past life -- like, way back in 2007...

Movies: Warner Bros. has cast Diane Lane to play Martha Kent in Zack Snyder's upcoming Superman film starring Henry Cavill. Shows: Giant Robot SF's Game Over 4 gallery opens Friday, March 4 and will run through the 30th. It's lovely stuff...

Movies: Two new posters from X-Men: First Class show Charles and Erik in their prime. If only they'd have looked into their reflections in puddles of water and glimpsed the future. So much fighting could have been avoided. TV: AMC will air a six-episode marathon of the entire first season of The Walking Dead this Friday, March 4 starting at 8 p...

We've paid our share of attention to Diamond Select Toys and Art Asylum's Marvel movie Minimates based on Captain America: The First Avenger, Thor and X-Men: First Class, but there's plenty of comics-centric 'mates rolling out in 2011. Thanks to the Toy Fair shutterbugs at ASM, you can check out images of upcoming Minimates from the X-Men comics' "First Class," "Mutants Vs... Read

X-Men: First Class may not be getting specialized Marvel Universe or Marvel Legends lines from Hasbro in the immediate future, but leave it to the omnipresent Art Asylum to deliver likenesses of the film's cast in the form of Minimates in the coming months...

After a long day of Facebook teasers, 20th Century Fox as finally unleashed its first trailer for Matthew Vaughn's X-Men: First Class. Set to arrive in theaters on June 3, First Class tells the story of how mutant leaders Charles "Professor" Xavier and Erik "Magneto" Lehnsherr became divided in their perspectives on human/mutant relations during the pivotal decade of the 1960s.

While it didn't seem like anybody was super into this week's fake-then-just-kidding-it's-real-but-hi-res group shot depicting a swatch of costumed mutants from Matthew Vaughn's upcoming X-Men: First Class, a few new photos from HeroComplex plus a new poster image seem to have dulled fandom's initial shock...

Webcomics: If you needed another reason to attend the Axe Cop One Year Anniversary Celebration coming up at Meltdown Comics in LA on January 27, the event will feature the premiere of the live action Axe Cop fan movie by Australian fan Peter Muehlenberg of Episode One...

In an apparent obvious effort to toy with the collective comics/movie blogosphere, MSN Entertainment posted and pulled a pretty dubious image depicting the cast of X-Men: First Class earlier today. Now, thanks to internet immortality, you can still see Michael Fassbender (Magneto), Rose Byrne (Moira MacTaggert), January Jones (Emma Frost), Jason Flemyng (Azazel), Nicholas Hoult (Beast), Lucas T