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After months of magazine covers, viral marketing campaigns, and loving portraits of Peter Dinklage as Bolivar Trask, X-Men fans are finally getting another chance to see X-Men: Days of Future Past's massive cast of characters in action via a brand new trailer. Check out two-and-a-half minutes of Patrick Stewart narrating and Ian McKellen expositioning after the jump!

The news that Paul Rudd will play Hank Pym in the 2015 Ant-Man movie is the latest piece of inspired casting from Marvel Studios. Rudd will bring charm, humor and an appealing eye-twinkle to what may prove to be Marvel's most comedic movie under writer Joe Cornish and writer-director Edgar Wright. Marvel characters have found tremendous success on the big screen, both in Marvel's own "in-house" movies such as the Avengers line and in those produced by other studios, such as the Wolverine/X-Men films. Bringing an established character to the screen is an unusual challenge because readers have a strong idea of what they want to see, and actors want to bring something new to the role. ComicsAlliance offers its view on the performers who pulled this off best.

  This weekend's X-Men: Days of Future Past panel at Comic-Con featured four actors who play two mutants: Patrick Stewart and James McAvoy, who have portrayed Professor Charles Xavier in four combined films, and Sir Ian McKellen and Michael Fassbender, two actors who've starred as the mutant revolutionary Magneto. Following that, in a clever bit of advertising, 20th Century Fox has released the f

  For X-Men: Days of Future Past, everything old is new again. (And maybe vice-versa.) A set of character portraits -- mostly for characters we've seen, such as Professor X, Wolverine and Magneto, one for Bishop, who's making his movie debut -- hit the comics Internet this week. They offer up a glimpse of the new costumes the movie will feature, as well as a look at the new and old versions of Wol

Responding to yesterday's news that Sir Ian "Magneto/Gandalf" McKellen will be officiating Sir Patrick "Professor X/Jean-Luc Picard" Stewart's wedding to his fiancee, singer Sunny Ozell, Taiwanese animation machine NMA has put together a report fit for fans of, well, everything remotely kinda nerdy...

Video: Pawel "Sariel" Kmiec has some serious Technic when it comes to building a Lego The Dark Knight Tumbler. Manga: Viz is offering 20 percent off "all digital manga (graphic novel) titles featured on VIZManga.com and available through the VIZ Manga App," now through January 8...

In our latest series of super-hero movie reviews, Chris Sims and Matt Wilson take on the films chosen by you, the readers: X-Men!   Chris Sims: Welcome back to our discussion of X2: X-Men United, the super-hero movie with twice as many X-es in the title than the leading brand! Whe...

In our latest series of super-hero movie reviews, Chris Sims and Matt Wilson take on the films chosen by you, the readers: X-Men! Chris Sims: Welcome back to ComicsAlliance's in-depth review of the X-Men film series, everyone! This week, we're starting in on X-Men 2 -- or to use its proper (and extremely stupid) title, X2: X-Men United...

In our latest series of super-hero movie reviews, Chris Sims and Matt Wilson take on the films chosen by you, the readers: X-Men!   Chris Sims: Welcome back to ComicsAlliance's review of X-Men! When we last left off, Senator Kelly had just been turned into a jellyfish-man with no butt-crack, and Magneto had kidnapped Rogue for use in his dastardly plan! Joi...

In our latest series of super-hero movie reviews, we take on the films chosen by you, the readers: X-Men! Chris Sims: I was convinced that the Punisher franchise or Jean-Claude Van Damme's Street Fighter was going to win, but when we let our readers vote on which film series would be the next subject of ComicsAlliance's in-depth review series, the response was overwhelming: The X-Men won in a land