Matthew Vaughn has revealed that he and James McAvoy have clashed over the closing of the UK Film Council. The X-Men: First Class director admitted that McAvoy became annoyed upon hearing of his support for the axing, which he believed would help the industry develop a better organisation. However, he insisted that it has not [...]

During an interview with Ain’t It Cool News, Singer confirmed that the film will be set in the 1960s — with John F. Kennedy as the President and Martin Luther King and Malcolm X leading the Civil Rights movement — and that “First Class” will invoke the Silver Age of Marvel Comics in terms of [...]

Watch Justin Long talk about working with James McAvoy on The Conspirator during his Going The Distance press junket here

Wanted 2. “We are discussing Wanted 2 every month. We are working on it now, but I think it will be after Lincoln because James (McAvoy) is working on the X-Men: First Class… It’s why I decided to develop Lincoln without a studio, to keep control. It’s a big movie but independent too.” Source

“Damages” star Rose Byrne is in negotiations to join the cast of Fox’s “X-Men First Class,” being directed by Matthew Vaughn. Fox is gearing up for a London shoot at the end of this month and zeroing on the last key pieces of its important franchise. The movie, whose story line remains under wraps, focuses [...]

Angelina Jolie has revealed that she accepted a role in the 2008 action movie Wanted because she wanted to act alongside James McAvoy. The actress, who played assassin Fox in the film, insisted that she thought that it would be an interesting concept to have the two of them starring in a movie together, reports [...]

TV, film and theatre stars last night demanded the Tories scrap plans to ditch the UK Film Council. More than 50 household names including Emily Blunt, James McAvoy and Bill Nighy warned it would not just harm the economy but the “whole British film industry”. In a joint letter, they wrote that David Cameron’s decision [...]

IGN had an opportunity to speak with director Matthew Vaughn about this week’s DVD and Blu-ray release of Kick-Ass, but of course we couldn’t resist getting in some questions about his next project, X-Men: First Class. Vaughn, speaking on the phone from Pinewood Studios in London, where he’s in pre-production on the film, said that [...]

Matthew Vaughn‘s X-Men: First Class has a lot going for it. The stellar cast includes Alice Eve, James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Nicholas Hoult and Kevin Bacon. Vaughn even spoke with IGN recently saying he is taking a note from J.J. Abrams‘ Star Trek who “made a fantastically exciting reinvention of that world, with [...]

The first pics from the new Miramax will be: – “Gnomeo & Juliet,” set for a wide release Feb. 11: There was a question about whether this family film about warring indoor and outdoor gnomes would be included because Disney was so high on it. Now in postproduction, it was produced by London-based Rocket Pictures, [...]