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Paul Giamatti, Billy Bob Thornton and Jacki Weaver Join JFK Drama; Josh Duhamel Eyes You're Not You: Biz Break

Paul Giamatti, Billy Bob Thornton and Jacki Weaver Join JFK Drama; Josh Duhamel Eyes You're Not You: Biz Break

Also in Wednesday morning's round-up of news briefs, film critic/festival programmer Scott Foundas joins the Village Voice's publications; Gerard Butler eyes a WWII-era drama; and Bryan Singer is confirmed for X-Men.
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Bryan Singer To Direct Prequel Sequel 'X-Men: Days Of Future Past'

Bryan Singer To Direct Prequel Sequel 'X-Men: Days Of Future Past'

The most interesting part of Bryan Singer's return to the X-Men franchise he helped launch is that in directing X-Men: Days Of Future Past," the sequel to Matthew Vaughn's 1962-set prequel X-Men: First Class, he'll have helmed films in different sub-series timelines within the same franchise.
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Bryan Singer Loves The Internet's Bryan Singer Parodies

Bryan Singer Parody

"Why don't people send this stuff to me?!" Bryan Singer cries through laughter, watching YouTube parodies of his films, including X-Men, The Usual Suspects, and Jack the Giant Killer. It's kind of adorable. Welcome to the internet, Bryan Singer!
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Watch the Jack the Giant Killer Trailer: Beanstalk Blockbuster?

The fairytale action subgenre gets another entry next summer when Bryan Singer's CG-fantasy take on the Jack and the Beanstalk tale hits screens, with fresh-scrubbed Nicholas Hoult in the lead. That officially makes it "from the director of X-Men," starring that one kid who was in that other X-Men movie -- no, not X2. Or X3. The other one. Get your flaming tree catapults and Jurassic Park moment after the jump in the new trailer for Jack the Giant Killer.

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Matthew Vaughn Has Eyjafjallajökull to Thank for X-Men: First Class Directing Gig

Matthew Vaughn Has Eyjafjallajökull to Thank for X-Men: First Class Directing Gig

When X-Men: First Class producer Bryan Singer was looking for a director to take the helm of the X-Men franchise, he had "hundreds of names" on his list of candidates for the gig - but Matthew Vaughn wasn't initially one of them. And then a little volcano with an unpronounceable name grounded cross-Atlantic flights, leading to a chance meeting between Singer and Vaughn facilitated by none other than Vaughn's Kick-Ass star, Aaron Johnson.

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X-Men: First Class Sequels Could Explore Hippie-Era '60s, '70s and '80s

X-Men: First Class Sequels Could Explore Hippie-Era '60s, '70s and '80s

Everyone seems to love the retro '60s vibe of Matthew Vaughn's X-Men: First Class. But do we really want to see Professor Xavier, Magneto, and Co. slogging through the not-quite-as-fashionable 1970s and 1980s in potential sequel story lines? (Think hard about this. On the one hand: Magneto in bellbottoms doing lines with Emma Frost at Studio 54. On the other: Dazzler.)

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