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Daily Record
16-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Record
Hamilton cinema launches special X-Men screening season
The showings at Vue Hamilton celebrate this year's 25th anniversary Hamilton's cinema is hosting a 'marvellous superhero' season – bringing back classic X-Men films to the big screen to mark the 25th anniversary of the beloved franchise's debut. Vue's month of special screenings showcases Marvel's mutant team including favourites such as Cyclops, Storm, Professor X and Hugh Jackman as Wolverine – with film fans, families and comic book enthusiasts invited to rediscover the original big screen superhero team. Special screenings at the Palace Grounds cinema begin from today, Friday May 16, with screenings of X-Men and X-Men 2 and continue all the way through until June. The programme begins this weekend with X-Men and X-Men 2 introducing moviegoers to the characters' world where 'Professor Charles Xavier and his band of heroes must protect the world, and mutant-kind themselves, from the evil forces such as Sabretooth, William Stryker and the legendary villain Magneto, starring Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen. Next at the Hamilton cinema, the series' First Class and Days of Future Past movies will be screened from Friday, June 6, 'revisiting the origins behind the friendship and mortal adversary between Professor X and Magneto. this time played by James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender, [and] dives back into the 1960s and 70s to explain how the team originally learned how to control their powers'. The beloved final tale starring Hugh Jackman's Wolverine Logan, where the character embarks on 'a claws-out adventure with a mysterious young girl who is showing similar mutant powers to him' will be on the big screen on Friday, June 13. Vue Hamilton general manager Tracy Wanless said: 'With fantastic stories and climatic action sequences, superhero films have easily become one of the most popular genres to catch up on the big screen. 'We're hugely excited to bring one of the first franchises to start it all, The X-Men, back to Vue – offering a way for families and fans to enjoy their favourite mutant moment. Whether you're a fan of the original films, the prequel versions of the team or just excited to rewatch these adventures before the X-Men show up in the MCU with Avengers: Doomsday next year, we welcome fans to enjoy these films as they're meant to be seen on the big screen at Vue.' * Don't miss the latest headlines from around Lanarkshire. Sign up to our newsletters here. And did you know Lanarkshire Live is on Facebook? Head on over and give us a like and share!
The Independent
08-04-2025
- Entertainment
- The Independent
Alan Cumming's X-Men character transformation drastically reduced in Avengers: Doomsday
Last month the official cast for the new Avengers: Doomsday, was announced with numerous stars returning to the Marvel Cinematic Universe including Florence Pugh, Pedro Pascal, Paul Rudd and Robert Downey Jr. Among the surprise names confirmed for the film were various X-Men actors such as Alan Cumming, James Marsden, Ian McKellan, Patrick Stewart, Rebecca Romijn and Kelsey Grammer who previously starred in the movies produced by 20 Century Fox. Cumming, who played Nightcrawler/Kurt Wagner in 2003's X2: X-Men United recently said during an interview on Today With Jenna and Friends that he has already begun makeup tests for the forthcoming blockbuster. When talking about his return to screen, Cumming said: 'It's been 23 years since I was a superhero. I've had some makeup tests already for the role, but what's great about it was that before it was about four and a half hours to apply it, but now it's only 90 minutes.' Nightcrawler has a distinctive appearance with his blue tattooed skin. The outfit Cumming had to wear had several harnesses for components like his tail. He also had to put on fake teeth and contact lenses to achieve Nightcrawler's otherworldly look. Back in 2003, all of Nightcrawler's tattoos were drawn by hand but Cumming says that they are now simply just stuck to his face which he has called a 'gamechanger'. Audiences have only seen Nightcrawler on-screen once. The character did not return for X-Men sequels such as The Last Stand or Days of Future Past. Cumming went viral in 2024 for calling X2: X-Men United the 'gayest film' he'd ever worked on in his career. He added: 'It's got a queer director, lots of queer actors in it. I love the fact that something so mainstream and so in the comic book world is so queer.' This received an overwhelmingly positive response from X-Men screenwriter David Hayter who told TMZ: 'I'm so glad we did right by him. He's such an icon for gay rights. Ian McKellen also really recognised the allegory of it from a gay perspective.' When talking about his experience on X2, Cumming said: 'It's an allegory about queerness, about people having these great gifts and really great, powerful things that they have to hide to exist. Queer people understand what that's all about.'
Yahoo
27-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
YAHOO POLL: Are you excited about the original X-Men returning?
It's an X-tradordinary reunion – geddit? Avengers: Doomsday just announced its cast in a nearly six-hour livestream and the biggest surprise was the return of the original X-Men from the 20th Century Fox era. Patrick Stewart (Professor X), Ian McKellEn (Magneto), Alan Cumming (Nightcrawler), Rebecca Romijn (Mystique), James Marsden (Cyclops), and Kelsey Grammer (Beast) have been confirmed to return. Notably missing from the list, though, is Halle Berry who played Storm – and reprised her role for Days of Future Past – and Famke Janssen who played Jean Grey. That, of course, is a separate story all together. YAHOO POLL: Do you think the colour-coded dishes for economy rice will help? YAHOO POLL: Should people be punished for inappropriately handling animals? YAHOO POLL: Do you prefer the wet, cold weather or the hot season? When we asked Yahoo Singapore readers last month about whether they're still interested in the MCU, considering how Captain America: Brave New World didn't fare too well at the box office, 39 per cent of the 714 respondents (as of press time) said no. Interestingly, 16 per cent felt that the MCU needed to do something fast. Well, could this perhaps be the spark to reignite the interest? We want to hear from you – Are you excited about the original X-Men returning? Have your say and take the poll. Related: Avengers: Doomsday full cast revealed: Chris Hemsworth, Channing Tatum, Florence Pugh, Anthony Mackie and more Gwyneth Paltrow says she 'might' return to Marvel films VIDEO: Pedro Pascal visibly flustered as Jimmy Kimmel asks which body parts Mr. Fantastic can stretch
