‘New Mutants’ Comics Co-Creator Bob McLeod Blasts Film for Misspelling His Name, Whitewashing Character

A few years ago, the X-Men film series looked nearly unstoppable, notching a variety of tonally distinct and well-reviewed hits like Deadpool, Logan, and X-Men: Days of Future Past. The New Mutants was supposed to be another string to the franchise’s bow, a more intimate and YA-inflected horror story about a fresh team of super-powered youngsters.

Arnold Schwarzenegger is heading to TV for the first time ever. Well, the first time since he hosted “Celebrity Apprentice,” but that was a dark time that we’re going to pretend never happened.

Also Read: 'The New Mutants' Earns $7 Million Opening Weekend as Theater Reopenings ContinueHBO and Fox have a longstanding output deal that gives the pay cable network first-run TV rights, that is currently set to expire in 2022. Even after the Fox acquisition in 2019, that deal still remained in place.

grossed $53 million, an impressive figure given the fact that some audience members likely steered clear of multiplexes due to public health concerns.When “Tenet” opens in the U.S. this week, it will only be available in markets where theaters have been allowed to reopen.

Editor’s Note: ‘The New Mutants’ was reviewed after a public screening at a drive-in theater. Given the ongoing health concerns regarding COVID-19, we recommend listening to experts and understanding the facts before deciding to go to a theater.

“The New Mutants” hasn’t exactly been drowning in praise, with the new “X-Men” spinoff movie receiving downright horrible reviews (Forbes, for example, derided the film as “the worst ‘X-Men’ movie ever”).

Artist Bob McLeod, who co-created The New Mutants with writer Chris Claremont, is speaking out.

Josh Boone, the director and co-writer of the new X-Men spinoff movie The New Mutants, has deleted his Instagram page.

Despite thousands of theaters both in the U.S. and abroad still closed, the biggest movies of the summer are making big first impressions at the box office, as moviegoing resumes in North America and blockbusters return to the screen.

You would think that after a week of bad press for “The New Mutants,” which included director Josh Boone defending the film’s whitewashing of an Afro-Latino character, reports of Fox nearly throwing the entire thing in the garbage to start over, and reviews calling it “the worst ‘X-Men‘” movie yet, the film would finally find some peace now that it’s finally in theaters. You’d be wrong.

Dave McNary Film ReporterWith North American moviegoing slowly resuming, the X-Men spinoff “The New Mutants” opened with a solid $3.1 million at 2,412 locations on Friday.That first-day figure portends a weekend opening in line with Disney’s forecast of $7 million to $10 million.

Peter Debruge Chief Film CriticToo late to salvage a summer movie season wiped out by coronavirus, but boldly hoping to bring audiences back to cinemas (or drive-ins at least), a handful of movies are opening widely this weekend — or as widely as they can in a country where many communities are still restricting public gatherings.If time travel were a real thing, one might hope that air-guitar aces Bill and Ted would have warned the world this pandemic were coming.

#JoshBoone erased everything I contributed to the way the characters look.”McLeod’s name was also misspelled in the movie’s credits. “And now, the movie has come out at last, and apparently they’ve credited someone named Bob Macleod as co-creator.

The Fox ‘X-Men’ franchise is now over. And thank the lord! No, I don’t say that as someone who hates superhero movies and wishes they’d all go away.

Charlie Heaton admits. The «it» in question is, a Marvel movie so long-delayed it has achieved urban legend status, about a band of mutant misfits (played by Anya Taylor-Joy, Maisie Williams, Henry Zaga, Blu Hunt and Heaton) grappling with their newfound powers.The skepticism is understandable: was originally slated for release in 2018.

any film is worth the risk inherent in venturing to a movie theater. I won’t presume to answer that question on anyone else’s behalf, but suffice to say that “New Mutants” isn’t exactly a groundbreaking cinematic experience.

“The New Mutants,” the long-delayed superhero movie from 20th Century Studios that’s set in the X-Men universe and stars Maisie Williams and Anya Taylor-Joy, made $750,000 in Thursday night previews as audiences returned to the box office in earnest for one of the first times in months.In all, just 62% of the domestic marketplace of movie theaters is open across the country, and “The New Mutants” did not play in California, New York, New Jersey, Arizona (partial), North Carolina, Michigan,

For years now (literally), we’ve discussed the behind-the-scenes drama that has gone on regarding “The New Mutants.” The last remaining piece of the Fox/Marvel puzzle, which was originally supposed to be released in 2018 and is now arriving tomorrow, has been written about time and time again regarding the reports of disagreements between the studio and filmmaker Josh Boone and planned reshoots that were supposed to overhaul the film but never happened.