‘New Mutants’ Comics Co-Creator Complains Movie Whitewashes Character, Misspells His Name

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.

Bradley Cooper is covered in fake blood while filming a scene for the upcoming Untitled Paul Thomas Anderson Project.

“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.

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.

“Logan”) and critical ire (“Dark Phoenix”). It also gave us big stars.

Eli Countryman Bob McLeod, the “New Mutants” comic series’ co-creator, took to Facebook Friday to express his concerns over the new film, including white-washing and the misspelling of his own name in the credits.“I was very excited when I heard they were making a New Mutants movie,” his Facebook post starts.

Tom Tapp Deputy Managing EditorLast week, California Governor Gavin Newsom said he would release modify reopening guidelines for counties in the state of California.On Friday, he made good on that promise, revealing a new framework with four tiers with colors attached to them to indicate severity.The governor described the new framework as “simple, stringent and slow.”Case rates and test positivity rates will be the metrics that will determine movement within the tiers which, in terms of

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.

Peter Debruge Chief Film CriticIt used to be that multiple delays to a movie’s release date were a sign that something was wrong with the project. But in the case of Josh Boone’s “The New Mutants,” it’s the fact that even a global coronavirus pandemic isn’t forcing the movie to budge from its drop-dead Aug.