Filmmaker Simon Kinberg follows up 2019's X-Men: Dark Phoenix with the new spy thriller The 355, which stars Jessica Chastain, Penélope Cruz, Lupita Nyong’o, Diane Kruger, and Bingbing Fan.

Simon Kinberg has been hired to write and produce Universal's Battlestar Galactica movie, Collider has confirmed. While Kinberg co-wrote and produced flops such as Josh Trank's infamous Fantastic Four movie as well as X-Men: Apocalypse, and X-Men: Dark Phoenix -- the latter of which he also directed -- he has also been involved with some really good movies. Kinberg produced Logan, The Martian and X-Men: First Class, plus a couple of less successful sci-fi movies that I still really enjoyed, like Chappie and Elysium. Fellow tentpole veteran Dylan Clark (Rise of the Planet of the …

We're watching X-Men: Days of Future Past with screenwriter-producer Simon Kinberg joining IGN hosts Akeem Lawanson and Joshua Yehl on May 26th at 5 p.m. PT!

The Big Little Lies actress and the director of Dark Phoenix are teaming up for a unique new sci-fi tale.

Reese Witherspoon is attached to yet another exciting movie. This time, she's reportedly teaming with Dark Phoenix director Simon Kinberg on an in-development sci-fi film that is currently sparking a bidding war among studios. According to Deadline, Witherspoon and Kinberg have joined forces on an adaptation of Thomas Pierce's short story "Tardy Man," which originally appeared in The New Yorker in 2018. The working title for the film right now is Pyros. The project marks a rare trip into the sci-fi/fantasy genre for Witherspoon, whose last movie of this ilk was the Ava DuVernay-…

Dark Phoenix had a brutal opening weekend. The would-be blockbuster culmination of Fox's decades-long X-Men franchise fizzled out at the box office with just $32.8 million -- an all-time low for the franchise -- despite a star-studded cast and one of the most recognizable titles in the X-Men legacy. On the heels of the disappointing debut, writer/director Simon Kinberg gave a candid, classy interview on KCRW's The Business podcast, diving into how release date shuffles and the Disney-Fox merger impacted the film's journey and why he's not using any …

The X-Men film series ended on a low note with Dark Phoenix.

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Dark Phoenix clearly went through a bit of reshoots, especially in its third act finale. Apparently the original finale resembled too much of another movie, and while some have speculated that it resembles Captain Marvel, writer-director Simon Kinberg tells io9 that the original ending was closer to Captain America: Civil War: My original ending didn’t have the entire X-Family together the way they are in the film now. More than Captain Marvel, you could see a lot of Civil War in that ending. Usually, these big, huge action movies have the climactic moment in the third act. …

This will be the first of the main X-Men movies not to include the clawed mutant.

The director had the backing of some big actors to take the helm of the final X-Men film.

This actually makes sense.

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