X-Men: Dark Phoenix, New Mutants & Deadpool 2 All Coming In 2018

Next year, we hit peak superhero season.

By Simon Gallagher /

Fox

Despite Fox's weird absence from CinemaCon earlier this year, the studio still has big - and immediate - plans for the X-Men movie universe in 2018, and it's all starting to take shape.

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They've just announced that New Mutants will hit screens on April 13th, Deadpool 2 will land on June 1st and X-Men: Dark Phoenix will be unveiled on November 2nd. That means we've got a bumper year coming with Marvel already bringing out Black Panther, Infinity War and Ant-Man And The Wasp, Sony releasing the Miles Morales animated Spider-Man on December 21st Venom on October 5th and DC expected to have Aquaman on December 21st as the second DCEU film of the year.

Get ready to eat a lot of popcorn.

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Dark Phoenix has been rumoured for some time - particularly as Apocalypse sets it up so blatantly - while New Mutants has been on the verge of firm production for even longer. Hopefully we will start to hear more casting news on both fronts, with Deadpool 2 already putting its cast together nicely.

Quite what this all means for the supposed release of Channing Tatum's Gambit remains to be seen: it's surely only a matter of time before that's shelved completely and restarted in a couple of years?

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