With two decidedly weaker sequels (and one that’s nearly unwatchable) the X-Men franchise needed a big hit in order to pull itself back from the brink, and breath new life into the series.  That’s exactly what the filmmakers hoped to do with X-Men: First Class...and it worked.

Everybody's favorite mutant badboy is in X-Men: First Class, and we got the details!

Welcome back for another edition of News Bits.  What is it you ask?  The film world can get quite overwhelming at times in the news that releases.  Unfortunately some of this news is just too small to warrant a full article. Rather than deprive you of the news, we've created this section.  This week's edition has a whole bunch of poster goodness for you, a even a trailer or two, and some ridiculously awesome fan enthusiasm.

A couple days ago, we gave you a first look at the X-Men from the upcoming prequel First Class.  The banner was only...meh.  It wasn't the most terrible thing in the world, but it didn't really boost much confidence in the film.  On the whole it looked like a photoshopped mess, and the costumes appeared direct-to-DVDish.  Well, a few things have happened today that absolutely make up for it.

With the latest X-Men movie well into production 20th Century Fox has finally given fans a very brief and all too vague plot description.  However, since this is the first official anything on the story of this movie, it's hard to complain about.

The long rumored and announced solo film chronicling the early adventures of X-Men's Magneto has been canned, but most of it's story will be incorporated into X-Men: First Class.