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After coming off the 2015 release schedule, Michael Fassbender’s Assassin’s Creed is once again heading to theaters.

20th Century Fox announced a bunch of release dates Monday night including a new one for Assassin’s Creed. The film will now hit theaters on Dec. 21, 2016. In addition, a sequel to this year’s Fantastic Four has moved up a month to June 2, 2017 and now Matt Reeves’ Dawn of the Planet of the Apes sequel will hit on July 14, 2017. In addition, Hugh Jackman’s P.T. Barnum movie The Greatest Showman on Earth will be released Christmas Day 2016. This is all on top of the news of the Gambit movie hitting on October 7, 2016. Read more about the Assassin’s Creed movie release date and more below.

The Wrap was one of the first outlets to post the news; the date seems like good news for fans of the popular video game. The Assassin’s Creed film is scheduled to be directed by Justin Kurzel, with the most recent rewrite having been done by Exodus writers Adam Cooper and Bill Collage.

Among the other films given release dates were Mike & Dave Need Wedding Dates, a currently uncast comedy which will open July 29, 2016. It’s directed by Jake Szymanski and written by Andrew J. Cohen and Brendan O’Brien. Then there’s also The Mountain Between Us, a romance with Charlie Hunnam and Rosamund Pike. That’ll hit on February 10, 2017, right in time for Valentine’s Day.

Back to superheroes for a second though, it’s kind of encouraging that Fantastic Four 2 remains on the schedule. Considering the first one opens in just a few months and we haven’t seen a single image, it suggests they’re happy enough with what they’ve seen that they expect there to be interest in a sequel.

The Apes 3 (for lack of a better title) date is right in between the weeks the first two movies opened, so that makes sense too.

What is your big take away from this news?

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Channing Tatum has long been attached to play Gambit in the X-Men universe.  We just don’t know when we’ll first see him in the costume. Could it be X-Men Apocalypse in May 2016? Maybe. But the actor took to his social media to reveal that a release date has now been set for a Gambit solo movie. It’ll be out on October 7, 2016. Read more about the Gambit movie release date below.

Here’s what Tatum posted to his Facebook and Twitter.

How do you say October 7, 2016 in Cajun?

— Channing Tatum (@channingtatum) January 6, 2015

“How do you say October 7, 2016 in Cajun?” Cajun, of course, being the native dialect of the popular X-Man. And yes, October 7, 2016 is a Friday. The Wrap then confirmed.

The most recent news we had on the Gambit movie was that screenwriter Josh Zetumer (the RoboCop reboot) was penning a draft based on a treatment by the character’s co-creator, Chris Claremont. Since this release date is real that draft must be coming along nicely. I’d assume we’ll start hearing about directors rather soon.

Tatum said the following about the character a few months back:

We really do want to try our hardest to give something fresh. We’re obviously going to go to the saving-the-world superhero movies eventually, but maybe not for the first one. We kind of want to introduce this character in a very different way. When you try to do something different, you never really know right off the bat what that is. We’re feeling our way into it. And we really just gotta prove that concept of that person.

So does that refer to this solo film? And will he appear in X-Men: Apocalypse? We don’t know. But it definitely sounds like he’s ready to make a long term commitment to the character and a release date is a huge, huge step forward for the solo film.

Are you excited for the Gambit movie?

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How does Captain America fit into Agent Carter? Want to see a Batman v Superman Lego short film? What did Christopher Nolan have to say about first doing Batman Begins? Is there a few photo of the cast of Powers? Does Benedict Cumberbatch think Doctor Strange is a risk? What happens when the showrunners of Arrow and Agent Carter interview each other? Is Howard the Duck happy taking a selfie with the Guardians of the Galaxy? Read about all this and more in today’s Superhero Bits.

Some Avengers: Age of Ultron Hot Wheels toy sets were revealed, via Comic Book Movie.

Captain America will play a role on Agent Carter in a very unconventional way. Read the minor spoiler at EW.

This radio controlled Batman Tumbler is kind of unbelievable. Thanks to Toybox.

In a good, wide-ranging interview, Christopher Nolan talked about when he came to the Batman franchise.

Brian Michael Bendis posted this Powers cast photo on his Tumblr.

The showrunners of Agent Carter get grilled by the producer of Arrow in a Hollywood Reporter interview.

Upper Deck will release Avengers: Age of Ultron and Ant-Man cards. Thanks to Comic Book Movie for the images and info.

Speaking to MTV, Ethan Hawke talked about whether or not he was actually up for Doctor Strange.

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Pedro Almodovar has had a wild few years, dodging from the wild horror tale The Skin I Live In to the brightly colored comedy I’m So Excited!, which was also generally little-seen, at least in the US. Now he’s going to make a film called Silencio. Not to be confused with Martin Scorsese’s upcoming Silence, this Almodovar project is described by the director as “a return to the cinema of women” — that being a reference to his own body of work that is dominated by deeply-felt melodramas and comedies focused on the lives of women.

This new film will not be a comedy, but a serious drama — we’ve got what few details are currently public, after the break.

Almodovar told the Financial Times:

It’s a return to the cinema of women, of great female protagonists, and it’s a hard-hitting drama, which excites me…It’s called Silencio because that’s the principal element that drives the worst things that happen to the main female protagonist.

So, not at all a comedy then, not even a very Almodovar comedy. But this return to his core concern is promising regardless, and we can hope that it will stand well alongside his most-praised films. There’s no more info in the interview — no cast or specific story details — which is otherwise still quite interesting.

He does say,

I’d love to make another film like Women on the Verge but I haven’t managed it. Looking back on the film?.?.?.?it’s a fictional comedy but, over time, it seems to absolutely represent the 1980s in Spain, the era in which it was made. Without me having intended it, it captures the tolerance of the time, the joy of living at that time.

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Page 2 is a compilation of stories and news tidbits, which for whatever reason, didn’t make the front page of /Film. After the jump we’ve included 36 different items, fun images, videos, casting tidbits, articles of interest and more. It’s like a mystery grab bag of movie web related goodness.

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Banned Critic Armond White Says New York Film Critics Are “Celebrity-Worshipping Awards-Givers”

This Fan Made Blade Runner Poster Is Perfection

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