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Twentieth Century Fox's prequel X-Men: First Class grossed $21 million in its Friday debut at the domestic box office, and is on track to meet expectations and earn $55 million for the weekend.

20th Century Fox has finally released 3 character trailers for the upcoming movie "X-Men: First Class."The film is directed by Matthew Vaughn.

The actress has appeared on the set of Matthew Vaughn's upcoming prequel which started shooting in London this week.

The ever-expanding cast of "X-Men: First Class" continues to grow, with Bill Milner (young Magneto), Zoe Kravitz (Angel), and January Jones (Emma Frost) making the latest additions.

BFI's Movie-Con III is in full effect in London right now and ComingSoon.net's man abroad Ben Mortimer has learned that actor Jason Flemyng, last seen playing Calibos in Louis Letterier's Clash of the Titans and in a small role in Matthew Vaughn's Kick-Ass , will be reteaming with Vaughn for a role in X-Men: First Class . That role will be Azazel, who was described as a "teleporter" during Flemyng's presentation, but who is in fact none other than Nightcrawler's father!

"Twilight" veteran Edi Gathegi has signed on to play the mutant known as Darwin in "X-Men: First Class."

Nicole Sperling confirms deal is signed; role remains a mystery, but sources say he will play a villain.

James McAvoy has signed on to play a young Charles Xavier, aka Professor X, in "X-Men: First Class," which Matthew Vaughn is directing for Fox.

Fox is intent on prequelizing Marvel's mutants (thereby retaining the property rights) with X-MEN: FIRST CLASS. But with Bryan Singer returning only in a producer capacity, the studio is hot to get a qualified candidate in the director's chair. EW first floated the story that KICK-ASS director Matthew Vaughn was in talks to direct, but Heat Vision says he's already moved on (and after all the reported friction on the...

In an interview with Bryan Singer and producer Lauren Shuler Donner at the Los Angeles Times about the first two X-Men movies, the discussion veered to Singer directing X-Men: First Class and possibly even X-Men 4 .