January 30- Did you like the X-Men movie? Can't wait till the next one comes out? Are all the movie rumors that you've heard true? Here's the part to our site dedicated to give you the latest news about X-Men 2, and to take all those rumors out of your mind. We'll try to get as much news as we can, and as many pictures =). Right now, this news has been taken from comics continuum. To go there click here I already know the story line for the movie, but am too lazy to put it up right now. Just keep on looking for the storyline and for more news.

Alan Cumming, who plays Nightcrawler in the X-Men sequel, talked about the film for nearly six minutes on NBC's Late Night Conan O'Brien on Friday night.

Here's a rundown of highlights:

* Cumming showed how he acts when Nightcrawler teleports, sort of a holding gesture with his eyes closed and head tilted back.

"When he teleports in the comics, it goes 'Bamf!' That's what it says," Cumming explained. "So there was this thing about this 'bamf' was going to take place. And there was all these different ways I was going to do it and finally we just settled on that."

* On Nightcrawler's tail, he said: "Sometimes it would be an actual tail that was strapped on with a harness, which would like boing me in the face. Other times, it would not be there at all and the computer would do it after. And sometimes, I would do a lot of scenes with Halle Berry - she plays Storm and our stories are sort of together - and sometimes instead of my big tail I would have this little, quite large actually, black stub thing sticking out the back. I would wear this for the special effects people. But honestly, it was hilarious because it looks like a (whispering) dildo. I was backing up Halle! After three months of being blue and flying around, you want to get a laugh out of everything."

* Cumming said that his character's appearance was guarded for some time.

"I'm a new one. I wasn't in the last one," he said. "Nightcrawler's always been an X-person, but he's not been in the film before. So they're very, very secretive. I would have all this blue makeup on, and they would make me wear this sort of cloak with a hood. I looked like the Grim Reaper. I could sort of see through it, but I would have to work from my trailer to the set with this on, so in case of paparazzi in the trees, they would just see the Grim Reaper. And I used to call it my burka. Not only did I have to be in makeup in four hours, but then cover my head in public.

"But then, an official photo shoot that I did, the photo got leaked out. But I was squatting and I had a hole in my trousers for the tail to come out. You could see my underpants and then they were going to Photoshop the trousers on top of the underpants. And that photo with the underpants showing was leaked. It was on all the Internet and newspapers in Britain and everything.

"And there was a big thing on these fan sites, 'What's thing this with Nightcrawler showing his underpants? Is he gay? Is he gay?' And then they're going, 'I always thought he was gay.'

"It was just the weirdest thing. It was bad enough that even though I was wearing this burka for months and now everyone thinks that I'm going to be playing this gay super-hero with his Calvin Kleins sticking out of his costume."

* Cumming talked about some of the X2 licensing with which he's been involved.

"I'm going to be a doll, I'm very excited, an action figure," he said. "Even when I've been doing my book tour, people have been coming up with Nightcrawler things.

"But the best thing is they're doing these cards with your picture on it. Some of them have to be signed by the real person so that maybe if you buy the thing, you go, 'Hooray, I've got so-and-so..'

"So my publicist said, 'Alan, they want you sign 1,500 of these little cards.' And I was like, 'Uh-huh, me no think so.' And then they said, 'We'll pay you $1.50 a card' and I was like, 'OK!'"

January 3-The Mazda RX-8 X-Men Car featured in the upcoming X2 will be featured at the Greater Los Angeles Auto Show this week.

Mazda will stage a press conference on Friday afternoon to promote the car and the movie.

The X-Men car is based on the soon-to-be-introduced rotary-powered 2004 Mazda RX-8 sports car.

"With style and a powerful stance, the RX-8 is a sports car like no other, and we think it will create as much excitement as this new film," said Kristen Simmons, vice president of marketing for Mazda North American Operations. "It's an ideal fit for the next X-Men film, a movie filled with characters that have the same dominant presence as this sports car."

The show runs through Jan. 12.

December 10-X-MEN SEQUEL UPDATE The Danger Room was originally scripted to be in the X-Men sequel, but director Bryan Singer said it won't be in the film.

"I think the Danger Room is cool," Singer said. "We dabbled with ideas and Danger Room designs, but not in this picture."

Production designer Guy Dyas showed the online press some designs of the Danger Room during a recent press tour. "It's not in the film, but it's here to look at," Dyas said.

Sources told The Continuum that in earlier versions of the script Wolverine is in the Danger Room when Stryker's troops attack of the X-Mansion. In the Danger Room, after choosing "Real Danger" mode, he was to have faced columns sprouting from the floor and flying projectiles.

"Everything changed in the script, so we had to go back to square one," Dyas said of the design process. "There was a lot of that. So have tremendous amounts of artwork that's going to go back to Fox archives."

In other X² news, Ian McKellen, who returns as Magneto, recently posted two images of himself in character on his website. The first one shows Magneto in his plastic prison, abused by Stryker and his minions. The second one shows Magneto aboard the larger X-Jets.

X-MEN 2 PREVIEW Here are some pics from the preview that was shown at ComicCon International-

August 20-The X-Men 2 preview that was shown at Comic-Con International will be available at the official X-Men movie site on Wednesday.
The clip will be at http://www.x-men-the-movie.com beginning at 2 p.m. (ET).
Featuring no special effects and culled from just three weeks of shooting, the footage was very well received at Fox's presentation at Comic-Con, and approval was granted last week to put the clip on the site.
The Continuum had several stories from the presentation.
Click here to get some more x-men info from the x-men board.
Click here to see an interview with actress Kelly Hu.
Click here to see what director Brian Singer has to say about the movie.

August 19- Ralph Winter, producer of X-Men 2, told The Continuum the movie remains in a solid production groove.
"We have reached the halfway point in production and are feeling very good about our story and the production values," Winter told The Continuum. "Everyone is in great spirits."

In other X-Men 2 news:

* Look for an update on the film's official site soon, probably within the week.

* At the recent Comic-Con International in San Diego, attendees of the 20th Century Fox (Daredevil, Solaris, X-Men 2) panel received an Xavier Institute examination booklet, along with a pencil that has the film's name and release date.