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PM Narendra Modi on Sunday said he decided upon the air strikes on Balakot in Pakistan as he believed the "game" should be played from where terrorism was being remote-controlled. Addressing a 'Main Bhi Chowkidar' event, he said Pakistan was in a fix because if it acknowledged the strikes, it would have to accept that there was a terror camp there. from Times of India https://ift.tt/2FNsKZ1

This June’s X-Men: Dark Phoenix is set to be the final entry in, if not the whole franchise, then at least the mainline X-Men movie series. With Disney having taken over Fox and Marvel Studios reclaiming the rights to the characters, this will spell the last outing for the mutant proteges of James McAvoy’s Professor X. According to one of the producers, though, it was always the intention that Dark Phoenix wrap things up, with the decision coming from a creative standpoint long before the Disney buyout took place. While catching up with ComicBook.com at WonderCon this weekend, producer Hutch Parker explained that the thinking with DP was to up the drama by making story developments that could not be reversed, which in turn led to the production team believing that it was the correct point to call it a day. As Parker says, Dark Phoenix became a “natural culmination” of the series. “You know, we did, not for the reasons that would seem to be the case now, but in the sense that we...

For a while there, it looked like Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 was going to be left on indefinite hiatus after director James Gunn was fired by Disney last summer due to a Twitter controversy. However, in a shocking move, the Mouse House rehired the filmmaker to helm the Marvel threequel movie earlier this month, a decision that was generally met with widespread support from fans. Likewise, the Guardians themselves were clearly pleased by the rehiring, as many of them posted messages on social media . However, none of them have publicly commented on the situation since. Until now, that is. Gamora actress Zoe Saldana is the first to break silence as she was asked by ET Online for her thoughts on Gunn’s reinstatement. Though she didn’t say much, the star revealed that she’s “proud” of both Gunn and Disney for making what she feels to be the right choice. “I’m proud of him. I’m happy that he’s coming back. I’m so proud of Disney, actually, that all the leaders right now behind tha...