Vietnamese Immigrant Dies in ICE Custody

And Other Items of Note From Angry Asian America.

Death of Vietnamese immigrant in Indiana facility is latest ICE detainee fatality

A Vietnamese immigrant died in government custody last week, marking the latest detainee death -- the 46th person to die in federal custody -- during the Trump administration's immigration crackdown. 55-year-old Tuan Van Bui died at the Miami Correctional Center in Indiana. According to ICE, "onsite staff discovered Bui unresponsive." The cause of death is under investigation.

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US War Machine Is Built on Decades of Lies. The Assault on Iran Is No Exception.

"Calling truth a casualty of war may imply, however, that truth survives between wars. But the reality is that militarism and the warfare state are sustained by lies which stretch over decades. The ideology of American exceptionalism is driven by the myth that U.S. intervention plays a unique role in spreading freedom and democracy around the globe. Keeping the public uninformed and miseducated has been a key tactic to tamp down dissent."

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In Conversation: Mia Wenjen and Jolene Gutiérrez

Mia Wenjen and Jolene Gutiérrez both grapple with the cruelty of internment and family separation in their new picture books Barbed Wire Between Us and Unbreakable: A Japanese American Family in an American Incarceration Camp, respectively. The two authors spoke about depicting difficult subject matter for young readers, carrying on the legacy of late author and collaborator Minoru Tonai, and the importance of remembering painful pieces of history.

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'X-Men' Reboot Director Hires 'Beef' Creator, 'The Bear' Writer

Emmy-winning Beef creator Lee Sung Jin is part of the team taking the latest crack at the reboot of X-Men for the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The project, which re-introduces the mutant superhero team into the MCU, reunites Lee with Jake Schreier and Joanna Calo, who worked on the screenplay for last year's Thunderbolts.

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The Grandmaster: Tony Leung
From Hard Boiled to Happy Together to Infernal Affairs to, of course, In the Mood for Love, Film at Lincoln Center presents The Grandmaster: Tony Leung, a career-spanning retrospective that gives audiences the chance to rediscover, on the big screen, why the world continues to fall for Tony Leung time and time again.

Did I just see Olivia Munn slice a car in half?

See Psylocke in action in the new 'X-Men: Apocalypse' Super Bowl commercial.



All right, X-fans. In case you missed it, here is the indisputable money shot from the new trailer for X-Men: Apocalypse, which premiered during the Super Bowl. Yes, that's Olivia Munn as Psylocke acrobatically slicing a flying automobile in half with her muthaeffin' psychic blade. Boom. That's all I needed to see. Sold.

Oh, here's the full Super Bowl spot:

First official look at Jubilee in 'X-Men: Apocalypse'

Lana Condor stars as the fan-favorite teen mutant at Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters



And while we're at it, fellow X-fans, here's your first official look at Lana Condor as Jubilee in X-Men: Apocalypse. (We got an unofficial look when a few set photos leaked earlier this year.)

Jubilee is part of the new generation of students at Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters. Described as "fashionable" -- just look at that totally awesome outfit, complete with the fan-favorite character's signature yellow jacket -- she possesses to the mutant ability to unleash colorful energy bursts.

You know what? I can't wait to see little Asian kids dress up like Jubilee for Halloween.

See EW for more photos of the new X-Men characters: Meet the new mutants of X-Men: Apocalypse

First look at Olivia Munn as Psylocke in 'X-Men: Apocalypse'

Rocking a version of the character's iconic Jim Lee-designed ninja costume from the 1990s.



Here you go, X-fans. Here is your first official look at Olivia Munn as Psylocke in X-Men: Apocalypse. The latest cover of Entertainment Weekly features Psylocke, Magneto and the titular villain Apocalypse.

This Week's Cover: First look at the new generation of mutants in X-Men: Apocalypse

Director Bryan Singer's follow up to X-Men: Days of Future Past is touted as a turning point for the mutant movie series, shifting the focus toward younger versions of classic X-characters, circa Reagan era, and pitting them against the big bad mutant villain Apocalypse, who, unsurprisingly, wants to destroy the world.

Psylocke, decked out in a version of her iconic Jim Lee-designed ninja costume from the 1990s, is one of the mutants that Apocalypse recruits as his "Four Horsemen," along with Storm, Angel and Magneto.

Here's a full look at the cover:

First Unofficial Look at Jubilee in 'X-Men: Apocalypse'

Set photos reveal an early glimpse of the teen mutant superhero's signature look.



Filming on the latest X-Men movie, X-Men: Apocalypse officially began in Montreal earlier this week, so a few photos from the set have inevitably trickled out to social media, giving X-fans an unofficial first glimpse at some of their favorite young mutant superheroes -- including Lana Condor as Jubilee.

As you can see, she is rocking Jubilee's signature yellow jacket. Those familiar with Jubilee's origin story will remember she was introduced in the pages of The Uncanny X-Men as a mutant teen mallrat.

Take a look:

Olivia Munn cast as Psylocke in 'X-Men: Apocalypse'

Director Bryan Singer announced the fan-favorite character's casting via social media.



Another mutant hero joins the upcoming X-Men movie sequel... Director Bryan Singer announced that Olivia Munn has joined the cast of the 2016 feature X-Men: Apocalypse as the telepathic, psychic dagger-wielding fan-favorite character Psylocke. Singer shared the news on Monday via social media:

Lana Condor cast as Jubilee in 'X-Men: Apocalypse'

Will she have a significant role in the mutant movie sequel?



An Asian American addition to the cast of the upcoming X-Men movie sequel... Director Bryan Singer has announced that newcomer Lana Condor has been cast as teenage mutant superhero Jubilee in the 2016 feature X-Men: Apocalypse. Singer made the announcement on Wednesday via social media:

What Jubilee might have looked like in the latest 'X-Men' movie

Concept art reveals future Jubilee in 'Days of Future Past'



This hit the web a couple of weeks ago, but it just came across my desk, and it's pretty cool...

Did you watch X-Men: Days of Future Past? She wasn't in it for too long, but Fan BingBing as Blink was pretty darn cool. Next time, more Blink. More Asian X-Men in general. That said, some recently revealed concept art indicates what Jubilee, who didn't make it into Days of Future Past, might have looked like in the movie.

'X-Men: Days of Future Past' Concept Art Reveals Future Jubilee

Costume illustrator Philip Boutte Jr. recently posted some concept art for the latest X-Men movie, featuring a variety of alternate designs for Blink, Bishop, Iceman, Storm, Beast and other characters. Cool.

But hold up, his designs also include concepts for the X-Men's Chinese American pyrotechnic mutant Jubilee (who bears a strong resemblance to actress Jamie Chung). It appears the fan-favorite mutant might have been in an early draft of the story, but didn't make it into the final cut of Days of Future Past.

Take a look:

Bingbing and Booboo on Empire's epic X-Men cover(s)

Days of Future Past's Blink and Warpath have got each other's back, teleportation style



Yesterday, Empire Magazine released a gigantic series of 25 covers for its latest issue, each featuring a different character from the upcoming X-Men: Days of Future Past. If you stick them all together, side-by-side in order, they make one long, super-giant image. (I wonder if anyone's going to buy all 25 covers. Reminds me of the good old days when Marvel launched the multi-cover X-Men #1. Ah, the nineties.)

The much-hyped Days of Future Past, which connects the timeline threads between the original X-Men trilogy and the groovy prequel X-Men: First Class, features a massive ensemble of X-characters, old and new -- including Fan Bingbing as Blink and Booboo Stewart as Warpath, who also each got a cover.

Check them out. If you look carefully, you can see they're actually standing on opposite ends of Blink's teleportation field (the pink swirly circle thing):

Asians in the new X-Men movie trailer!

BooBoo and Bingbing are newest movie mutants in X-Men: Days of Future Past.


20th Century Fox has dropped the first official teaser trailer for X-Men: Days of Future Past, the time-twerking prequel-sequel that attempts to bind the entire cluttered mutant movie series together, and presumably based on the classic, seminal comic book story arc of the same name.

The epic new trailer features the return of pretty much every major character from the X-Men screen franchise -- including both past and present versions of Professor Xavier, Magneto and the rest of the gang -- as well as some new faces. Note the quick glimpses of Fan Bingbing and BooBoo Stewart. Check it out:

BooBoo and Bingbing join the X-Men

If you've been following developments around the next X-Men movie, it seems like every other day we're hearing about new additions to the epic, franchise-spanning cast of X-Men: Days of Future Past. The latest actors to join the bulging ensemble include Fan Bingbing and BooBoo Stewart: Booboo Stewart & Fan BingBing Cast In X-Men Days Of Future Past.

Director Bryan Singer recently tweeted a revealing photo of a wall with a multitude of headshots representing the new and returning X-Men: Days of Future Past cast, including a couple of previously unannounced actors -- Chinese actress Fan Bingbing and Twilight actor Booboo Stewart: