Right now Amazon has a sale on the X-Men: The Complete Collection Blu-ray box set for only $44.99 (that’s 63% off the list price of 129.99).

The Blu-ray pack contains all five films in the X-Men series: X-Men, X2: X-Men United, X-Men: The Last Stand, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, and X-Men: First Class. The Blu-rays come as single packaged editions by movie, but come bundled together for this deal.

Note, this deal is valid through Saturday, September 29, 2011 at 11:59pm EST while supplies last.

Back in June it was rumored that the plot used for the upcoming sequel to X-Men: First Class could be based on the popular Uncanny X-Men storyline, “Days of Future Past.”

This has now been confirmed by producer Bryan Singer, who says it deals with aspects of the comic but also presents a bunch of new stuff as well. He also says the movie is titled X-Men: Days of Future Past.

Continue reading for quotes from Singer.

The X-Men film franchise has explored the past and the present, but never the future. Time travel is a very familiar theme that is explored in the X-Men comics, but it was one that was never explored in the X-Men films, until now. When we reported that the sequel to the Untitled X-Men: First Class sequel would be released in 2014, we didn’t know anything about the project, except that Matthew Vaughn is expected to begin shooting the sequel in January, but now we might know what the film could contain.

AICN has word that 20th Century Fox has register the title Days of Future Past with the MPAA. Fans of both the comic book and the 90s animated series will be familiar with this title as it was one of the best storylines in the Marvel Universe. Although I am most familiar with the animated incarnation – Bishop goes back in time to prevent Senator Kelly from being assassinated – the comic version is slightly different.

Fox has just released a collection of release dates for some of their major films. The slate contains highly anticipated sequels, original projects, and a re-release, including Independence Day 3D, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, and an untitled X-Men: First Class Sequel.

First up, Fox plans to release a Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy untitled buddy cop comedy on April 5, 2013. That will be followed by a 3D re-release of Independence Day on the fitting date of July 3, 2013. That same year, the Percy Jackson sequel Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters hits theaters on August 16, 2013. And closing out the year for Fox will be the adaptation of the highly successful TV series Walking with the Dinosaurs on December 20th and the Ben Stiller-directed comedy The Secret Life of Walter Mitty on Christmas Day.

Talk about a way to start a week.

Deadline is reporting that Matthew Vaughn will indeed be back to helm the upcoming sequel to his fantastic film, X-Men: First Class.

The sequel doesn’t have a start date as of the writing of this post, but frankly, the anticipation couldn’t get much higher. The cast and crew seem to be stuck within their rightly busy schedules (names like Michael Fassbender and Jennifer Lawrence don’t have much free time after all), so a 2013 start seems likely, but at this point, nothing is certain.