Channing Tatum's 'Gambit' Film set for October 2016

Hard to believe that when we say "next year" it means 2016, but it's time to start looking ahead to the movies that will be arriving then. Over at 20th Century Fox and Dreamworks, they're already announcing dates for some of the biggest films of 2016, while shifting around others. One of those will be Fox's X-men spinoff featuring the ragin' cajun, Gambit.

Get your pitchforks out now, True Believers, because the Gambit film starring Channing Tatum will open October 7th 2016. How exactly it will tie-in to next year's X-men: Apocalypse is still unclear but the character is expected to appear, especially since Josh Zetumer has a hand in writing both movies.

Michael Fassbender is set to star in the adaptation of hit video game Assassin's Creed, which will now open on December 7th 2016. He'll be rejoining his Macbeth director Justin Kurzel. What else? Hugh Jackman's long-developing P.T. Barnum biopic The Greatest Showman on Earth will pitch its tent on Christmas Day 2016; Funny or Die vet Jake Szymanski has a film titled Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates which is opening July 29th 2016. In 2017 we have the Rosamund Pike and Charlie Hunnam romance, The Mountain Between Us, opening on February 10th. Fox has also shifted a couple of major tentpole flicks, placing the hopeful Fantastic Four sequel on June 2nd 2017 (a little early, isn't it?) while setting the next Planet of the Apes film on July 14th.

And over at Universal they've dated the next Melissa McCarthy comedy, Michelle Darnell, for April 8th 2016. Directed by her husband Ben Falcone, the film has McCarthy as "a titan of industry who is sent to prison after she’s caught for insider trading.  When she emerges ready to rebrand herself as America’s latest sweetheart, not everyone she screwed over is so quick to forgive and forget." The film will take the date previously occupied by Clifford the Big Red Dog, which is now off the schedule.

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Fox Dates Secret Marvel Film, 'Fantastic Four 2', 'The Wolverine 2', 'Taken 3, and Mystery Ridley Scott Film

Bryan Singer isn't the only one looking way into the future of his X-men franchise, 20th Century Fox has their plans laid out all the way through 2018. The studio has just set in stone a number of release dates for their superhero line-up, Taken 3, plus a couple of projects shrouded in mystery.

Let's start off on the Marvel side, with Fox slating James Mangold's sequel to The Wolverine for March 3rd 2017. Mangold has recently stated filming will begin once Singer wraps up on X-men: Apocalypse, but as it stands right now Hugh Jackman is not confirmed to come back. He likely will, it just hasn't happened yet.

While there were rumors of a creative shake-up on Josh Trank's Fantastic Four, that's in the past and Fox is confident enough to set the sequel for July 14th 2017. It's too early to know if Trank will return although it doesn't seem likely considering he didn't bother coming back for Chronicle 2.

Strangely enough, Fox has also set a date of July 18th 2018 for a mystery Marvel project. The natural assumption is this will be an off-shoot of Fantastic Four or X-men, with Jeff Wadlow's developing X-force film likely to be in that slot. It's always possible someone has finally decided to green light Deadpool, but we'll just have to wait and see on that.

Also getting release dates are Taken 3, the Liam Neeson-actioner being set for January 9th 2015. Paul McGuigan's Frankenstein, which stars Daniel Radcliffe, has been pushed back nine months to October 2nd 2015.

There's also a secret Ridley Scott project that Fox has slated for March 4th 2016. Could this be his oft-rumored Prometheus sequel? Scott has more projects on his calendar than most directors have actually completed, so it could be anything.

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