New 'X-Men' movie coming in 2016

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The X-Men franchise will get another boost in 2016 with the release of X-Men: Apocalypse.

Veteran X-Men director and producer Bryan Singer hinted at the next installment via Twitter on Thursday when he wrote, "#Xmen #Apocalypse 2016!"

Fox confirmed the film will open in wide release Memorial Day weekend, on May 27, 2016.

Apocalypse is a major villain from the X-Men comics who appeared in the 1980s.

Singer has worked on all the Marvel mutant-focused films since the first X-Men was released in 2000.

He's also directing the next movie in the franchise, X-Men: Days of Future Past.

Scheduled for a May 23, 2014, release, the film will star Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Halle Berry, Jennifer Lawrence, Anna Paquin, James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Shawn Ashmore and Nicholas Hoult.