20th Century Fox unveiled their upcoming 2014 slate at CinemaCon today, and to say that it looks to be a good year for the studio is a sizable understatement. We can’t be certain how the box-office will ultimately shake-out, but as far as the content itself is concerned, this was the strongest showing we’ve seen from a studio at the event (though we do have Warner Bros. ahead this afternoon.) In addition to teases of David Fincher’s Gone Girl, How to Train Your Dragon 2, Rise of the Planet of the Apes and more, Fox unveiled the first six minutes for Bryan Singer’s X-Men: Days of Future Past

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Now, we’re going to go into some spoiler territory here, so if you don’t want to know anything ahead of the film’s open, best to check out now and look out for our review and continued coverage when Days of Future Past opens in May.The film opens in the dystopian future where the Mutants have been hunted to near extinction by the vicious and relentless Sentinels. Two ships glide above the wreckage of a decimated and war-torn city. A group of the vicious mutant killers drop down to what looks to be an underground bunker where we find some of the classic characters that fans have been longing to see: Bishop, Blink, Iceman, Sunspot, Colossus, Warpath and Kitty Pryde aka Shadowcat are all in attendance.These are the characters fighting in a manner that fans have been longing to see. Iceman is full-on ice and director Bryan Singer is able to physically demonstrate the Mutant powers that he simply did not have the technological capability to do on the first two X-Men films.As to the Sentinels, it’ll be interesting to see how X-Men aficionados will respond to the design. We’ve seen a bit of them in the footage that has been released, but we got a far larger look here. They seem to have the ability to absorb and or adapt to Mutant power. They also have a malleable look, their metal bodies are somewhat akin to the T-1000 in Terminator 2 only in that they appear if not quite elastic, then certainly bendable. They are also seemingly unstoppable, as they one-by-one dispatch the Mutant group - none are a match for them.Shadowcat and Bishop flee to a room where she lays hands on his temples- sort of like Spock doing a mind meld - as we’ve seen in some of the footage. We presume that she’s transporting his consciousness to an earlier point in time. As their comrades in arms are systematically murdered outside of the room, their pursuers, the Sentinels, begin to close in on them. One has burned through the wall and is just about to take them out when Shadowcat looks up and says, “It’s too late.”Both she and Bishop physically disappear at the close of the sequence, as does the Sentinel that was on the verge of destroying them. The room also reforms into what looks to be a far more innocuous storage space. We’re left with the impression that time has been reset. What’s interesting is that it was Bishop who was sent somewhere.As we know, it’s Wolverine who’s been sent to correct the past in the film, so it looks as though Shadowcat has sent Bishop on another, or additional mission. Now this is pure speculation: It’s possible that she sent him just slightly back in time to warn the group in the bunker that the Sentinels would be coming, but that would mean that there would be two Shadowcats and two Bishops in the same timeline, so not sure how that would work. It’s also possible that they physically disappeared, but that doesn’t explain to room reforming and the Sentinel evaporating. It really did appear that time and the future has been changed.All will be revealed when the film opens in May. In the interim, IGN will keep you updated on all things X-Men: Days of Future Past and CinemaCon.

Roth Cornet is an Entertainment Editor for IGN. You can follow her on Twitter at @RothCornet and IGN at Roth-IGN