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Ryan Reynolds confirms PG-13 rating for Deadpool, tells fans “zero need to panic”

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Bad news for some Deadpool fans. Despite fighting tooth and nail to get the fan-preferred R rating for his Deadpool film, Ryan Reynolds has taken to Twitter to confirm that the film will have a PG-13 rating when it’s released next year. A PG-13 #deadpool will still have 4th wall breaking, a shit-ton of action and […]

Newcomer Brianna Hildebrand cast as Negasonic Teenage Warhead in Deadpool

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With production now underway on 20th Century Fox’s Deadpool movie, The Hollywood Reporter has revealed that newcomer Brianna Hildebrand has signed on to play the obscure mutant Negasonic Teenage Warhead – a character created by Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely, who made her debut in New X-Men #115 in 2001. She is described as “a […]

Fox’s Deadpool and X-Men movies get new Marvel Legends Series figures from Hasbro

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As part of its New York Toy Fair reveals, Hasbro has unveiled a selection of Marvel Legends Series 6-inch figures based upon Fox’s X-Men movie franchise, which includes Deadpool (Ryan Reynolds), Cable (Josh Brolin), Negasonic Teenage Warhead (Brianna Hildebrand) and Domino (Zazie Beetz) from Deadpool 2, along with Mystique (Jennifer Lawrence), Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) and […]

Marvel heroes embrace their dark sides with new variant covers

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Throughout the month of May, some Marvel’s most popular superheroes will be showing off their sinister sides with a selection of Dark Variant covers across eight titles, and you can preview the covers right here… AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #45 DARK MARVEL VARIANT by DOALY BLACK WIDOW #2 DARK MARVEL VARIANT by OLIVIER VATINE CAPTAIN AMERICA #22 […]

Hollywood’s Unhealthy Obsession With Movie Ratings Needs to End

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Harrison Abbott on Hollywood’s unhealthy obsession with movie ratings and why it has to end… From a sanitised Die Hard sequel to an R-rated Star Trek, when it comes to ratings Hollywood is incapable of leaving well enough alone. The Dark Age of PG-13-ification Alien Vs Predator, The Expendables 3, World War Z, Max Payne, […]

Screenwriter thinks Deadpool 3 will be released “under the Fox banner” to keep it R-rated

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Rhett Reese, writer for the Deadpool franchise, has suggested a way that Deadpool 3 could be R-rated by Disney. With Disney now owning the Deadpool franchise, many expect that any future films would stray away from being R-rated as with the past two movies. But writer for the franchise Rhett Reese thinks it could still […]

Fox and Marvel traded characters for Deadpool and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2

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During the San Diego Comic-Con earlier this year, Marvel revealed the identity of Star-Lord’s father in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, with James Gunn dropping quite the surprise when he announced it as none other than Ego, the Living Planet. Well, it seems Ego’s inclusion in the Guardians sequel actually only came about through […]

Casting call for Deadpool offers up details on supporting characters

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As Deadpool gears up to go into production, a casting call has surfaced online over at 24/7 Casting, which offers up some details about the supporting characters set to join Ryan Reynolds’ Wade Wilson in the 2016 X-Men spin-off, albeit with codenames for the time being. Take a look… [RIDGE] Any ethnicity, early 30s to […]

Gina Carano joins Deadpool, Colossus will also reportedly appear

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Yesterday Ryan Reynolds took to Twitter to mark the fact that the Deadpool movie would arrive in cinemas in a year’s time by teasing the costume design for the Merc with the Mouth, and now tonight we have some casting news on the X-Men spin-off. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Gina Carano (Fast & Furious […]