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Wonder Woman has beaten Deadpool’s global box office takings

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Wonder Woman has now surpassed Deadpool at the global box office. The DC superhero movie has managed to add another scalp to its name, with its impressive international receipts meaning that is has now surpassed the tremendous effort of Deadpool. Deadpool managed to bring in a very impressive $783.1 million back in 2016 but it […]

Ryan Reynolds trolls Tom Holland from the set of Deadpool 2

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Always one for a good rib (even as he recently humorously revealed first looks at the characters of Domino, Cable, and the mysterious Little Deadpool), Ryan Reynolds is now putting Tom Holland and Spider-Man on blast. Apparently, shooting for Deadpool 2 has wrapped in Vancouver but not before causing many traffic delays and other citywide […]

Why Are Audiences Gravitating Towards Genre Subversions?

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George Chrysostomou on audiences gravitating towards genre subversions… This month marks the release of Kingsman: The Golden Circle, the sequel to the surprise hit Kingsman: The Secret Service and it is of course just as genre bending as its predecessor. The franchise clearly plays off of some of the silliness of the Bond movies, with their own versions of […]

Deadpool congratulates Wonder Woman on its success

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As Wonder Woman overtakes the domestic box office total of Deadpool (it is currently sitting at $368.5 million vs $363.1 million) and is also poised to eventually surpass it in the international box office, the Merc with a Mouth has taken to social media to congratulate the Amazon Princess on her success. Naturally, there is a […]

T.J. Miller to have bigger role in Deadpool 2

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Actor T.J. Miller has teased how Weasel will have a bigger role in Deadpool 2. The news and updates regarding the much anticipated sequel to Ryan Reynolds’ Deadpool are coming thick and fast. Just yesterday we learnt of the film casting its villain with actor Jack Kesey, and now the actor behind the character Weasel, […]

Deadpool 2 casts Jack Kesy as its villain, possibly Black Tom

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20th Century Fox has just found its villain for the anticipated Deadpool 2. Deadline has reported The Strain’s Jack Kesy has been cast as the sequel’s unknown antagonist, though they  claim to have heard reports that Kesy will portray the X-Men and Deadpool enemy, Black Tom. Black Tom is an Irish mutant who has the ability to […]

Alternative Vader scene from Rogue One, Ewan McGregor on Obi-Wan, Deadpool and X-Force, Coming to America sequel – Daily News Roundup

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Rounding up yesterday’s big news stories… BE CAREFUL NOT TO CHOKE ON YOUR ASPIRATIONS Disney and Lucasfilm delivered one of – if not the – greatest Darth Vader moments with his final scene in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, and screenwriter Gary Whitta has revealed that his original draft of the script featured an […]

Deadpool 2 to feature some obscure characters

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Deadpool screenwriters Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick are currently navigating the interview circuit for their upcoming project Life (which has recently garnered attention for possibly being a secret Venom prequel, something we did not report on because it’s not true), and naturally, they were asked about Deadpool 2. Speaking to Latino-Review regarding adding new characters […]

Fox’s X-Force movie confirmed as R-rated, with Deadpool and Cable as the leads

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This won’t come as much of a surprise given the enormous popularity of Ryan Reynolds’ Deadpool (and the fact that Reynolds is reportedly co-writing the script), but producer Simon Kinberg has revealed that the Merc with a Mouth will be taking the lead alongside Cable in Fox’s X-Men spinoff X-Force. “We are working hard on […]