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Aubrey Plaza on losing out on Domino role in Deadpool 2

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Auditions are some of the most grueling things an actor can do; even our favorite performers can stumble. That’s happened to Aubrey Plaza when she went out for a role in Deadpool 2, as she discusses in a new interview. In a video interview with Cosmopolitan, which you can the clip below, Plaza spoke about […]

Deadpool 3 director gives production update, talks film inspirations

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As the Deadpool films enter a new era in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, fans often question how they’ll keep things the same with new filmmakers and a new studio. Rest assured though, Deadpool fans. Director Shawn Levy promises to keep the spirit of Deadpool 1 and Deadpool 2 alive.  While at the Toronto International Film […]

Emma Corrin teases upcoming villain role in Deadpool 3

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Deadpool 3 is shaping up to be quite the superhero event film, and we know any good comic book adaptation needs a strong villain. Speaking to Empire in an interview before the ongoing SAG-AFTRA strike, Emma Corrin unleashed onto the world that they are not only starring in Deadpool 3 but will serve as a […]

Why Marvel Studios owes James Bond

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Commenting on the Critics with Simon Columb… With Star Wars and Jurassic World the previous week, the past seven days has revealed the cast for Bond 24, aka SPECTRE, alongside confirmation that Ryan Reynolds will return in the standalone X-Men movie Deadpool. We knew 2015 was going to be busy, but now we are seeing […]

Fantastic Four sequel reportedly postponed in favour of Deadpool 2

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Things are already pretty bad for Fantastic Four. It has rather poor reviews (read ours here and here), a war raging on between director and studio (with Josh Trank tweeting its their fault, and Fox saying it was his), and the film is only tracking to make $25 million by the end of its opening weekend. Fox had […]

Is Deadpool ridiculously overrated?

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Luke Owen looks at Deadpool… If you’ve read my work before, or listened to me on the Flickering Myth podcast, or watched me on The Flickering Myth Movie Show, then you’ll know that I am not a fan of Deadpool. I, personally, think that he’s funny when you first discover his existence, but then find him […]

Deadpool enjoys biggest ever February debut at the UK box office

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It shattered records across the Pond with a $135 million three-day opening, and 20th Century Fox’s Deadpool has also claimed the biggest ever February opening here in the UK with £13.7 million. That’s also bigger than every previous instalment in the X-Men franchise, and the second highest opening weekend ever for 20th Century Fox. “We are […]

Simon Kinberg says X-Force could be R-rated

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While, in theory, Fox giving Deadpool an R rating was a risky decision, considering how most R-rated comic book movies usually don’t do nearly as much business as their PG-13-rated competition (e.g. Watchmen, The Punisher), this past weekend Deadpool raked in a massive $132 million at the U.S. box office, proving that mainstream audiences don’t mind […]

Wolverine 3 aiming for R-rating after Deadpool success

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Well, it looks like 20th Century Fox is set to fully embrace the R-rating following the box office success of Deadpool; writer-producer Simon Kinberg has already suggested that the X-Force movie could be targeting an R-rating, and now the studio has confirmed that Hugh Jackman’s final outing as Logan in Wolverine 3 will also be […]

Deadpool breaks Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ opening record in Russia

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The results for Deadpool keep rolling in, as the film has broken yet another record. On its opening weekend, Deadpool made more than Josh Trank’s Fantastic Four did it in its entire run, it broke the February opening record (in the US and the UK), it’s the biggest R-rated release of all-time, it’s the biggest R-rated […]