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Deadpool shares his Year in Review

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As part of the ’12 Days of Deadpool’ countdown, the Merc with a Mouth has shared his year in review, with Ryan Reynolds posting the following image to Twitter… SEE ALSO: Check out a page from the Deadpool screenplay, with script notes from the Merc with a Mouth SEE ALSO: Follow all of our Deadpool […]

Ryan Reynolds continues 12 Days of Deadpool

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As 20th Century Fox counts down to its new trailer on Christmas Day, Ryan Reynolds has continued the ’12 Days of Deadpool’ with a GIF of him fooling around with the Deadpool theater standee, along with a short video featuring the Merc with a Mouth’s “battle plan”… SEE ALSO: Deadpool shows off his weapon with new poster […]

Marvel officially announces Apocalypse Wars event

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Last weekend it was revealed that Brazil’s Comic Con Experience that Marvel is set to launch a new X-Men event entitled Apocalypse Wars, and now the publisher has officially announced the arc, which will present three blockbuster stories across Extraordinary X-Men, Uncanny X-Men and All-New X-Men. “In the same vein as the classic event “Fall […]

Shawn Ashmore would be interested in playing Iceman as gay in the X-Men franchise

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With Bobby Drake recently coming out as gay in the Marvel comic book universe, Shawn Ashmore has been speaking to IGN about the possibility of playing the storyline out on the big screen, should he ever get the opportunity to return as Iceman in the X-Men movie franchise. “Obviously the comics and movies are separate. […]

Characters profiles for Deadpool

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With a week to go until its release (well, in the UK… our friends across the Pond have an extra couple of days), Fox and Hulu have released a series of character profiles for Deadpool, offering up some details on Ryan Reynolds’ Merc with a Mouth along with Vanessa Carlysle, Colossus, Negasonic Teenage Warhead, Ajax and […]

Superhero Showdown 2016 – Deadpool vs Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice vs Captain America: Civil War vs X-Men: Apocalypse vs Suicide Squad vs Doctor Strange

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Gary Collinson on the 2016 superhero box office showdown… We’re used to seeing three or four superhero movies each year, but 2016 sees Hollywood’s infatuation with costumed heroes making the jump to ludicrous speed with SIX superhero movies set to grace the big screen (it would have been seven, had Fox been able to get […]

Petition launched for PG-13 cut of Deadpool

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20th Century Fox made a lot of people happy when it granted director Tim Miller, star Ryan Reynolds and company the go ahead for an R-rated take on Deadpool, which the MPAA confirmed this week, classifying the movie with “strong violence, language, sexual content and graphic nudity”. However Comic book writer and YouTuber Grace Randolph, […]

Valentine’s Day banners and new TV spot for Deadpool, MPAA grants R-rating for “strong violence, language, sexual content and graphic nudity”

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A couple of days ago 20th Century Fox switched gears with its marketing for Deadpool with a rom-com style poster for the upcoming X-Men spinoff, and now we have another two Valentine’s Day-inspired banners, along with a new still from the film and the latest TV spot; check them out here… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMU0W4wwQg4 Meanwhile – as expected […]

Channing Tatum’s Gambit movie to start shooting in March

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20th Century Fox’s X-Men spinoff Gambit has had a bit of a rocky road through development, with Channing Tatum’s on-off involvement in the lead as Remy LeBeau, and Rise of the Planet of the Apes helmer Rupert Wyatt vacating the director’s chair following creative disputes with the studio. Well, with Tatum now firmly on board, […]