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UPDATED WITH RESPONSES FROM JAMES CAMERON, JON LANDAU & PATRICK WHITESELL: Emma Watts has just resigned as President of Production at 20th Century Studios. Her existing creative team remains in place, and a new leader is expected to be named in the coming weeks. Disney reports there are no current changes to 20th…

In Cole Porter’s 1934 song Anything Goes, the composer noted, “In olden days, a glimpse of stocking/Was looked on as something shocking/But now, God knows/Anything goes.” Mr. Porter, meet Ryan Reynolds. Mimicking the grand old Hollywood tradition of congratulating a film for beating your box office record…

Are Paul Wernick and Rhett Reese the funniest writing team in Hollywood these days or just the hottest? The tandem’s latest is Zombieland 2: Double Tap, the Sony/Columbia Pictures horror comedy that last weekend enjoyed a robust opening ($39 million worldwide box office against a $42 million production budget) despite…

The killer success of Fox’s Deadpool franchise has made subversive superheroes and R-rated comic book adaptations all the rage in Hollywood so it’s no surprise to find a wave of elite assassins and lab-created warriors following in his ultra-violent footsteps. What is surprising, however, is how many of the characters…

In a first for Deadpool, the Merc with the Mouth has been granted a China release. Fox’s sequel, Deadpool 2, in its PG-13 version Once Upon A Deadpool, has been slated for January 25 in the Middle Kingdom where the original 2016 movie and its 2018 follow-up were too raunchy and racy for the market. The iteration…

20th Century Fox’s PG-13, holiday infused re-imagining of Deadpool 2 drew an estimated $953K in early morning industry estimates in its opening Wednesday at 1,566 theaters (including Tuesday previews). That number was good enough to make Once Upon a Deadpool second behind Universal/Illumination’s The Grinch which led…

A little cyber subterfuge may be underway regarding the new Avengers: Endgame trailer. It seems that the website touted to hold the much-anticipated trailer, AvengersEndgame.com, will not take you to that clip. Rather, it redirects to 20th Century Fox’s Once Upon a Deadpool, that studio’s upcoming, toned-down…

Filmmakers Joe and Anthony Russo believe they will soon be orchestrating an even bigger flock of A-list talent on screen as the Disney-Fox merger introduces the X-Men and Deadpool to the Marvel Universe. “I'm sure of it,” Joe Russo said. “The acquisition of Fox is showing us where the future of the business is going…

EXCLUSIVE All Fox wants for Christmas are 12 more days of Deadpool — that’s certainly one valid interpretation of the studio’s plan to revamp, rename and re-release the year’s biggest R-rated hit, Deadpool 2, as a PG-13 film called Once Upon A Deadpool. There’s more to it than that, however. Deadline has all the…

It came as a shocker when FX in March announced that it is not going forward with its Marvel's Deadpool animated adult action-comedy series, from Atlanta creator/executive producer/star Donald Glover and writer Stephen Glover, citing “creative differences” Landgraf made it clear the decision was entirely Marvel’s…

Because Deadpool has a little time — and likely people — to kill before his sequel attacks the world on Friday, he turned up at the Ed Sullivan Theater tonight to interrupt Stephen Colbert’s Late Night monologue. After decrying the crush of recent and upcoming movies featuring the caped and/or spandexed, the CBS host…

Much like Deadpool enjoyed breaking down the fourth wall in his movie, he continues to chip away at the divide between Fox and Disney’s Marvel Cinematic Universe. Ryan Reynolds, who plays the titular hero in the R-rated superhero franchise, took to Twitter to congratulate Avengers: Infinity War on its wildly…