‘Wolverine 3’ Gets An R-Rating

It seems that the Deadpool-effect is already taking hold at 20th Century Fox with sources out of the recent companies Toy Fair presentation reporting that the next Wolverine film with be R-Rated.

The image below (uploaded on imgur by RayChaos) shows a pamphlet that has been claimed to have been handed out at the event, revealing the companies projected rating for Wolverine 3.

Fans of the berserker may question how it has taken this long for Hugh Jackmans violent Logan to get a bloody adaption. This is in no doubt a reaction to the success of Ryan Reynolds Merc-With-A-Mouth, whose R-Rated exploits has seen Director Tim Miller‘s work surpassed Fifty Shades of Grey’s 85.2 Million on Presidents Weekend and the month of February with a cool $135 Million.
The Reynolds lead film also has a stranglehold on the crown as the biggest opening ever for a R-Rated Movie beating out Matrix Reloaded’s $91.8 Million debut.

The Wolverine Director James Mangold will return to direct the third film which Jackman revealed last year will explore the father/son relationship between Logan and Professor Xavier who will once again be portrayed by a returning Patrick Stewart.

Wolverine 3 is slated to hit theatres March 3, 2017 with production staring on the project this April.

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Deadpool Review

Much has been made of Deadpool actor, Ryan Reynolds, quest to bring the title hero to the big screen after the characters mishandled debut in Wolverine Origins (2009).

The actors passion however should not be under-sold as it this aspect that shines throughout Deadpools glorious return to the big screen.

Reynolds of course plays the Merc-With-A-Mouth Wade Wilson, a lippy thug-for-hire who finds himself facing certain death after finding out he has terminal cancer. The timing couldn’t be worst given that the rogue has found love in the form of Morena Baccarin’s Vanessa, a hooker-with-a-heart-of-gold and the action flicks self proclaimed “hot chick.”

Wilson soon finds himself going to extreme lengths to cure his ailment leading to our hero unlocking his latent mutant abilities of healing (like X-Men favourite Wolverine) at the expense of Wilson pretty little mug.

Factor in that the bad guy kidnaps his girl after our hero torches villain Ajax’s (Ed Skerin) lab, and Deadpool is out for revenge.

Reynolds who is probably best known for his comedic roles is on fire, mixing in his own sardonic delivery with the quick witted and cult laden retorts that Deadpool is known for. The 4th wall break from the comic books is also present and used to great effect as the story balances classic superhero origin story and kick-ass action.

Supporting appearances from X-Men Colossus (Stefan Kapicic) and Negasonic Teenage Warhead (Brianna Hildebrand) are a welcome palette cleanser to hyperbolic Wilson, with both making great comedic “straight men“. The scene in which Deadpool literally breaks his limbs trying to beat up Colossus had my fellow cinema goers and myself rolling in the aisle.

If Deadpool has a weakness it would be its over zealous in-jokes with regards to the characters comic-book past. The references will have knowing fans geeking-out while causal viewers might find certain jokes fall flat. But there are enough dirty jokes and movie references peppered in to keep all invested in Wilson fight for revenge.

Overall Deadpool makes up for the beloved Merc’s dire debut, which is referenced, gagged and easter egged on more than one occasion. Tim Miller’s film is not only a worthy addition to the ever expanding X-Men universe but an exciting entry into the weird world of Wade Wilson. Roll on Deadpool 2.

Now … where did I park my Unicorn?

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The NXT Review – Feb 10

 

Whats up Wrestling-Peeps, welcome back to The NXT Review and DAMN what a week for WWE. Not really much else to talk about on the main roster front besides Daniel Bryan’s (lets face it) inevitable retirement announcement after being on the bench for a majority of 2015. But still, its sad-sad news. I’m holding back the obvious reaction to the announcement (arms at the ready) but we’ll see how far I get.

Bryan really dominated the main roster but NXT still brought it this week, and on the road no less. Did they mention this because I love live event tapings out of Full Sail, which of late has felt kinda small given how popular NXT is fast becoming. I would never say that the Full Sailers are getting lazy, I mean the regular faces are there week-in week-out so mad props. But the capacity that the studio sits doesn’t seem conducive to a lively crowd.

But Orlando laid it out. So much so that a boring Baron Corbin match was less-so than normal, so above average which is good for Corbin. Nah I’m just funning ya, Corbin (although controversial to admit) I actually like. Not to rehash but its probably true that the passion isn’t there. But Breaking Ground highlights this mans attitude to the biz, being that he is bigger than NXT. And I have to agree.

This is a hot-take that could blow up in my face but Corbin needs to move up. The skills, he has them. He is a big-guy who punches people and power bombs them until the cows come home, nothing else. And thats okay. He isn’t going to be that indie darling that his opponent Johnny Gargano is. He isn’t a high-flying or even a techincally sound wrestler but he can be that turd-of-a-heel that crowds love to boo and will fight for that top spot on RAW harder than most. In his own mind, NXT just isn’t big enough for him.

Now does he deserve that shot just yet, maybe not but I aint gonna tell him that, are you?

Finally Alexa Bliss back in singles competition, yes it was against Cameron (seriously Girl, take your own advice and wave Bye) who okay has improved but meh still pretty choppy in the ring. Any who, the match was solid if not a tad slow but that would be Cameron’s choppy-ness as mentioned but Bliss shines as a Heel and you can tell she loves taking the heat and running with it. Please no-more of these two but YES! to more single matches with Bliss. I held it in as long as I could.

Onto the main event and what has become norm for NXT, the women stole the show.

In a surprisingly competitive match Carmella showed that what Bayley can serve she is just as capable of dishing out. Got to be honest, found the ending kinda sloppy but Bayley resorting to a reverse roll-up to get Carmella’s shoulders to stay on the match. Gives credence to Carmella as serious competitor.

And that stare down at the end between Bayley and Auska. Every NXT fans wet dream right there.

The more confusing aspect, because Bayley Vs Auska just makes all the sense in the world … it just does. Is how Nia Jax and the ever-popular Eva Marie fit into the equation? After the beat down they gave Bayley and Carmella it would make all the more sense to have a few Tag Team feuds for awhile but how about we throw caution out the window and have a one-on-one feud with Carmella and Eva?

All Red Everything needs to stand on her own two-feet sooner or later and Carmella showed tonight that she can take the lead in the ring. Something that Eva has show little sign of doing just yet.

I’m just saying with Eva out the way it leaves Nia Jax to enter a Triple Threat feud with and NXT Women’s Champion Bayley. I think I just fan-fict’d something special there, make it happen WWE!

I’m sure my check is in the post.

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‘X-Force’ Is Ryan Reynolds Next Passion Project

With Deadpool garnering critical and commercial success, it seems a no-brainer that 20th Century Fox would move ahead with the R-Rated Superhero genre, so it shouldn’t come as that much of a surprise that Deadpool 2 is reported as being greenlit already.

A source out of The Hollywood Reporter confirms that Ryan Reynolds Merc-With-A-Mouth will go into production without Director Tim Miller at its helm but thats not to say that the team of Miller, and writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick won’t remain together as Fox are keen to keep the three men involved.

As Miller, Reese and Wernick prepare for Deadpool 2, the man himself did reveal recently that an X-Factor film is high on his list as the next comic adaption he wants to get off the ground: “In the future, I think, if we’re doing a bunch more Deadpool movies, we’re gonna really explore the X-Men a lot,” Reynolds quip , adding, “And maybe X-Force. X-Force my priority. I really want to get that in.“

Much like the Deadpool movie, the X-Force comics had a far mature tone than is expected from Marvel with various incarnations of the team dealing with Mutant threats with extreme force. Incidentally at one point Wolverine headed up the team that consisted of Deadpool, Psylocke and Archangel, characters that have all been introduced into the 20th Century Fox Mutant universe. Although Hugh Jackman has gone on record as saying that his time with the Mutant franchise will soon be at an end, maybe a new spin-off franchise might change his mind.

After all, if Reynolds can get a Deadpool movie onto the big screen, maybe a Jackman-Reynolds X-Force movie doesn’t sound all that unrealistic.

Deadpool hits UK Theatres this week.

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‘Hannibal’ Creator Named Showrunner For CBS ‘Star Trek’ Tv Show

Bryan Fuller, the man behind critically acclaimed shows Pushing Daisies and Hannibal, has been named show runner for CBS’s forthcoming Star Trek Tv series. Which will mark a homecoming for the Producer and screenwriter who cut his teeth writing for Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Voyager.

CBS also announced that Alex Kurtzman, who has worked as a writer and producer on the recent Star Trek movies, will serve as Executive-Producer and Co-Creator alongside Fuller. Little detail is known as to whether the series will take place within the Tv continuity established by the original series in 1966 or if it will serve as a spin-off for the alternate timeline of the Kurtzman films.

In a statement released by Fuller, the show runner confirmed his love for the Star Trek universe revealing that his “very first experience of Star Trek is my oldest brother turning off all the lights in the house and flying his model of a D7 Class Klingon Battle Cruiser through the darkened halls. Before seeing a frame of the television series, the Star Trek universe lit my imagination on fire.”

He continued to express that “It is without exaggeration a dream come true to be crafting a brand-new iteration of Star Trek with fellow franchise alum Alex Kurtzman and boldly going where no Star Trek series has gone before.”

Kurtzman also reciprocated the sentiments shared, remarking that “bringing Star Trek back to television means returning it to its roots, and for years those roots flourished under Bryan’s devoted care. His encyclopedic knowledge of Trek canon is surpassed only by his love for Gene Roddenberry’s optimistic future, a vision that continues to guide us as we explore strange new worlds.”

The new series will be the first show made for CBS All Access, the networks Video on demand and live streaming service, and will air in early  2017. The show will have a special preview event on the Network with the rest of the episode being exclusive the VOD service with international markets receiving the show via traditional Tv services and other streaming services around the world.

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‘Michael Fassbender’ Reveals New Information On ‘Assassins Creed’

Hollywood star Michael Fassbender opens up about his latest film Assassins Creed in a recent article on Empire Online.

In the interview, Fassbender likens the popular game adaptation to seminal sci-fi film The Matrix explaining “the idea of DNA memory elevates it from a basic fantasy genre [story]. Because you have something an audience can actually believe in.“

Realistic elements also extend to how the film was shot with the British actor revealing that the film used “very little green screen” which Fassbender described as “highly unusual.” Fans will also be glad to hear that the game franchise’s classic ‘leap of faith’ will be in the film with the actor disclosing that the stunt was done by professionals using wires.

The film, also starring Marion Cotillard and Ariane Labed, wrapped in January with the film expected for release on December 21, 2016.

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‘Daniel Bryan’ Announces His Retirement From WWE

The YES! Nation mourns as professional wrestler and the Peoples Champion (second to The Rock of course) Daniel Bryan announced his retirement from WWE today.

In a statement via Twitter, Bryan posted: “Due to medical reasons, effective immediately, I am announcing my retirement. Tonight on Raw, I’ll have a chance to elaborate. #gratitude”

Bryan’s career within the WWE has been celebrated but also plauged by injury. After complex nerve damage in his right arm forced the then WWE World Heavyweight Champion to take an extended leave of absence in 2014. He did see a successful return to ring, winning the Intercontinental Championship at WrestleMania 31, becoming one of only six wrestlers to hold every active WWE Championship titles.

His return was short lived however when the then IC Champ suffer a severe concussion back in April last year, forcing him once again relinquish a major WWE Title.

In an interview with IGN in October, Bryan mentioned that “The WWE’s medical doctor is skeptical, because of my history with concussions and that sort of thing,” even though he seemed confident that he could return to in-ring action after doctors outside the company had cleared him to wrestle.

We will have to wait and see what Bryan will do next but reports have indicated that WWE have frozen his contract meaning that he will be unable to wrestle under different promotions. It should also be mentioned that the company have offered Daniel a number of non-wrestling positions in the past, including announcing alongside Michael Cole and JBL. All of which he has turned down, believing that he would rather wrestle even if it means leaving the WWE to do so.

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Super Bowl Ad Reveals ‘Krang’ In ‘TMNT 2’

The Super Bowl is here and of course when we should be watching the game we can’t help but Geek out over those Ad’s – however brief.

This year those heroes in a half-shell got in on the action when a brief trailer dropped for Michael Bays TMNT: Out of the Shadows revealing that super-villain Krang will indeed be in the sequel.

Krang will be most familiar with fans of the 80’s cartoon, a Warlord from Dimension-X who found himself banished to Earth without his body and reduced to a brain-like form. It had been suspected that the long-standing nemesis to the turtles would appear after concept art leaked revealing the character.

TMNT 2 sees our mutant-heroes Leonardo (Johnny Knoxville), Donatello (Jeremy Howard), Raphael (Alan Ritchson) and Michelangelo (Noel Fisher) return to once again stop Shredder (Brian Tee) while battling an Alien Invasion that presumably answer to Krang.

Megan Fox will reprise her role as April O’Neil alongside Will Arnett’s comic relief Vern Fenwick, with fan favourite Casey Jones making his debut played by Arrow actor Stephen Amell.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows will hit screens June 3, 2016.

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The NXT Review With @mitch_rated

Whats up Wrestle-peeps, this is The NXT Review and lets break-it-down and Hype-Up as we walk into tonights show that was all about progression. Because essentially thats what we got tonight, we got NXT positioning their next big stars or just those superstars that the biz sees the most potential in. Either way it allowed us to see more Carmella, which is no bad thing and a stellar match up with a returning Finn Balor and Apollo Crews. But more on that later.

Speaking of Carmella, she got her time to shine tonight both on-and-off the mic. In a chitty-chat with Tom Phillips, the Princess of Staton Island finally layeth what many on dirt sheets already knew, that she came from wrestling royalty. Okay, maybe royalty is a stretch but if WWE can stretch bloodlines thin then so can I. Anywho, we saw some stock footage of her father, Paul Vandale, who Carmella states has MMA background. Colour me curious because I did-not-know-that! Will we see a Brock Lesnar like entrance from Carmella next? He is F-A-B-U-L-O-U-S as well don’t you think?

Positioning Carmella against Emma is an interesting match. I never want to see Emma lose, since her return to NXT coupled with her shedding her Emma-Lution schtick has seen the Aussie native shine as a Heel. But the superior skills that she posses is nessercy when dealing with a relatively still green Carmella. Not hating but she is still kinda clunky on her feet. Not levels of Kelly Kelly clunky (oh Boy, deep cut) but still not on-the-level. Which will come with facing off against more experience women, so her Title match against Bayley next week will do wonders for her I’m sure. Not so sure how great that match will be though.

Did someone say ‘Progression’? NXT dropped a bloody big teased with a big-glossy promo on American Alpha followed by Enzo & Cass making their way to the ring. I’m not ashamed to admit I peed my pants in anticipation of these two tag teams facing off but nay, my urination was in vain. Sure we got Team SAWFT in action but it really was a squash match to progress these guys (see what I did there) building the so-so feud with Dash & Dawson. A feud that I’m so not invested in which speaks more to Dash & Dawson than it does Enzo & Cass. Just give the damn titles to American Alpha already will you.

After the weak ending to the Triple-Threat (Triple-Confusing) Match last week, GM William Regal finally gave his verdict after much deliberation that lasted all week. What was he doing? Drawing diagrams, playing rematches on WWE2k16 for peeps-sake. However the head-huncho did come to a decision which was a rematch between Sami Zayn and Samoa Joe, much to the chagrin of Baron Corbin.

Dude, Corbin is going to kill someone or get himself murdered. Watching Breaking Ground just highlights how heinous this guy is. Yeah its reality TV but seriously, would you intentionally make yourself look like a D-bag? Meh, then again it is Baron Corbin.

Onto the main event and woo-boy, Finn Balor is back. Too long. It has been too long since TakeOver London and if the dirt sheets at to be believed that WWE is protecting Balor because of his age, then it has been intentional. Explain? Well he isn’t in his 20’s which means in wrestling years the dude isn’t a young stud and prone to injury. Whether you can attribute that to Balor I dunno. But the establishment seems to think so and with the injury wind facing troubling within in the WWE at the moment. You can’t blame them.

So if they want to give him a lighter load for as long they have him off the road in NXT. Go for it because I want Finn on the main roster sooner or later … but don’t rush just yet because we get matches like these.

If you have followed my Review your’ll know of my meh response to Apollo Crews. Like the wind, it changes on a dime. Was that a mix metaphor? My stance however remains the same, I’m excited to see what this guy can deliver I just don’t see it yet … until tonight.

Okay, I saw it, I did. And you can sell me on this feud going forward but I think Crews would benefit from a Heel turn or just a dirtier image. We know this dude is a nice guy, so wipe that clean or dirty it up because I wanna see this monster unleash his anger tenfold.

Overall great main event that seemed to put a full stop to these pairs facing off … but not for ever I hope.

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‘The Flash’ Will Crossover With CBS’s ‘Supergirl’

Even since The Flash and Arrow creator Greg Berlanti announced last year that Supergirl was to appear on CBS, many fans questioned whether any of the CW based characters would crossover onto the rival programming. A seemingly impossible feat given the rights to characters belonging to numerous people. Until now.

Fans wishes have come true as Grant Gustin’s Barry Allen will be speeding his way into National City in an upcoming episode of Supergirl scheduled to broadcast on Monday, March 28. The reveal came courtesy of executive producers Berlanti and Andrew Kreisberg who expressed their excitement stating:

“We are so incredibly excited to announce something that we have dreamed of happening since we starting making Supergirl — The Flash and Supergirl are teaming up! We want to thank Grant Gustin for making the time to come visit (on top of his already immense workload) and all of the folks at CBS, The CW, Warner Bros. and DC for working this out. And finally thanks to the fans and journalists who have kept asking for this to happen. It is our pleasure and hope to create an episode worthy of everyone’s enthusiasm and support.“

This will mark the first time that Kara Danvers (Melissa Benoist) will interact with a character from the growing CW DC universe, effectively integrating Supergirl into fold. This will leave fans wondering if this could become more than a one off with Arrow, The Flash and Legends of Tomorrow crossing-over on numerous occasions. Could Supergirl turn up in Star City or Central City next?

I guess … skies the limit right.

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