Moviefone Editorial

Tag: 20th century fox

  • ‘Deadpool 2’ Promo Offers David Beckham an Apology, Several Grand Gestures

    Sometimes, the merc with a mouth puts his foot in it.

    In the latest “Deadpool 2” promo, star Ryan Reynolds, dressed as the oft-inappropriate superhero, decides he needs to make amends with soccer star David Beckham after insulting him in the past. The short video reminds fans of what went down: In “Deadpool,” Reynolds’s character claimed that Beckham sounds like he “mouth-sexed a can of helium” when he speaks. Now, Deadpool (or maybe Reynolds?) is shown feeling bad about his comment and ready to do what it takes to gain forgiveness.

    Deadpool has his quirks, and it turns out that apologizing in style is one of them. The unconventional superhero shows up at Beckham’s door not one, not two, but four times with grand gestures that ultimately put him back in his friend’s good graces. It makes for a pretty entertaining promo, especially when they reconcile and we learn what Beckham smells like.

    Watch Deadpool grovel below.

    “Deadpool 2” opens in theaters May 18.

  • Fox May Revive Tim Allen Comedy ‘Last Man Standing’

    Looks like last season may not have been the end for Last Man Standing” after all: Multiple media outlets are reporting that the Tim Allen sitcom may be revived by Fox.

    According to TVLine, Allen has “signed a deal for a potential Season 7 and conversations are underway with key cast members and EPs from the original incarnation to join him.” The star confirmed the possible revival on social media on Thursday afternoon.

    “They heard all your voices people!!” Allen tweeted to followers. “LMS just might be a reality. Keep it up. Who wants more #LastManStanding ?”

    TVLine reports that part of the inspiration to bring back “Last Man” is thanks to the surprise smash success of fellow returning sitcom “Roseanne,” which features a conservative protagonist (and star). Allen himself has continually claimed that ABC cancelled “Last Man” because of his political views, though ABC has repeatedly countered that the decision came down to money.

    There’s certainly some truth to the latter explanation, since “Last Man” was wrapping its sixth season last year, and an upcoming contract renewal process for the highly-paid Allen would likely have been quite expensive for the network. Compounding the situation was the fact that ABC did not own the rights to “Last Man” — 20th Century Fox, its potential new home, does — and therefore the network would have had to pay that company even more to continue licensing the show. (That hefty pricetag is one reason that CMT, which airs reruns of the sitcom, eventually passed on rescuing the series.)

    Now that Fox has its hands on the property, though, it remains to be seen if it will pony up whatever paycheck Allen may request. According to The Hollywood Reporter, “Insiders stress the talks are on the early side and could break down ahead of the network’s May 14 upfront presentation.”

    And Variety reports that even if a deal comes through for Allen, the status of some of the show’s original costars is also up in the air, since both Nancy Travis and Hector Elizondo are attached to other projects. (Though in the case of Travis’s character, who plays Allen’s character’s wife, producers could go the “Kevin Can Wait” route and just kill her off.)

    Stay tuned to see if this deal comes together. If it does, you can expect a splashy announcement at the aforementioned upfronts.

    [via: TVLine, The Hollywood Reporter, Variety]

  • ‘Deadpool’-Themed Pop-up Bar Arriving in New York and Los Angeles

    If you’ve ever wanted to eat or drink like Marvel’s merc with a mouth, your chance is coming.

    With “Deadpool 2” soon to open in theaters, 20th Century Fox is doing all it can to get people excited about the sequel. And it seems like they’re having fun with it. There is a “Deadpool”-themed pop-up bar set to open in New York City and Los Angeles in the weeks to come, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

    The pop-up bars — which you have to be at least 21 to visit — will be at existing local establishments, but they’ll do their best to replace the film’s watering hole, Sister Margaret’s School for Wayward Girls. There will be special “Deadpool” Mike’s Harder cans, for example, as the company is involved in the campaign. New York’s pop-up will offer pizza, while LA’s will serve chimichangas, because drinking on an empty stomach is never a good idea.

    Each pop-up will be open for a three-day stint, with New York’s leading off. It runs from 7 to 11:30 p.m. on April 26, 27, and 28 at Brooklyn’s Alligator Lounge. The LA pop-up will then follow from May 10 to May 12 at Slipper Clutch downtown, also from 7 to 11:30 p.m. each night. Proceeds from the LA location will support the nonprofit behind the DTLA Film Festival.

    It sounds like a fun opportunity for fans to get in the movie spirit. If only the studio would throw in a surprise appearance from Deadpool himself, Ryan Reynolds, too.

    “Deadpool 2” opens May 18.

    [via: The Hollywood Reporter]

  • ‘X-Men: Dark Phoenix,’ ‘New Mutants’ Delayed, ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ Moves Forward

    The “X-Men” are just going to have to wait.

    20th Century Fox is shuffling around several of its films, including its next two “X-Men”-related installments. “X-Men: Dark Phoenix” has been pushed back from Nov. 2, 2018 to Feb. 14, 2019.

    Taking that Nov. 2 slot is Freddie Mercury biopic “Bohemian Rhapsody,” which was set to bow on Christmas.

    And now that Valentine’s Day is taken, that pushes the medieval epic “The Kid Who Would Be King” back two weeks to March 1.

    The studio is also delaying its “X-Men” horror-themed spinoff “The New Mutants” from its original date of Feb. 22, 2019 to Aug. 2, 2019.

    James Mangold’s cop thriller “The Force” is no longer slated for March 1, but will open at some undetermined time later.

    It’s unclear why 20th Century Fox is making these moves. Perhaps they feel they’ve got enough “X-Men” this year, with “Deadpool 2” opening in May. Or this could be some consequence of Disney’s acquisition of Fox.

  • Funny New ‘Deadpool 2’ Poster Draws Inspiration From ‘Flashdance’

    The merc with a mouth strikes again.

    Fresh off of live-tweeting the Super Bowl as his “Deadpool 2” character, Ryan Reynolds is giving us the sequel’s latest poster. As others before it, the poster parodies an important piece of pop culture. This time, it’s the 1983 romantic musical drama “Flashdance,” starring Jennifer Beals and Michael Nouri.

    The poster shows Deadpool bracing himself as he bends backward over a chair, chest to the sky, as bullets rain down on him. Beals previously posed the same way for “Flashdance” but with water falling down on her, but just in case people didn’t make the connection, Reynolds included another clue: He borrowed the “Flashdance” tagline and tweeted it out with the image.

    “Take your passion. And make it happen,” he wrote.

    Another day, another well-executed “Deadpool 2” marketing move. We look forward to more of these as the film’s May 18 release date gets even closer.

  • ‘Deadpool 2’ Release Date Moved Up, ‘Gambit’ Release Date Pushed Back

    Studio Fox is making some big changes to its upcoming release calendar, with three films now slated to debut on different dates.

    The most noteworthy affected film is “Deadpool 2,” which is seeing its release date moved up two weeks. The Ryan Reynolds-starring sequel to 2016 hit “Deadpool,” originally set to debut on June 1, will now bow on May 18.

    According to The Hollywood Reporter, that move is likely a strategic one, taking the comic book flick out of competition with upcoming spinoff film “Solo: A Star Wars Story,” which is set to premiere on May 25. As THR notes, the recent “Star Wars” films have done big business in their second week of release, and Fox likely does not want “Deadpool 2” to have to fight off “Star Wars” fans at the box office.

    The other big news is confirmation that “Gambit” is indeed changing its release date. The “X-Men” spinoff just lost its third director in as many years, after Gore Verbinski bowed out of the project this week. It had been unclear if the studio would still try to make its planned February 14, 2019 release date; now, the flick has officially been pushed to the new date of June 7, 2019.

    THR is saying that the main reason for the switch is that the tone of the flick, a comedic film revolving around a heist, will play better as a summer tentpole. But the likely real reason is the most obvious: The Channing Tatum flick still needs a director who will stay on board for more than a few months — and actually begin production.

    Finally, “X-Men” spinoff “The New Mutants” is facing an even bigger delay. Instead of debuting on April 13 of this year, it is now set for release on February 22, 2019. While a 10-month pushback doesn’t exactly bode well for the flick, THR’s sources note that it may just be a logistical switch, to avoid overseas competition with other Fox studio releases (including “Deadpool 2”).

    While this type of behind the scenes shuffling is fairly common at studios, it’s especially interesting for Fox, which is facing that impending Disney buyout. Whether that move is responsible for any of this repositioning is anybody’s guess, but it’s something to keep an eye on in the future. (Especially with projects that have yet to get the official greenlight.)

    [via: The Hollywood Reporter]

  • ‘Deadpool’ Director Developing Kitty Pryde ‘X-Men’ Spinoff Movie

    The director of “Deadpool” has his sights set on another character from the Marvel comics-verse, with Tim Miller developing a solo “X-Men” spinoff flick centered around the mutant Kitty Pryde.

    Collider has the scoop that Miller is currently shepherding the project for studio 20th Century Fox, the home of the “Deadpool” franchise. It’s still early days in the process, but Miller’s involvement certainly bodes well for the picture, considering the success he and Ryan Reynolds had with the Merc With a Mouth.

    What could complicate things, though, is the looming Disney buyout, which may spell doom for any in-development Fox projects once it goes into effect (pending Congressional approval, of course). Collider cautions that the flick could be delayed or even canceled altogether while that process plays out, though the site is extremely confident in its reporting that this is a project that Miller is currently actively pursuing, buyout be damned.

    Kitty Pryde was last seen on the big screen played by Ellen Page in “X-Men: Days of Future Past.” Here’s a character breakdown, courtesy of Collider:

    Best known by the codename Shadowcat, but also taking on the aliases of Ariel, Sprite and even the mantle of Star-Lord over the years, Pryde is a mutant with the ability to “phase” or become intangible, which basically allows her (and anything she’s touching) to pass through solid objects, disrupt electromagnetic fields, and even levitate.

    She certainly sounds like a character who deserves her own story on the big screen, and we hope Miller gets the chance to tell it. Stay tuned to see if this project pans out.

    [via: Collider]

  • Jennifer Lawrence Trapped Herself In ‘X-Men: Dark Phoenix’: ‘I Kind of F—ed Myself’

    Hollywood Reporter/Lifetime WIE BreakfastJennifer Lawrence‘s reaction to being offered “X-Men: Dark Phoenix” was not what we’d have expected. In fact, according to the actress in an EW interview, her initial response was “Goddammit!”

    Having played her mutant character, Mystique, in two X-Men films at that point, Lawrence was really sick of one aspect of her role: being painted blue. Her deal expired with 2016’s “X-Men: Apocalypse,” so she had a possible out. It also sounded like she had even seriously considered taking it.

    “I love these movies — it’s just the paint,” she told EW in 2015. “I was 20 [in ‘X-Men: First Class’] and I didn’t care about fumes and toxins, and now I’m almost 25 and I’m like, ‘I can’t even pronounce this and that’s going in my nose? I’m breathing that?’”

    And yet, here we are, less than a year away from another X-Men film starring Lawrence. What happened, it turns out, is all the actress’s own doing. Lawrence told EW recently that she trapped herself by supporting her friend Simon Kinberg when he was considering directing the film. Apparently, he told her she’d have to be in it if he did helm the flick, and she agreed.

    “I kind of f—ed myself,” she said.

    Fortunately, there are aspects of the films that she does love, including a big reason that ultimately brought her back.

    “The other reason was for the fans,” she said.

    Aww. We love her, too.

    We’ll see Lawrence — in all her blue glory — in “X-Men: Dark Phoenix” when it opens in theaters on Nov. 2.

    [via: EW]

  • The New ‘Deadpool 2’ Teaser Ties Together Some of Ryan Reynolds’s Strange Clues

    ENTERTAINMENT-US-CINEMA-LIFE-PREMIER-ARRIVALSThere must be a method to Ryan Reynolds and the “Deadpool 2” team’s madness, but we’re still figuring it out.

    Since even before the superhero movie’s R-rated predecessor came out in 2016, Ryan Reynolds and 20th Century Fox have found unique ways to promote the insane Marvel antihero. They don’t rely solely on trailers, traditional posters, and the like; no, they also use spoofs, tongue-in-cheek photo shoots, and crazy antics worth of Deadpool himself.

    Take the latest teaser, for instance: It features Reynolds as Deadpool impersonating Bob Ross, the iconic TV painter. While he shows us “happy trees” and how to use color, he also gets really into sexual double entendre. It is hilarious and random, yet maybe we should have expected it. There were a couple of hints, the first of which was an NSFW Jan. 17 tweet from Reynolds singing Ross’s praises as only he oh-so-poetically could.

    “Bob Ross is very calming,” he wrote. “5 min into this show, it feels like you’ve been f–ked to death by a thousand pillows.”

    As of Wednesday, when the teaser dropped, Reynolds had the tweet pinned, likely meaning he was leaving a clue all that time, not just congratulating himself for coming up with such a ridiculous (but honestly, accurate) observation.

    The second clue was more recent, coming in the form of the first poster, which was unveiled on Nov. 9. The poster spoofed Norman Rockwell’s 1943 painting “Freedom From Want,” replacing the original subjects with the “Deadpool 2” cast. The new portrait appeared in the teaser, which was fitting given the Bob Ross-slash-art connection.

    The painting was on the wall, but we just didn’t see it. Given what we know now, we’re curious what other absurdity we’ve missed Reynolds and the team hinting at in the past. They have more coming for us in the months ahead, so we’ll have to keep our eyes open.

    “Deadpool 2” is slated for release on June on June 1, 2018.

  • New ‘War for the Planet of the Apes’ Trailer: Humanity Falls by the Wayside

    The time for peace and humanity has passed.

    Apes and humans are back to battling one another in the latest “War for the Planet of the Apes” trailer, released Thursday by 20th Century Fox. The preview reunites viewers with Caesar (played by Andy Serkis) and the apes, who seem to be minding their own business when humans seek them out with the goal of destroying them once and for all. Of course, that means the war between man and ape is back on — just as the film’s title suggests.

    From what we’ve seen so far, Caesar and the apes have a formidable foe to contend with. The Colonel (Woody Harrelson), a ruthless military leader, shows no qualms when it comes to wiping out the rival species. He’s definitely not messing around.

    “There are times when it is necessary to abandon our humanity to save humanity,” he says.

    This war is going to be brutal.

    “War for the Planet of the Apes” hits theaters on July 14.