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The Merc With A Mouth Talks Deadpool Film Ryan Reynolds hopes to be the face of two competing superhero franchises with “ Green Lantern ” and “ Deadpool ” but, after reading the gleefully subversive script for the latter, he isn’t too concerned about moviegoers getting the characters confused. “It goes in such a different direction than a superhero movie usually goes,” Reynolds said over lunch recently at 101 Coffee Shop. “It’s a nasty piece of work. It’s just based in so much emotional filth, completely. It’s like ‘Barfly‘ if it were a superhero movie. It sort of treads into the world of an emotionally damaged person. I always say that Deadpool is a guy in a highly militarized shame spiral…. It’s so different than the superhero movies to date, it departs so far from that.” In “ Green Lantern ,” due next summer, Reynolds plays Hal Jordan, the cocky but courageous test pilot who becomes the first human member of the Green Lantern Corps, an interstellar peacekeeping group armed wi

Kevin James To Enter The Octagon If you follow or watch the UFC then you have seen Kevin James at many of the fights. It looks like he will be entering the octagon very soon. Sony made a deal to have James star in an untitled Mixed Martial Art comedy that will start production next year. The script will be written by Allan Loeb (Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps) which should be interesting. James is attached to play a physics teacher whose school faces drastic cutbacks. In an attempt to save his best friend's job and the music program his students love, he moonlights in the octagon as a mixed martial arts fighter, ultimately leading to brawling in the UFC. Please Leave A Comment- Source- Deadline

Spike TV's Deadliest Warrior Coming To The Big Screen Paramount Pictures announced today it has made a deal for Shawn Levy's 21 Laps Entertainment to do a big-screen adaptation of sister company Spike TV 's original hit series " Deadliest Warrior ." The announcement comes on the heels of the show’s Season 2 finale, which brought about exceptional ratings for the network. Spike TV has renewed the series for a third season. " Deadliest Warrior " pits history's greatest warriors against one another to determine who reigns supreme. Along with the use of 21st century science and the latest in CGI technology, the series enlists world-class fighters, historians and weapons experts to provide insight into the unique history and style of these combatants which culminates in a head-to-head final fight between two warriors to declare which one would have been the deadliest. The first two seasons showed such memorable battles as Spartan vs. Ninja

Olivia Wilde To Star Opposite Reynolds & Bateman In between rounds as House doctor, Olivia Wilde is spending more and more time on the big screen. She has signed to join Ryan Reynolds and Jason Bateman in The Change Up , the David Dobkin-directed Universal Pictures comedy. Bateman plays a married man who switches bodies with slacker best friend ( Reynolds ). Wilde will play the married guy's law firm co-worker, who's an impetus for the body switch. The comedy, written by The Hangover scribes Jon Lucas and Scott Moore, films this fall. Neal Moritz is producer. Wilde will next be seen in the Paul Haggis-directed The Next Three Days opposite Russell Crowe , the Hugh Jackman - Jennifer Garner comedy Butter , and she plays a digital warrior trapped in a computer world in the Joseph Kosinski-directed Tron: Legacy . She just shot Cowboys and Aliens , the Jon Favreau-directed DreamWorks/Universal film that stars Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford for next summer release. P

I Would Run If He Was Coming After Me Today CBS Films left a little gift for the sandwich. Its the new poster for the upcoming Dwayne Johnson) film "Faster." The movie stars Dwayne Johnson, Billy Bob Thornton and newcomer Oliver Jackson-Cohen star alongside Carla Gugino (Watchmen), Maggie Grace (Taken) and Moon Bloodgood (Terminator Salvation) Here is the trailer for Faster . Synopsis: After 10 years in prison, Driver ( Dwayne Johnson ) has a singular focus – to avenge the murder of his brother during the botched bank robbery that led to his imprisonment. Now a free man with a deadly to-do list in hand, he’s finally on his mission…but with two men on his trail – a veteran cop ( Billy Bob Thornton ) just days from retirement, and a young egocentric hitman (Oliver Jackson-Cohen) with a flair for the art of killing and a newfound worthy opponent. The hunter is also the hunted. It’s a do or die race to the list’s finish as the mystery surrounding his brother’s mu

Never Trust A Big Butt And A Smile Columbia Pictures today has released the trailer, via Yahoo, for The Tourist . The film stars Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie . It is a remake of the French film Anthony Zimmer . Watch the trailer after the Jump.. The film revolves around Frank ( Depp ), an American tourist visiting Italy to mend a broken heart. Elise ( Jolie ) is an extraordinary woman who deliberately crosses his path in order to mislead all those following her former lover. Against the breathtaking backdrop of Venice, Frank pursues a potential romance but soon finds himself the pursued as he and Elise are caught in a whirlwind of intrigue and danger. The movie follows the series of manipulations, as characters realise that they are merely pieces being played by an unseen mastermind of the game. Please Leave A Comment-

Forget About It. What A Combo It's Goodfellas meets Casino meets Heat. So if you're a fan of those great crime movies, get ready: I'm told Al Pacino and Joe Pesci are now circling The Irishman , the mob drama that Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro have been working on together based on the exploits of mob hitman Frank "The Irishman" Sheeran as chronicled in the book I Heard You Paint Houses . The pic's being developed at Paramount by De Niro and Jane Rosenthal's Tribeca Productions. Pacino has worked with De Niro in the Michael Mann-directed classic Heat, as well as Righteous Kill. Pesci and De Niro of course teamed with Scorsese on Goodfellas, Casino and Raging Bull. Steve Zaillian wrote the script. Please Leave A Comment-   Source- Deadline

Eastbound And Down Season 2 Trailer Here's the official season two trailer for HBO's " Eastbound & Down ." Season one struggled to break through in the ratings while gathering a pretty rabid online fanbase. This upcoming season will be seven episodes long. Actor Steve Little and Deep Roy , who has joined the cast as one of Kenny's new sidekicks named Aaron. Shaun Bavington is to play Shaun Withnail, though the characters role has not been announced. The Mexican baseball team owned by Pena's character Sebastian Cisneros is said to be called The Charros and coached by a man named Roger played by actor Marco Rodriguez . Co-director Jody Hill has reportedly described the season as "a cross between the films Amores Perros and Bad News Bears" and says it will mirror the look and feel of a feature film. Hill is said to be directing four episodes in season two, meanwhile David Gordon Green is directing three. Watch the trailer after the Jump..