Ryan Reynolds is once again fundraising for The SickKids Foundation, but this time, he’s got a little help from a DC icon. “Benevolence is thirsty work,” Deadpool says in the opening moments of the video as he walks up to Kidpool sitting in a sleigh. When asked what’s next, Deadpool says, “I thought we’d eliminate sick kids,” which Kidpool thinks is pretty “f***ed up.“

“No, no, no, we’re eliminating the sickness by encouraging people to donate,” Deadpool says, “but we’re going to need some help because you and I are technically R-rated and these are kids, sick kids.” Enter Lynda Carter, which prompts Deadpool to quip, “Aren’t you a wonderful woman,” as he stares directly into the camera. Carter is convinced to do her classic twirl, but instead of the Wonder Woman costume, she winds up wearing the ugly Christmas sweater that Reynolds has worn in his previous fundraising videos.

Reynolds and Blake Lively will match all donations up to $500,000 made before midnight on December 24th.

Taking place six years after the events of the last movie, Deadpool & Wolverine finds Wade Wilson (Ryan Reynolds) toiling away in civilian life with his days as Deadpool behind him. But when his homeworld faces an existential threat, he must suit up once again and convince a reluctant Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) to help save his universe. In addition to Reynolds and Jackman, the cast also includes Matthew Macfadyen, Emma Corrin, Morena Baccarin, Leslie Uggams, Karan Soni, Brianna Hildebrand, Shioli Kutsuna, Rob Delany, Stefan Kapičić, and more.

Our own Chris Bumbray had a lot of fun with Deadpool & Wolverine, which sounds like a real crowd-pleaser. “Have you ever been to a concert and wished that your favourite band would stop playing their not-as-good new stuff and play the hits? That’s exactly what Marvel is doing with Deadpool & Wolverine,” Bumbray wrote in his review. “After a rough run of movies, with many saying their Phase 5 has been disastrous, this feels like an everything but the kitchen-sink attempt by the company to win back those fans who feel alienated by the new direction the company seemed to be heading in. With this, you have a rock ‘em, sock ‘em thrill ride that delivers fans exactly the movie they wanted to see, with nary a message to be found amidst all the charred, sliced and diced corpses our heroes leave in their wake. It’s glorious fun.” The film is now available on 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray/DVD, and Disney+.

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Balatro is about to have a big day, as the hugely popular roguelike card game is nominated in five different categories at tonight’s Game Awards. But that’s not all, as developer LocalThunk has announced a new collaboration update that brings cards based on eight different games to the fold. Not a bad reason to boot…

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Balatro is about to have a big day, as the hugely popular roguelike card game is nominated in five different categories at tonight’s Game Awards. But that’s not all, as developer LocalThunk has announced a new collaboration update that brings cards based on eight different games to the fold. Not a bad reason to boot…

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Back in 1976, Marvel Comics editor-in-chief Stan Lee was able to score the licensing rights to bring Toho’s iconic monster Godzilla into the Marvel world. Running for 24 issues from 1977 to 1979, the Godzilla, King of the Monsters comic book series, written by Doug Moench and drawn by Herb Trimpe, saw Godzilla rampaging through the United States and taking on the likes of S.H.I.E.L.D. agents, the Fantastic Four, Devil Dinosaur and Moon Boy, the Champions, and the Avengers. Now, it’s time for a rematch. Marvel re-printed the entire run of Godzilla, King of the Monsters in color for the first time last year, and to celebrate they created fifteen variant covers for various comic books that featured Marvel heroes facing off with Godzilla. Turns out, those variant covers were paving the way for Godzilla vs. Marvel, a six-issue series of one-shots that will include the Fantastic Four, Hulk, Spider-Man, the X-Men, and Thor.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the six comics will take place over different time periods, with the first issue of Godzilla vs. Marvel coming in March. Godzilla vs. Fantastic Four will center on the Fantastic Four battling classic Godzilla antagonist King Ghidorah, who has been imbued with the power cosmic as the new herald for Galactus, the giant devourer of worlds. In this issue, Godzilla will actually team up with the Silver Surfer in order to attempt to save the Earth. Ryan North is writing, with John Romita Jr. providing the artwork.

Sven Larsen, Marvel’s VP of licensing and publishing, has been talking to Toho for years, trying to make this crossover event happen. Marvel editor-in-chief C.B. Cebulski said, “We approached them initially for our reprints, but a while after those conversations, it was clear that both of our teams were excited to do more together. These crossovers started coming together over that time, in direct collaboration with Toho, and we felt the perfect time for them was for Godzilla’s 70th anniversary. We’ve been thrilled to work with them on these, and we hope this will be a sign for more exciting projects to come.“

Dan Buckley, president, Marvel Comics & Franchises added, “For us, kaiju—and specifically Godzilla—are important parts of Marvel’s comic history, so we knew we wanted to explore something with their teams. We’ve always been fans of Godzilla, but with the steady rise in Godzilla’s popularity over the years, it’s part of our current cultural zeitgeist and a perfect example of the fun that the comics industry can bring. We’re focused on the storytelling first and foremost, but fun opportunities for crossovers like this give both of our fans an entertaining escape that they won’t want to miss.“

Will you be collecting the Godzilla vs. Marvel series? Let us know by leaving a comment below.

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28 Days Later director Danny Boyle and screenwriter Alex Garland have finally reunited to make a sequel to their zombie (or, if you prefer, infected people) movie classic. As we reporter earlier this year, this sequel is set up at Sony, is going to be called 28 Years Later – and it’s meant to launch a whole trilogy of 28 Days Later sequels. The theatrical release date is June 20th, 2025… and it has been said that 28 Days Later star Cillian Murphy returns for this film “in a surprising way.” When the trailer dropped online a couple of days ago, a lot of fans thought they spotted him in there, thinking that an emaciated infected person seen in the trailer was Murphy. Would they really spoil that surprise in the first trailer? Apparently not. The Guardian has been able to confirm that the emaciated infected person in the trailer is not played by Cillian Murphy, but by newcomer Angus Neill.

According to The Guardian, “Neill, an art dealer specialising in old masters, was talent-spotted by Boyle, who was much struck by his distinctive looks. Neill also works as a model, with his professional profile suggesting he has a 28-inch waist.”

Neill told them, “Danny told me he’d always had me in mind for the role. So we met up, hit it off, and I agreed to take part. On set he has an extraordinary ability to hypnotise you, and working with him on the film was a very, very intense experience.“

The cast of 28 Years Later also includes Jodie Comer (The Bikeriders), Aaron Taylor-Johnson (The Fall Guy), Ralph Fiennes (Conclave), and Erin Kellyman (The Falcon and the Winter Soldier). In the original film, Murphy played bicycle courier Jim, who wakes up from a coma to find himself in an apocalyptic England that’s overrun by people who have been infected by a rage virus. Boyle and Garland went through several endings for 28 Days Later before landing on the one movie-goers saw in theatres – and that ending was the only one where Jim survived. So he’s still out there, ready to live through another rage virus nightmare 28 years later. As The Hollywood Reporter previously noted, “The 2002 film grossed $82.7 million globally and spawned a sequel, 2007’s 28 Weeks Later, though Boyle and Garland were only nominally involved as executive producers.”

Garland also wrote the screenplay for the sequel that will come after 28 Years Later. Of the two 28 Years Later projects currently in the works, Boyle only planned to direct the first one. For the second film, he has passed the helm over to Candyman and The Marvels director Nia DaCosta – and that sequel, titled 28 Years Later Part II: The Bone Temple, has already wrapped production.

When 28 Years Later came up during an interview with IndieWire, Fiennes decided to go ahead and tell us all about it: “Britain is 28 years into this terrible plague of infected people who are violent, rabid humans with a few pockets of uninfected communities. And it centers on a young boy who wants to find a doctor to help his dying mother. He leads his mother through this beautiful northern English terrain. But of course, around them hiding in forests and hills and woods are the infected. But he finds a doctor who is a man we might think is going to be weird and odd, but actually is a force for good.“

Thanks to their deal with Sony, each of these new films will be receiving a theatrical release and will have budgets in the $60 million range. 28 Years Later has a budget of $75 million.

Boyle and Garland are producing 28 Years Later with Bernie Bellew, original producer Andrew Macdonald, and Peter Rice, who was the head of Fox Searchlight Pictures when that company backed 28 Days Later. Murphy is executive producing.

Are you glad to know Cillian Murphy is not the emaciated infected person in the 28 Years Later trailer? Share your thoughts on this one by leaving a comment below.

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Per Deadline, Hulu has ordered a pilot for the Prison Break reboot from Mayans M.C. co-creator Elgin James. Plot details are being kept under wraps, but the report states that while the project is its own thing, it will be set in the same universe as the original series.

If you’re hoping to see any original Prison Break characters show up in the reboot, it was previously reported that the series “is not expected to involve the characters at the center of the original series.” Plus, Wentworth Miller (who played Michael Scofield) has said he’s done with the series as he no longer wants to play heterosexual characters.

James will executive produce through his Sierra Drive banner alongside original series executive producers Dawn Olmstead, Neal Moritz, and Marty Adelstein. Prison Break creator Paul Scheuring is also onboard as an executive producer. Earlier this summer, Adelstein gave an update on the project, saying it was “going really well. The first script was really, really well done. They’ve given notes and it looks like it’s on its way.“

According to Nielsen, when the original Prison Break returned to Netflix this July, it quickly became the #1 most streamed series in the US in August. I imagine that this boosts Hulu’s confidence in the reboot.

Prison Break debuted in 2005 and followed Michael Scofield (Miller) as he attempted to get his brother Lincoln Burrows (Dominic Purcell) off death row and escape from Fox River State Penitentiary. With its twists and turns, the series was one of the biggest of the year. The series came to a close after four seasons and was followed by a TV movie, The Final Break. However, much of the main cast returned for a Prison Break revival in 2017, and although another season was in the early stages of development, it didn’t move forward. Even as the series got more convoluted in later seasons, I always loved it. While it may seem sacrilegious to bring Prison Break back without any of our favourite characters, I am looking forward to a new take on the concept.

What do you think of this Prison Break reboot?

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This is an emaciated zombie from the new 28 Years Later trailer. It looks sort of, kinda, maybe like an emaciated Cillian Murphy, the star of the first movie. It turns out that is not an emaciated Cillian Murphy, however. Instead, it’s an art dealer who sometimes models and happens to be very, very thin.

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This is an emaciated zombie from the new 28 Years Later trailer. It looks sort of, kinda, maybe like an emaciated Cillian Murphy, the star of the first movie. It turns out that is not an emaciated Cillian Murphy, however. Instead, it’s an art dealer who sometimes models and happens to be very, very thin.

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Somebody stop him! Jim Carrey has been almost exclusively tied up in the franchise world, playing the cartoonish villain Dr. Robotnik in the Sonic the Hedgehog movies. But he has rarely brought his more iconic characters into the 21st century, only reprising Lloyd Christmas for Dumb and Dumber To. But he’s not entirely against it, saying he would don The Mask one more time under the right circumstances.

While Jim Carrey has previously said he has zero interest in reprising any of his most famous characters – giving the reason that it feels more like an imitation than anything – he seems to be backtracking on that now. In addition to saying he could see himself return as The Grinch provided motion capture is used (Carrey notoriously hated the make-up process, even if it did win an Oscar), Jim Carrey said Stanley Ipkiss from The Mask could be on the table as well.

Speaking with ComicBook.com, Carrey said that if a good enough script was in front of him for The Mask 2, he might consider doing it. “Oh gosh, you know, it has to be the right idea. If somebody had the right idea, I guess…It’s not really about the money. I joke about the money…But I never know. You can’t be definite about these things. I said I’d like to retire, but I think I was talking more about power-resting. Because as soon as a good idea comes your way, or a group of people that you really enjoyed working with and stuff, it just – things tend to change.”

A sequel to The Mask might have been a lot of fun as an immediate follow-up in, say, 1996, but instead we ended up getting Son of the Mask, which I pin as one of the five worst movies ever. And that wouldn’t be the first time that a Jim Carrey sequel would suffer for his lack of involvement: yes, we’re looking at you, Evan Almighty…But Carrey has signed on for his share of sequels, including Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls, Kick-Ass 2 (he would later disown it) and, of course, the 23rd installment in the long-running The Number series…

Do you think a sequel to The Mask could work 30 years on?

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After a brief tease at the end of its most recent trailer, Overwatch 2 has finally revealed the specifics of its Avatar: The Last Airbender collaboration. The event includes six skins for different heroes based on characters from the beloved animated series, but most importantly, it gives one hero who has historically…

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