Deadpool: Five years after making his movie debut in X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Fox has finally greenlit a solo spin-off for the "Merc with a Mouth." Deadpool will be released just in time for Valentine's Day on February 12, 2016. It's expected that Ryan Reynolds will reprise the role of Wade Wilson/Deadpool, and we'll see if his version dons the character's trademark mask (Scott Adkins took over for Reynolds in the 2009 movie when he became known simply as the mouthless "Weapon XI"). Tim Miller, an Oscar nominee for producing the 2004 short Gopher Broke, is making his feature directorial debut with the spin-off. [THR]
Knights of the Roundtable: King Arthur: Charlie Hunnam now has his queen in the next movie set in Camelot, which Guy Ritchie is directing. Spanish actress Astrid Berges-Frisbey, of Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides and more recently I Origins, will play Guinevere to Hunnam's Arthur. Now we just need a Lancelot to stir things up. [Deadline]
In the Deep: Sony won a heated bidding war for a movie that sounds awfully familiar. Not just because In the Deep is described as being "127 Hours meets Jaws, with a touch of Gravity," but because it also sounds like the 2003 Sundance sensation Open Water. The main difference seems to be that this movie will only involve one stranded person with a shark closing in rather than two.The synopsis goes like this: "A young woman who is dealing with the recent death of her mother is surfing on an isolated beach and gets stranded 20 yards off shore on a buoy. What lies between her and the shore is a huge great white shark." [Deadline]
Big Eyes trailer: The first trailer for Big Eyes is out, and while it doesn't immediately look like a Tim Burton (Edward Scissorhands, Alice in Wonderland) movie, it does look like an Oscar movie, featuring standout performances from Amy Adams and Christoph Waltz. Burton fans do get a weird enough moment near the end where a woman has fantastically big eyes, just like those in Margaret Keane's paintings. [Yahoo!]
