Ryan Reynolds Gossip

Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman’s rivalry is fast approaching Jimmy Kimmel-Matt Damon status. It’s slightly less mainstream, but these two have been “sparring” online for years, conveniently timed around the promotion of their respective projects. And after Hugh cozily posed with Emily Blunt at Variety’s Actors on Actors photocall a few days ago, John Krasinski is jumping into the chirping mix too Full Story

Monday’s pop culture moment was supposed to belong to Toy Story 4. Disney dropped that trailer early, undoubtedly expecting to dominate the full news cycle. But then, at noon, our lives were permanently derailed as a trailer for Detective Pikachu(?) was released and it actually looks…good(??). Full Story

It took me 20 minutes to psych myself up to watch Ryan Reynolds on The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon. It took me that long because the Huffpo headline about Ryan’s appearance reads “Try Not To Puke Watching Ryan Reynolds Drink A Truly Disgusting Cocktail Full Story

After several false starts, Deadpool finally made Ryan Reynolds the A-lister everyone expected him to be. And given Deadpool’s success, it also made him a producer with clout overnight. That has given him the power to do things like set up a Clue remake Full Story

Today in Movie Theaters Are Dying news, it’s been announced that Ryan Reynolds and Michael Bay will make a movie for Netflix. It’s called Six Underground, and Bay will direct and Reynolds will star, and it comes from Deadpool scribes Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick. It’s an original action movie and a potential franchise, which means that Bright didn’t break anyone’s spirit at Netflix if they’re willing to try their luck again on an original concept. Full Story

Going into the weekend, the projection for Deadpool 2 was $130-150 million. The estimate for its opening weekend, though, is a below-expectations $125 million. Now, that’s hardly a failure. That’s a nice number for anyone, and the Deadpool movies are lower cost than other superhero extravaganzas, so it will certainly make Fox money. Full Story

Deadpool 2 picks up sometime after Deadpool, with Wade Wilson (Ryan Reynolds, this time not only the star and producer but also a credited writer, alongside Rhett Reese & Paul Wernick) now a working mercenary, taking out criminals around the world. Full Story

Deadpool 2 opens today. Did you know that? Did you glean that information from the barrage of marketing and Ryan-Reynolds-In-Costume appearances such as his stop at The Late Show with Stephen Colbert? Seriously, no one markets a blockbuster better than the Deadpool team—although this time their flow keeps getting interrupted by Solo—and yesterday they released another viral-engineered video, this time poking fun at Marvel’s ten-year anniversary video Full Story

Ryan Reynolds is in Seoul this week promoting Deadpool 2. Deadpool 2 is the Next. Avengers: Infinity War should dominate for another two weeks and then Deadpool 2 comes out May 18 which is royal wedding weekend, not that they’ll affect each other, although I’m sure he’ll make a joke about it especially now that promotion is building for the movie. Full Story

We’re getting into the final round of trailers for the first batch of summer movies—while STILL waiting on the first trailer for Crazy Rich Asians—and following Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom’s final trailer Full Story

Blake Lively and Reynolds showed up for the premiere of John Krasinski’s A Quiet Place in New York last night. A Quiet Place is currently sitting at 100% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes. Sarah saw it and will be posting her review soon. Full Story