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This is kind of a tough review to write, because it’s going to require that I contradict myself at just about every turn.  Today I’m talking Wolverine and the X-Men, fresh out from Lions Gate.

This gives us another five installments of the series from Nicktoons in one handy package, showing us a little more of what’s going on and continuing on from previous episodes.  It’s actually pretty entertaining, and I remember some of this stuff from the comics outright, so you know they actually managed to keep to the canon fairly closely.

But the problem is, despite the fact that this is five installments, there’s twenty six in the season.  Simple math shows it’s going to take likely five volumes to get through an entire season, making this one a profoundly low value.  If you’re just out to get caught up on the season, then it’ll make a good rental.  If you mean to buy it for archiving, wait for the first season to hit.

The Screenhead Ten Scale gives it a five out of ten, for being a success on one hand and a failure on the other.

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Out doing promotion work for The Proposal, which opens next Friday, Ryan Reynolds sat down with MTV to talk about his upcoming Wolverine spin-off movie Deadpool.

"I get to be the authentication police, in a weird way," he said, noting that the studio hopes to make an authentic movie and that they want to make it as close to the source material as possible. This is ironic, because the Wolverine Deadpool is anything but Deadpool.

Reynolds added that “Merc with the Mouth” will be back in all his glory, and that he will have the scarred-up face and the suit.

No release date for Deadpool has been set yet.

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Ryan Reynolds is attached to reprise Deadpool, the whipping, smart-cracking mercenary in X-Men Origins: Wolverine as a spinoff from the box office winner.  

Deadpool’s character is described as “the merc with a mouth.”  If you are one of the few people who didn’t’ see the film, Reynolds played the character that lived up to his description in Wolverine until the end, when the movie deviated from the comic book persona, imbuing him with several superpowers and sewing his mouth shut according to the Hollywood Reporter.

Of course, Reynolds would regain the ability to use his mouth again while the movie goes back to the roots of the character known for his slapstick tone and tendency to break the fourth wall.

Again if you saw the movie, you’d know that the Reynolds’ character was disfigured in Wolverine.  We can only speculate at this time how much the studio would want to deal with the looks of the character. Reynolds’ is a handsome dude, so let’s see his good-looking kisser producers.

Here is a little bit of behind-the-scenes scoop from the Reporter.  Apparently, producers had decided on a Deadpool spinoff early in Wolverine’s production, which is why Reynolds was cast for the part. The actor was brought back in the month before the movie’s release to shoot one of two “Easter egg” scenes that appeared after the end credits. The scene showed Deadpool alive, even though when last seen on the screen audiences saw him appear to be dead.

The magic of movies amazes me.

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X-Men Origins: Wolverine is racking it in, placing it along the ranks of the X-Men trilogy. Hugh Jackman has been doing great and apparently the opening weekend is only the tip of the iceberg. Wolverine has beaten other films that debuted as well such as Ghosts of Girlfriend’s Past ($15.3 million) and Obsessed ($12.2 million).

The trilogy’s final chapter, ” X-Men: The Last Stand ,” had the franchise’s best opening with $102.8 million. But “Wolverine” came in ahead of the first two movies; “X-Men” did $54.5 million in its first weekend and ” X2: X-Men United ” took in $85.6 million.

“It’s all systems go,” said Chris Aronson, distribution executive for 20th Century Fox , which releases the “X-Men” movies. “Audiences have a huge appetite for Hugh and this character.”

(Source) Yahoo Movies

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Taking a cue from Marvel, X-Men series producer Lauren Shuler Donner is aiming to make a third X-Men film spin-off series: X-Men: First Class.

Donner, in an interview with Fox Movie Channel’s Life After Film School, said: "It is the first class of Xavier’s school, way back when, so it’s young Scott, young Jean, young Beast and that’ll be really fun. I think (the plan) is to follow some of the characters into their own stories, and weave them back into the X-Men world.”

She hopes that the series can “become its own franchise and we can follow them as they grow up.”

X-Men Origins: Wolverine, the first spinoff, is due to hit theaters in two weeks.

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Piracy has pretty much plagued Hollywood since the dawn of VHS, but the ever increasing bandwidth of broadband internet is causing major headaches for studios. Torrent programmes are bypassing laws and methods of tracing pirates, and even new and more intricate ways of getting the latest movies are possible. Almost every Christmas sees the release of Oscar potentials online as screeners are copied. 2007 saw the leak of American Gangster a week before its initial release. But possibly the biggest blow to Hollywood yet is this week’s leak of the forthcoming summer blockbuster Wolverine.

A sort of prequel to the X-Men films, the Hugh Jackman vehicle is now working its way through the internet, a month before its worldwide release. The version is a workprint cut, meaning that many special effects are incomplete, some of the sound needs to be refined, and there are probably scenes that need to be added or cut. But, according to those who have watched it, the quality is quite good.

Needless to say, Fox are pretty unhappy with this, and are estimating that several hundred thousand people have viewed it. The FBI are currently investigating exactly how a workprint was leaked. Meanwhile, most established movie review websites are refraining from posting reviews of an incomplete movie. On the bright side, if those who watch the workprint enjoy it, not only will they most likely watch the complete version next month, but they may generate good word of mouth and actually boost box office intake. American Gangster, for example, went on to make $266 million worldwide.

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For sure you have seen a lot of trailers about the upcoming X-Men Origins Wolverine. And while this one may seem similar to most of them, it is the final trailer up for release prior to the actual showing of the movie on May 1.

Leading up to the events of “X-Men,” “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” tells the story of Wolverine’s epically violent and romantic past, his complex relationship with Victor Creed, and the ominous Weapon X program. Along the way, Wolverine encounters many mutants, both familiar and new, including surprise appearances by several legends of the X-Men universe.

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This trailer is the first of three spots.  I like it because it tells you what to expect in the movie. Hugh Jackman is lookin’ good — to die for — nice.

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Here is the The Wolverine poster. It doesn’t tell you much but you get the idea of the story.  I saw some of the footage introduced by Hugh Jackman at Comic Con — awesome.

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