Deadpool Has Reached Immortality

Given how much Marvel likes to promote these things in advance, it’s not much of a spoiler to say that Deadpool died in this week’s Deadpool #45, the 250th Deadpool issue ever published. The death itself wasn’t much to write home about, and neither is its impact on the Marvel Universe at large. That’s because his parting comes at a time when even if you kill him, he’s still very much alive.

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The Power Rangers Movie May Have its Director

Dean Israelite is reportedly in talks to direct the Power Rangers reboot film.

The news comes from TheWrap, which says that Israelite (Project Almanac, Acholiland) "is a huge fan of the franchise and aims to bring a fresh voice to the property."

Lionsgate and Saban's official movie synopsis is: "From a story by Executive Producer Roberto Orci (Transformers, Star Trek, Amazing Spider-Man 2) and screenwriters Zack Stentz and Ashley Miller (X-Men: First Class, Thor) comes a modern reinvention of the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, a group of ordinary high school kids who find themselves infused with extraterrestrial powers and must harness those powers as a team to save the world."

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Eddie Redmayne May Star in Harry Potter Spinoff

Eddie Redmayne, the Oscar-winning actor who recently played Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything, may land the lead role of Newt Scamander in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.

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The report comes from Variety, who said the information was learned through "sources." Warner Bros declined to comment on the story.

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Conker’s Bad Fur Day HD Makeover in Project Spark

The team over at Project Spark has recreated the first ten minutes of the original Conker's Bad Fur Day within its level-creation game for Xbox One and PC.

Using the tools within Project Spark, the Nintendo 64's iconic opening moments have been rendered in stunning high definition.

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A new Conker game, built within Project Spark, is coming to Xbox One and PC on April 23. It's called Conker's Big Reunion and will serve as an episodic adventure series to launch alongside the Conker Creation Pack, which allows gamers to create their own Conker-inspired levels.

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Quicksilver, Deadpool, Black Panther & More!

Welcome back to Keepin' It Reel! In this week's podcast, Jim Vejvoda, Roth Cornet and Chris Carle bring you the latest in movie news.

This week's topics include Marvel's Avengers: Age of Ultron, Infinity War Parts 1 and 2, Fantastic Four, The Fast and the Furious 8, Black Panther, Deadpool, The Flash, Tron 3, Five Nights at Freddy's, Need for Speed 2, and more.

We also talk about the record-breaking debut of Furious 7 and just how big it will remain at this weekend's box office.

Download Keepin' It Reel, Episode 283!

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Handsome Jack Plays Handsome Jack in The Handsome Collection

Hyperion CEO Handsome Jack recently invited IGN up the the Helios space station to watch him play Borderlands: The Handsome Collection. The result is an epic journey of hilarity and...well, handsomeness.

 

Follow Handsome Jack and his assistant Meg as they make their way through the Hyperion space station to save... Handsome Jack?

 

Handsome Jack and his assistant Meg continue playing through the Handsome Collection. Watch as Handsome Jack, playing as Handsome Jack, teams up with Handsome Jack to defend the Hyperion space station.

 

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Game of Thrones: 14 Great Magical Moments

Spoiler warning for the first five seasons of HBO's Game of Thrones follow...

With all the betrayals and backstabbings involved in the sick scramble to rule Westeros on Game of Thrones, it's sometimes easy to overlook the fact that this is also a world filled with freakin' zombies, witches, ancient ice demons, and shapeshifting assassins! There are so many supernatural horrors hiding in the nooks and crannies of the realm of Ice and Fire that all the schemers, plotters, and wedding planners would probably poop their pantaloons if they ever knew the full, dark truth.

We're less than a week from Game of Thrones' Season 6 premiere, so what better time for an updated look back at all the mystical, monstrous moments from the first five years. So many dark nights filled with terrors. So many warnings of winter. It's time to look at the supernatural side of the story.

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HBO’s The Brink Gets Teaser Trailer

HBO today released a teaser trailer for its upcoming geopolitical comedy, The Brink, which stars Jack Black (School of Rock) and Tim Robbins (The Shawshank Redemption). Check it out below.

While we got a quick glimpse of the series last year in an HBO year-end video, the teaser gives us our first real look at The Brink.

From Roberto and Kim Benabib, the series centers around a foreign service officer (Black) and the Secretary of State (Robbins), as they attempt to navigate a crisis that has Earth on the verge of World War 3.

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Black Ops 3 Trailer: What You Might Have Missed

Before the recent flood of Call of Duty news, Activision kicked things off with only the teaser trailer below.

Though it's short and shows no gameplay, its hints were obvious and numerous enough to suggest that 2015's Call of Duty is Black Ops III. Activision and Treyarch later confirmed the game, to no surprise.

But in spite of all its heavy-handedness, the trailer does contain a few more subtle secrets. IGN's Call of Duty fans Brian Albert and Ben Janca sat down to comb through the trailer frame by frame and pick out the details you may have missed.

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