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--- Dick Pool - I'm such a sucker to keep posting every tidbit of Deadpool gay-baiting but I am weak, so weak - Ryan Reynolds talking about his dick just fills a hole inside of me, ya know? I need it. So anyway yeah over at EW he talked some more about his nude scene in the movie, specifically about The Luckiest man On Earth, make-up artist Bill Corso, who made his, and I quote, "penis look perfect." Oh Ryan. We all know that your penis was already perfect. Stop fooling. Meanwhile over at Vulture they took on the film's bi friendliness - or, their word, hetero-flexibility. There are some spoilers for the movie in there, but only things that will make you want to see the movie more.

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--- Area XY - We've posted about Annhilation, Ex-Machina director Alex Garland's next film, a couple of times already - it's an adaptation of an intriguing sounding book about a team of female scientists investigating a mysterious deadly place called "Area X," and it's had a bunch of great actresses come and go, cast-wise. At one point it had Tilda & Julianne Moore, but no more - now it's got Natalie Portman, Gina Rodriguez and Tessa Thompson, and it's just added the newly hip Jennifer Jason Leigh to its cast. One assumes she's playing the threatening one.

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--- Groovy People - I waited and I waited for Ted Raimi to show up in the first (spectacular) season of Ash vs Evil Dead and he never did and it made me nuts, so the news that he's been cast for the second season is a relief. He's going to play an old friend of Ash's. An old friend who will scream at some point, "I'LL SWALLA YA SOUL!!!" one hopes. Also cast is the Six Million Dollar Man himself - Lee Majors is going to play Ash's father! Talk about spot-on casting.

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--- Dark Reflections - I don't even want to be typing news about the upcoming third season of Black Mirror, the sci-fi anthology show that blew my mind episode after episode after mind-blowing episode, because I want the third season done, finished, filmed and uploaded to my Netflix account right this second. I am tired of waiting. But they're apparently only getting around to making the episodes now, the bastards. Good news though - this season will be 12 episodes, unlike the short previous ones which aired on the BBC first, and Hanna director Joe Wright is going to direct one! I'm a little less enthusiastic about it starring Bryce Dallas Howard, but whatever. Joe Wright is cool.

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--- RSVP Murder -The first full trailer for Karyn Kusama's The Invitation, a thriller starring Michiel Huisman and Logan Marshall-Green and their respective beards, amongst others, has arrived, you can watch it at The Playlist. This follows the teaser trailer we posted just a couple of weeks ago. It looks very very good! There's one shot...

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... where it seems as if Michiel and Logan might rub their beards together that is very exciting, very exciting indeed. What a thrill! The movie is out in April.

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--- Space Bubba - Ridley Scott's Alien was on TV the other day (it's always on, honestly) and I got caught up in it (I always get caught up in it, honestly) and one thing that always sticks out is his astonishingly regular-folk looking cast - Yaphet Kotto and Veronica Cartwright and John Hurt and on and on; they make that world lived-in and real. So today's news that Danny McBride, blustery profane goofball, will co-star in Scott's upcoming Alien slash Prometheus sequel called Alien: Covenant, makes a ton of sense to me, in that context.

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--- Pretty Same - Lots of trailers popping up today: the first one for Equals - a futuristic sci-fi romance starring Nicholas Hoult and Kristen Stewart as two gorgeous people not allowed to express emotion in a sterile world - kind of looks like an expensive perfume commercial, but man does Nicky look gorgeous in all those white outfits and tight collars.

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--- King Maker - We expressed out enthusiasm about a new Tom Tykwer movie only a couple of weeks ago, and sure enough lo behold new news -- The Playlist shares several images of Tom Hanks & Co. in A Hologram For the King, which is what the movie is called. There's also a non-dubbed German trailer for the film at the link. It's based on a book by Dave Eggers about a salesman who goes to Saudi Arabia to secure an IT contract in the desert. 

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--- And Finally I have no idea how I missed this news before yesterday but You Can Count On Me and Margaret director Kenneth Lonergan has got a new play coming out (thanks Mac) called Hold On to Me Darling, which will start previews in a couple of weeks here in NYC, and it will star Timothy Olyphant (yessss) and Adelaide Clemens - I don't know the latter but my boyfriend, a huge fan of the show Rectify, was crazy excited to see her name. Anyway all of that is great but what really sealed the deal for me was this image of Timothy Olyphant rehearsing, natch:
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