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The film 'Machete' (of Grindhouse trailer fame) gets a release date!

Via Variety:

Twentieth Century Fox and Robert Rodriquez will wield their machetes over Labor Day weekend.

Studio has set Rodriguez and Ethan Maniquis' "Machete" for release in theaters on Sept. 3. Pic is based on Rodriguez's fake trailer for "Grindhouse."

Rodriguez and Maniquis co-directed the film from Rodriquez's script.

"Machete" stars Danny Trejo as a blade-wielding Mexican ex-Federale who is double-crossed by a crooked politician. Robert De Niro, Jessica Alba, Michelle Rodriquez and Lindsay Lohan also star.

Producers are Rodriquez, Rick Schwartz, Aaron Kaufman, Iliana Nikolic and Elizabeth Avellan.The "Machete" trailer generated big interest when airing on YouTube. The feature-length version was financed by Overnight Prods., who sold off international rights to Sony and several territory distributors. That provided the bulk of the money needed to shoot the film, which Rodriguez lensed last fall in Austin, Texas.

Labor Day weekend is a popular frame for genre films. Also opening that weekend is Sony's comedy "Born to Be a Star." Two days earlier, Focus Features' opens George Clooney pic "The American."

"Machete" reunites Fox and Rodriguez, who worked on the "Predators" franchise together.

In January, Fox won a bidding war to distribute the film domestically, beating out Paramount and Lionsgate.

-Hopefully this isn't the last of the Grindhouse trailers to become films...thoughts?

Ryan Reynolds gets his very own Superhero flick...

...and it's a spinoff of a spinoff. Variety has the scoop:
Twentieth Century Fox has begun development on "Deadpool," an "X-Men" spinoff that will be crafted as a star vehicle for Ryan Reynolds, who played the character in "X-Men Origins: Wolverine."
The character is one of the most popular in Marvel Comics' X-Men universe. Deadpool is Wade Wilson, a mercenary who, dying of cancer, submits himself to the Weapon X genetic alteration experiment and emerges as an indestructible semi-sane anti-hero. Reynolds seemed destined to play the character. In one reference in the Marvel Comics, Deadpool is described as a mix between "a Shar Pei and Ryan Reynolds."
In one of the "Easter egg" endings of "Wolverine," Deadpool is seen rising from the rubble and whispering "Shhh" to audiences.
The film will be produced by Lauren Shuler Donner and Marvel.
Fox is also in the formative stages of a "Wolverine" sequel that will encompass the samurai storyline that was hinted at as Wolverine sat in a bar in Japan as the film concluded (Daily Variety, May 4).
Separately, Fox is developing "Magneto," a film about the X-Men villain with a script by Shelton Turner, and "X-Men: First Class," which Josh Schwartz is penning.
Reynolds next stars with Sandra Bullock in the Anne Fletcher-directed "The Proposal," which Disney releases June 19. He also completed the Kieran and Michele Mulroney-directed "Paper Man."
-He fits the character it seems, so nothing against this, though it better be good if it doesn't want to be seen as a huge misfire in a year or two...what do you think?