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August 20, 2025 3 mins
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Ryan Reynolds has grabbed headlines again this week with a barrage of activity spanning Hollywood, business, and social media. The biggest story lighting up entertainment news is the *Deadpool* star’s rumored involvement in the highly anticipated Avengers: Doomsday. According to The Hollywood Reporter and echoed by Variety and IGN, sources claim Reynolds is set to reprise his role as Deadpool in the next Marvel Cinematic Universe team-up flick, sparking a frenzy online after he teased his return through an Instagram post earlier in the week. However, Deadline and others caution that there is some debate about the depth of his involvement, as no sighting of Reynolds on set in London has been confirmed, so Marvel fans should expect Deadpool in the movie but not necessarily as a full-fledged Avenger. Reynolds himself fueled speculation by reposting playful fan content, so while the buzz is near fever pitch, official word from Marvel remains outstanding.

In the film world, Reynolds recently wrapped filming on Mayday, an action-adventure film directed by the Dungeons & Dragons team of Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley and starring Kenneth Branagh and Maria Bakalova. According to Screen Rant and Collider, a 2025 release is likely, with the project expected to debut on Apple TV Plus. Meanwhile, the R-rated animated-live action road trip comedy Animal Friends, co-starring Jason Momoa, Aubrey Plaza, Vince Vaughn, and Dan Levy, hits theaters August 15, 2025, keeping Reynolds at the forefront of big-ticket Hollywood movies.

On the business front, Reynolds continues to expand his empire beyond acting. Variety reports he’s leading Maximum Effort, his production and advertising company, into an ambitious new venture as part of an ownership group building a massive 1.2 million-square-foot studio complex outside Toronto. The studio is part of a $1.5 billion private equity initiative targeting real estate, sports, media, and venture capital. Reynolds described the move as both “mind-boggling and humbling,” underlining his status as a major force in entertainment entrepreneurship. Maximum Effort’s rapid growth and innovation mirror the success Reynolds had with Mint Mobile, the budget wireless provider he sold to T-Mobile for a reported $300 million in 2023. Coverage in The Financial Express and The Wall Street Journal this week highlights how Reynolds’ celebrity-tech playbook has set off a rush of competitors, with everyone from Jason Bateman to former President Trump now trying to replicate his wireless gold rush formula.

Elsewhere, Reynolds’ social media remains a locus for buzz, with his recent cryptic posts still dominating Marvel chatter. If you want to relive his classic action-comedy hits, do it quickly—Collider just reminded fans both The Hitman’s Bodyguard and its sequel will exit Netflix at the end of August.

To sum up, the past few days have underscored Ryan Reynolds’ unrelenting relevance—whether he’s stirring up Marvel multiverse chaos, filming blockbuster comedies, building a Hollywood studio empire in Canada, or changing the face of celebrity entrepreneurship in tech, he remains mainstream, meme-worthy, and, for now, tantalizingly unpredictable.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Ryan Reynolds has grabbed headlines again this week with a
barrage of activity spanning Hollywood, business and social media. The
biggest story lighting up entertainment news is the star Deadpool
star's rumored involvement in the highly anticipated Avengers Doomsday. According
to The Hollywood Reporter and echoed by Variety in IGN,
sources claim Reynolds is set to reprise his role as

(00:21):
Deadpool in the next Marvel Cinematic Universe team up flick,
sparking a frenzy online after he teased his return through
an Instagram post earlier in the week. However, Deadline and
others caution that there is some debate about the depth
of his involvement, as no sighting of Reynolds on set
in London has been confirmed, so Marvel fans should expect
Deadpool in the movie, but not necessarily as a full

(00:41):
fledged Avenger. Reynolds himself fueled speculation by reposting playful fan content,
so while the buzz is near fever, pitch, official word
from Marvel remains outstanding. In the film world, Reynolds recently
wrapped filming on May Day, an action adventure film directed
by The Dungeons and Dragons team of Jonathan Goldstein and
John Francis daily In starring Kenneth Bronna and Maria Bakolova.

(01:05):
According to ScreenRant and Collider, a twenty twenty five release
is likely, with the project expected to debut on Apple
TV Plus. Meanwhile, the R rated animated Dash live action
road trip comedy Animal Friends co starring Jason Momoa, Aubrey Plaza,
Vince Vaughn, and Dan Levy hits Theatre's August fifteenth, twenty
twenty five, keeping Reynolds at the forefront of big ticket

(01:28):
Hollywood movies. On the business front, Reynolds continues to expand
his empire beyond acting. Variety reports he's leading Maximum Effort
his production and advertising company into an ambitious new venture
as part of an ownership group building a massive one
point two million square feet studio complex outside Toronto. The

(01:48):
studio is part of a one dollar and five cents
private equity initiative targeting real estate, sports, media, and venture capital.
Reynolds described the move as both mind boggling and humble,
underlining his status as a major force in entertainment entrepreneurship.
Maximum efforts, rapid growth and innovation mirror this success Reynolds
had with mint Mobile, the budget wireless provider he sold

(02:11):
to t Mobile for a reported three hundred million dollars
in twenty twenty three. Coverage in The Financial Express in
The Wall Street Journal this week highlights how Reynold's celebrity
tech playbook has set off a rush of competitors, with
everyone from Jason Bateman to former President Trump now trying
to replicate his wireless gold Rush formula. Elsewhere, Reynold's social
media remains a locust for buzz, with his recent cryptic

(02:34):
posts still dominating Marvel chatter. If you want to relive
his classic action comedy hits, do it quickly. Collider just
reminded fans both The hit Man's Bodyguard and its sequel
will exit Netflix at the end of August. To sum up,
the past few days have underscored Ryan Reynolds's unrelenting relevance.
Whether he's stirring up Marvel multiverse chaos, filming blockbuster comedies,

(02:57):
building a Hollywood studio empire in Canada, or changing the
face of celebrity entrepreneurship in tech, he remains mainstream, memeworthy,
and for now tantalizingly unpredictable. Sh and that is it
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