From: theinsider.com
"The Insider"'s Victoria Recaño sits down with 'X-Men Origins: Wolverine' star Hugh Jackman, who shows that he has brains as well as brawn while playing our memory game Stump the Star.
The game requires Hugh to name past movies he's acted in when Victoria reads specific lines from the films. Watch the video to see Hugh's remarkable mental prowess!
Tuesday, 28 April 2009
Soccer AM: Tubes - Hugh Jackman & Jamie Redknapp - 25/04/09
Tubes' interviews Hugh Jackman. His one question and one question only is for Jamie Redknapp. Aired 25th April 2009.
X-Men Origins: Wolverine World Premiere in Tempe, Arizona
Hugh Jackman (Wolverine) with Dan Harkins.
Hugh Jackman gets Wolverine parking in Tempe, Arizona.
Hugh Jackman at the X-Men Origins World Premiere in Tempe, AZ.
Hugh Jackman gets Wolverine parking in Tempe, Arizona.
Hugh Jackman at the X-Men Origins World Premiere in Tempe, AZ.
Gavin Hood on X-Men Origins: Wolverine
From: canmag.com
If you downloaded the pirated copy of X-Men Origins: Wolverine online, you really hurt Gavin Hood’s feelings. The director worked really hard on the movie and now you’re judging the work before it’s even done. For those of you waiting to see the finished film in theaters, Gavin Hood gives you a high five.
Gavin Hood on X-Men Origins: Wolverine
“The reaction seems to be positive,” Hood said. “It was a huge shock, for all of us, when someone stole the movie. It would be like me reaching out to you guys and grabbing your notebooks right now and saying, ‘You know, I’m just going to publish whatever you’ve written, right now. I know you’re not done yet, but we’ll just shove it out there and see what people think of your work.’ Any piece of work is molded and shaped and, finally, you feel ready to offer it to the public, knowing that you will be judged on that piece of work. So, I’m thrilled that it’s finally out there in the form that we wanted it to be, on a big screen, and thank you for coming to see it on a big screen.”
Origins is the first devoted Wolverine film, but Hood had to follow three hugely successful X-Men. “Coming into a franchise that’s done as well as this franchise has done is obviously, at some level, a little intimidating. I think I was lucky that this is a prequel and not a sequel because, in that sense, if you’ve never seen any of the other X-Men movies, you can still go to this movie and enjoy it because this is the beginning and, hopefully, then you’ll go and see the others. At the same time, I don’t think a director consciously says, ‘I want to do something stylistically different.’ By and large, directors don’t really know how to do something other than the way it comes to us.”
Hood’s way was twofold. “It seemed to me that there was an opportunity here to do two things. There was the opportunity to deliver the expected spectacle: the action, the energy and all of that wonderful eye-candy, great stuff. But also, there was an opportunity to do something that was really character driven and work with, ironically, very human emotion, in what is an otherwise great big, mythic, comic book story. Really, what I wanted to be sure we did, and Hugh very much wanted this too, when he first spoke to me, was to make sure that people really attached to the character. I think it would be very easy, and there certainly was a moment for me, to be caught up in the visual effects and the action and let that overwhelm you, and forget that the most important thing, at the end of the day, for me, when making a film, is still that moment when I’ve got a long lens on an actor’s close-up, with any one of the actors. That’s when I’m at my most focused because, if you don’t crack that moment behind the eyes, where those reactions are just not melodramatic or goofy, and they just somehow attack that moment perfectly, all of the special effects in the world aren’t going to save you. So, I’m very proud of the performances by the actors, and I thank Hugh for getting me involved in this. I had a great time.”
Jackman didn’t need much direction in his fourth go-round as Wolverine, but one scene did require special signals. “For me, it was trying to figure out how to direct Hugh Jackman when he couldn’t listen to a single thing I said. Hugh was submerged in that tank and he goes through a range of emotions. He enters the tank fairly nervous, but calm. He sees spinning needles coming down into his body and he goes through this period of escalation where his heart rate goes crazy and he freaks out. Then, he dies. There was a lot he had to remember, as we were going along. Then, he hears someone saying he might erase his memory, and he starts to come around and then he snaps out of the tank, roars up and he is the Wolverine that everybody has been wanting to see. It’s the best shot in the movie. So, I had to figure out how we were going to do it because he couldn’t hear a thing I was saying. We experimented with this underwater speaker that they assured me was going to work, but Hugh was hearing nothing. It was a total disaster. He couldn’t just do it by himself, unfortunately, even though we’d figured out these steps, because the cameras were moving. So, we had a very advance technique for that particular scene, where I rolled up my sleeves, stuck my hand in the tank, held onto his big toe and explained to him that one grab of the toe is the moment when the procedure begins. By the time I get down to the baby toe, I’m going to yank that thing and that’s when you come roaring out of the tank. We had this whole system worked out and then he screwed it up. I’d be on toe three and he’d think it was toe two, and he’d come roaring out. I’d be like, ‘How long do you want to stay under the water for?’”
X-Men Origins: Wolverine opens to theaters on April 29th.
If you downloaded the pirated copy of X-Men Origins: Wolverine online, you really hurt Gavin Hood’s feelings. The director worked really hard on the movie and now you’re judging the work before it’s even done. For those of you waiting to see the finished film in theaters, Gavin Hood gives you a high five.
Gavin Hood on X-Men Origins: Wolverine
“The reaction seems to be positive,” Hood said. “It was a huge shock, for all of us, when someone stole the movie. It would be like me reaching out to you guys and grabbing your notebooks right now and saying, ‘You know, I’m just going to publish whatever you’ve written, right now. I know you’re not done yet, but we’ll just shove it out there and see what people think of your work.’ Any piece of work is molded and shaped and, finally, you feel ready to offer it to the public, knowing that you will be judged on that piece of work. So, I’m thrilled that it’s finally out there in the form that we wanted it to be, on a big screen, and thank you for coming to see it on a big screen.”
Origins is the first devoted Wolverine film, but Hood had to follow three hugely successful X-Men. “Coming into a franchise that’s done as well as this franchise has done is obviously, at some level, a little intimidating. I think I was lucky that this is a prequel and not a sequel because, in that sense, if you’ve never seen any of the other X-Men movies, you can still go to this movie and enjoy it because this is the beginning and, hopefully, then you’ll go and see the others. At the same time, I don’t think a director consciously says, ‘I want to do something stylistically different.’ By and large, directors don’t really know how to do something other than the way it comes to us.”
Hood’s way was twofold. “It seemed to me that there was an opportunity here to do two things. There was the opportunity to deliver the expected spectacle: the action, the energy and all of that wonderful eye-candy, great stuff. But also, there was an opportunity to do something that was really character driven and work with, ironically, very human emotion, in what is an otherwise great big, mythic, comic book story. Really, what I wanted to be sure we did, and Hugh very much wanted this too, when he first spoke to me, was to make sure that people really attached to the character. I think it would be very easy, and there certainly was a moment for me, to be caught up in the visual effects and the action and let that overwhelm you, and forget that the most important thing, at the end of the day, for me, when making a film, is still that moment when I’ve got a long lens on an actor’s close-up, with any one of the actors. That’s when I’m at my most focused because, if you don’t crack that moment behind the eyes, where those reactions are just not melodramatic or goofy, and they just somehow attack that moment perfectly, all of the special effects in the world aren’t going to save you. So, I’m very proud of the performances by the actors, and I thank Hugh for getting me involved in this. I had a great time.”
Jackman didn’t need much direction in his fourth go-round as Wolverine, but one scene did require special signals. “For me, it was trying to figure out how to direct Hugh Jackman when he couldn’t listen to a single thing I said. Hugh was submerged in that tank and he goes through a range of emotions. He enters the tank fairly nervous, but calm. He sees spinning needles coming down into his body and he goes through this period of escalation where his heart rate goes crazy and he freaks out. Then, he dies. There was a lot he had to remember, as we were going along. Then, he hears someone saying he might erase his memory, and he starts to come around and then he snaps out of the tank, roars up and he is the Wolverine that everybody has been wanting to see. It’s the best shot in the movie. So, I had to figure out how we were going to do it because he couldn’t hear a thing I was saying. We experimented with this underwater speaker that they assured me was going to work, but Hugh was hearing nothing. It was a total disaster. He couldn’t just do it by himself, unfortunately, even though we’d figured out these steps, because the cameras were moving. So, we had a very advance technique for that particular scene, where I rolled up my sleeves, stuck my hand in the tank, held onto his big toe and explained to him that one grab of the toe is the moment when the procedure begins. By the time I get down to the baby toe, I’m going to yank that thing and that’s when you come roaring out of the tank. We had this whole system worked out and then he screwed it up. I’d be on toe three and he’d think it was toe two, and he’d come roaring out. I’d be like, ‘How long do you want to stay under the water for?’”
X-Men Origins: Wolverine opens to theaters on April 29th.
Marvel Hotline: Hugh Jackman
"X-Men Origins: Wolverine" star Hugh Jackman talks about crawling into the mind of Marvel's mightiest mutant!
Swine Flu Causes Wolverine Premiere Cancellation In Mexico City
From: imdb.com
The Mexican premiere of Hugh Jackman's new movie X-men Origins: Wolverine has been cancelled because of a swine flu epidemic in the capital Mexico City.
Jackman was due to roll into the North American metropolis on Wednesday to unveil the latest installment of the comic book franchise.
But bosses at studio Twentieth Century Fox have pulled the plug after new figures revealed over 100 people have been killed in Mexico City from the disease, which is affecting much of the globe.
A spokesperson tells People.com, "We were not only concerned about Hugh's welfare – and we would never send anyone into harm's way – but we also have an enormous office filled with people we care about. There was no point in proceeding under the current conditions.
"There is a possibility it could be rescheduled. Hugh is obviously beloved (there) so we'll see what happens. We'll monitor the situation."
The Mexican premiere of Hugh Jackman's new movie X-men Origins: Wolverine has been cancelled because of a swine flu epidemic in the capital Mexico City.
Jackman was due to roll into the North American metropolis on Wednesday to unveil the latest installment of the comic book franchise.
But bosses at studio Twentieth Century Fox have pulled the plug after new figures revealed over 100 people have been killed in Mexico City from the disease, which is affecting much of the globe.
A spokesperson tells People.com, "We were not only concerned about Hugh's welfare – and we would never send anyone into harm's way – but we also have an enormous office filled with people we care about. There was no point in proceeding under the current conditions.
"There is a possibility it could be rescheduled. Hugh is obviously beloved (there) so we'll see what happens. We'll monitor the situation."
Monday, 27 April 2009
Merchandise swag: Wolverine Shot T-Shirt
From: boxwish.com
It can be tricky to express your love for Marvel mutant Wolverine (hitting cinemas on Wednesday in X-Men Origins: Wolverine) through your wardrobe. What to do, what to do? The tight white vest and rippling muscles is a very particular look that works on very few people (what IS your secret Hugh Jackman?) and replicating the hairy mutton chops is a potential minefield of facial fur faux pas (check out our favourite cinematic sideburns here). We’ll be showing you how to navigate through these thorny issues later in the week, but for those of you looking for something more simple and achievable, you’ll be happy to hear we’ve got just the thing – this fantastic Wolverine Shot T-Shirt from top fashion chain French Connection.
It can be tricky to express your love for Marvel mutant Wolverine (hitting cinemas on Wednesday in X-Men Origins: Wolverine) through your wardrobe. What to do, what to do? The tight white vest and rippling muscles is a very particular look that works on very few people (what IS your secret Hugh Jackman?) and replicating the hairy mutton chops is a potential minefield of facial fur faux pas (check out our favourite cinematic sideburns here). We’ll be showing you how to navigate through these thorny issues later in the week, but for those of you looking for something more simple and achievable, you’ll be happy to hear we’ve got just the thing – this fantastic Wolverine Shot T-Shirt from top fashion chain French Connection.
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Hugh Jackman trains like a hero
From: monstersandcritics.com
Hugh, who sports an incredibly muscular physique in the new movie, said: "I work out imagining I'm Wolverine. Wolverine to me is the guy that when everybody else quits, that's where he begins. I think that's why people love him."
Hugh Jackman imagines he is Wolverine when he is training.
The 'X-Men Origins: Wolverine' actor claims the only way he can ensure he pushes himself to the limit when he's in the gym is to pretend he is the mutant anti-hero.
Hugh, who sports an incredibly muscular physique in the new movie, said: "I work out imagining I'm Wolverine. Wolverine to me is the guy that when everybody else quits, that's where he begins. I think that's why people love him."
Hugh Jackman imagines he is Wolverine when he is training.
The 'X-Men Origins: Wolverine' actor claims the only way he can ensure he pushes himself to the limit when he's in the gym is to pretend he is the mutant anti-hero.
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Review: 'X-Men' Animated DVDs Volumes 1-2
From: comicmix.com
Written by: Robert Greenberger
In the 1970s, Chris Claremont was arguably the first comic book writer to advance Stan Lee’s style of writing for the Marvel super-heroes, delving deeper into his characters and exploring what it meant to be born a mutant in a world that feared the different. As a result, much as everyone glommed onto Spider-Man in the 1960s, Chris’ X-Men in the 1970s became the new standard for popularity.
Television was slow to recognize the resurgent popularity in super-heroes, not really adding a comic book to screen adaptation for years until Batman: The Animated Series debuted in the wake of the wildly successful Tim Burton film. With its critical acclaim and ratings success, the networks began looking for other series and they finally learned how popular Professor Xavier’s students had become in the intervening years.
Marvel Animation produced a very faithful comic book adaptation which debuted October 31, 1992 and ran for five seasons, totaling 76 episodes. It was the tipping point in making the franchise a big deal for merchandise and eventually, the long-awaited live-action film version.
Written by: Robert Greenberger
In the 1970s, Chris Claremont was arguably the first comic book writer to advance Stan Lee’s style of writing for the Marvel super-heroes, delving deeper into his characters and exploring what it meant to be born a mutant in a world that feared the different. As a result, much as everyone glommed onto Spider-Man in the 1960s, Chris’ X-Men in the 1970s became the new standard for popularity.
Television was slow to recognize the resurgent popularity in super-heroes, not really adding a comic book to screen adaptation for years until Batman: The Animated Series debuted in the wake of the wildly successful Tim Burton film. With its critical acclaim and ratings success, the networks began looking for other series and they finally learned how popular Professor Xavier’s students had become in the intervening years.
Marvel Animation produced a very faithful comic book adaptation which debuted October 31, 1992 and ran for five seasons, totaling 76 episodes. It was the tipping point in making the franchise a big deal for merchandise and eventually, the long-awaited live-action film version.
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Rob Zombie’s Halloween H2 Trailer
Former Sabretooth, Tyler Mane, reprises his role as Michael Myers in the new movie in the franchise H2.
'Wolverine' Director Gavin Hood Grilled
On complex comic-book heroes, internet piracy, butting heads with Fox's CEO and living up to big expectations.
From: TheWrap.com
Written By: Jordan Riefe.
Since graduating UCLA film school in the early '90s, Gavin Hood has strung together one success after another in his native South Africa, culminating with his 2006 Best Foreign Film Oscar-winning, “Tsotsi." Here, he talks about his latest project in Hollywood, the big-budget, effects-laden summer sequel, Fox's “X-Men Origins: Wolverine,” due out May 1.
“Wolverine” is not unlike “Tsotsi,” where a hardened criminal is transformed by caring for this baby. There’s a similarity there.
Yeah, you’re absolutely right. I think what producer Hugh Jackman (the film's star and a producer) saw in “Tsotsi” -- which is why he called me -- is that there you’re dealing with a character who once again is struggling with his own inner demons and attempting to find his better nature -- sometimes against his will.
It’s that way with all of us -- our better nature does often shine through, but we do have this tendency, as human beings, to do things that we don’t always feel particularly proud of.
So you didn't see “Wolverine” as just another fanboy character?
It very quickly became apparent to me that what drew Hugh to the character and was drawing me to the character was the same thing: that you’re dealing with someone that is uniquely emotionally complex in comic-book lore.
He's very different from the “Pale Rider” kind of hero from the days when I was growing up, where young men were subliminally taught that you should not show emotion -- you ride into town, you solve the problem, you maybe sleep with a couple of women, but you don’t get too attached to them, then you ride off into the sunset, and you don’t show any emotion.
Here you have a massaively popular character that struggles with emotion, struggles with the idea of rage. No sooner does he have his claws out that he wants to withdraw them.
There must be a lot of pressure to sustain the “X-Men” franchise and satisfy fanboy expectations.
Bryan Singer, when he started this franchise, was incredibly brave in combining great thematic ideas with a sort of fantasy comic-book genre. I’m inspired by that and impressed by that, but when you make your own movie, at the end of the day, for me at least, I can’t let that other stuff be coming into my head.
From: TheWrap.com
Written By: Jordan Riefe.
Since graduating UCLA film school in the early '90s, Gavin Hood has strung together one success after another in his native South Africa, culminating with his 2006 Best Foreign Film Oscar-winning, “Tsotsi." Here, he talks about his latest project in Hollywood, the big-budget, effects-laden summer sequel, Fox's “X-Men Origins: Wolverine,” due out May 1.
“Wolverine” is not unlike “Tsotsi,” where a hardened criminal is transformed by caring for this baby. There’s a similarity there.
Yeah, you’re absolutely right. I think what producer Hugh Jackman (the film's star and a producer) saw in “Tsotsi” -- which is why he called me -- is that there you’re dealing with a character who once again is struggling with his own inner demons and attempting to find his better nature -- sometimes against his will.
It’s that way with all of us -- our better nature does often shine through, but we do have this tendency, as human beings, to do things that we don’t always feel particularly proud of.
So you didn't see “Wolverine” as just another fanboy character?
It very quickly became apparent to me that what drew Hugh to the character and was drawing me to the character was the same thing: that you’re dealing with someone that is uniquely emotionally complex in comic-book lore.
He's very different from the “Pale Rider” kind of hero from the days when I was growing up, where young men were subliminally taught that you should not show emotion -- you ride into town, you solve the problem, you maybe sleep with a couple of women, but you don’t get too attached to them, then you ride off into the sunset, and you don’t show any emotion.
Here you have a massaively popular character that struggles with emotion, struggles with the idea of rage. No sooner does he have his claws out that he wants to withdraw them.
There must be a lot of pressure to sustain the “X-Men” franchise and satisfy fanboy expectations.
Bryan Singer, when he started this franchise, was incredibly brave in combining great thematic ideas with a sort of fantasy comic-book genre. I’m inspired by that and impressed by that, but when you make your own movie, at the end of the day, for me at least, I can’t let that other stuff be coming into my head.
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Sunday, 26 April 2009
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... when his mouth is "sewn" shut for his role as Deadpool, in the upcoming WOLVERINE film.
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... when his mouth is "sewn" shut for his role as Deadpool, in the upcoming WOLVERINE film.
"...Having my mouth sewn shut was definitely uncomfortable. It’s a moment where you say, “Why am I method?,” but you go for it anyway. At lunch, snorting a steak was hard, but I got it down."
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MEET THE NEW BIG-SCREEN MUTANTS BEHIND HUGH JACKMANS'S 'WOLVERINE'
From: NYPost.com
For a notorious loner, Wolverine's got an awful lot of company in his new movie. The rule of thumb for comic-book flicks generally allows for one sidekick and one or possibly two villains. But Hugh Jackman's jacked-up mutant is surrounded by enough characters to round out a field-hockey team. (And that's a game we'd pay a lot of money to see.)Out Friday, "X-Men Origins: Wolverine" goes back two decades before the first "X-Men" film, chronicling the back story of Logan (Wolverine's civilian name) from a wee lad just discovering his erupting-claw power to the horrifying experiments that turned him and his mutant friends into living, breathing weapons of mass destruction.
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RandomGuy and Gal on BlogTV: Wolverine Edition!
http://www.BlogTV.com/People/ItsJustS... at 11 PM Pacific Time on Friday, May 1st! Chat with RandomGuy and Gal about X-Men Origins: Wolverine! There will be spoilers, so you have been warned!
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