Today gives audiences yet another look at next year’s heavily-anticipated X-Men movie subtitled Days of Future Past. Yes, The Wolverine is already being grossly dismissed, but Bryan Singer is hard at work filming the recovery job due out next summer which gives up some period photos (specifically 1973) and a fresh look at Hugh Jackman in the new feature. At his side is Nicholas Hoult who is better known as The Beast, and yes, he has been normalized. That is definitely something we will have to get to the bottom of in the coming months. The easy explanation for all this? Alternate realities! Continue Reading
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Here is a brand-new Japanese trailer for The Wolverine complete with subtitle action. Why the post? Because this latest promo for Hugh Jackman’s Les Miserables follow-up happens to include new footage. Enough said. Release is set for July 26.
At that point, all will be revealed; however, we do know a few things about the flick at the moment. Longtime nemesis Viper will have a key role in this East Asia-set actioner and the Silver Samurai is the primary villain. Fox decided early on to make this one a little less X-Men-y than fans are used to though so do not expect a whole lot of super powers to be thrown about. Instead, audiences should prepare themselves for more of a classic take on the genre (i.e. Spider-Man, Iron Man, etc.) As for where this one fits in on the timeline, it will take place sometime after the events of the original X-Men trilogy. Continue Reading
In regards to The Wolverine, this is the sequel to X-Men Origins: Wolverine which is being billed as a quasi-reboot of sorts for the sub-franchise going forward. Taking the helm on production was Walk the Line director James Mangold who has said time and time again that superhero abilities have been downplayed in favor of some serious character development. That is probably why he has his shirt off in today’s new image… Continue Reading
Two things have been explicitly identified as game changers. The first is that The Wolverine will feature a theme relating to immortality and how that can be a curse to some as the title character will experience loss as he outlives his X-Men team members. Such underlying issues are not exactly sexy, so the second information has been a bit more grandstanding in nature. Apparently, The Wolverine will be one of only a few mutants actually in the movie. Somewhere down the line, they realized that creating a more classic superhero film approach would be a better way to tell a character-driven story than to try to ‘wow’ theatergoers with special effects. Continue Reading
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Here is another poster to hype the July release of The Wolverine. The James Mangold-directed film is very low profile to say the least, so it could use a big marketing bump. A lot of the X-Men stuff I have been seeing nowadays was for Days of Future Past set to debut one year down the road, so it might be a shame if Bryan Singer’s return to the franchise overshadows this spin-off sequel. All you need to know is that The Wolverine is primarily set in Japan (while filmed in Australia) and takes place some years after the events of the original X-Men trilogy. Not a whole lot of superpowers will be shown off as the feature will showcase more character development than fanboy excitables. 
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Later this week, audiences will get their first look at a trailer for James Mangold’s The Wolverine–a sequel to the X-Men Origins film released four years ago. Set in Japan with themes of isolation for the title character, the pic takes place after the events of the original X-Men trilogy. Its primary villain is the Silver Samurai, but Wolverine nemesis Viper (Svetlana Khodchenkova) will play an integral role as well which is said to focus less on special abilities than in the past. This is more of a classic superhero film than your typical X-Men movie. That said, here is what could easily be the film’s best poster yet. 
Hugh Jackman took to The Tonight Show Monday evening to promote Les Miserables. The movie may be exiting theaters, but it is in the middle of an Oscar push as the big screen adaptation of the musical is up for a number of awards including ones for Best Picture, Best Actor (Hugh Jackman,) and Best Supporting Actress (Anne Hathaway.) To date, the Tom Hooper-directed feature is up over $140 million at the domestic box office, $330 million when including foreign income. 
There are some new photos to look at for two of the summer’s hottest films: Fast and the Furious 6 and The Wolverine. The former has already been shot and is set for a collision course with The Hangover 3 on Memorial Day Weekend. Since the previous installment in the series broke franchise records with over $600 million worldwide, Paramount seems okay with letting the trailer hang in the wind until the Super Bowl comes around. Vin Diesel confirmed the big reveal earlier today. Do note that Super Bowl spots tend to make it online BEFORE the big game more and more, so naturally we suspect it before hand.
Late next summer, Hugh Jackman will be reprising his role as Wolverine. The iconic role has led many to insist that the actor is to the character like Sean Connery is to James Bond, leading some to feel like Fox has screwed the pooch many times over on these X-Men movies and his role in it. Part of the problem has always been mutant saturation, and while specifics are still under wraps, information did manage to get out courtesy of director James Mangold on how things might be different going forward into The Wolverine.
For those of you who have not yet had enough of Hugh Jackman’s singing, here is a new featurette with the actor talking about his role as Jean Valjean in Tom Hooper’s adaptation of Les Miserables. Producer Cameron Mackintosh as well as the film’s director share their two cents on the performance as well. Consider this the first line of promotion for the actor’s attempts at Oscar campaigning. Jackman recently received recognition by both SAG and HFPA. 
Here is what appears to be the last of the trailers for Tom Hooper’s big flashy musical Les Miserables. There is a Hugh Jackman introduction as well as some voice over work to help sell the story to those of you who have never showed interest in the movie’s source material. For the most part, this is just a re-edit of the same footage we have seen before, but with added references to the film’s Golden Globe nominations as well as some more proper introductions for its stars. This might actually be the first time an ad mentioned Sacha Baron Cohen as being attached to this project. 
Hugh Jackman was shoring up support for hotly-anticipated new musical Les Miserables on Kimmel last night. For the most part, talk shows will be in repeats next week, so the cast of that film is completing their rounds to drum up free promotion for the film. This is a good thing because Jackman has been pretty entertaining lately. Last night’s conversation? The climbing of Mount Fuji. Aside from Les Mis, he did manage to give us an update on The Wolverine which just finished filming in Australia with about a month of photography done in Japan.