Over Twenty New X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST Promo Posters Released

20th Century Fox have released twenty three new promo posters for Bryan Singer's X-Men: Days of Future Past using a mixture of old and new images of all the main cast members, including the X-Men of the past and present, along with the Sentinels. Hit the jump to check them out!

Hugh Jackman Thinks Next Film Will Be His Last as Wolverine

Wolverine 3 slated for release March 3, 2017

Hugh Jackman is pretty confident that the next time he plays Wolverine on film, it will be his last as the X-Men mutant.

Speaking with SFX, Jackman was asked about the third Wolverine movie and where it could take his character. "I don’t know yet," he said. "We’re talking it through. I still am very ambitious for the character. And tonally I feel like we corrected the ship with the last one. But I feel we can still go further, in a way. If I did another one, I’m 99.9 percent sure it would be the last, so that will inform what it is for me."

This isn't the first time Jackman has acknowledged that his time portraying Wolverine is coming to a close. Earlier this year, he told IGN that it's "inevitable" that the character is recast at some point. While Jackman is expected to return for Wolverine 3, with David James Kelly reportedly writing the script and James Mangold returning to direct after helming The Wolverine, the actor said nothing is finalized yet.

"I’m excited to see what we can come up with, but I haven’t signed on signed on," Jackman said. "I’m genuinely at that point where unless it’s better than the last one, I’m not going to do it." The third Wolverine solo film is slated for release March 3, 2017.

Jackman will next be seen in X-Men: Days of Future Past, which hits theaters stateside May 23. He'll also be tackling director Joe Wright's Peter Pan and Captain Hook film project.

Source: ign

Wolverine Gets the Spotlight in a New X-Men: Days of Future Past Character Video

20th Century Fox has brought online a new character video that spotlights Hugh Jackman's Wolverine in the upcoming X-Men: Days of Future Past. Check it out in the player below!

Opening in theaters on May 23, the film also stars Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Michael Fassbender, James McAvoy, Jennifer Lawrence, Halle Berry, Nicholas Hoult, Ellen Page, Shawn Ashmore, Peter Dinklage, Omar Sy, Daniel Cudmore, Fan Bingbing, Boo Boo Stewart, Adan Canto, Evan Peters, Josh Helman, Lucas Till and Evan Jonigkeit.

The ultimate X-Men ensemble fights a war for the survival of the species across two time periods in X-Men: Days of Future Past. The beloved characters from the original "X-Men" film trilogy join forces with their younger selves from X-Men: First Class, in an epic battle that must change the past – to save our future.




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Amanda Seyfried joins Hugh Jackman and Garrett Hedlund in Pan

There's a LES MISERABLES reunion in the offing on the set of Joe Wright's PAN: Today, via press release, Warner Bros. announced Amanda Seyfried will be joining her Les Mis co-star Hugh Jackman in the live-action Peter Pan feature. Presumably, neither will be breaking out into song during the course of the picture.

And if the reunion doesn't do it for you, well, that picture above should prove it's simply never bad thing when Amanda Seyfried is around. Seyfried will be tackling the role of "Mary" in the film.

The casting update doesn't conclude there. The film has also brought aboard Jack Charles (“Mystery Road”) as The Chief/Tiger Lily’s father; Taejoo Na (“The Kick”) as Kwahu; Nonso Anozie (“Son of God,” “Atonement”) as Bishop; Kathy Burke (“Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy”) as Mother Barnabas; Kurt Egyiawan (“Skyfall”) as Murray; Lewis MacDougall (UK TV’s “In the Name of the Children”) as Nibs; and newcomer Leni Zieglmeier as Wendy Darling.

The newcomers join Jackman as Blackbeard; Garrett Hedlund (“Inside Llewyn Davis”) as Hook; Oscar® nominee Rooney Mara (“The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo”) as Tiger Lily; Adeel Akhtar (“The Dictator”) as Smee; and newcomer Levi Miller as Peter.

"Offering a new take on the origin of the classic characters created by J.M. Barrie, the film follows the story of an orphan who is spirited away to the magical Neverland. There, he finds both fun and dangers, and ultimately discovers his destiny—to become the hero who will be forever known as Peter Pan."

PAN is set for a worldwide release on July 17, 2015.

Source: joblo

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Is it May yet? 

THE WOLVERINE Sequel Announced

Harry Potter and Wolverine on stage! Daniel Radcliffe and Hugh Jackman set to woo crowds in new Broadway productions

Both Harry Potter and Wolverine are set to create Broadway magic in the near future.


Daniel Radcliffe will star in black comedy The Cripple of Inishmaan in London, whilst Hugh Jackman will take centrestage in drama/mystery production, The River.

X-Men: Days Of Future Past Writer Explains Why Wolverine Is The Time Traveler

It's not exactly a secret that Wolverine is the A-list star of 20th Century Fox's X-Men movies. Including the cameo in Matthew Vaughn's X-Men: First Class, the anti-hero mutant is the only character to appear in all of the franchise's titles, and as a result Hugh Jackman holds the record for playing the same superhero the most times in a live action comic book film. As a result, it wasn't a complete surprise when it was revealed this past summer that the plot of Bryan Singer's upcoming X-Men: Days of Future Past will feature Wolverine in the story's most important role. But now screenwriter Simon Kinberg has revealed to Total Film (via SlashFilm) why having Logan be the key to the new movie's plot actually makes the most sense logically as well as economically.

The Wolverine: Hugh Jackman’s ‘Real’ X-Men Costume Revealed in Alternate Ending

By next May, Hugh Jackman will have played the mutant hero Wolverine in seven different X-Men films (including the X-Men: First Class cameo) and not once has he worn one of his iconic costumes from Marvel Comics. In the trailer, image and teaser footage of Bryan Singer’s X-Men: Days of Future Past, Jackman suits up in new duds yet again (in the future and in the ’70s). But still no classic yellow and blue – at least that we've seen.

James Mangold & Hugh Jackman To Return For 'The Wolverine' Sequel

“I wasn't even sure after the first [stand-alone] film if I would do another,” Hugh Jackman said about returning for another "The Wolverine" movie in the run-up to this summer's film. “I won’t say never, because I’m still loving it. But there would have to be a pretty compelling reason.” And while those compelling reasons are yet to be declared, it's probably a safe bet that the movie's $413 million worldwide haul—making it the second best performing X-Men movie ever—has something to do with it.

Deadline reveals that both director James Mangold and Jackman are in negotiations to return for a sequel, and really, was there any doubt this was going to happen? With Fox pretty much planting the seeds of massive world building with next year's "X-Men: Days Of Future Past" (which was given a credits stinger in "The Wolverine" with the appearances of Charles Xavier and Magneto), it was only matter of when they were going to get the ball rolling. So now they have a director and star, but what about a script?

Well, Mangold will apparently pen the treatment but no word yet on whole will write the first of what will probably be many drafts, given Fox's usual operating method. But as they watch Marvel now churn out two movies per year, we'd wager this won't be one Fox will want to keep in development hell for too long. Will "The Wolverine 2 But Actually 3" serve as the buffer between 'Days Of The Future Past' and whatever X-Men adventure comes after that? If we were betting men...

Source: indiewire

Bryan Singer Says X-Men: Days Of Future Past Will Be Darker

Bryan Singer says there will be a darker edge to X-Men: Days of Future Past, compared the other films in the franchise.

Singer returns to direct an X-Men film for the first time since the success of X-2 as characters from the two franchises are set to collide.

X-Men: Days of Future Past is the sequel to X-Men: First Class but will feature much loved characters from the first series.

And while there is a darker feel to this film, Singer says the humour is still present.

During a Twitter chat he said: "Though there is a great deal of humour, the overall tone is a bit darker than previous films, particularly because of the stakes..."

James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence and Nicholas Hoult will all be reprising their roles from First Class, while the likes of Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry, Ian McKellan and Patrick Stewart are all also on board.

Singer went on to talk about the cast saying: "I was real comfortable with the original cast and knew the #FirstClass cast as a writer/producer but not yet as a director. With the exception of @NicholasHoult [Beast] of course - but they were all fantastic and made the experience fun."

X-Men: Days of Future Past is released 22nd May 2014.

Source: Female First

New X-Men: Days of Future Past stills released

First look at Bryan Singer's mutant epic.

What with all the fuss about Thor: The Dark World and the Cap 2 trailer, it seems Bryan Singer doesn't want us to forget about his superhero movie. 

First came the cruelly short teaser trailer for the first X-Men: Days of Future Past trailer last week (below), and now a bunch of new stills from the film have hit the internet.

The images, released via Empire and Entertainment Weekly, show most of the principal cast as X-Men new and old unite for the latest installment in 20th Century Fox's franchise. 

And, as expected, it doesn't look like it's going to be an easy ride as the two mutants join forces across timelines to save their kind. 

As well as the requisite game of chess between old friends Charles Xavier (James McAvoy) and Erik Lehnsherr (Michael Fassbender) , we see Hugh Jackman's Wolverine bullet-ridden and hitting the bottle in 1973 while Kitty Pryde (Ellen Page) and Iceman (Shawn Ashmore) look fairly worried in the present day.  

Oh, and check out Future Professor X's new hover chair. It's very groovy. 

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Source: uk.movies.yahoo.com

Hugh Jackman's unlikely birthday bash

The buff Wolverine actor, who turned 45 at the weekend, is hardly known for his skills in musical theatre. So what was he doing tap-dancing and belting out showtunes for an audience of 4,500?

Age: 45.

Appearance: Buff.

You mean he's yellowish-beige, like an envelope? No, I mean he's muscular. You know, like a male gymnast, or in his case an Australian action hero who does his own stunts.

From films such as what might I remember him? Oh, tons of stuff. Les Miserables, Australia, The Prestige. He's probably most famous for playing Wolverine in no fewer than ... ooh ... wait a minute ... Damn, I've lost count. Anyway, he has played Wolverine in an awful lot of X-Men movies.

Do you secretly mean a lot of awful X-Men movies? I do not. Jackman has been widely admired for his performances. It's said that he can invoke fear, pathos and laughter with no more than a subtle contortion of his abdominal muscles.

Blimey. Said by who? Oh, it was probably on the internet somewhere. Not bad for a man who turned 45 at the weekend, eh?

Not bad indeed. How did he celebrate? By killing and devouring a bull with his bare hands? In fact, no. He tap-danced and sang showtunes for charity.

I didn't see that coming. Ah well, musical theatre was his first love, you see. His breakthrough performance was in Oklahoma! at the National Theatre in London in 1998, and he often returns to the stage.

Yes, but for his birthday? What's wrong with a lie-in, presents and an expensive dinner? Nothing, and Jackman may have had those too. It's just that in the evening he also performed One Night Only, a selection of songs, dance routines and stories about his life, for an audience of 4,500 paying customers. One of the songs was a tribute to Deborra-Lee Furness, his wife of 17 years.

OK ... At the end he auctioned off an electric Fiat car, a pair of Wolverine's claws and two sweaty vests he had been wearing for $7,000 each. "This is probably the most narcissistic way to spend your birthday," he said.

Hard to argue with that. He also raised $1.85m (£1.16m) for the Motion Picture and Television Fund, which supports film and TV professionals in need.

My hero! He's like the best bits about gay men and straight men all rolled into one! Hard to argue with that either.

Do say: "The show must go on!"

Don't say: "So for Christmas, I'll be selling my old pants on television."

Source: The Guardian

Jake Gyllenhaal’s ‘Prisoners’ locked in mystery

Two little girls disappear in Prisoners, a masterwork of suspense from Canadian filmmaker Denis Villeneuve.

The crime thriller, which has its world premiere at the Toronto International film festival this Friday, stars Hugh Jackman and Terrence Howard as the fathers of the children, Paul Dano as the prime suspect and Jake Gyllenhaal as the detective trying to solve the case.

In Prisoners, one crime prompts another in the way of vigilante justice.

"We're often shown in stories that revenge will somehow resolve a situation that's an internal struggle," Gyllenhaal tells QMI Agency. "In a situation like this, revenge is your first inclination, but this movie shows that revenge just brings upon people more revenge — and the journey is that this can be a prison."

Gyllenhaal's character in Prisoners is somewhat unreadable, and one of several in the story who will intrigue you. He's a cop, but he has the tattoos and the mannerisms to suggest he might just as easily have wound up on the other side of the law. There are good guys and bad guys in Prisoners, but tragedy makes it harder to discern just exactly who's who.

"There are a lot of mysteries to him," says Gyllenhaal of his detective character, "and to me, that's what the movie is all about — how we're imprisoned in a way by our pasts, by our tendencies, by our judgements and assumptions, by our ability to listen or our inability to listen. Sometimes things are right in front of us and we have no idea that they are. The clues happen to be directly in front of a certain character, or really, in front of the audience, and we have no idea they're there until we get to the end."

He adds, "I liked the mystery of knowing about him, a guy nobody really knows."

Gyllenhaal has worked with Villeneuve before (on the film Enemy, which is also at TIFF) and he and the director agreed that, "We'll both have a lot of fun knowing who this guy is and all his secrets, when nobody else will know."

Perhaps the character's name, then — Detective Loki — is a little joke between the two of them, as the Norse god is such an ambiguous figure. Sometimes Loki is an ally of the other gods. And sometimes he isn't.

Gyllenhaal's character is an outsider in the story, caught between his need to understand the criminal mind and his sympathy for the wounded families. In a roundabout way, the actor's affection for the children in his real life — he has called his sister Maggie's two daughters, "The best thing that happened to my family probably ever" — helped him connect with the character.

"In every scene where there was a sort of fire underneath him, and particularly a couple of them toward the end, all I was thinking about was how fast, how hard and how hopefully superhuman I would be, if anything even close ever happened to the children that I love in my life," says Gyllenhaal. "So that was an entree of sorts. I don't even know if I would say inspiration, 'cause that's the wrong word. Because the idea is not inspiring. But it was a fire, and it was visceral."

Both Jake and Maggie Gyllenhaal are Academy-Award nominated actors. Their parents are filmmaker Stephen Gyllenhaal and screenwriter/producer Naomi Foner, so they grew up around the entertainment business; Jake made his film debut, aged 11, in City Slickers and Maggie in Waterland, one of her father's movies, at 15.

Given the family background, were those acting careers inevitable?

"There's no inevitability in the acting profession," says Gyllenhaal, laughing, "No matter how much you're driven." It's interesting work, he adds, and movies have always inspired him, but no — it's not acting that was inevitable.

It's the storytelling.

"More and more as I get older, I search out people who can tell stories well … It's in the way we grew up. I remember there always being conversation about story, and books — and, this is going to sound a little unbelievable, but it's similar to the way people talk about growing up with professors in your house. Because there were always books, and discussions of stories, and conversations about literature and source material and stories that were inspiring. So I grew up in a household like that. I think that was, and always continues to be, what was interesting."

The business side, or the glamor of the business, says Gyllenhaal, "Is not the world we grew up in. We grew up with a magical sense of storytelling. My parents were really devoted, and my dad is a great storyteller who's always telling us crazy stories and making things up.

"Our imaginations were always at work, and encouraged to be so."

Jake Gyllenhaal moves between small films and blockbusters

Jake Gyllenhaal was at the Toronto International Film Festival last year, playing a cop in the excellent drama, End of Watch. He's back in 2013 playing a cop again, in Prisoners.

"People say, 'Wait — you just played someone in law enforcement. Why would you want to do it again?" There's a common misconception, says the actor, about playing a profession, when in fact, an actor portrays a person, not his job.

And everybody's different.

"That's like saying, 'You just played a journalist. Why would you want to play one again? They're all the same!" he says, and he laughs.

On the performance front in the Hollywood system, there are movie stars and there are character actors. Gyllenhaal is one of the very few who manages to be both.

The same actor who appears in the sort of blockbuster movies that made him a household name — The Day After Tomorrow, for example, or Prince Of Persia — is also the guy who turns up in smaller, smarter movies such as The Good Girl or Proof.

He also showed his stage chops when he made his debut a decade ago on the London stage in Kenneth Lonergan's revival of This Is Our Youth.

Gyllenhaal once said, "The truth is, most of the films that make a lot of money no one remembers, and I'm not interested in making films that no one remembers."

Clever of him, then, to pick movies that manage to be both memorable and money-makers. Of Gyllenhaal's two dozen movies, here are our picks for his 10 best:

Brokeback Mountain

End of Watch

Zodiac

Proof

Donnie Darko

Lovely & Amazing

Jarhead

The Good Girl

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Source: Calgary Sun

Hugh Jackman’s ‘Prisoners,’ ’12 Years A Slave’ Added To Telluride Lineup

A pair of high-profile titles — “Prisoners” and “12 Years a Slave” — have been added to the Telluride Film Festival lineup as “sneak” screenings.

The dramas — both which are heading to the Toronto Intl. Film Festival next week — will screen Friday evening. Neither was on the lineup of 45 feature films announced on Wednesday but the fest has usually added several films once the festival starts, such as “Argo” last year.

Warner Bros.’ “Prisoners,” which will open Sept. 20, stars Hugh Jackman as an angry father trying to punish the suspected abductor (played by Paul Dano) of his daughter and another girl. Jake Gyllenhaal (pictured above) portrays the police detective.

Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender and Brad Pitt star in “12 Years,” based on Solomon Northrup’s 1853 nonfiction tome about a free man kidnapped in 1841 and sold into slavery in Louisiana. Fox Searchlight has set a Dec. 27 release for the U.S.

Source: variety