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	<title>Obsessed With Film &#187; Hugh-Jackman</title>
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		<title>Can Chris McQuarrie redem the abysmal X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE by penning it&#8217;s sequel?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 08:18:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[

Christopher McQuarrie (The Usual Suspects, Valkyrie), one of the best character driven screenwriters in Hollywood right now has returned to the X-Men franchise he worked on at the beginnings of the decade by signing on to pen Wolverine 2. That's according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Which doesn't mean I'm ready to give 20th Century Fox a clean slate over the retarded mess they served up this year and I can't imagine Tom Rothman will change his recent policy with this series when it made $158 million on it's opening weekend back in May, but at least it's something to latch onto.

Hugh Jackman is already on board to play Logan/Wolverine for the fifth time in his career, with a storyline that will follow the very famous 1980's Chris Claremont/Frank Miller run that saw Logan travel to Japan, to live under the samurai's code of honor and respect.

According to Quint at AICN, although McQuarrie did work on the original X-Men movie all that remained of his early draft was the origins of Magneto in the Jewish concentration camp. Which by all accounts was a very smart opening, but not enough of his material to keep his named credited on the screenplay.

McQuarrie is a ...]]></description>
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		<title>Hugh Jackman plans Japanese set WOLVERINE sequel &amp; wants CAROUSEL remake with Anne Hathaway!</title>
		<link>http://www.obsessedwithfilm.com/movie-news/hugh-jackman-plans-japanese-set-wolverine-sequel-wants-carousel-remake-with-anne-hathaway.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 07:38:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[$87 million ($158 million worldwide) opening weekend for Hugh Jackman and Wolverine. Just goes to show how little movie piracy really effects movies in 2009 (I wouldn't have expected this movie to make $100 million plus regardless) and we maybe all exaggerated over the workprint leak last month. Still, it did cost Marvel millions of dollars, so it was still significant, just not quite as significant as we thought it could have been. 

Jackman still has awesome star power in this role (but for none others it seems) and there's still lots of money to be made from this X-Men series. 



Variety say Jackman is wanting to quickly get back aboard the Wolverine saddle. The 40 year old Aussie actor has been talking to 20th Century Fox about getting back into the Wolverine game quickly and of course the next journey in the character's saga is to take him to Japan, where comic legend has it he was trained as a Samurai. Apparentaly this was teased at the end of X-Men Orgins: Wolverine but who the hell stayed till the end of the credits of that movie anyways?

I was barely able to stay till the end of the movie, let alone the million ...]]></description>
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		<title>Hugh Jackman is going to be busting some ghosts, but not how you might think</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 08:13:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Doug TenNapel]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[My tired, weary eyes played tricks on me this morning as I was reading The Hollywood Reporter, so sure that it's headline read "Hugh Jackman to haunt Ghostbusters", believing that Harold Ramis and crew had managed to secure the huge star to play the movie's villain in the soon to be officially, officially announced (i.e. not just a trade story) Ghostbusters 3.

Which made me so excited, I had to leave my bedroom and make me some breakfast. I had to try and calm myself down otherwise this post would have been full of "OH MY GOD, OH MY GOD, WOLVERINE IS GHOSTBUSTERS VILLAIN".

But after some sugar from my cup of coffee and my slice of jam on toast, I see the project the trade is refering to is Ghostopolis, an adaptation of an upcoming graphic novel from Doug TenNapel (the animator who created Earthworm Jim) which is setup at Disney. Not quite as cool and doesn't quite have me geeking out so much, but still fun...



Jackman will play a guy who works for the government's Supernatural Immigration Task Force (think Men in Black I guess), his job is to bust ghosts back into the world of Ghostopolis. So far so fun. 

But ...]]></description>
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		<title>What did you think of X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 08:48:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hugh-Jackman]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The last time we did this, we got a pretty for what our audience thought of Watchmen, so as this is the biggest geek release since that movie, I'm here once again to ask what you thought of Hollywood's latest offering for our tentpole tastebuds. 

X-Men Origins: Wolverine, the fourth in the X-Men saga, which of course became subject of much conterversary when a workprint was leaked online some weeks back, and whose damage to it's financial takings we should see in full effect in about 24 hours. From what I've read, the workprint that was leaked is almost identical to the movie that is now playing in theatres, with just the added special effects now in place.



I have now seen the movie, and I completely hate virtually every single frame of it. Wolverine is a complete mess from start to finish, a completely misguided film that shows that got everything from the casting, to the hiring of the writers and directors, to the whole idea of where this prequel should have gone, completely wrong.

Even Hugh Jackman puts in one of his worst performances and looks so uncomfortable playing this character in this outing, when you would think by now he ...]]></description>
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		<title>X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE is not worth paying for</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 08:46:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Edwards</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I haven't been this disappointed by a film since the new Indiana Jones, and my disappointment provoked so much fury then that I'm a little bit nervous about venting my frustration about X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Nonetheless, so lame was this woeful attempt to milk a franchise that I can't contain myself: so here goes...



Wasn't Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) supposed to be a short, gruff, angry, violent killer who goes psycho a lot and stabs people? I know he's a good guy, and his character is a bit deeper than just that, but I'm sure he was once a soldier who revelled in his talent at slaughter? Nobody seems to have told director Gavin Hood and credited writer David Benioff. Between them they seem to think that he's a big handsome fella, who's loving, jovial and very very vulnerable. Plus he walks around topless a lot. I mean A LOT. And when the lust for vengeance pulses through his veins, he seems to calm down and act normally again pretty fucking quickly.

Rather than explain how Wolverine became who he is in the original trilogy, XMO just reduces everything to a single story of deceit centring on the evil plans of Colonel Striker (Danny ...]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;We&#8217;re not going to let the bastards win&#8221; &#8211; Rothman &amp; Jackman on WOLVERINE leak</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2009 08:38:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[20th Century Fox President Tom Rothman has probably endured the most stressful week of his career after a movie he has spent years and "hundreds of millions of dollars" on making was horribly subject of a workprint leak that it seems was finished enough for people to make a final judgement on, but not nearly finished enough to say it was completed.



Now I know Rothman is hardly our favourite studio chief the way he has handled tentpole after tentpole release for way too long now but no-one deserves what happened to him this week. And it's more than understandable that he is pissed that what he calls a "complete misrepresentation of the film" in an interview with EW, "that is deeply unfair to the people who have worked on it for years", may be the death of the Wolverine franchise at this point.

He said...
"Just like I'm sure there are lots of banks that get robbed that thought their vault was safe. We thought the post-production pipeline was secure at every juncture. But, obviously, it's self-evident that  it wasn't. I have a high level of confidence we'll find out where the lapse in security was and we'll bring the perpetrators to justice."
Rothman said that ...]]></description>
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		<title>Final WOLVERINE trailer &amp; character posters!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 07:29:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[20th Century Fox have released a special effects filled final trailer for X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE, which really looks to be the case of throwing all they have in one desperate last attempt to peak audience interest. 

It looks a lot like X-MEN 3: THE LAST STAND, a movie I actually didn't hate. It wasn't up to the previous two movies but with Brett Ratner behind the helm, it was WAY better than what I was expecting. You know, it was kinda fun... in a mindless, eye candy sort of way. 

Anyway here's the final trailer for WOLVERINE'S solo prequel (I say solo, but this ain't have packed with other mutants)...

And USA Today also carry several character posters from the movie...







X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE opens May 1st. ]]></description>
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		<title>Hugh Jackman and the official WOLVERINE re-shoot response</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2009 10:36:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hugh Jackman e-mailed AICN this weekend with the official word on the extensive Vancouver re-shoots we heard rumblings about last week. Remember, this is the official response...
Hey everyone -

It's Hugh Jackman, sending this note from freezing Vancouver. I have read a lot of your online comments regarding the footage that we are currently shooting and I share your passion for the Wolverine character and the movie - I owe it all to you guys!

I wanted to reach out and let you know that due to scheduling conflicts with certain cast members and location/weather considerations, we had to wait until now to shoot a couple of scenes. Please rest assured that WOLVERINE will be badass and hopefully meet all of your expectations. I am stoked by the positive response to the teaser, which clearly reflects the tone and scope of the film. If you like that, we've got much more in store!
AICN were also sent an exclusive new image...



WOLVERINE AND FRIENDS open May 1st. ]]></description>
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		<title>Hugh Jackman won&#8217;t play Marc Antony in Soderbergh&#8217;s CLEO but which British hard man will play Julius Caesar?</title>
		<link>http://www.obsessedwithfilm.com/movie-news/hugh-jackman-wont-play-marc-antony-in-soderberghs-cleo-but-which-british-hard-man-will-play-julius-caesar.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2009 08:44:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The sizable failure of Baz Luhrmann's sweeping love story epic AUSTRALIA may have cost Stephen Soderbergh his leading man for his equally ambitious $30 million historical 3-D rock musical CLEO.

Variety report that Hugh Jackman has dropped out of talks for the film, presumably turned off by the reaction of AUSTRALIA and not wanting to put his career on the line by starring in another big budget risk for an unusual genre effort.

The trades say "inside scheduling conflicts" is the reason, which could equally be true. We know he is set to play Houdini on stage in 2011 and will want plenty of prep time for it which I've heard may also be shot as a movie at the same time.

Soderbergh now has the arduous task of finding a replacement for Jackman, he needs an actor with the same kind of presence, stature and acting chops who can also sing and dance to play opposite Catherine Zeta-Jones' Cleopatra. Not easy.

But that talks is for another time because the trades have gotten word that Ray Winstone, suddenly one of Britian's most in demand actors for big budget movies is in talks to play Julius Caesar. Wow, if you thought Winstone playing Beowulf ...]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Become the animal&#8221; &#8211; WOLVERINE trailer in HD!</title>
		<link>http://www.obsessedwithfilm.com/movie-news/become-the-animal-wolverine-trailer-in-hd.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2008 16:57:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Isn't it funny how the spin-off movie about ONE X-MEN character ends up having about 100 mutant cameo's?

Enjoy the rather desperate X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE trailer below in HD. I say desperate because after a good start showing Logan's past, it just grows and grows and grows into a farcical looking cheesy B-Movie with mutants thrown in haphazardly in an effort to say "look we have this guy in this movie too, and OH, wait till you see this guy".

Still Danny Huston is a great choice for a younger villainous Brian Cox (as Stryker) but Liev Schreiber's role as Sabertooth is so beneath him. And how much acting will Hugh Jackman be needed for here, or is this just a movie to show off his ripped body and adrenalin face?


Or see it in HD HERE. ]]></description>
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		<title>Phil says AUSTRALIA is epically boring!</title>
		<link>http://www.obsessedwithfilm.com/reviews/phil-says-australia-is-epically-boring.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 07:44:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Epic in scope but pitifully small-minded, Baz Luhrmann's AUSTRALIA wants to cast the same romantic spell over viewers that films like GONE WITH THE WIND or TITANIC have in the past, but the film it most readily recalls is Michael Bay's PEARL HARBOUR. Like Bay, Luhrmann is a director who obsesses over stunning images but who has no idea how to assemble those images in a way that's coherent or satisfying. He simply hurls everything he's got at the screen with a feverish intensity, swamping his film with glossy visuals, but his pictures have no depth beyond what we see on the screen. They are exhaustingly shallow, particularly when Luhrmann takes over two and a half hours to tell his story, as he does with this ridiculously overcooked national epic.


AUSTRALIA'S biggest failing is the way Luhrmann squeezes in enough content for three or four films while barely managing to generate enough drama for one. At its core, the film is a very old-fashioned love story, with two people from different classes and opposite sides of the globe falling for each other, as seismic historical events gradually creep up behind them. Lady Sarah Ashley (Nicole Kidman) is the prim, uptight Englishwoman ...]]></description>
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		<title>Mike thought the 2 hour 45 minute AUSTRALIA was boring too!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 07:42:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Edwards</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There have been mixed opinions surrounding this film. A huge, lengthy, effects-laden and cliche-riddled extravaganza that is sumptuous to look at as it is pointless to think about. Baz Luhrmann's film is a ridiculous amalgamation of several (very unoriginal) plots and genres that tangle incoherently in this sweeping 'epic'. Perhaps the most telling signs that it isn't going to be the most cohesive film are the tags attached to it by imdb. Whilst not something I'd like to rely on to judge films generally, when the genre tags say 'Adventure &#124; Drama &#124; War &#124; Western' you know all is not well.

Starting out as a drama about an English noblewoman who sets out to Australia to organise her husband's business affairs only to find him dead, the film evolves into a strange outback comedy, before becoming a love story, and then ending up as a war epic.



It seems like a lot of the budget was spent on scenery. The grand canvases of the raw outback and the fiery destruction of the Japanese warplanes were all completed with intricate detail. However, they completely undermined their own goals by being so obviously computer-generated that they looked like those crappy desktop backgrounds from ...]]></description>
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		<title>Oscars Get Jacked Up</title>
		<link>http://www.obsessedwithfilm.com/hugh-jackman/oscars-get-jacked-up.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 19:29:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray DeRousse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are few things in life more boring than the yearly Oscar telecast. I have a Chia Pet on my windowsill that provides more entertainment and laughs-per-second than any Oscar marathon ever has ... and yes, I'm including David Letterman's disastrous "Uma ... Oprah" bit as well.

The brain trust behind the upcoming telecast have heard our collective yawns, and have decided to make a 180-degree turn with the hiring of Hugh Jackman as this year's host. Yes, HUGH JACKMAN. The guy with the knives coming out of his fists.



The choice isn't as misguided as it initially sounds. Jackman-hosted Tony Award gigs have netted the highest ratings in its history; of course, out of a sampling audience of fifteen, even one more viewer exponentially increases the ratings. I mean, seriously - who watches the fucking Tony Awards?!?!? Even the gays avoid that shit like it's AIDS.

The bigger pull for the Academy in hiring Jackman is his huge worldwide following. The movie industry no longer exists in a fishbowl just off the California coast. There are hotspots around the world for motion picture product from Hollywood and elsewhere; hell, half of a movie's total gross now comes from the world outside of ...]]></description>
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		<title>New WOLVERINE pics</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 07:03:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of new images have turned up online from X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE...



And then this very interesting images featuring Liev Schreiber (Victor Creed) and Hugh Jackman (Wolverine).



There's a few more image HERE but I believe I have seen them before.

20th Century Fox's latest X-MEN movie opens May 1st 2009 and you can see a new trailer for the movie attached to THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL on Dec. 12th.

source - /film ]]></description>
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		<title>Hugh Jackman to play Houdini on Broadway</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2008 08:49:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hugh Jackman who for my money gave one of his most comfortable and accomplished performances as a magician and showman in THE PRESTIGE, is according to Fox News, returning to the stage as the world's most famous illusionist Harry Houdini.



The 2010 Broadway musical show will feature music composed by Danny Elfman and former radio host Kurt Anderson is putting together a script.

Jackman is said to be taking the role very seriously indeed and has even joined the likes of the Cirque du Soleil to learn magic tricks so he can be as authentic to Houdini as possible. Jackman, who has appeared in the Chicago Musical, so we know he can sing and dance but how well can he adapt himself to the tricks Houdini use to perform?

I'm obsessed with the life story of Houdini and I was majorly disappointed that the recent movie DEATH DEFYING ACTS didn't go the full Houdini biopic route. Would love to see this on the stage and Jackman seems adaptable and talented enough to actually pull this off.

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		<title>20th Century Fox force Luhrmann to change AUSTRALIA ending?</title>
		<link>http://www.obsessedwithfilm.com/movie-news/20th-century-fox-force-luhrmann-to-change-australia-ending.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 07:32:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Guardian report that 20th Century Fox have forced Baz Lurhmann to change the ending to his soon to be released $120 million epic AUSTRALIA after "intense discussions" resulted in a more commercial friendly ending being shot.

It would seem audiences at test screenings weren't happy with the ending Luhrmann originally intended.



I won't spoil details about it for you but if you visit the news source at the above link, you can find out for yourself what the issue was.

Rope of Silicon spoke "at length" with a rep for Fox yesterday who it's suggested that indeed the ending was changed but it was Luhrmann who instigated it.
Baz Luhrmann is a "final cut" director and the studio has always been supportive of his choices.
Hugh Jackman and Nicole Kidman star in the movie which has used CASABLANCA style imagery to promote this as being a love story on epic proportions. New poster from ROS...



The movie opens Nov. 26th in the U.S. and Dec. 26th in the U.K. ]]></description>
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		<title>UPDATED: Rock &#8220;n&#8221; Roll CLEOPATRA musical from Stephen Soderbergh starring Catherine Zeta Jones &amp; Hugh Jackman!!</title>
		<link>http://www.obsessedwithfilm.com/movie-news/rock-n-roll-cleopatra-musical-from-stephen-soderbergh-starring-catherine-zeta-jones-hugh-jackman.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2008 09:20:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[UPDATED: 

The Hollywood Reporter's story differs and tells us the movie will be titled CLEO and set in the same 1920's gangster period as Zeta-Jones' CHICAGO. 

The always working and experimental Stephen Soderbergh (OCEAN's trilogy, two CHE biopics) is to direct a 3-D live-action rock ’n’ roll musical about CLEOPATRA... the historical figure which infamously nearly made major studio 20th Century Fox bankrupt in 1963.



Unlike that $44 million production four decades ago (which equals just under $300 million today... the most expensive picture ever made until PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: AT WORLD'S END according to Forbes) starring Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor which amazingly despite all it's problems made a profit, Soderbergh's version will be made for just $30 million and will be shopped around studio's for financing and distribution in the coming weeks say Variety.

Catherine Zeta Jones, Academy Award winner for the musical CHICAGO (as the Egyptian Queen) and Hugh Jackman (her lover Marc Antony) will star.

The musical has been written by Indie rock band Guided by Voices (who you can here via this link)... with the script coming from James Greer (JUST MY LUCK) who is also the former bass player for the group.

As we've said the mercurial ...]]></description>
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		<title>FULL length trailer for WOLVERINE leaks</title>
		<link>http://www.obsessedwithfilm.com/movie-news/full-length-trailer-for-wolverine-leaks.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 09:23:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thank you Fox. And thanks to OWF reader Lencho for the link!

Now Fox, you need to go that one step further and get this bad boy in HD for the rest of the world to see how good a job you have done with the first trailer for X-Men Origins: Wolverine.


Skipping the usual "teaser" step they went full whack into a full length trailer and although it's in crappy shaky guerrilla styled shot youtube format... it still kicks ass.

There is just so much to take in, what a vast amount of footage (J.J. Abrams you hearing me!) we have just seen for a movie that comes out in May.
I love the focus on drama over action but when the action comes, it looks exciting and as violent a movie as you could want from a Wolverine picture that's not rated R. Danny Huston will rule as Stryker and is just about the only actor I could think of who is convincing as a younger version of Brian Cox.
Deadpool with no mask, I can't understand that unless you are trying to seduce the female audience with a good look at Ryan Reynolds. He looks like he walked into the wrong movie ...]]></description>
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		<title>Doug Liman wants Russell Crowe/Nicole Kidman team-up</title>
		<link>http://www.obsessedwithfilm.com/russell-crowe/doug-liman-wants-russell-crowenicole-kidman-team-up.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 15:40:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It very nearly happened on Australia for director Baz Luhrmann but Crowe eventually walked out saying "I don't do charity work" when his usual $20 million+ was not forthcoming.
Luhrmann soon went out and hired Hugh Jackman for the film (due out at the end of the year) and the Crowe/Kidman partnership never saw fruition.

Now word has come from MTV that director Doug Liman (Jumper, Mr. &#38; Mrs. Smith) wants to cast Russell Crowe in his upcoming dramatic biopic of Valerie Plame which currently has Kidman down for the lead role.

Plame was a former a CIA officer who worked for the government for twenty years but had to retire in December 2005 when her identity was outed by an American journalist two and a half years prior.

Liman says he would love to hire Crowe to play the part of New York Times reporter Joe Wilson, the man who wrote the infamous piece "What I didn't find in Africa", a scatching attack on the Bush administration...
“I’d love Russell Crowe,” director Doug Liman enthused. “If you’ve met Joe, he’s a really strong guy. I’ve never met an actor stronger than Russell Crowe.”

“It’s the Valerie Plame story but you wouldn’t know it when Joe’s ...]]></description>
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		<title>AUSTRALIA trailer!</title>
		<link>http://www.obsessedwithfilm.com/movie-news/australia-trailer.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2008 06:27:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unsurprisingly epic, with heavy emphasis on character, visuals, set designs and music (did I hear a little of Morricone's score from The Good, The Bad &#38; The Ugly in there?).

It's the trailer for Australia, the long awaited return to the big screen of Baz Lurhmann (Romeo &#38; Juliet, Moulin Rouge) and stars Hugh Jackman and Nicole Kidman in a romantic action-adventure flick set during the northern area of the country during World War II.

It centers on the story of an English aristocrat (Kidman) who joins forcer with a cattle driver (Jackman) to drive her 2,000 heard of cattle across the country's unforgiving land whilst it's being bombed by the same Japanese forces who attacked Pearl Harbour some months prior.

Looking pretty good, I can't honestly say I'm sold on this film yet but I did enjoy the trailer. From what I've heard the movie is nearly all a two actor show, so it's a real challenge for Kidman and Jackson to keep our interest for what will no doubt be a very long movie.

VISIT AUSTRALIA IN HD HERE!
This one opens in November and will no doubt have some heavy Oscar hopes next year. ]]></description>
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