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Real Steel takes a quirky Richard Matheson story about robot boxing and turns it into a thrilling tale of robots beating each other to scrap metal. We caught up with the stars and creative team behind this film, and they explained how they went about creating a world nine years into the future. More »
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Think that Real Steel is just a junkyard where tired boxing movie clichés go to die? We can't blame you: This movie looks like Lionheart with robots. More »
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Still not convinced that you want to watch Hugh Jackman training a robot to beat another robot into spare parts in Real Steel? This featurette may go a long way towards winning you over. It basically narrates the entire movie's story, and shows both the brutality and the heart-warming cuteness of this robot film. More »
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Rock 'Em, Sock 'Em, Hugh Jackman is a deadbeat Dad! The latest Real Steel trailer is so packed with metallic emotion, it's like The Iron Giant for dummies. More »
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Remember the crazy robot centipede from Enthiran, the Indian movie that mashed up Transformers and Terminator? Here's the Bollywood film that everyone's saying is going to top that. Ra.One, starring Shah Rukh Khan, is coming this fall. More »
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Two robots enter, one robot leaves! Two short clips from Real Steel showcase a pair of robo-fighters in action. So are we supposed to feel for the mecha beings? Or just Hugh Jackman? Do robots feel pain in the future? More »
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Black Swan director Darren Aronofsky won't get to try his hand at directing a big superhero movie after all. Fox announced that the auteur is leaving the Wolverine movie. More »
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The trailer looks cool, the graphics look slick, and Hugh Jackman looks appropriately hard-bitten and muscled-up — but robot boxing looks like it combines robot fights and boxing in a way that seems to undercut them both. More »
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Here it is: the rock 'em sock 'em, kick 'em in the bolts trailer for the robot-boxing epic Real Steel. And hot damn, this piece of junk kicks some serious metal butt. Watch the first trailer right now. More »
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We were already excited for Real Steel, Hugh Jackman's movie about robot boxers pounding each other to scrap — but now we've read the script, and we're twice as stoked. This is the robo-rumble you've been waiting for. Spoilers below. More »
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GM Renaissance Center in Detroit is being converted into a a large World Robot Boxing ring for futuristic giant robots to battle it out. Is this where Hugh Jackman will make his mark as a champion robot boxing trainer? [ComingSoon] More »
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We knew that Jackman was playing a washed-up fighter who trains a promising droid to compete in the World Robot Boxing League — but we didn't quite realize he'd be standing there, Mickey-style, in an automaton's corner. More »
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Real Steel's future world is tired of human boxers, so they turn to fighting robots. But even though it's a gritty, post-industrial dystopia, director Shawn Levy promises it'll have a lot of heart, and a shirtless Hugh Jackman. Spoilers ahead. More »
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At a Repo Men press conference today, Liev Schreiber confirmed that Hugh Jackman has read the Wolverine 2 screenplay. Even though he's unsure whether Sabretooth will appear, he's gung-ho to make a comeback during Logan's Samurai saga. More »
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Wolverine's claws will be tempered with bushido, the Samurai code, in the forthcoming sequel. Based on the Frank Miller/Chris Claremont comic saga, Wolverine 2 already has a script and is gearing up to shoot early next year. More »
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It may be time to have a science fiction intervention for Hugh Jackman. Fresh from the moderate success of this summer's X-Men Origins: Wolverine, he's considering taking on the lead role in the upcoming robotic boxing movie Real Steel. More »
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Talking about the future of Fox's Wolverine movie franchise, executive producer Lauren Schuler Donner revealed some thoughts about what could happen following the second movie's ninja-filled trip to Japan... including an adaptation of a comic fans wouldn't expect. More »
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We're going to be seeing Logan's life in Japan a lot sooner than we expected. Hugh Jackman confirmed that he's already got his claws deep into the next Wolverine and a mutton chop Samurai is not far away. More »
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Before it finds a home at Tussauds Hollywood, a life-size replica of Hugh Jackman as Wolverine will be on display at this year's San Diego Comic Con, so you can spend some quality time with Logan. [Ones 2 Watch 4] More »
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X-Men Origins: Wolverine's success means the sequel has already been greenlit, and it's looking like the story we've been waiting for all along: the one with the ninjas. But that's not the only Wolverine sequel. More »
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Fresh from the success of this past weekend's X-Men Origins: Wolverine opening, Hugh Jackman is staying with comic books for his next project: an adaptation of a graphic novel by the creator of Earthworm Jim. More »
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By this point, the idea of anyone other than Hugh Jackman as Wolverine seems like box office suicide, but he wasn't the first choice to play X-Men's breakout star. Learn about the also-rans and almost-weres. More »
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Good to see Fox isn't letting up on their perpetual crapping on poor old Cyclops. A clawful of new Wolverine Origins stills shows young Scott Summers in some sort of mutant jail, looking like hell. More »
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Hugh Jackman can't decide where to throw his big mutant jamboree for X-Men Origins: Wolverine, and wants you to vote for a location. That means I'm one lifted restraining order away from Deadpool. [X-Men Origins] More »
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Wolverine himself took time out of his busy re-shooting schedule to address the online rumors swirling around Fox's decision to head back to Vancouver for more filming. More »
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Will hairy mutants be battling it out Chorus Line style in the new Wolverine Origins feature? In an interview, Wolverine nemesis Liev Schreiber revealed how the movie's dark and scary fight scenes were influenced by each actor's love of the dance. More »
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One can only surmise that Hugh Jackman is tired of starring in other people's science fiction movies and hearing comments like "Wait, did The Fountain make any sense at all?" So he's following in the footsteps of Jenna Jameson and Deepak Chopra. That's right — he's teaming up with Virgin Comics to create his own, easily-adaptable-into-a-movie-franchise, scifi odyssey, Nowhere Man. More »
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The surveillance state reaches its furthest extreme in The Last Enemy, a recent BBC miniseries that should be coming to the U.S. soon. After a major terrorist incident in London, the government issues mandatory biometric ID cards, puts every citizen under 24-hour surveillance and implants tags into people that restrict their freedom of movement. And a new Hugh Jackman project looks set to explore new themes of security versus freedom. More »
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The first pictures of Wolverine's rival Sabretooth (from the Wolverine origin movie) have surfaced, and it looks as though the movie will be about the clash of the gigantic sideburns. We also have a new clip from Doomsday, and crazy Iron Man rumors. Plus we have some news about Smallville, including a shocking development in April — and who's back for Smallville season eight. Plus a clip of Ally Sheedy's upcoming guest spot on Kyle XY. Click through to besmirch your pristine mind with evil spoilers! More »
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Wolverine looks much the same as always, judging from the first official pic from the Wolverine movie... except that the killer mutant's claws are way longer. Those things look 18 inches long, or more. Could the X-Men spinoff movie be overcompensating for something? Also, star Hugh Jackman dropped some more hints about the film. More »
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