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NEWS ABOUT: Wolverine

Wolverine stories: 13 news summaries

 Get the Freaking 
 Phone! Jackman 
 Stops Play for 
 Fan's Cell 

Actor steps out of character to confront audience member

Sep 29, 09 1:51 AM CDT
(Newser) - Don't mess with the wolverine. Miffed Hugh Jackman stopped his Broadway play in its tracks to tell an audience member to turn off his cell phone. Jackman suddenly pulled out of character and asked the errant cell-phone user: "Do you want to get that?" while the the gadget rang.... More »

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theater • New York City • cell phones • Broadway • Daniel Craig • Wolverine • X-Men • Hugh Jackman • stage

BOX OFFICE ROUNDUP

 Angels & Demons 
 Blessed With $48M Win 


May 17, 09 3:31 PM CDT
(Newser) - Angels & Demons ascended to the box office heavens this weekend with a $48 million debut, Entertainment Weekly reports. That’s well behind The Da Vince Code’s $77.1 million opening in 2006, due in part to Star Trek’s strong second-weekend haul of $43 million. Wolverine came in... More »

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entertainment • film • box office • Star Trek • Wolverine • Da Vinci Code • Entertainment Weekly • Angels & Demons • Ghosts of Girlfriends Past • Jay-ZTV

BOX OFFICE ROUNDUP

Star Trek Boldly Goes
for Box Office Win


May 10, 09 4:48 PM CDT
(Newser) - Star Trek set phasers for box office “kill” this weekend with a $76.5 million debut, Entertainment Weekly reports. Falling short of Wolverine’s $85.1 million opener last week, the take still exceeds expectations and bodes well for a franchise that needs a boost. Wolverine dropped a hefty... More »

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entertainment • film • box office • Star Trek • Wolverine • Ghosts of Girlfriends Past • Jay-ZTV

BOX OFFICE ROUNDUP

 Wolverine 
 Bites Into 
 $87M Box 
 Office 


May 3, 09 2:41 PM CDT
(Newser) - Wolverine tore the box office apart this weekend, clawing in $87 million, USA Today reports. Though that’s less than the debuts of last summer’s opener (Iron Man, $98.6 million) and the top-grossing X-Men film (The Last Stand, $102 million), it still bodes well for a blockbuster season.... More »

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entertainment • film • box office • Wolverine • X-Men • Hugh Jackman • summer movies • Jay-ZTV

OPINION

 A Tough Guy for Everyone 

Why Wolverine has had such lasting appeal

May 3, 09 4:56 AM CDT
(Newser) - Wolverine has endured. The character has two comic-book series, a new blockbuster movie, and his own exhibit at New York’s comic museum 35 years after being introduced as a sidekick. Why has Wolverine had such long lasting appeal? With a dark, mysterious past, and a “penchant for berserker... More »

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superhero • racism • comics • minorities • Wolverine • action movie • X-Men

MOVIE REVIEW

 Wolverine Lacks Claws 

Sharp performance from Jackman saves stale X-Men spinoff from total mediocrity

May 1, 09 7:44 AM CDT
(Newser) - A charismatic Hugh Jackman gamely slashes his way through X:Men Origins: Wolverine, say critics, but he's let down by a stale script and effects that fail to lift the movie above generic superhero fare.
  • Hollywood.com: The "action-filled spinoff delivers on the brawn but not the soul
... More »

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entertainment • superhero • movie review • science fiction • Wolverine • X-Men • Hugh Jackman

 Swine Flu 
 Derails 
 Wolverine 
 in Mexico 

No new launch date announced yet

Apr 28, 09 10:24 AM CDT
(Newser) - Even Wolverine isn’t safe from swine flu. The X-Men Origins film's Thursday launch is being delayed in Mexico City since most of the theaters will likely be closed, Variety reports. Major theater operators have already shut down following a request from the mayor, and the rest are expected to... More »

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film • Mexico City • Wolverine • premiere • swine flu

 Summer's Film Fare: Prequels 

Hollywood faces challenges of reviving classics

Apr 24, 09 3:55 PM CDT
(Newser) - Hollywood’s set for a summer of prequels, with the backstories of Star Trek, X-Men, and Terminator ripe for the telling. But how do you make a film exciting when everyone knows how it turns out? “We didn’t want to fall into the trap of the first three... More »

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Hollywood • film • Star Trek • Wolverine • X-Men • Terminator Salvation • summer movies • prequel • JJ Abrams

GOSSIP ROUNDUP

 Catfight With Hef Ex Drags On 

Plus, Sam won't restrain LiLo, and more

Apr 8, 09 10:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - Holly Madison’s cyber catfight continues, Perez Hilton reports. A Las Vegas reporter—whom Holly dissed after being called a “bad interview” on Twitter—shot back that Holly “has made a ‘career’ out of dissing other women to get to the top,” and claims to be... More »

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Paris Hilton • Lindsay Lohan • Eminem • celebrity • Madonna • Wolverine • Samantha Ronson • Kim Kardashian • Holly Madison • Hugh Jackman • Doug Reinhardt

 Pirated Wolverine 
 Already Viewed by 1M 

Execs fear massive downloading will claw into box-office take

Apr 8, 09 6:27 AM CDT
(Newser) - Canned Fox columnist Roger Friedman is in very good company—the unfinished copy of X-Men Origins: Wolverine has been downloaded more than a million downloads since it was leaked online, TorrentFreak reports. Execs are panicked by the leak—described by Gawker as the "biggest Hollywood crime of the decade"... More »

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Internet • film • Internet leak • Wolverine • copyright infringement • illegal downloading • movies • Hugh Jackman


 Fox News 
 Columnist Fired 
 Over Wolverine 
 Pirate Review 


Columnist clarifies he did not download film

Apr 7, 09 7:32 AM CDT
(Newser) - Gossip columnist Roger Friedman has been officially ousted from Fox News after reviewing a pirated copy of sister-company 20th Century Fox’s X-Men Origins: Wolverine. After yesterday afternoon’s meeting between Friedman and Fox News execs, the two parties “mutually agreed to part ways immediately,” according to a... More »

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Internet • film • piracy • Internet leak • Wolverine • movies • Roger Friedman

Columnist Fired (or Not) Over Review of Pirated Wolverine

FoxNews.com's Friedman to argue for job today

Apr 6, 09 11:28 AM CDT
(Newser) - The fate of longtime Fox News columnist Roger Friedman is unclear, but one thing is certain: It probably wasn’t a great idea to review a pirated copy of a sister company’s movie. Fox News-parent News Corp. said Friedman was canned after posting Thursday’s positive review of the... More »

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Internet • film • piracy • Internet leak • Wolverine • movies • Roger Friedman

Hey Brother, Can You Spare
a Screenplay?

Hollywood desperate
to finish scripts before Halloween writer strike

Oct 24, 07 1:06 PM CDT
(Newser) - Last week, Paramount issued an urgent call for someone, anyone, to doctor its Wolverine script—fast. Across Hollywood, studios and writers alike are desperately rushing to finish scripts before the Writers' Guild’s Halloween strike deadline, the LA Times reports. “Everybody is living in the impending doom,” said... More »

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Hollywood • strike • Paramount • X Men • Wolverine • Da Vinci Code • Writers Guild of America • Hollywood writers' strike

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