Hugh Jackman has turned down the chance to host the 2010 Academy Awards.
The Wolverine star, who did a wonderful job hosting last year’s ceremony, declined the chance to renew Oscar presenting duties, according to Variety.
Earlier reports had suggested that the 41-year-old has instead chosen to prepare for his next film Real Steel once his Broadway run in A Steady Rain wraps up.
The 82nd Academy Awards will take place on March 7, 2010.
Hugh Jackman really knows how to stop a show! The Wolverine star was captured on video admonishing a theatergoer whose ringing cell phone interrupted a weekend performance of A Steady Rain — co-starring Jackman and James Bond star Daniel Craig — at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre on Broadway.
The audience erupted into cheers as Hugh broke character and bellowed at the owner of the ringing cell phone: “You want to get that? Come on, just turn it off.”
Wolverine star Hugh Jackman will produce and star in Avon Man, a new comedy from 20th Century Fox, Variety reports.
The story will center on an out of work car salesman who becomes an Avon rep and uses his good looks to become one of the cosmetics brand’s most successful workers.
Hugh Jackman and Miley Cyrus are set to star in a new film loosely based on Whitney Houston and Kevin Costner’s 1992 smash The Bodyguard.
According to Hollywood trade mag Variety, the Wolverine star will team up with Disney’s reigning teen queen in an upcoming comedy — tentatively titled Personal Security – chronicling the plight of “a tough Gotham police detective forced into bodyguard duty for a spoiled teen heiress who is receiving kidnapping threats…”
How cool does Hugh Jackman look as Wolverine in the latest Got Milk? ad?
The Aussie actor will reprise X-Men role when X-Men Origins: Wolverine opens in theaters May 1.
“My power to regenerate might be top secret but my ability to re-energize is simple. Milk has protein to help build muscle and a unique mix of nutrients to help you refuel. So eat right, train hard and drink lowfat milk. That’s just common mutant sense.”
Wolverine isn’t the first superhero to appear an ad for the nutritional campaign. Batman, Superman, and The Incredible Hulk have also donned milk mustaches.
Check out Hugh’s all-new ad for the Body by Milk campaign, which will debut in Rolling Stone this Friday, April 17.
Hugh Jackman says he is “heartbroken” about the recent Web leak of his upcoming superhero blockbuster, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, which opens next month. Read the rest of this entry »
