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.

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.

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…”

James Bond star Daniel Craig is going to make his Broadway debut in new play with Australian actor Hugh Jackman.

The duo will star in the new theatrical drama A Steady Rain, The NY Post has learned. Daniel and Hugh are set to portray a pair of Chicago cops, whose close friendship is pushed to its limits after they become involved in a domestic dispute in a poor neighborhood.

The play will make a return to the Broadway stage for Hugh, who has hosted several Tony Awards and has an extensive theater background. He won a Tony for his performance in the 2004 musical The Boy From Oz.

A Steady Rain is due to open this autumn.

Hugh Jackman and his wife Deborra-Lee Furness are reportedly in the process of adopting a third child.

“They are adopting another child now, and plan to welcome a fourth into their family down the road. It has become their mission,” a source squeals in latest issue of The National Enquirer. “Hugh is a big believer in adoption, not just personally, but from a world view of extending help to parentless children.”

The star of the summer blockbuster X Men Origins: Wolverine recently revealed that he feels compelled to open his home to children with mixed-race backgrounds.

“Mixed-race babies have such a hard time being adopted,” he remarked.

Big hugs to Hugh and his family. It takes an incredible amount of selflessness to open your home and your heart to children who need love.

Hugh Jackman clawed his way to impressive box office opening with the mutant motion picture X-Men Origins: Wolverine.

The blockbuster grossed $87 million during its first three days of release.

The highly-anticipated film, a prequel to the original X-Men trilogy, tells the tale of Hugh’s character Wolverine, a self-healing superhero who has retractable metal claws.

His solo X-Men outing outdid the openings of the first two movies, X-Men and X2.

X-Men earned $54.5 million in its first weekend and X2: X-Men United opened with $85.6 million. The trilogy’s final chapter, X-Men: The Last Stand, had the franchise’s best opening with $102.8 million.

Did anyone see Wolverine this weeked?

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.

The movie, which focuses on the beginnings of Jackman’s clawed Marvel superhero Wolverine, is not scheduled for release in the U.S. until May 1, but a work print of the film began appearing online last week. The FBI and Motion Picture Association of America are investigating the security breach.

“It’s a serious crime and there’s no doubt it’s very disappointing — I was heartbroken by it,” Jackman told reporters on Tuesday. “Obviously people are seeing an unfinished film. It’s like a Ferrari without a paint job.”

The Australian actor still believes fans will flock to theaters to see the film and he’s confident that the culprit will be caught. “The FBI are onto it and they’re taking it very, very seriously.”

Hugh Jackman will host the 2009 Oscars.

The Australia star, who was recently selected as “Sexiest Man Alive” by People Magazine, will emcee the event on February 22, 2009.

“Hugh Jackman is a consummate entertainer and an internationally renowned movie star,” Telecast Producer Laurence Mark and Executive Producer Bill Condon said in a joint statement. “He also has style, elegance and a sense of occasion. Hugh is the ideal choice to host a celebration of the year’s movies – and to have fun doing it.”

This will be Hugh’s first time hosting the Academy Awards.