Hugh Jackman

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Is he presenting?

 

You know it. . .

He's waiting for a compatible top (Tom cannot apply here, sorry ).

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Jackman set for Wolverine spinoffHugh Jackman's Wolverine will headline a spinoff of 20th Century Fox's "X-Men" franchise.At international industry conference Cine Expo, the studio promised the gathered exhibitors a Jackman starrer titled "Wolverine" for next year. Jackman himself sent the conventioneers a taped promise to back up the news.Reuters/Hollywood Reporter

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I guess beauty is in the eye of the beholder because I don't get his appeal.

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HUGH & AVA: Jackman is the kind of dad who'll do whatever it takes to amuse his kids: In 2004, the X-Men star won the celebrity burping title at the Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards. "My son is finally really thrilled about what I do," he bragged about Oscar, who's now 6. And now that he and wife Deborra-lee Furness have Ava (born July 10), the actor will undoubtedly share more of his talents with her.

 

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THE 'BOY' NEXT DOOR

 

Hugh Jackman shakes his maracas Wednesday while rehearsing a number from The Boy From Oz. The award-winning musical about the late Peter Allen, which garnered Jackman a Tony, opens in Sydney tonight.

 

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Hugh Jackman To Star in 'Carousel' Remake X-Men star Hugh Jackman is producing and starring in a remake of the classic musical Carousel. The original film was released in 1956 starring Gordon MacRae and Shirley Jones. The actor's production company is working with the Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization for rights to use the music and lyrics the duo wrote for the 1945 stage musical. Jackman is set to play Billy Bigelow, a carnival barker whose temper puts him in the middle of a botched robbery and leads to his death. Stuck in purgatory, he's given one day to return and fix the problems he left behind - namely a teenager who has lot of his rebellious traits. Jackman is familiar with the part, having sung the role in a 2002 Carnegie Hall concert in New York City to honor Rogers & Hammerstein. Carousel was last revived on the Broadway, New York stage in 1994 in a Tony Award-winning run. Jackman won a Tony Award in 2004 for his portrayal of Australian songwriter and performer Peter Allen.

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Hugh's Heavy Lifting

Just Jared

 

 

Hugh Jackman carried around his two big bundles of joy -- 13-month-old daughter Ava Jackman and 6-year-old son Oscar Jackman -- at a local park around Melbourne, Australia. The X-Men star helped Oscar out with a little rock climbing around the big boulders (I love this butt shot). Hugh also accompanied baby Ava down the playground slide (pictured in the gallery). Proud parents Hugh, 37, and Deborra-Lee Furness, 46, have been married for over ten years. More pictures in the gallery!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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C'mon let's say it all together" "P-H-O-T-O O-P"

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C'mon let's say it all together" "P-H-O-T-O O-P"

I sure as hell prefer photo ops with own kids in the park than doing nothing, like entering or exiting the Ivy....

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Oscar is adopted right? Is Ava too?

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Oscar is adopted right? Is Ava too?

Yes, they're both adopted.

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THANKS HOYA!

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HUGH JACKMAN AND RACHEL WEISZ GET PASSIONATE ON SET

13 OCTOBER 2006

 

Movie magic was at work this week in New York as Hollywood stars Hugh Jackman and Rachel Weisz fell under a romantic spell on the different sets of their latest flicks.

 

The X-Men star's passionate clinch with a beautiful lady turned out to be real-life drama rather than make-believe, however. Hugh's actress wife Deborra-Lee Furness had joined the screen heart-throb on location for his movie The Tourist on Thursday, which was also the actor's 38th birthday.

 

And the couple, who met on the set of an Australian TV series in 1995 and have two adopted children together, only had eyes for each other as they hugged and kissed between takes.

 

British beauty Rachel was snapped looking similarly loved-up on the Big Apple set of her movie Definitely Maybe. In her case it was purely for the cameras, though, as she locked lips with co-star Canadian actor Ryan Reynolds.

 

Both Rachel and Ryan are currently involved in long-term, off-screen romances. The Mummy actress is set to tie the knot with director Darren Aronofsky - with whom she has a son, Henry, born in May - while Ryan is stepping out with singer Alanis Morissette.

 

Not everyone was getting in the romantic mood, however. Will Smith was hard at work battling vampires for his new action-packed thriller I Am Legend. He got the blood pumping as he raced through the streets of the Big Apple, and was clearly having a ball in his role as the last man alive on Earth.

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HJ has always seemed like a decent fella to me.

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LEAP OF FAITH

 

Kate Winslet and Hugh Jackman take the plunge (into a gigantic toilet) Sunday during the New York premiere of their animated film, Flushed Away, opening November 3.

 

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The long, strange trip of 'The Fountain'

By Todd Leopold

CNN

 

ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- Perhaps Darren Aronofsky should have called his new movie "Love and Death." (Though that's been taken.) Or, for prurient viewers, "Rachel Weisz in a Bathtub." (But that would be misleading.)

 

Either way, such a title might have eased the marketing for a film about Big Ideas: the desire for perpetual life, the hunger for love, the resistance to death.

 

But "The Fountain" it is, and "The Fountain" it will stay upon hitting theaters Wednesday. Aronofsky knows it might be a struggle to draw audiences to his sometimes cosmic love story, but he also knows he's striking a taproot deep in the human psyche.

 

"At the core of 'The Fountain' is the search for the Fountain of Youth," he says in an interview at CNN Center. "This is one of the oldest myths of humanity -- it's in 'The Epic of Gilgamesh' [the ancient Babylonian poem, perhaps dating back to 2000 B.C.], it's in Genesis, it's the Holy Grail, it's what Ponce de Leon was searching for. It's even," he adds wryly, "the theme to 'Nip/Tuck.' "

 

With the search for the Fountain of Youth -- and, by extension, eternal life -- comes its flip side, the fear of death, he says.

 

Dying and living

 

"The Fountain" combines this ancient theme with a love story -- literally a love for the ages.

 

Hugh Jackman plays three characters -- a 16th-century conquistador, a 21st-century scientist and an astronaut of the far future -- and Weisz plays his beloved each time. Jackman's character is searching for eternal life, whether as the conquistador looking for it, the scientist researching a substance that contains it or the astronaut pondering its meaning. (Eternal life can be awfully boring.)

 

However, Weisz's character is separated from Jackman's at each juncture: first by class and distance, as the conquistador's queen who sends him across the Atlantic; then by disease, as the scientist's dying, cancer-stricken wife; and then by spirit, as the astronaut's memory, for which he's traveling to the far reaches of space for a hoped-for reunion.

 

Binding the stories together, besides the performers, are the characters' names (variations on "Thomas" and "Isabel"), mythology (Mayan as well as Judeo-Christian) and a series of symbols, ranging from a sturdy tree (of life, naturally), to circles and color (particularly black and white).

 

If all that sounds complicated, it's nothing compared with the problems Aronofsky had getting the picture made.

 

It's been more than seven years since the writer and director came up with the idea for "The Fountain," seven years in which he gained, lost and then regained financing, seven years in which one star (Brad Pitt) who had committed to the movie uncommitted and seven years in which he found a fiancée (Weisz). (Want more? Read this Entertainment Weekly story.)

 

But through it all, he was committed to the idea of a film about, well, love. And death. And the yin and yang of the two.

 

Best and worst

 

He rewrote the script, reconceived the film -- originally budgeted at $70 million-plus, according to Entertainment Weekly, it now came in at around $35 million -- and set about the production process again. This time he landed Jackman and -- with some reluctance, he says -- cast his fiancée, Weisz, as the female lead.

 

"When Jackman was cast, we put together a list of possible co-stars," Aronofsky recalls. It was Jackman's suggestion, he says, to add Weisz to the list. The two met and "they clicked," Aronofsky continues. "So we threw caution to the wind and rolled the dice."

 

Which is only one of the risks the film has taken. At its premiere in Venice, it was greeted by both cheers and catcalls; early reviews generally have been rapturous ("audacious" and "visionary" are two words that have come up) or merciless ("pretentious," "turgid"). One Internet critic called it "the worst film of an atrocious year," countering the critic who called it "the best film of the year."

 

Aronofsky can only shrug. "It's easy to shout it down," he says. "There are a lot of holistic ideas in the film."

 

He knows the film can be challenging, noting that much of the literature termed "science fiction" is intended to be thought-provoking. Contrast that with Hollywood's idea of sci-fi, which (with rare exceptions) is often "hijacked by the hardware [special effects]," he says.

 

"When you read science fiction, after about 80 pages, the world comes into focus," he says. "We wanted the same feeling for the film. But then the information starts coming in and you get a sense of what's going on ... and the puzzle comes closer to solving itself."

 

At the least, he says he hopes the film makes viewers think -- not always the easiest request in today's moviegoing environment. "The Fountain" longs to take viewers on a spiritual journey along with 90 minutes of entertainment.

 

"The basic idea is that I think people forget about loss and how important it is to our lives," he says. "And beyond that, what interests me is the spiritual core that connects all of us."

 

What makes us human, he adds, is the fact that life is fleeting. But our connection to one another is, literally, eternal -- we are all made up of pieces of the big bang, and our ashes will bring about new life somewhere else.

 

"We've forgotten that connection," Aronofsky says. "Yet it is a part of our lives, part of our spiritual journey. And the film became an exploration of that."

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^^^ I really can't wait to see that film.

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Lainey swears that he's not gay. How is that possible?

 

He is handsome and charming and is married to an older woman and has adopted both of his children and does a wonderful job of musical theatre. These qualities do not usually bring to mind the word "heterosexual."

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Then again...

 

I coulda sworn that hot Ryan (vs. the very un-hot Ryan... Seacreast) was closeted queer. So, I guess my 'dar needs a tune up?

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Review: 'The Fountain' spurts hot air

By Tom Charity

Special to CNN

 

(CNN) -- Some time ago my wife and I made a jungle safari at the Mayan site Tikal, in Guatemala. Unfortunately, any hopes of seeing wildlife were dashed by an early morning rainfall, despite the guide's repeated injunction to "transcend the trees" -- behind which, presumably, all manner of fauna lurked.

 

Faced with the myriad shortcomings of director Darren Aronofsky's would-be visionary "The Fountain," I can only echo that guide's advice: Transcend the trees -- or get out of the wet.

 

The road to "The Fountain" has been long and hard, for fans of the writer-director as well as for Aronofsky himself. It's taken six years, a false start with Brad Pitt and severe budget pruning to pull it off.

 

Unfortunately, the pain isn't over yet, although at 96 minutes the film itself is as tight as an epochal rumination on mortality is ever likely to be. Which may be the best that can be said for it.

 

Aronofsky, nothing if not ambitious, first caught the eye with "Pi," a low-budget independent film about an obsessive mathematical genius who comes up with an equation for God. Then came the harrowing, intense "Requiem for a Dream," which garnered an Oscar nomination for Ellen Burstyn and endowed Aronofsky with something akin to rock-star status for a certain generation of moviegoers.

 

And maybe he deserves it, but some exposure to something less pretentious -- perhaps the Tenacious D movie? -- might be in order. Unless I missed something, "The Fountain" musters just one joke, and even that's an inside gag strictly for the sci-fi crowd: a chimp named Donovan, whose cerebellum plays a crucial role in the story ("Donovan's Brain," anyone?).

 

In short, this is a movie that takes itself very seriously indeed. It unfolds in three interlaced strands, and Hugh Jackman appears in each. Sometimes he appears confused as to which zone he's in at the time, and one can scarcely blame him -- but keep your eyes on the hair.

 

Bearded, he's Tomas, a dashing conquistador, mixing it up with a Mayan shaman to discover the Tree of Life and save Spain's Queen Isabel (Rachel Weisz) from the machinations of the Grand Inquisitor (Stephen McHattie).

 

Clean-shaven, he's Tommy, a brilliant medical research scientist desperately trying to find a cure for brain tumors before the love of his life, Izzy (Weisz again) gives up the ghost. "Death is a disease. There is a cure, and I will find it!" he practically screams over her grave.

 

And bald ... well, bald is a puzzle, but he seems to be some sort of zen star voyager, floating through space in a translucent bubble with the Tree of Life, from which he occasionally chews on a morsel of hairy bark.

 

It turns out the conquistador stuff is a novel Izzy has been scribbling (one-upping Emma Thompson and her electric typewriter in "Stranger than Fiction" by selecting pen and ink as her weapon of choice). Too bad her life's work comes off as a third-rate potboiler with a smattering of Indiana Jones heroics and Carlos Castaneda mysticism.

 

The modern-day story is even more preposterous, with Tommy lining up around-the-clock brain operations and, much to his disgust, finding a way to reverse the age process by mistake. For some reason I was strongly reminded of Steve Martin's patented cranial screw-top method in "The Man With Two Brains."

 

For all Rachel Weisz's valiant (and partially successful) efforts to invest a non-character with the life force, the plotless bubble sequences actually work best. Here Aronofsky's gauzy dark amber visual design and slow, stretching zooms feel of a piece with the film's numinous romantic spirit and yearning minimalist score (by regular collaborator Clint Mansell).

 

The audacious attempt to wrest science fiction out of the action film orbit is admirable (even if "AI" and "Solaris" got there first), but "The Fountain" is altogether too literal-minded, too sketchy and too hokey to realize its grand ambitions. Then again, no one ever said the path to enlightenment would be easy.

 

"The Fountain" is rated PG-13 and runs 96 minutes.

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Jackman Plots 'Voyages' for CBS

CBS orders a script for cruise line drama

 

Hugh Jackman likes to stay busy.

 

Since the early summer, the Tony-winning star has been seen in four features -- "X-Men: The Last Stand," "Scoop," "The Prestige" and "The Fountain" -- been heard in two others -- "Happy Feet" and "Flushed Away" -- and signed on for a slew of other big screen efforts. But Jackman's Seed Productions is attacking the television pilot market as well.

 

According to Variety, Jackman will produce the drama pilot "Voyages" for CBS along with writer-director Max Makowski. This is the second Seed pilot set up at CBS under its production deal, following the company's adaptation of the British property "Viva Blackpool."

 

The trade paper says that "Voyages" will focus on passengers on a high-end cruise line, containing both serialized and self-contained elements. While Jackman will guest star in the "Blackpool" pilot, it's unclear if his "Voyages" responsibilities will tip-toe in front of the camera as well.

 

CBS has given a script commitment to "Voyages," which will be written and directed by Makowski, whose credits include the Sundance thriller "One Last Dance."

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DO A LITTLE DANCE

 

In a case of life imitating art, an animated Hugh Jackman is raring to go – just like his cartoon character Roddy! – while continuing European promotions for Flushed Away in Berlin on Monday.

 

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Old Hugh.....

 

 

New Hugh....

 

 

Hugh all done up (or down) for his current role in "The Tourist." I hope he changes back soon.....

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*bump*

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Hugh Jackman Is One Hot Dad

Posted Apr 16th 2007 11:32AM by TMZ Staff

Filed under: Paparazzi Photo, Hot Bodies

 

A bearded cowboy-looking Hugh Jackman was caught on the beach with his wife and kids on Sunday in his native Sydney.

 

Smokin' hot Hughie, seen here with his daughter on Bronte beach, is a prime example of a DILF. Doesn't this make you want to go down under?