Mexican Premiere of Wolverine Postponed

As worldwide panic mounts around the swine flu (come on, people, if you’re neither a small child nor a decrepit elderly person, it’s really just the flu, which sucks but you get over it), the Mexican premiere of Wolverine has been “postponed.”

A studio representative for 20th Century Fox said there is a chance the premiere will be rescheduled, but the threat of illness outweighed the desire for the film’s promotion by the film's star, Hugh Jackman, the only cast member scheduled to attend the premiere.

“We were not only concerned about Hugh's – and we would never send anyone into harm’s way – but we also have an enormous office filled with people we care about. There was no point in proceeding under the current conditions.”

The Mexico government has asked for residents to stay home, schools have been shut down as well as many businesses.

—Sasha Perl-Raver