Hugh Jackman

Sad news today. Hugh Jackman, who we loved, loved as Oscars host this year, will not return to host next year's ceremonies.

Wolverine just didn't want to host two years in a row, so hopefully that means he'll be back in the future. This year's show was fun for once, and that had a lot to do with Jackman.

There's a whole lotta hotness headed to the Great White Way.

Hugh Jackman, who's never met a musical he didn't want to be a part of, and Daniel Craig will be starring on Broadway in a play, entitled A Steady Rain, about two veteran Chicago cops whose relationship is tested one night by a domestic disturbance.

Jackman won a Tony award in 2004 for his role in The Boy From Oz, and while Craig started out in the theatre, he has never performed on Broadway.

We're just hoping the play involves lots and lots of shirtlessness.

After raking in over $85 million since opening four days ago, it’s no surprise that a sequel to X-Men Origins: Wolverine is already in the works.

The film will reportedly focus on the samurai storyline originated in the comic series.

We were pretty sorely disappointed in Wolverine.

Beware of Hugh Jackman when he’s sporting his Wolverine claws because you never know where one might get embedded.

That was a lesson learned the hard way by his X-men Origins: Wolverine co-star Taylor Kitsch when the two were filming their fight scene.

Jackman says, “We were having this fight scene and he has his staff and he goes to hit me and I stop him with my claws, and he pulls back really quickly."

Turns out all of those people who watched it online decided to fork over the money to see the finished product.

X-Men Origins: Wolverine scored a cool $35 million at the box office on Friday, its opening day.

Just to put that in perspective, last weekend's big winner, Obsessed (really, America?), only made $25.8 million over all three days and the first installment of the X-Men series only made $20.8 million its opening day.

On Monday night, the world premiere of X-Men Origins: Wolverine was held in Tempe, Arizona.

Tempe won the honor of hosting the film’s world premiere thanks to a contest by Twentieth Century Fox.

Thousands of people showed up to Harkins Tempe Marketplace Theater for the event, which was attended by Hugh Jackman, Ryan Reynolds, Taylor Kitsch, will.i.am, Lynn Collins and Liev Schreiber.

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.

Wolverine star Hugh Jackman had his hands and feet immortalized in cement in front of Grauman’s Chinese Theater yesterday.

He joins the ranks of only about 175 other Hollywood legends, including Marilyn Monroe, Jack Nicholson, Paul Newman and John Wayne, who have received the honor.

Hmmm. We wonder if Nicholson wore as much bronzer to his handprint ceremony.

Jackman’s new film, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, opens on May 1st and looks totally bitchin’.

—Sasha Perl-Raver

Super smokeshow RyRy Reynolds is auctioning off tickets to the upcoming premieres of his two movies, X-Men Origins: Wolverine and The Proposal to raise money for the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinsons Research.

The Wolverine tickets, which can be bid on here, give you access to the April 28th premiere at Mann Chinese Theater in Hollywood and a seat “near Reynolds.”

We hope that means in his lap.

HoJo not included.

Sunday was a big night for Oscars host Hugh Jackman and presenter Robert Pattinson.

So how did the two celebrate?

By doing karaoke together in Tokyo.

Pattinson and Jackman were both in Japan this week to promote their films, Twilight and Australia, both of which recently premiered in Tokyo. They ended up in a bar together and one thing led to another and the two wound up making beautiful music together.