X-Men Origins: Wolverine

We consider any opportunity to ogle our Ry-Ry on the big screen good news.

Ryan Reynolds has officially been cast in the leading role of the movie adaptation of the DC Comics series The Green Lantern. He apparently beat out the likes of Justin Timberlake, Bradley Cooper and Jared Leto to snag the title role.

Ryan's no stranger to comic book movies, having starred in this year's X-Men Origins: Wolverine as Deadpool, a role which he will reprise in the character's very own spin-off film.

Disney just snagged itself a new up-and-coming leading man.

Taylor Kitsch, who has starred in Friday Night Lights and this summer's X-Men Origins: Wolverine, has been cast as the lead in John Carter of Mars, a new Disney film franchise based on a series of books, which the company hopes will be as popular as the Pirates of the Caribbean series.

The films will tell the story of John Carter, a veteran of the American Civil War, who mysteriously finds himself on Mars, caught suddenly in a battle between alien races.

Ryan Reynolds finally has a franchise to call his own.

Fresh off the mega success of X-Men Origins: Wolverine, a Wolverine sequel and a Deadpool spinoff have been given the green light.

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.

Mel Gibson and his wife filed for divorce only two weeks ago but on Monday night Mel brazenly hit the red carpet premiere of X-Men Origins: Wolverine with his new hussy in tow.

The actor, 53, is dating Russian singer Oksana Grigorieva, 39, and they’ve reportedly been together since Mel and his wife of almost three decades separated following his 2006 DUI arrest.

Interesting.

What would Jesus say about that, Mel?

Dating another woman while you’re still married to your wife?

Halle Berry, who plays Storm in the X-Men series, arrived at Monday’s Hollywood premiere of X-Men Origins: Wolverine to support her friend and former co-star, Hugh Jackman.

While we’re not feeling the greenish-blonde highlighted newscaster hair, her body was ON FIRE!

Halle obviously wanted Hollywood to know she’s back in fighting form after having her daughter Nahla in March 2008.

Wearing a mind-bogglingly form-fitting dress by Herve L. Leroux (Herve Leger’s new label), Halle stole the show.

—Sasha Perl-Raver

If Wolverine is successful enough, more X-Men Origin stories could be heading into production.

The film’s director, Gavin Hood, says he’d like to take Ryan Reynolds’ Deadpool and Liev Schreiber’s Sabretooth and give them the Wolverine treatment.

Don’t forget about Taylor Kitsch’s Gambit.

X-Men Origins: Wolverine opens on Friday May 1st.

—Sasha Perl-Raver

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.