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Entertainment Weekly’s special annual Summer Movie Preview issue will hit newsstands on Monday, April 20th. They have the buzz on over 80 new films, including “X-Men Origins: Wolverine”.
EW spoke with Hugh Jackman about preparing for his role as Wolverine, film set backs and hosting the Academy Awards. In order to prepare physically for the film, Jackman spent months following a hardcore bulk-building regimen.
“I wanted to look like [Robert] De Niro did when he took off his shirt in Cape Fear and everyone went, ‘Whoa.’ You realized the guy was a freak,” recalls Jackman. “There were moments when I would wake up completely sore and say to my wife, ‘I have a feeling this is like childbirth.’”
The eight month Sydney shooting of the film did have its fair share of problems and set backs.
The eight-month Sydney-based shoot suffered a slew of complications and setbacks, chief among them the reported strife between the filmmaker and the studio, and the catastrophic event on March 31, when an unfinished work print of the entire movie leaked online. Within 24 hours of the leak, more than 100,000 people had downloaded a version of the film. It was the earliest, most comprehensive leak ever for a tentpole, and every modern studio’s worst nightmare. “Ultimately, it was this company’s responsibility to secure the postproduction pipeline, and we failed,” says Fox’s co-chairman Tom Rothman. “What makes this different [from previous leaks] is it’s a huge movie with a rabid fan base, and that it happened way in advance. That’s the irony: it’s not even close to a finished film….It’s a criminal misrepresentation of the work.”
To find out more inside scoop on movies such as "The Ghost of Girlfriends Past”, “Star Trek” and “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen”, pick up your copy of Entertainment Weekly on April 20th and head on over to their site at EW.com.
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