It doesn’t look like Hugh Jackman’s Logan is simply going to be having a nice holiday in Japan in the upcoming The Wolverine, as this poster shows him on his knees, with his claws out, screaming into a storm.
It’s a pretty good poster, and suggests that this will be less popcorn nonsense that X-Men Origins: Wolverine.
Based on the celebrated comic book arc, The Wolverine finds Logan, the eternal warrior and outsider, in Japan. There, samurai steel will clash with adamantium claw as Logan confronts a mysterious figure from his past in an epic battle that will leave him forever changed.
It hits cinemas in July.
The cast of Townies is growing into a bit of a Superbad reunion, with 
After DreamWorks Animation was forced to make tonnes of redundancies last month following the failure of Rise Of The Guardians, they’ll have a bit of cheer this morning with the news that The Croods has topped the US box office with $44 million. It’s a decent start, which is about on par with the studio’s Megamind and How To Train Your Dragon.
Hollywood films using the ‘n’ word or any other strong racial epithet are relatively rare (although not unheard of – just look at Quentin Tarantino’s output), but you don’t have to go too far to find one where ‘fag’, ‘homo’ or some other anti-gay term is thrown out. Now Amy Pascal, co-chairman of Sony Pictures, has been talking out about it, and has admitted Hollywood must do better.
Most people probably still think of Fred Savage as the kid from The Wonder Years and The Princess Bride, but in more recent years he’s had a successful career as a director, helming episodes of TV shows such as 2 Broke Girls and Modern Family amongst many others, as well as the movie Daddy Day Camp.
Robert Redford isn’t a name you’d have thought would be in contention for a Marvel’s superhero movie, but