Tag: Twilight Zone

Hugh Jackman has something to prove — can he be a major movie star when he isn’t in the role of  Wolverine? We have some early looks at the film that Jackman is making right now, the sci-fi action film “Real Steel,” due in theaters next year, and you can bet that the actor is hungry for the boxing movie to deliver a knockout. The 41-year-old Aussie has been given a number of chances — “Kate and Leopold,” “Australia,” “Deception,” “Swordfish,” “Van Helsing,” “Scoop” and “The Fountain” — but he has yet to claw out a major hit with any live-action role away from the Marvel Comics mutant persona. The closest he came was Christopher Nolan’s “The Prestige“ in 2006, a film that pulled in $110 million worldwide and had a lean $40 million production budget, but that was more of an ensemble film ...