News

3/8/04 From Horror.com:
Hugh Talks Van Helsing and X-Men 3
Q: How will it feel to bounce between franchises with this and the X-Men?
Jackman: Well, um, I've got to admit I said that exact question to my agent and Universal. I said, 'Do you think maybe I shouldn't be in both of them?' He said, 'I think this is the first time in history I've had an actor worry about being in two successful franchises.' And course, that's a good point. If they're good movies and people want to see them and want to see another, you know, then... why not?

9/17/03 From Various Sources:
Good/bad news everyone. According to Playbill, "Jackman Oklahoma! DVD Release Pushed Back to Nov. 18. The title has also been expanded to a two-disc set. The first disc will feature a widescreen format and the second disc includes a one-ho ur 'Making of" feature'". The Bad: the delay. The Good: the features! I'm sure it'll be worth the wait.

Van Helsing TV spinoff!
Van Helsing isn't even out yet and already there are plans for TV spinoff!--okay, maybe 'spinoff' isn't the right word. More like "inspired". Yahoo News reports that NBC and Universal are teaming up to create Transylvania, "a dramatic fantasy television series". Another article can found at E! Online and two short ones at Mediadrome and Comingsoon.

9/11/03
According to Autograph Collector Online,
Hugh ranked #9 as the worst autograph signer
The top 10 Worst Signers, as listed in the October issue of Autograph Collector, are Cameron Diaz, Bruce Willis, Demi Moore, Orlando Bloom, Shannon Elizabeth, Janet Jackson, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Eric Bana, Hugh Jackman and Christina Aguilera.
"Here is one that is a real disappointment. From the start of his career with his breakthrough role in X-Men, Jackman had always been a signing machine. Even as his popularity continued to rise, Hugh always seemed to be level headed and very accommodating to fans. But then one day last year it seemed that Hugh was in a bad mood and was unwilling to sign autographs. Maybe it was just a bad day? Well, that day has turned into about a year and it seems that Hugh likes being on the dark side! At one time Hugh had no problem signing three or four autographs per person. Now it's a challenge to get him to sign at all!"

Magazine Alert!
*Hugh is on the cover this month's issue of Advocate and Show People magazine! Check the stands now.
* Hugh and Deb is on the cover of this month's Australia Woman's Weekly.

TV Alert!
* Hugh will be on Good Morning American on Monday and Tuesday, September 15 and 16! He will be interviewed on the 15th and performing on the 16th. See it here and here to see the videos from HJ Multimedia

8/28/03 From Broadway.com, "Check out The Boy From Oz himself--Hugh Jackman--shaking his maracas in our special rehearsal video feature. Watch it!

8/23/03 From Superherohype: Watch 11 X2: X-Men United Deleted Scenes!! "The DVD won't come out until November 25, but you can already watch the 11 deleted scenes featured on the X2: X-Men United DVD online! Here's a rundown of the clips in both QuickTime and Windows Media Player formats. Spoilers ahead!"

8/23/03 From Various Sources
A bunch of Hugh goodies are popping all over the place. First off, the Herald Sun says, "He still calls Australia home, but Broadway debutante Hugh Jackman is shaping up as the hottest new theatrical star in the Big Apple." Sydney Morning Herald has a great article with a pic! "The trade paper, Variety, speculated that a combination of Jackman's name 'and perhaps a hitherto long-hibernating legion of Peter Allen enthusiasts' were behind the show's early box office bounce." Be on the look out for the SFX magazine, InStyle's August issue, Opera News, and the Elle's September issue. Hugh Jackman MultiMedia reports that Hugh is featured there.

8/22/03 From Broadway.com:
BFO open press rehearsal pics!

8/21/03 From Playbill.com:
"Zestful was the word for the atmosphere at the 42nd Street Studios on Aug. 21, when the cast of the Broadway-bound musical about Peter Allen, The Boy From Oz, led by Hugh Jackman, treated the assembled members of the press to a performance of the show's finale, "I Go to Rio"Allen's signature tune."
*view more press rehearsal pics

8/21/03 From EntertainmentTonight.com:
Hugh Sings a Few Ballads for ET
"Hunky Australian actor Hugh Jackman, best known as 'X-Men's virile Wolverine, is putting away his claws to star in the musical The Boy from Oz. ET was invited to watch the Broadway rookie, along with his talented castmates, perform three numbers from the show!"
Click the "watch" button on the left to watch the clip!

8/21/03
TV Alert!!
Hugh will be on Live With Regis and Kelly today. " No summer would be complete without box office hits and mega stars! Well, they're all here on today's show - "Super Stars of Summer": Keanu Reeves, Michelle Branch performs, Reese Witherspoon, Hugh Jackman and Blu Cantrell performs."
Check local listings!

8/21/03
Magazines Alert!
*Vogue has great pictures of Hugh in the Boy From Oz outfits! It's the September issue with Nicole Kidman on the cover (which weighs like 20 lbs!), pg. 662 ;)
*Interview magazine has an interview and pictures of Hugh!
Visit JackmansLanding for the Vogue and Interview scans.
*US Weekly has a picture of Hugh and Oscar at the beach!
*Entertainment Weekly, the issue with the fall previews, has a picture of Hugh shaking the maracas with a goofy smile.
Visit Hugh Da Man for the drool-worthy US Weekly and Entertainment Weekly pics!

7/25/03 From Zap2it:
Liza Approves of Jackman playing her ex in musical
Hugh Jackman isn't worried about kissing guys -- he'll be doing a lot of that. He isn't even worried about his "X-Men" fans heckling him from the audience. When Jackman takes the stage as the lead in the musical "Boy from Oz" about bis exual entertainer Peter Allen, he's worried about how Allen's ex-wife Liza Minnelli will react.

7/21/03
Reports San Diego Comic-Con 2003!!
* From Countingdown:
Hugh Jackman looks very slick as gothic Vamp hunter Abraham Van Helsing, who spent a lot of the footage swinging around on ropes and swirling his groovy black cape. His costume in general stood out as an impressive accomplishment, even though Jackman looked equally good in what appeared to be a shirtless scene in the rain -- that boy works out, I think.
* From DarkHorizons:
One of the other biggies was Stephen Sommers monster epic which had the biggest panel of the con along with some darn sweet footage. No dialogue was seen and the music was Bram Stoker's Dracula for a lot of it, but otherwise it was a fast cut non-FX clip with some pretty revealing stuff. Plenty of Hugh Jackman in Van Helsing garb swinging down flying foxes or jumping around in only a loincloth Tarzan-style (* drools *) ... follow the link to read more!
* From CHUD:
VanHelsing looks big. With still nearly a year of post-production, it's still reasonably safe to say I could tell where the money went. The period costumes and set design is certainly remarkable...
* From AICN:
... What was screened looked very impressive. I was kind of expe cting the campy color scheme of the Mummy films, but I was totally wrong. The cinematography is sharp and dark, without a hint of a golden filter. The atmosphere is thick, the action is intense...
*A pic of Hugh at SDCC here.

6/22/03 From IndiaTimes:
The New Mutant Male
Today, sociologists are blaming Beckham and his band of brothers -- Ken Thorpe, Hugh Jackman, Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, Pat Rafter — for the birth of the New Mutant: the Metrosexual male. He’s the man who has a salmon pink shirt in his wardrobe, who visits the hairdresser instead of the barber, avoids using soap because it’s too harsh for the skin, visits the gym instead of playing sport, drinks in bars rather than pubs. But most importantly, he dreams of growing old with his wife and kids.

6/20/03 More from Entertainment Weekly!

FLIGHT OF FANCY A sharply-dressed Jackman recreates Cary Grant's run for safety in Alfred Hitchcock's ''North by Northwest'' for Entertainment Weekly's It List issue.

NOSE JOB Recreating the famous reservoir scene from ''Chinatown'' for Entertainment Weekly's It List issue, Jackman, 34, does his best Jack Nicholson imitation as the bad guys prepare to make some minor cutbacks.

BED AND BORED Jackman recreates a scene from ''Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid'' for Entertainment Weekly?s It List issue. The 6'2'' actor may smolder these days, but he was nicknamed Worm as a kid because of his spindly legs.

6/19/03
It List 2003 Leading Man!
Why Him? Because not only can he wow audiences playing an angst- ridden mutant with retractable nine-inch adamantium claws but he can sing! And dance! [AOL Members click here; those who don't have AOL, never fear! Entertainment Weekly will hit the stand tomorrow, 6/20; To see a very *hot* new pic of Hugh, click here ]

6/18/03 From Superherohype:

Eric Bana meets Hugh Jackman

"For some reason, it still hadn't dawned on me," Bana said. "We were standing at the bar having a drink and I said, 'Do you know something ...' And he said, 'What?' And I said, 'You're Wolverine, and I'm the Hulk. Do you realize that? It's kind of weird.'"[to read the rest of the article about Eric Bana/the Hulk, follow the link on the SHH page]

6/16/03 From Edmonton Journal:

Smoking--rated PG
[ An article about how the anti-smoking group are against the smoking of cigarettes and cigars in PG movies. Here, they attack Wolverine along with other stars in other movies about smoking.]
"The problem is that Wolverine, played by actor Hugh Jackman, does this in front of impressionable PG movie fans, who, groups like the Alberta Lung Association warn, are at an age where they're most likely to start smoking."

6/2/03 From News.com.au:
Hugh Jackman's Rising Star
"[He] originally wanted to be a journalist, not an actor ? it was only in his final term at university in Sydney that he realised he might be too squeamish for life as a reporter."

5/25/03 From Ananova:

Hugh Jackman and many others are confirmed to present at the 2003 MTV Movie Awards. Other presenters include Will Smith, Colin Farrell, Claire Danes, etc.

More news/articles

5/18/03 From OCRegister:

Encounter with a fan
And the geek mania is spreading beyond the young-adult demographic. Actor Hugh Jackman, whose portrayal of Wolverine in the "X-Men" films has earned him a hallowed spot in the Geek Hall of Fame, says his most memorable encounter with a fan came while he was dining with his wife at a restaurant in New York, where he met Vinnie, the restaurant's manager." He was literally ducking behind this little booth, looking at me," Jackman says. "Ten minutes it took him to come and see me. I said, 'Nice to meet you, Vinnie. Are you a fan?' He looked at me
 and said, 'Am I a fan?' There was a silence, and then he took his shirt off in the middle of his restaurant and turned around, and he had a full color tattoo of Wolverine on his back. And he goes, 'AM I A FAN?' He got down on his knees and said, 'Thank you for the film! I love the film! It's fantastic!"'

5/12/03 From Chicago Sun-Times:
Jackman goes from mutant to monsters
As for the opening date, the star of this weekend's box office winner says, "They used to call Memorial Day the 'Spider-Man spot.' Now, I'm hoping they call it the 'Hugh Jackman spot.' "

4/16/03 From MTV:
Wolverine Vs. Wolf Man
"I'll tell you, man, it is huge ? the sets, the costumes," Jackman said. "I just saw a little trailer of it cut together. We showed it to the whole crew [and] everyone was so jazzed. It looks amazing."

4/16/03 from SciFiWire:

Jackman: Wolverine Gets Dark

"I got a bit of a concussion on one thing, but she's a pro, man," he said. "If she'd hit me, it would just touch me. It would look like she'd whacked me, but she's a black belt, so she knew how to do it."

5/14/03 From EW.com:
A Good Man is Hard to Find Award
As if women don't have it hard enough without this Aussie reminding them that any man alive today is useless.

4/27/03 From Jam!ShowBiz:
Hugh Jackman returns as Wolverine
"My life is truly blessed. I'm thrilled with my life," says Jackman. "I have a dream career, an incredible wife and a beautiful son. It's impossible to ask for more."

7/17/01 From IMDB:
Hugh Jackman Bedded 750 Women
"Handsome actor Hugh Jackman has had sex with so many women he's lost count."

7/12/01 From IMDB:
Hugh Jackman the Next Clint?
"Australian actor Hugh Jackman mistook a picture of a young Clint Eastwood for a portrait of himself. The Swordfish star spotted the drawing of Clint in a bedraggled antique shop in California and admits he 'had to look twice' because he thought he was seeing a pencil drawing of himself."

6/4/01 From Jam!ShowBiz:
Hugh 'addicted' to new son
"I am just totally besotted with being a dad. I am so in love with my wife but the love I have for my son is so addictive. John told me the bond just keeps getting stronger."