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Ryan Reynolds has admitted that he found the experience of getting in shape for X-Men Origins: Wolverine to be "awful".

The actor, who plays Wade Wilson in the superhero prequel, told reporters at the Los Angeles premiere that he had spent months working out before filming began.

"Well that's awful, in general, working out like that. I think it's fine to work out a little bit every once in a while, it's expected," he explained.

"But each day eating live screaming chickens and hitting the gym for four or five hours is no fun."

When asked how he celebrated the end of shooting, he replied: "I just fell face first into a big bowl of chocolate fudge pudding. Yeah, it was disgusting!"

Reynolds, who is married to Scarlett Johansson, added that co-star Hugh Jackman would "definitely" beat him in a fight, saying: "[He] would turn me into some kind of fine curd cottage cheese-like ass pudding, if I may be so bold to say."

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I like him in Australia though...

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Former Diff’rent Strokes star Gary Coleman has revealed that he hates his new movie.

The 41-year-old former child actor is reportedly unhappy with his participation in "shockumentary" Midgets Vs. Mascots, according to the New York Post.

The film depicts a faux competition between five diminutive people and five sports team mascots going head-to-head in mechanical bull rides, basketball shootouts and foot races.

"I'm actually pretty embarrassed by this whole thing," Coleman said. "I don’t' like it when small people are made fun of. And I hate the title."

The film’s director Ron Carlson said of its star: "Gary's personality is extremely volatile. But he would be surprised by the way audiences are reacting to him in the film. They love Gary in this movie."

Coleman is currently working on a website geared towards fans of scented candles and model trains.

"My goal is to be retired in five years," he said. "But I seriously doubt that will happen."

Midgets Vs. Mascots will screen at the Tribeca Film Festival on Saturday night.

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Jonathan Pryce and Sally Hawkins have been cast in period drama Hysteria.

The film takes place in Victorian England and is about the invention of the first vibrator, according to Production Weekly.

Tanya Wexler is directing the movie based on a script from married writers Jonah Lisa Dyer and Stephen Dyer. Tracey Becker (Finding Neverland) will produce the film.

Pryce can next be seen in blockbuster G.I. Joe: The Rise Of Cobra, while Happy Go Lucky star Hawkins recently signed up to play a women's rights campaigner in We Want Sex.

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any new 007 movie yet?

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Heroes star Hayden Panettiere has auditioned for a role in Paramount's reboot of Footloose.

The actress, who plays Claire Bennet in the NBC show, is thought to have read for the part of Ariel Moore, a small-town girl who falls for dance-loving newcomer Ren McCormack.

"[The filmmakers] were really impressed. No-one realised what a good singer she is," claimed an unnamed insider.

Footloose, based on the 1984 original starring Kevin Bacon, was previously fast-tracked by the studio as a project for Zac Efron following the success of High School Musical 3. However, earlier this month it was reported that Gossip Girl's Chace Crawford was interested in taking over the part of Ren, following Efron's departure for fear of typecasting.

A representative for Panettiere, who released her debut single 'Wake Up Call' last year, has declined to comment.

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Guy Ritchie is planning to direct action star Jason Statham in a new musical, it has been claimed.

The RockNRolla filmmaker has described the project as a cross between "Wurzel Gummidge and Bullitt", The Sun reports.

A source said: "Guy and Jason are collaborating closely on this top secret musical project. They're well into development and realise they're probably going to get a lot of stick.

"But Guy's of the opinion that people have been having a pop at him throughout his career, so he couldn't care less. He wants to do something audacious and a musical is just that."

Another added: "[Statham's] really excited. He's been watching loads of vintage musicals on DVD. He’s poring over Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers classics.

"But West Side Story has really captured his imagination. He was brought to tears the first time he watched it."

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Jim Carrey is reportedly interested in taking the lead role in The Beaver, with Jodie Foster eyeing the comedy as a directing vehicle.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Kyle Killen's script has attracted the attention of Carrey, who would portray a man who walks around with a beaver puppet on his hand believing it to be real. Steve Carell was previously attached to the project.

Production firm Anonymous Content is also searching for a new director after the departure of Jay Roach. Foster, who helmed Little Man Tate and Home For The Holidays in the '90s, is said to have held discussions about taking the reins.

Yes Man star Carrey can next be seen in Robert Zemeckis's A Christmas Carol, released in IMAX 3-D and conventional cinemas on November 6.

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Sarah Harding has admitted that she is hoping to follow in the footsteps of Angelina Jolie.

The Girls Aloud singer claimed that she could see herself playing similar roles that the Hollywood actress has previously played.

"I like Angelina Jolie characters, where she plays like the action lady," Harding told Metro.

"I love cars, I'm bit of a tomboy, so I could definitely see myself doing something like that."

The 27-year-old, who stars in new BBC dramam Freefall, went on to say that she was ready to try new projects after Girls Aloud complete their tour.

"I still love my singing, so don't want to quit that completely. It's time to have a bit of a change and utilise some other skills," she added.

"It keeps it interesting. We do need a break from it, otherwise it gets very tedious.

"I could definitely see myself doing something like a comedy, or a psychological thriller - I don't know. As long as it's baby steps, I'm not rushing into it. It's one step at a time."

Harding recently blasted speculation that Girls Aloud were imminently splitting up

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Katie Cassidy has been added to the cast of A Nightmare On Elm Street.

The former Supernatural star will play the second female lead in Samuel Bayer's remake of the 1984 horror film, reports website Shock Till You Drop.

Jackie Earle Haley will take on the role of the iconic killer Freddy Krueger, with Rooney Mara, Kyle Gallner and Thomas Dekker also starring.

A Nightmare On Elm Street will be released in cinemas on April 16, 2010.

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Mike Newell is in talks to direct Disney's remake of The Lone Ranger, reports Production Weekly.

The movie, written by Ted Elliot and Terry Rossio, will show the origins of the masked hero and how he met his Native American sidekick Tonto. Johnny Depp will star as Tonto in the Jerry Bruckheimer-produced action-adventure film.

British helmer Newell is currently working on Prince Of Persia: The Sands Of Time for Bruckheimer, to be released in cinemas next summer.

The Lone Ranger first appeared on a radio show in the '30s which spun off into movies, TV shows, comic books and toy lines. His last big screen appearance was in 1981's The Legend Of The Lone Ranger.

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X-Men Origins: Wolverine is howling its way to the top of the box office with an opening day gross of $35 million. Bowing in 4,099 theaters, the film boasted a per-screen average of $8,539 on Friday. Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (starring Matthew McConaughey and Jennifer Garner) also scored a healthy opening-day number, with $5.8 million in 3,175 theaters. Wolverine's opening-day haul lags behind 2006's X-Men: The Last Stand's single-day opening gross of $45 million, according to Hollywood.com's box office analyst Paul Dergarabedian. Whether the  can make up the deficit in the next two days remains to be seen. If not, it's highly unlikely the Hugh Jackman flick will manage to match Iron Man's gross of $98.6 from this same weekend last year.

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Halle Berry has admitted that she would love to star in an X-Men film centred on her character Storm.

Speaking at the premiere of X-Men Origins: Wolverine, the actress told reporters that she would love to see the human mutant back on the big screen.

"I think that would be great...I think Storm deserves her own movie," The Sun quotes her as saying.

When asked if she would like to reprise the role, she joked: "Maybe - if I can still fit in the suit!"

Berry appeared as Storm in 2000's X-Men and its sequels X2 and X-Men: The Last Stand.

X-Men Origins: Wolverine, which is a prequel focusing on Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) and Team X, is in cinemas now.

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yeah... every character in that movie deserves an origin story...

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It couldn't top its predecessors, but X-Men Origins: Wolverine still brought in quite a haul, grossing an estimated $87 million for the opening weekend of the summer movie season. The Hugh Jackman pic brought in a strong $21,225 per-theater average in 4,099 movie houses, despite generating mixed reviews. The film fell $15 million short of 2006's X-Men: The Last Stand but it is still an enormous success for Jackman and director Gavin Hood.
Matthew McConaughey's Ghosts of Girlfriends Past generated an estimated $15.3 million for a second place bow. It's not a shabby opening but it is far less than McConaughey's previous romantic outings including last year's Fool's Gold ($21.6 million) or 2006's Failure to Launch ($24.2 million). (Perhaps women were too busy checking out all those hunky mutants this weekend?)   The two new openers did help the industry maintain its year-over-year increase of 16 percent.
Also aiding that statistic was Beyonce Knowles' Obsessed. Dropping a not-surprising 57 percent for its second weekend in theaters, the thriller earned another $12.2 million to put its ten-day gross at a shockingly strong $47 million. And Zac Efron's 17 Again showed surprising stamina, too, grossing an additional $6.3 million its third weekend for a total take of $48.4 million.
The other new wide release for the weekend was the anemic 3-D animated sci-fi film Battle for Terra. Opening on 1162 theaters, the Justin Long, Evan Rachel Wood-voiced feature proved to be little competition for the other 3-D movie in the marketplace. Dreamworks Animation's juggernaut Monsters vs. Aliens grossed another $5.8 million its sixth weekend for the fifth slot in the rankings, while newcomer Terra couldn't muster more than $1 million for a twelfth place in the box office derby.
Summer has officially begun -- at least in Hollywood -- so expect a giant event film every weekend. Wolverine may have bowed mightily but with Star Trek hot on its heels next weekend, the Marvel superhero is going to need more than adamantium to maintain its box office lead.

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A segment of film directed by Scarlett Johansson has been cut from a new film about New York.

Entitled New York, I Love You, the project features a number of different love stories shot by different directors, including Natalie Portman and Brett Ratner.

It has emerged that Johansson's section, starring Kevin Bacon, has been edited out of the final cut of the film, with one source describing it as "really bad" and another as "unwatchable", the New York Post reports.

However, producer Emmanuel Benbihy denied that the alleged poor quality of the segment was the reason for its non-inclusion, and said that he was "very much moved" by the star's "extremely compelling, albeit unconventional, narrative".

Benbihy said: "The story did not specifically involve an interpersonal relationship, and it was conceptualised to be filmed in black and white - both of which were extreme departures from the other films.

"I had to admit that there were editorial decisions to be made in the interest of serving the overall narrative and composition that resulted in previously filmed scenes and footage not getting used."

Johansson's section will be included on the DVD release of New York, I Love You together with Andrei Zvyagintsev's segment starring Carla Gugino and Goran Visnjic, which was also edited out of the theatrical version.

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Little Britain star David Walliams has confirmed that a movie version of the hit show is still in development.

Speaking to The Sun, the actor revealed that he and co-star Matt Lucas had nearly finished writing the script for the film, which will be set in Las Vegas and feature characters including Kenny Craig, Carol Beer and Bubbles Devere.

"We’re really happy with it, but the whole film project is still kind of dependent on how much we can raise our profiles in America...Ultimately, our aim was always to make a film and it’s very exciting," he explained.

The untitled script is thought to have been passed to Red Hour, the production company run by Ben Stiller.

Walliams added that a second series of Little Britain USA is also in the works, saying: "We do have some new ideas for characters - a mum feeding her son to make him the fattest boy in America, a psycho American girlfriend, but without the bunnies, a woman who has everything Disney-themed, and some annoying Scottish air hostesses."

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Hugh Jackman has signed on to star in Disney's forthcoming supernatural adventure Ghostopolis, says The Hollywood Reporter.

The story focuses on a man who works for the government's Supernatural Immigration Taskforce and must rescue a young boy who is accidentally sent to Ghostopolis, an alternative world inhabited by ghosts.

No director or writer has yet been confirmed for the project, which is based on the upcoming graphic novel by Doug TenNapel.

Jackman will produce through his Seed Productions company, alongside Gotham Group, who were responsible for last year's The Spiderwick Chronicles.