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Exciting times for X-Men fans!!!!

Last week, X-Men: First Class director Matthew Vaughn was officially locked in to direct the sequel to the X-Men prequel movie.

Now, we're excited to announce that the OTHER X-Men series is moving forward as well!

We've just learned that Darren Aronofsky's James Mangold's The Wolverine has been given a release date of July 26, 2013!

Bummer that we'll have to wait so long, but it should definitely be worth it!

Here's how the upcoming Wolverine movie is being described:

What a lovely tribute to the people who started it all!

Colm Wilkinson and Frances Ruffelle, who played Jean Valjean and Eponine in the original London production of Les Misérables, have been tapped to appear in the currently in-production film adaptation of the musical!

Wilkinson will reportedly play the Bishop of Digne, who inspires Hugh Jackman's Valjean to get his shiz together, and Ruffelle will cameo as a featured whore in the musical number Lovely Ladies!

The original lead says:

Think of one person who is more charming and beloved than Betty White and we'll call you a liar: Betty is the raddest person on TV, and she's been that rad for 90 years!

NBC knows it, too, so they're throwing her a 90th birthday tribute with pretty much every celebrity ever:

Ellen DeGeneres, Morgan Freeman, Tina Fey, Ray Romano, Seth Meyers and Tracy Morgan have joined the star-studded line-up including Carl Reiner, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Vicki Lawrence and John O'Hurley.

Oh, and Mary Tyler Moore and White's Mary Tyler Moore co-stars Ed Asner, Valerie Harper and Gavin MacLeod, as well as Hugh Jackman, Carol Burnett, Jay Leno and Amy Poehler. Also, Valerie Bertinelli, Wendie Malick and Jane Leeves will also be on hand to deliver birthday wishes along with Joel McHale and William Shatner.

They'll all be singing her praises for her from her first appearance on radio in 1947, to her newest show Betty White's Off Their Rockers, which is a prank show where old people play tricks on young people! Ha!

Seriously though, she deserves all the recognition and it sounds like it'll be a blast to watch and join in on remembering all the cool shizz she's done over the years!

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After breaking records with his one man show on Broadway, Hugh Jackman is looking forward to his next project: the film version of the musical Les Miserable.

Now, if you ask anyone who loves themselves a Broadway musical, they will tell you that this is the movie everyone has been waiting for ever since the show went up at the Broadway Theatre in 1987. The big thrill in particular for this project is the cast being boasted for the key roles. Hugh especially has been cleverly chosen to star as the leas, Jean Valjean, and in a new interview, he explains some very interesting information about the movie, including the fact that the cast will be singing LIVE during filming, not miming a pre-recorded track.

Here are the HIGHlights from his interview:

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It's official: Hugh Jackman has the Broadway bug once again!

The actor has officially signed up to star in Aaron Sorkin's Houdini, which has music written by Stephen Schwartz and is to be directed by Jack O'Brien during the 2013-2014 season!

The actor explains:

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We cannot even BEGIN to discuss how excited we are for this!

The cast is worth ticket prices ALONE!

Tom Hooper is hard at work on his film adaptation of the Broadway smash Les Misérables, with Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Helena Bonham Carter, Anne Hathaway, Sacha Baron Cohen having already signed on, and Eddie Redmayne recently taking the role of Marius and Aaron Tveit as Enjolras!

But now, we're hearing that two young ladies have been offered the arguably most-anticipated roles, and it appears that Amanda Seyfried will playing Cosette, while Taylor Swift takes on

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Unless your name is Wolverine.

January is infamously a terrible month for the Great White Way. The tourists have gone on home for the holiday season and everyone in the tri-state area is too broke to afford tickets to the show after all the holiday shopping. On average, most shows can even pull half their normal attendance during the weeks following Christmas, but things seem extra bleak this year as some of the most high-profiled shows on Broadway even strugggled during the holiday season.

Take the musical revival On A Clear Day You Can See Forever, for instance. It filled 55 percent of its seats last week (the week of New Year's_ and earned 29 percent of its potential gross despite its A-list leading man, Harry Connick Jr. Sure, he's not Hugh Jackman, but he's just as good!

And then

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Australia's hottest export did wonders on the Great White way.

Last night, Hugh Jackman's one-man show came to an end - a very lucrative end. In its final week, Hugh Jackman, Back on Broadway at the Broadhurst Theater earned $2,057,354. BTW- that is the highest weekly gross recorded by the Shubert Organization.

Nothing to scoff at there.

Perhaps this means we won't have to wait too long to get him back on Broadway. Here's hoping!

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