Production Weekly reports via its twitter feed that Shawn Levy’s Real Steel starring Hugh Jackman will commence filming this coming June in Michigan. This “action-drama” will see Jackman playing a washed-up pugilist who trains robot boxers. It’s being produced by Steven Spielberg and is currently scheduled for release on November 18, 2011. The project was first announced back in September and, with this news, we can now officially confirm that it was not, in fact, a joke…did not see that one coming.

You’ll remember director Shawn Levy from his work on Cheaper by the Dozen, Night at the Museum, and the third-best Frankie Muniz movie ever, Big Fat Liar. This flick will be a departure into more dramatic (though still family-friendly) territory for him…or, at least, that’s the plan. But honestly, seeing words like “drama” and “robot boxing” in the same sentence, along with a title like Real Steel, makes it sound pretty damn funny to me…which, I suppose, would also represent a change of pace for Levy.
Source: Collider.com

I also uploaded some high quality candids of Hugh arriving at and leaving a gym in NYC.

GALLERY LINKS:
• Candids from 2010 – 01-20 – In New York [HQ]

Hard at work on a brand new ad shoot, Hugh Jackman was spotted planting a smooch on the lovely Ana de la Reguera at Grumari beach in Rio de Janeiro on Monday (January 11).

Filming the spot for Lipton Iced Tea, the 41-year-old Aussie actor has been accompanied on the overseas trip by wife Deborra-Lee Furness and their children, Oscar and Ava.

The work duties come not long after Jackman signed a three-year deal with Lipton Ice Tea to become its global brand ambassador.

According to press reports, the global TV campaign will be launching in March 2010 – with the ad featuring Jackman using the catch line “Don’t knock it until you’ve tried it”.
Source: Celebrity Gossip

GALLERY LINKS:
• Candids from 2010 – 01-11 – Filming a Lipton Tea Commercial in Rio De Janeiro [HQ]

What a sweet pair! Hugh Jackman was spotted walking with his adorable 4-year-old daughter Ava in New York City on Friday (October 23). It looked like Hugh was saying to Ava, “you make my heart sing,” as the animated father-daughter duo walked home from school. It also looked like they were having some serious giggles along their travels. How cute!

The 41-year-old Wolverine star and his wife, Deborra-Lee Furness are also parents to 9-year-old son, Oscar.

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• Candids from 2009 – 10-23 – Walking Ava home from school [HQ]

Actor Hugh Jackman plays around with daughter Ava Eliot at a local playground before meeting up with wife Deborra-Lee Furness in the West Village.

GALLERY LINKS:
• Candids from 2009 – 10-08 – At a playground in the West Village [HQ]

Hugh Jackman plays with his adopted children, Oscar Maximillian Jackman, 9, and Ava Eliot Jackman, 4, in New York City October 3, 2009. Jackman acted the loving father as he rode around on a scooter and tickled his kids. The X-Men actor is currently co-starring with Daniel Craig on Broadway at the Schoenfeld Theatre in a limited engagement of the play “A Steady Rain”.

GALLERY LINKS:
• Candids from 2009 – 10-03 – Out with Oscar and Ava in NYC [HQ]

In celebration of Climate Week, kicking off in New York today, Vulture hero Hugh Jackman took time away from his grueling rehearsal schedule for Broadway’s A Steady Rain to speak at a U.N. press conference on green living: “To be fair, as an actor, this is not something I’m very accustomed to, and probably about twelve months ago this kind of event would have maybe overwhelmed me a bit,” he told reporters. “But something happened to me just under twelve months ago that put things into perspective — and that was being named the Sexiest Man Alive.” We spoke with him after his speech about both Neil Patrick Harris’s opening number last night and his Steady Rain co-star, Daniel Craig.

GALLERY LINKS:
• Appearances from 2009 – 2009 Climate Week NYC [HQ]
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Hollywood star Hugh Jackman was in action man mode yesterday as he ran around the streets of New York in pursuit of his daughter Ava.

The four-year-old set a cracking pace on her pink scooter while the 40-year-old X-Men star, who was dressed in a sharp suit and sunglasses, did his best to keep up.

Hugh’s wife Deborra-lee Furness also joined the pair as they headed for ice cream in the West Village, but the couple’s son Oscar, nine, sat the trip out.

The Australian couple, who adopted both of their children, are considered a rarity in Hollywood having been happily married for 14 years.

GALLERY LINKS:
• Candids from 2009 – 09-21 – In the West Village
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Hugh is photographed at “Fashion Night Out” at Jeffrey in New York City.

GALLERY LINKS:
• Appearances from 2009 – “Fashion Night Out” at Jeffrey in NYC [HQ]

Move over, Shakespeare – it was Oprah in the park causing all the commotion Friday.

Stars, sunshine and long lines of fans welcomed the queen of talk to Central Park, where she taped her television show.

Crowds began massing before dawn to get good seats and a good look at guests like “Wolverine” hunk Hugh Jackman and James Bond actor Daniel Craig.

The two leading men made a surprise appearance, welcoming Oprah Winfrey to the city while plugging their new show.

“Daniel and I are doing a play on Broadway,” Jackman told the swooning audience. (more…)

Wolverine and James Bond will soon be squaring off eight times a week. And here’s the first publicity photo of Hugh Jackman and Daniel Craig in the Broadway play A Steady Rain, in which they play Chicago cops with enough troubles to fill Soldier Field. Jackman, who won a Tony in 2004 for hoofing it as 1970s singer-songwriter Peter Allen in The Boy From Oz, plays Denny, a patrolman with a racist streak and violent temper. And Craig, a London stage veteran making his Broadway debut, plays Joey, a recovering alcoholic and gentler soul who may not be as docile as he first seems. In A Steady Rain, which just began rehearsals, the two buddies in blue recount a few harrowing days on the job and their very different accounts of a police call that quickly went south.

Performances of American playwright Keith Huff’s two-man play begin Sept. 10 with an official opening set for Sept. 29. The show, directed by Tony nominee John Crowley (The Pillowman), is scheduled to run through Dec. 6. And while I have my reservations about Craig’s porn-stache — a look that 007 could never get away with, thank heavens — I have to say that both stars look rugged, handsome, and intense. They can walk my beat any day.

GALLERY LINKS:
• Broadway – “A Steady Rain” – Publicity Photos
Source: Entertainment Weekly