▪ Wolverine To Have Multiple Secret Endings

While the theatrical version of X-Men Origins: Wolverine doesn’t contains 10 minutes of footage not seen in the leaked workprint as Tom Rothman claimed, it does contain some added “Easter eggs”. Gavin Hood appeared at a press screening in Hollywood tonight, and the director revealed that the theatrical cut would feature multiple “Easter egg endings” (or what some call “a button”) following the credits.

FirstShowing was in attendance and saw one of the endings, which Alex tells me ran 25-30 seconds in length and featured the character of Deadpool. It’s not clear how many different endings will be released, but the director said more than one.

▪ First Look: Megan Fox in Full Costume for Jonah Hex

Before we even get to see what Josh Brolin looks like as titular character Jonah Hex, and before we even get to see what John Malkovich or Michael Shannon look like, our very first photo from Warner Brothers’ Jonah Hex is, of course, of Megan Fox. Thanks to the site Movie Gab (which I don’t suggest visiting because of their rather inappropriate ads), we’ve finally got a good photo of Megan Fox in her old west outfit. This isn’t the first time any photos of Fox on the set of Jonah Hex have popped up, but this is the first time we’ve seen her fully in costume. Once you take a look at this, you’ll know why we just had to post it.

In Jonah Hex, Megan Fox plays Leila, a gun-wielding beauty and the love interest of Hex, a disfigured bounty hunter who is tracking down a voodoo practitioner that wants to raise an army of undead to liberate the South. Former Pixar animator Jimmy Hayward is directing this for a August 6th, 2010 release date. Shooting started earlier this month in both Sylmar, California as well as St. Francisville, Louisiana. I’m not sure when we’ll get our first real look at Josh Brolin, who I also can’t wait to see considering his disfigured face is so integral to the character, but you can be sure we’ll be on the lookout for more.

▪ Portman the webmaster?
There might be a new face on the webmasters panel at the Comic-Con this year. Natalie Portman? The actress we all love to love has started up her own movie website called MakingOf.com. Portman has been making the rounds at Tribeca promoting the site, which describes itself as providing “an intimate, fresh look into the process of making a movie by the insiders themselves.” It also posts movie news, posters, clips, trailers and pretty much everything we do here except I look nothing like Natalie Portman (well almost nothing).

I trolled around the site for a while and it’s still in beta so navigation wasn’t the easiest task and it was difficult to figure out what their exclusive content was and what was just EPK type stuff. Also, it seems to me a little difficult to just sit and watch actors talking about acting. I like actors talking about film but it just seems a little flat in certain circumstances here. Though the stuff with the behind-the-scenes people like directors (Michel Gondry and Ron Howard) was a little more interesting. Check it out at MakingOf.com.

▪ Robert Rodriguez rebooting Predator
Sin City director Robert Rodriguez will be directing and producing a reboot of the Predator franchise for 20th Century Fox according to IESB. The reboot will revolve around a “team of commandoes [who] face down a mysterious race of vicious monsters.”

Rodriguez talked to the audience of press members and revealed his upcoming film slate.
“I’m going to be able to shoot my upcoming Machete here, a sci-fi action film called Nervewrackers, a re-boot of the Predator series called Predators, and a couple of smaller movies called Sin City 2 and The Jetsons.”

It seems Rodriguez will be busy for the foreseeable future so we may not be seeing the reboot anytime soon. I didn’t see the AVP stuff, but I did see the original Predator and enjoyed it. If it is as good as that (or better) i’ll be happy.

Update from ERC: Apparently Robert Rodriguez is not directing, but still producing. The release date is set for July 7, 2010, however no writer or director has been hired as of yet.