This is really turning out to be Hugh Jackman’s year.

In addition to starring in the visual spectacle, Australia, the actor was recently selected to be People’s Sexist Man Alive and the host for the 81st Annual Academy Awards. Next up: Wolverine.

In this new trailer for X-Men Origins: Wolverine, we see Jackman’s character 17 years before 2000’s X-Men took place. We also get glimpses of a younger William Stryker (Danny Huston), Sabretooth (Liev Schreiber) and Gambit (Taylor Kitsch).

The prequel - also starring Ryan Reynolds, Dominic Monaghan and will.i.am - opens May 1, 2009.

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As revealed in the promo footage that screened at this past summer's San Diego Comic-Con, Jeff Bridges will reprise his role as Kevin Flynn in Tron 2 (a.k.a. TR2N). Now the actor has opened up about the sequel to the cult classic.

Bridges told The Guardian that "doing the new Tron movie is something that is just too good to pass up. It was the same with How To Lose Friends And Alienate People." He added later, "Engaging in that world again feels just like it did all that time ago. Basically, I'm still a child, I love being childlike, and here was another chance to play with these crazy toys. And the cutting-edge technology makes it exciting. Doing the teaser trailer for Comic-Con, I had my first experience of motion capture. And that's turning the industry on its head. It's amazing being part of that."

Bridges said that "when we made Tron there was no internet, no cellphones. But now we have motion capture, so I think we'll get a far more successful version of the story, which is someone literally getting sucked into a video game. When we did King Kong in the 70s, one minute you'd have a shot of Rick Baker in this big suit and then you'd cut to this 80ft stiff model, and they looked nothing alike. Compare to that Peter Jackson's King Kong the technology is there and they did a wonderful job. I thought they created a beautiful Kong. So I hope that'll be the same for Tron."

In other TR2N news, Ain't It Cool News caught up with the sequel's director, Joseph Kosinski, who advised them that the movie will be shot in stereoscopic 3D just as the Comic-Con reel was. AICN adds that filming on "TR2N will be a 'twenty-four month' process" but that Kosinski is "confident that the movie could be ready for late 2010." The site adds that Michael Wilkinson (Watchmen) has been hired to design the costumes.

"We had an awesome time!"

Bama Spyder as Axl Rose and Blister Chicken as sci-fi superstar Lance McGrudder were both on hand at Atlanta Supercon last weekend. They were handing out CON-tourage flyers and chatting up the ladies. They were even cool enough to give Master Andre a call while they were there to give an on-site report. Atlanta Supercon is a smaller con in comparison to Dragon Con, and as such it allows for a bit more of a personal experience. Not as crowded means the ability to meet more people. We want to attend at least 2-3 of these smaller cons per year and Atlanta Supercon is perfect for this. We'll see you next year Supercon!!