I’d like to bet there’s a gift for everyone in this Movie News Cheat Sheet because this week’s edition is packed with a particularly eclectic selection of material. My favorite industry present? Starship Troopers is set to return! Ender’s Game fans will be happy to know that the incredibly talented Hailee Steinfeld was offered the role of Petra Arkanian in the big screen adaptation while those who hold the Where’s Waldo books near and dear to their hearts will be thrilled to find out that the feature production is moving forward with screenwriter Todd Berger. We’ve also got a nice sized package of first looks including images from Wrath of…

How about some pretty pictures to take back to the office for this short and sweet work week? Bane and Batman make an official showing on the cover of the upcoming edition of Empire magazine while Marvel gives its Avengers the spotlight in two massive character banners. Over in the casting department, The Walking Dead‘s Jon Bernthal is going big screen for Ric Roman Waugh’s Snitch and there’s a good shot that Hugo‘s Asa Butterfield could lead the adaptation of Ender’s Game. There’s also some casting drama surrounding Tyler Perry’s latest, courtesy of the recently married and recently discovered Kim Kardashian’s role in The Marriage Counselor. Lionsgate gives Hunger Games…

Gavin Hood (“X-Men Origins: Wolverine”) is in talks to direct an adaptation of “The Cruelest Miles: The Heroic Story Of Dogs And Men In A Race Against An Epidemic” by Gay and Laney Salisbury. Sean O’Keefe and Will Staples wrote the adaptation for Walden Media and producer Mark Johnson. The book’s synopsis reads; “In 1925, a deadly diphtheria epidemic swept through icebound Nome, Alaska. The life-saving serum was a thousand miles away, and a blizzard was brewing. Airplanes could not fly in such conditions: only the dogs could do it. Racing against death, twenty dog teams relayed the serum across the Alaskan wilderness as newspapers nationwide headlined the drama, enthralling…

Hugh Jackman and his Seed Productions partner John Palermo are in development to work on a sequel to “X-Men Origins: Wolverine”. The Seed partners have alreadybegun planning the sequel according to a report by Variety.com, which will spin off of the post-credits scene of the film that takes place in Japan. They indicate that they will be sticking with the Japanese and samurai-oriented history of the Wolverine character, an important part of the comic character’s backstory and his comic series. A writer has yet to be hired. Seed will produce. “X-Men Origins: Wolverine”, which detailed the early years and mysterious connection to Weapon X that the mutant hero Wolverine had,…

You can get a spoiler-iffic sneak peak of Dominic Monaghan as the electric mutant Bolt right here. Wolverine’s tangle with Fred Dukes, aka The Blob, can be seen right here. You can check out a bunch more videos from the film here, courtesy of MTV. “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” stars Hugh Jackman as Wolverine, Liev Schreiber as Sabretooth, Ryan Reynolds as Deadpool, Danny Huston as William Stryker, Taylor Kitsch as Gambit, Will. I. Am as Kestrel, Kevin Durand as the Blob, and Lynn Colins as Silver Fox. Taking place 20 years before the first X-Men film, it covers Logan’s mysterious past and relationship with Sabretooth, his true love, his dealings with…

Here’s the latest cast poster of the upcoming film “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” by director Gavin Hood and starring Hugh Jackman, Maggie Q and Liev Schreiber. Click Here for more photos, news and videos from “X-Men Origins: Wolverine”. Synopsis: The mutant known as Wolverine breaks off into his off spin-off film from the successful X-MEN! franchise. Hugh Jackman (X1, X2, Van Helsing) returns as Logan/ Wolverine-A mutant with regenerative powers, three claws on each hand and a skeleton all laced with the rare metal known as adamantium. Logan struggles to find the secrets to his past. After learning little information through the help of Charles Xavier (X2′s Patrick Stewart), Logan takes…

“X-Men Origins: Wolverine” director Gavin Hood recently sat down with Scifiwire.com and talked about a few things in his upcoming chapter of the X-Men film franchise. He told reporters on Friday at a press screening that the film would feature not one, but two, different easter eggs at the end of the film’s credits. Talking about the cameo surprises in 2008′s summer smashes “Iron Man” of Samuel L Jackson as Nick Fury, and Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark in “The Incredible Hulk”, Hood hinted that one of them might hint to the future of Wade Wilson, aka Deadpool, the Weapon X scarred, sword-wielding, and wisecracking mercenary. Hood also talked…

Check out the brand new clip “Silver Fox” from the upcoming film “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” by director Gavin Hood and starring Hugh Jackman, Maggie Q and Liev Schreiber. Click Here for more photos, news and videos from “X-Men Origins: Wolverine”. Synopsis: The mutant known as Wolverine breaks off into his off spin-off film from the successful X-MEN! franchise. Hugh Jackman (X1, X2, Van Helsing) returns as Logan/ Wolverine-A mutant with regenerative powers, three claws on each hand and a skeleton all laced with the rare metal known as adamantium. Logan struggles to find the secrets to his past. After learning little information through the help of Charles Xavier (X2′s Patrick…

You can check it out, courtesy of Apple Trailers, right here. “X-Men Origins: Wolverine”, starring actor Hugh Jackman as the eponymous mutant hero based on the Marvel Comics character details Wolverine’s epically violent and mysterious past, his first true love, and his relationships with Victor Creed, Stryker, the Weapon X program, and various other mutants he meets on his path to becoming “the best at what he does”. “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” is in theaters May 1st, 2009. Stay tuned to Shockya.com for the latest movie news and movie trailers from “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” coming soon to theaters. By Costa Koutsoutis (Source: Superherohype.com)

Papa John’s Pizza have an exclusive clip up from the upcoming “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” starring Hugh Jackman, where you can check out the helicopter fight scene from the film. You can see the exclusive clip, courtesy of Papa John’s, right here. Set roughly twenty years before the first “X-Men” film, “Origins” focuses on Wolverine’s violent and mysterious past, his early encounters with William Stryker and the Weapon X program, his first true love, and his interactions with other mutants, especially Victor Creed, also known as Sabretooth. The feral mutant hero known as Wolverine first debuted in 1974 and is one of Marvel Comics’ most recognizable characters thanks to his reputation…