Michigan is the new Hollywood. According to the Detroit Free Press (via ComingSoon), the state is becoming a hotspot for film shoots. Not only will Wes Craven and the folks involved in Scream 4 call it home for a bit, but so will the cast and crews of four other highly anticipated films. Dimension Films is going for Ann Arbor and plans to begin shooting Scream 4 mid-June. Meanwhile, DreamWorks will head east to Detroit for Real Steel, the robot-boxing movie starring Hugh Jackman. Salvation Boulevard, the Pierce Brosnan comedic thriller, will get underway in May and Vamps, Amy Heckerling’s horror comedy starring Alicia Silverstone, Krysten Ritter and Sigourney Weaver,…

Variety is reporting that “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” star Hugh Jackman is in talks to star in “Real Steal”, the Shawn Levy-directed project that is based on a short story by Richard Matheson, and was also the basis of an episode of the original run of “The Twilight Zone” that starred Lee Marvin. Jackman would play an ex-boxer who becomes a promoter when human boxing is outlawed in the future for being too violent and fighters are replaced by 2,000 lbs. robots. He struggles to succeed in Robot Boxing using substandard parts until he discovers a discarded robot that cannot lose. At the same time, he discovers he has a 13-year…