SHN has announced that they will present Hugh Jackman, in Performance at The Curran Theatre for a two week limited engagement May 3-15, 2011 in San Francisco. Jackman will perform his Broadway and Hollywood favorite musical numbers backed by a 17 piece orchestra.
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A future-set story where robot boxing is a popular sport and centered on a struggling promoter (Jackman) who thinks he's found a champion in a discarded robot. During his hopeful rise to the top, he also discovers he has an 11-year-old son who wants to know his father.
This comedy is set in the Midwest U.S., where an adopted girl (Jennifer Garner) discovers her talent for butter carving and finds herself pitted against an ambitious local woman (Oliva Wilde) in their town's annual butter carving contest.
In 19th-century China, seven year old girls Snow Flower and Lily are matched as laotong - or "old sames" - bound together for eternity. Isolated by their families, they furtively communicate by taking turns writing in a secret language, nu shu, between the folds of a white silk fan.
The fourth installment in the X-Men series, this film acts as a prequel to the X-Men film series, focusing on the violent past of the mutant Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) and his relationship with his half-brother Victor Creed (Liev Schreiber). The plot also details Wolverine's early encounters with Colonel William Stryker(Danny Huston), his time with Team X, and the bonding of Wolverine's skeleton with the indestructible metal adamantium during the Weapon X program.
In every corner of the world, there's one question that can never be definitively answered, yet stirs up equal parts passion, curiosity, self-reflection and often wild imagination: "What is God?" Filmmaker Peter Rodger explores this profound, age-old query in the provocative non-fiction feature "Oh My God."
This visual odyssey travels the globe with a revealing lens examining the idea of God through the minds and eyes of various religions and cultures, everyday people, spiritual leaders and celebrities.
An English aristocrat, Nicole Kidman, inherits a cattle station and when English cattle barons plot to take her land, she reluctantly joins forces with a rough-and-tumble cattle driver played by Hugh Jackman. As he helps protect her property from greedy English cattle barons, the pair attempt to herd 2,000 head of cattle hundreds of miles across the treacherous Australian outback, only to face the bombing of the city of Darwin by the Japanese forces that attacked Pearl Harbor.
Accountant Jonathan McQuarry (Ewan McGregor) is an auditor with little to no social life. When his powerful new lawyer friend, Wyatt Bose (Hugh Jackman), introduces Jonathan to a salacious underground sex club called The List, the dejected accountant soon believes he has found the woman of his dreams (Michelle Williams). His newfound happiness is short-lived however, when Jonathan is named the prime suspect in the woman's disappearance and in the theft of 20 million dollars.
Soundtrack (performer: "Kiss", "Heartbreak Hotel")
An animated film produced at Sydney-based visual effects and animation studio Animal Logic, Happy Feet tells the tale of one penguin's quest for love, and features an all-star cast of vocal talent that includes Robin Williams, Hugh Jackman, Elijah Wood, Nicole Kidman, and Brittany Murphy.
An animated British film about decidedly upper crust pet rat Roddy, voiced by Hugh Jackman, who makes his home in a posh Kensington flat. When a common sewer rat named Sid (Shane Richie)comes spewing out of the sink and decides to send Roddy down the pipes so he can take Roddy's place in the lap of luxury. Upon making the acquaintance of scavenger rat Rita (Kate Winslet), Roddy is certain that the pair can navigate their way back to the surface in Rita's trusty boat, but Rita's help doesn't come cheap, and the nefarious Toad (Ian McKellen) is determined to rid Ratropolis of all things rodent.
The story follows Robert Angier (Hugh Jackman) and Alfred Borden (Christian Bale) who are London-based magicians of the highest order; both blessed with spectacular powers of deception and both cursed with unrelenting envy for one another's skills. When Alfred performs an awe-inspiring trick for which there seems no logical explanation, the friendly competition shared between the pair turns to deadly rivalry as the enraged Robert determines to uncover his rival's deepest secrets. The film also stars Michael Caine, Scarlett Johansson and David Bowie.
This film comprises three storylines where Hugh Jackman and Rachel Weisz play different sets of characters: a modern-day scientist and his cancer-stricken wife, a conquistador and his queen, and a space traveler who hallucinates his lost love. Moving between representational stories and images, this meditation on life and death focuses on the concept of the mythical Tree of Life that is said to bestow immortality to all who drink of its sap.
A comedy / murder mystery written and directed by Woody Allen. Following the memorial service for irrepressible investigative reporter Joe Strombel (Ian McShane), Strombel's spirit finds himself on the barge of death with several others, including a young woman who believes she was poisoned by her employer, Peter Lyman (Hugh Jackman). Sondra Pransky (Scarlett Johansson) is a beautiful but somewhat awkward American college journalist on vacation in London who becomes involved with Lyman.
The third in the X-Men series, the movie revolves around a "mutant cure" and the polarizing effect it has on mutant/man relations. With the pressure on mutants to give up their powers and pledge alliance with the human race reaching a critical turning point, Professor Charles Xavier (Patrick Stewart) urges tolerance and understanding as his nemesis Magneto (Ian McKellen) gathers a powerful resistance in preparation for the ultimate war against humankind. Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry, Anna Paquin, and James Marsden return to reprise the roles they played in the previous two X-Men films, with Kelsey Grammer and Vinnie Jones joining the cast as Beast and Juggernaut respectively.
A collage of six stories of lonely people in unexpected situations. Directed by Hugh Jackman's wife, Deborra-Lee Furness.
Gabriel Van Helsing (Hugh Jackman) is a man who has dedicated his life to battling evil forces who exist outside the bounds of nature. Van Helsing's work has not always made him friends, and a false accusation of murder still trails him. But when he's summoned to Transylvania at the behest of Anna Valerious (Kate Beckinsale), whose family has been fighting supernatural beings for generations, Van Helsing wastes no time answering her call.
An animated prequel to the motion picture Van Helsing, which features the voices of Hugh Jackman, Robbie Coltrane and David Wenham. This animation short offers a glimpse into Van Helsing's life before he became the renowned monster hunter, and chronicles the sequence of events leading to his acceptance of the position.
The second film in the X-Men film series. When a failed assassination attempt occurs on the President's (Cotter Smith) life by the teleporting mutant Nightcrawler (Alan Cumming), it's Professor Xavier (Patrick Stewart) and his School for Gifted Youngsters who are targeted for the crime. Meanwhile Wolverine (Hugh Jackman), just home from a failed mission to regain his memory, is in charge of the students when a crack-commando team led by by the villainous William Stryker (Brian Cox), infiltrates the school by order of the President.
A romantic comedy that tells a story of a duke, Leopold (Hugh Jackman), who time travels from New York in 1876 to the present time and falls in love with a career woman (Meg Ryan) in the modern New York. As the courtly Leopold and the decidedly liberated Kate tour the town, a mutual attraction develops into something deeper, a relationship that's threatened by Leopold's temporary chronological status.
This high-tech thriller stars John Travolta as Gabriel Shear, a charismatic spy who plots to steal a multi-billion-dollar fortune in illegal government funds. In order to make his scheme work Gabriel needs help from computer hacker, Stanley Jobson (Hugh Jackman), who has been recently paroled from prison after serving a lengthy sentence for penetrating the FBI's cyber-surveillance operations. Stanley wants only to be reunited with his daughter Holly. Gabriel and his partner Ginger (Halle Berry) offer Stanley the chance to get his child back in exchange for his help, but the hacker soon realizes he's a pawn in a larger operation than the high-tech bank heist he thought he was perpetrating.
This film tells a story of a heartbroken woman (Ashley Judd) who is looking for the reason she was dumped by her boyfriend (Greg Kinnear). After this untimely breakup, Jane begins to develop a thesis that male behavior is directly related to that of wildlife, with similar patterns existing in both. To prove her theories, she enlists the help of her roommate Eddie (Hugh Jackman), a womanizer who falls into all of the patterns of her research.
The first film in the X-Men series based on the fictional Marvel Comics characters of the same name. Psychic Professor Xavier (Patrick Stewart) leads a school of skilled mutants called X-Men, a peacekeeping force to safeguard the world against a race of genetically mutated humans known as Homo Sapiens Superior. However, Magneto (Ian McKellen), a mutant with a powerful magnetic charge, has also begun to organize a team to strike first against what he believes to be a threat from humanity. When he kidnaps Rogue (Anna Paquin) from the X-Men's compound, Xavier and his forces must rescue her, even as they continue to vie with Magneto for the fearsomely strong mutant battler Wolverine (Hugh Jackman).
Shot at the Royal National Theater, this live performance of Oscar Hammerstein's musical tells the time-tested tale of Laurey (Josefina Gabrielle) and her struggles to resist the advances of the brutish Jud (Shuler Hensley) in favor of the gentle Curly (Hugh Jackman). All of the musical's much-loved tunes are here, including Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin', Oklahoma!, and Surrey With the Fringe on Top.
A bleak but gorgeously photographed urban drama about life in Sydney's seedy inner suburbs. The film deals with the story of two brothers, Barky (Marty Denniss), who returns home after hearing about his abusive father's death, and Wace (Hugh Jackman) who is not too happy about Barky's prolonged absence, having been left to manage looking after their father in the last years of life. The film was screened at the 1999 Montreal Film Festival and Hugh Jackman won the FCCA award for Best Actor for his role as Wace.
Soundtrack, performer: "Cryin"
The film follows the adventures of a truck driver Jack Willis (Hugh Jackman) from rural Australia. Jack writes a bestselling novel, and being embarrassed by its romantic content, uses the name of a female friend Ruby Vale (Claudia Karvan) as a pen name. The book soon receives enormous critical acclaim, forcing him into constant company with his friend for whom he feels an unrequited love.
When several people are brutally murdered at a service station, Jane Halifax (Rebecca Gibney) lends her forensic psychiatric skills to the police investigation that immediately follows. Meanwhile Senior Detective Eric Ringer (Hugh Jackman) starts to seek more from Jane than a professional relationship.
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