^{MichelleRod can’t help but join in when she hears yelling – she’s like a coyote like that.}

Terminator Salvation isn’t out yet and Wolverine is currently tracking lower than X3 on rottentomatoes, but haha, no one cares about that!  We’re gonna make ten of each of these!

“I strongly suspect the next [Terminator] is going to take place in a [pre-Judgment Day] 2011,” McG reveals. “John Connor is going to travel back in time and he’s going to have to galvanize the militaries of the world for an impending Skynet invasion. They’ve figured out time travel to the degree where they can send more than one naked entity. So you’re going to have hunter killers and transports and harvesters and everything arriving in our time and Connor fighting back with conventional military warfare, which I think is going to be f*cking awesome. I also think he’s going to meet a scientist that’s going to look a lot like present-day Robert Patrick [who played the T-1000 in Terminator 2], talking about stem-cell research and how we can all live as idealized, younger versions of ourselves.” [FilmJournal]

Dude, naked dudes everywhere?  That does sound awesome!  (*air guitar*)

Fox, Hugh Jackman and Seed Productions are in development on a Wolverine sequel, which will likely take place in Japan. The classic Claremont/Miller four-issue [comic-book] miniseries detailed how Wolverine trained as a samurai and ninja, fell in love with a woman named Mariko, and basically plotted his life as James Clavell fanfic [meaning tough, I guess]. [CHUD]

One of the best things about the first two X-Men was that we didn’t have to watch anyone train as a ninja or samurai.  Honestly, how many of those gd montages can Hollywood make?  I swear, you drop an atomic bomb on someone and you spend the next 60 years telling anyone who’ll listen “No, but really though, those guys were tough.”

Meet this guy.  This guy saw Wolverine and was inspired to build himself some functioning Wolverine claws.  And by “functioning,” I mean he can stab cardboard boxes with them.  In the event of a box invasion, he’d be the first one I’d call.  In the meantime, something tells me he won’t have to worry about too much box around him, gnome sayin?

His friends call him “Jackman.”  Ha, just kidding, great work, buddy.

^{Jackman and Schrieber in their climactic slap fight}

Estimates ran anywhere from $70 – $100 mil for X-Men Origins: Wolverine, which ended up grossing a not-too-shabby $87 million, despite largely negative reviews (haven’t had the chance to see it yet, myself). Elsewhere, Matthew McConaughey’s Ghost of Girlfriends Past opened with a disappointing-even-for-crap take of $15.3 million.

It’s not a shabby opening but it is far less than McConaughey’s previous romantic outings including last year’s “Fool’s Gold” ($21.6 million) or 2006′s “Failure to Launch” ($24.2 million). (Perhaps women were too busy checking out all those hunky mutants this weekend?) The two new openers did help the industry maintain its year-over-year increase of 16 percent. [EW]

You know women, always thinkin with their baby cave. Oh and hey, all it took was three transparently awful, excruciating anal abortions before the money truck finally started to decelerate?  All is right with the world, friends, all is right with the world. (full top ten below)

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_{“What are you talking about? *I* had sideburns first.  A style biter, that’s what you are.”}

The big story over the weekend was that Wolverine is combating piracy in part by showing “different endings” of the film spread across a few different prints.  Meanwhile, Cinematical describes them as “after-the-credits endings.”

Am I missing something?  If a scene comes after the credits, it’s not an “ending,” is it?  It’s an outtake, a deleted scene, an alternate ending.  So that’s the story.  Wolverine has multiple outtakes that play after the credits.  Amazing.  I hope I see the one where Wolverine and Saber Tooth finally kiss.  There was so much tension between them.

• Here’s Tony Danza bagging on local TV, not realizing he’s broadcasting live to a local TV audience.  God help me, I actually agree with Danza on this one. The only thing local TV reporters are good for is falling down and getting hit with things. [buzzfeed]
• Comedian Taco Perkins reviews Obsessed. |ScreenJunkies|
• Ufford’s collection of Spencer & Heidi-related photoshop is pretty epic. |WarmingGlow|
• Wolverine kills Kenny in a strange, apparently user-created South Park. |DailyFill|
• Trailer for H2. Look, people, it is waaay too nice outside on this Friday afternoon for me to pretend I give a flying f*ck about Rob Zombie’s Halloween remake-sequel.  Know who else enjoys flying f*cks? Red-tailed hawks.  Look it up. |Yahoo|
• Interview with the Lost writers.  No, of course they didn’t mention the smoke monster. |BullzEye|
• Jamie from Mythbusters throws a hissy fit about not having a sharpie even though he has a sharpie.  And you wonder why most peoples’ assistants are insane a-holes.  |CollegeHumor|
• This is about Mel Kiper – I didn’t read it because his Dracula hair terrifies me. |HolyTaco|
• Hilarious but pathetic fight scenes.  Huh, reminds me of junior high. |Uncoached|
• The Five Worst Deaths of the Millenium. |Atom|