Stars of the Film Hugh Jackman, Liev Schreiber, Ryan Reynolds, Taylor Kitsch,
Lynn Collins and will.i.am Walk the Red Carpet
Schools, Businesses Pull Out All the Stops for Hollywood-Comes-To-Tempe Event on
April 27
TEMPE, Ariz.--(Business Wire)--
Tempe, Arizona`s residents, schools, businesses, and a major cinema emporium are
pulling out all the stops to prepare for the World Premiere of X-MEN ORIGINS:
WOLVERINE, on April 27, at Harkins Temple Marketplace 16.
The Tempe Hometown Premiere will have all the trappings of a mega-Hollywood
event including red carpet arrivals, klieg lights, screaming fans, paparazzi and
media coverage of the film`s stars headed by Wolverine himself, Hugh Jackman and
including Liev Schreiber, Ryan Reynolds, Taylor Kitsch, Lynn Collins, will.i.am
and director Gavin Hood.
Following a hard-fought contest stretching over thousands of cities and towns
across the United States, Tempe emerged triumphant in a far-reaching, citywide
bid to nab the gala event. Mayor Hugh Hallman himself rallied the community,
which stepped up with dozens of videos that were posted on YouTube.
Now Tempe residents are lining up at the Harkins multiplex every day before and
after work, to get the latest information about obtaining tickets to the event.
Harkins Theatres is donating the entire complex - 16 auditoriums - to hold the
expected throngs, and theater management is making sure the complex is in peak
condition for the gala. The Arizona State University marching band, which will
entertain premiere patrons, is rehearsing and finalizing its playlist; the
university mascot, the sun devil "Sparky" is coming up with some new moves just
for the event; and the school`s cheerleaders are practicing routines dedicated
to Hugh Jackman and the rest of the cast.
Local business and Tempe-based franchisees are "slashing" prices to mark the
event - and Tempe fans of the Wolverine and X-Men comics and movie universes are
hard at work on their "adamantium" claws and growing their mutton chop
sideburns.
The "Origins" of the event came from Hugh Jackman, who plays the famed antihero
in X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE. Jackman wanted to express his appreciation to the
fans by hosting the premiere, in which he will bring the movie and a few of his
"friends and enemies" from the film to Tempe.
X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE, the first chapter in the X-Men saga, unites Wolverine
with several other legends of the X-Men universe, in an epic revolution that
pits the mutants against powerful forces determined to eliminate them. Twentieth
Century Fox releases the film everywhere May 1st.
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