Talk of "X-Men: Days of Future Past" being the last time we'd see Hugh Jackman as the clawed, rapid-healing mutant may have been a tad premature. "The Wolverine" director James Mangold is in early talks with 20th Century Fox to make another solo film with Jackman back in the title role, according to Deadline.

While "The Wolverine" improved upon "X-Men Origins: Wolverine" in a number of ways, it wasn't an unmitigated success. In fact, the Japan-centric spin-off fell short of the prequel's domestic box office, and critics largely took issue with the sharp tonal change in the film's third act. (Giant robotic samurai usually don't go over well.) So if we're going to get a second effort from Mangold and Jackman, there are a few things worth keeping and some worth tossing away for a follow-up.

DO Focus On Wolverine.
Wolverine has some issues to work through. He always has, and over the course of his long life, things have tended to get worse. Mangold focused on the most basic of these problems. What's it like to continue living while literally everyone around you dies? That's a messed up and unique conflict that offers a million different ways to explore it. It's a waste not to dive in deep to answer that question in favor of concentrating on how sweet it is to have steel claws. But keep it light. The Marvel Studios movies are succeeding because they're fun. It wouldn't kill Wolverine to have some too.

DON'T Go Over The Top With The Villain.
This is where "The Wolverine" lost a ...

After three weeks of escalating action and danger, took a moment to simmer down and focus on the characters. And where normally that would be the point in the season when we flip our television over and swear not to ever watch the show again (until, you know, the next week), "Indifference" managed to strike a strong balance with the sprawling cast, and for the first time make a conversation-heavy episode truly work. Also, there were zombie attacks. Here are some of the best, biggest moments that happened this week:

Running Out Of Gas
No, not the show. At the beginning of the episode, the survivors are literally running out of their previously thought inexhaustible supply of gasoline, which could spell doom for the sporty, super-clean vehicles they've been driving around. Don't worry, they get two more cars by the end of the episode, though, so everything is fine.

Ivy League Walkers
While trying to get a new ride — and medicine for the mostly absent flu-stricken survivors at the prison — Daryl, Tyreese, Bob and Michonne encounter a group of Walkers stuck in a ton of ivy. Once again, the show finds a new way of scaring us, as seemingly unconnected arms and heads reach out for our heroes from behind the curtain of green.

Nikki & Paulo: 'Walking Dead' Edition
We were dangerously close to "The Walking Dead" getting its own version of "Lost" 's most hated survivors, Nikki and Paulo, weren't we? Two hippie survivors ("We've got fruit!" says one, in the most pleasant cut-to-commercial sting the show has ever done) ...

The first-ever YouTube Music Awards were a bit of chalky, messy, play-it-by ear experiment — literally. After all, when all the chaos ended, co-host Jason Schwartzman wasn't even sure if he could leave, saying, "I think we're done," after handing Eminem the award for Artist of the Year.

So, in a night were one nonsensical antic led to another, MTV News thought we'd sort through it all out for you. Here are the wackiest moments of Sunday (November 3) night.

YouTube 101

Toward the beginning of the show, viewers got a chance to see what music on YouTube is all about. Artists from Justin Bieber to Megan & Liz got their start by posting their videos on the site, so it's only appropriate to give YT's music a proper introduction. There was Tay Zonday, whose 2007 "Chocolate Rain" lived during the birth of the viral-video era. And remember Antoine Dodson? Walk the Earth did a great cover of AutoTune The News' "Bedroom Intruder," and T-Pain came out to sing the Lonely Island's "I'm on a Boat." The Pentatonix were there, remixing their a cappella versions of Rebecca Black's "Friday," Carly Rae Jepsen's "Call Me Maybe" and more. There was some "Gangnam Style" and "The Fox" mixed in there, of course.

Rashida Jones Dumps Off Some Babies

Host Schwartzman and Reggie Watts were doing pretty well until they came to a surprising bump in the road. Although we wished Rashida would stick around when she dropped by the stage, she ...

On an unpredictable, stunt-filled night when there was blood, dust, cake, paint and fake snow in the air — and that's just what landed on co-hosts Jason Schwartzman and comedian Reggie Watts — it was fitting that Sunday night's inaugural YouTube Music Awards came to a close with a performance that went back to basics.

A man, a microphone, a DJ and some of the nimblest speed rapping this side of Twista. Yes, Eminem had the honor of closing the debut edition of the YouTube Music extravaganza. The 90-minute webcast aimed for weird, wild and free-wheeling and landed somewhere in between, proving that while an improvised host script sounds totally awesome on paper, it's pretty hard to pull off in real time.

None of that had any impact on Marshall Mathers, though, who followed up his triumphant 
 performance less than 24 hours before with a no-frills sprint through his heavy-is-the-crown anthem, 


Like all the night's performances, Em's was dubbed a "live" music video. In this case, it consisted of the rapper swaggering on to an all-white set wearing black jeans, hoodie and hat, with a white t-shirt on underneath and just tearing into the fierce track from his upcoming, The Marshall Mathers LP 2.


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As he sprinted through rhymes about how he's been killing the game since Bill Clinton was in office, Slim Shady walked across to the other half of the stage, which was painted solid black. ...

After Arcade Fire set the tone early with a wintry forest live video that featured lots of awkward dancing
 at Sunday night's (November 3) first-ever YouTube Music Awards
, leave it to Lady Gaga to go completely the other direction.

In a pensive performance piece "documented" by the show's artistic director Spike Jonze and fellow director Chris Milk, Gaga stripped it all the way down for the live debut of the her ARTPOP track "Dope."

Seated at a grand piano in a dress-down drag that consisted of a "DOPE" trucker hat with a logo aping the NASA symbol, a mousy brown wig and a too-big flannel shirt (and, we found out later, no pants or shoes) Gaga poured all her heart and soul into the bare-bones ballad.

"The party's just begun/I promise this, this drink was my last one/I know that I f---ed up again/Because I lost my only friend," she sang, her vocals intense and focused. With the camera peering over the top of the piano and focused squarely on her face, Gaga emoted, "My heart would break without you/Might not awake without you/Been hurting low from living high for so long," at which point she was shouting, practically on the verge of tears.

Shot in dim light, the video continued to gaze right into Gaga's face as she debuted the song's lyrics about a love she needs more than stimulants. "Toast one last puff," she sang. "And two last regrets/Three spirits and twelve lonely steps." The camera finally swung around for a side shot of Gaga, a sad look ...

Perhaps you were expecting a straight performance piece? That's not at all what director Spike Jonze had in store for the opening act of the first-ever YouTube Music Awards
 on Sunday night (October 3).

Instead, in the first of what promised to be a night of "live" music videos from the likes of Lady Gaga and Tyler, the Creator, the show's creative director enlisted indie darling actress Greta Gerwig to dance like nobody was looking to the strains of Arcade Fire.

The real-time video for AF's "Afterlife" opened with Gerwig ("Frances Ha") standing in an apartment kissing a man, in what clearly seemed like a grim goodbye between the couple. The sadness didn't last long, though, as Gerwig started punching the air in time to the song's rhythms and dancing wildly all by herself as the song's tempo picked up.

But the apartment couldn't contain her, so she busted out the front door and headed down the hallway, shaking her jazz hands at the camera and emerging in a snowy forest set. The camera tracked her as she bopped through the trees, her trembling digits moving all over the screen as she silently shouted the lyrics to the song.

Still waving them in the air like she really didn't care, suddenly Gerwig was joined by Arcade Fire singer Win Butler, who hung behind her in the snow like a ghost. Accompanied by a troupe of young girl dancers on the floor of New York's Pier 36 (where the awards were taking place) Gerwig continued her goofy hoofing as the full compliment ...

Not so long ago, in a galaxy not too far away lived the actor Harrison Ford. And he loved space. He would make a name for himself as intergalactic cowboy Han Solo in the film "Star Wars." And now, more than 35 years later, Ford returns to the outer reaches with an adaptation of Orson Scott Card's 1985 sci-fi novel.

Of course, much has changed in the movie-making business since the actor first boarded the Millennium Falcon. He recalled what passed for "special effects" so many years ago.

"Back in the '80s when I was making 'Star Wars,' they would make a spaceship out of model car kits, any little plastic bit with some intricacy to it," he explained. "They'd carve up a bit that looked interesting and stick it on a balsa wood model, paint the whole thing gray, put it on a stick and move it past the camera. Very crude technology but still effective when you had the music and the story context."

Fast-forward to 2013, in which much of "Ender's Game" was filmed using wires to simulate an anti-gravity environment and green screens were de rigueur for backdrops.

"Right now you can create a whole very effective reality on the computer, but the job there really falls to the director and the production designer to organize this vision so that it represents something useful to the telling of the story, not just some creation for the sake of itself but to aid in the telling of the story," Ford said.

And if you were at all wondering how ...

NEW YORK — Ed Sheeran spent much of this year opening for Taylor Swift on her RedTour, and on Friday night, he saw her return the favor!

Dressed in similar tees — with Taylor wearing a red "I heart Ed" shirt and Ed in an "I heart NY" T-shirt — the two hit the stage at Madison Square Garden with their guitars (Taylor had her bedazzled red microphone) during the second night of his three-date gig at the famed arena.

Sheeran told the crowd he owed a lot to the "I Knew You Were Trouble" singer, before he and Swift gave a moving performance of their hit single, "Everything Has Changed." Maybe it was the shock of her surprise appearance, but the screams from fans were deafening.

But even with a cameo from Swift and assistance from opening act Tori Kelly, there was no question that this was Sheeran's show — and he proved why it's a must-see. He kicked off a New York City takeover of sorts with his first show on Tuesday at MSG, where he also performed a new track.

Then for Halloween on Thursday, Sheeran dressed as a Gingerbread Man and returned to the Mercury Lounge, the place where he had his first New York gig 18 months ago. He treated the intimate crowd to fan favorite tracks as well as three new songs, including "Forever."

So by the time we got to the Garden on Friday, we could be forgiven for wondering if Sheeran might be a little worn down. We had nothing to worry ...