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OUR FRIENDS AT Cinema Blend report that plans are already in motion to turn “Wolverine” into a franchise – with “Slumdog Millionaire” writer Simon Beaufoy in the lead to pen the sequel. As if that weren’t enough, Fox is already prepping a spin-off of the spin-off, “a new X-Men related movie franchise based on Mutant students and Professor Xavier’s school.” Now that’s confidence. Last year “Iron Man” bolted out of the gate to join the $100 million club in the first weekend in May – proving that early birds get all the worms in the summer movie biz. We expect similarly huge things from “Wolverine,” as recession-ridden movie-goers push it well over the century bar, if not higher.