The black and white silhouette poster of Hugh Jackman as the Wolverine is so popular that it is reportedly being stolen from US bus shelters on a daily basis.

Fox executives have told Collider.com that they have to replace 50 per cent of their bus shelter promotional posters for The Wolverine, the sequel to 2009's X-Men Origins: Wolverine.

According to Collider.com the Sumi Ink concept for the poster was the idea of Fox's chief creative officer Tony Sella. The artwork features an ink drawing of Wolverine with his claws unsheathed.

Filmed mostly in Australia, the movie sequel takes Wolverine - the most iconic character of the X-Men universe - to modern-day Japan where he faces his ultimate nemesis in a life-or-death battle that will leave him forever changed.

The Sumi Ink poster that keeps getting pinched.

The Wolverine is scheduled to be released in Australian cinemas on July 25.

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