Universal Studios has announced that they will be providing theme park visitors with an exclusive first look at The Wolfman. The footage will premiere on the LED screens on the Terror Tram as part of Universal Studios Hollywood’s Halloween Horror Nights (which begins October 3rd). That’s right. Universal is trying to lure moviegoers to their theme park with the promise of an extended movie trailer? Has it really come to this?

AICN has gotten word that Danny Elfman is scoring Universal’s remake of The Wolfman. Elfman has always been hit or miss for me, and I’m not sure The Wolfman will play to his strengths.
Discuss: What is your favorite Elman score? Mine is probably either Pee-Wee Herman’s Big Adventure, Edward Scissorhands or Batman Returns.

Universal premiered an extended trailer for The Wolfman at Comic Con this weekend? We told you the footage actually made us excited to see the film… Now you can check it out yourself. TrailerAddict has gotten their hands on a copy, watch it while you still can.

On Friday afternoon at Comic Con, Peter Sciretta and David Chen of /Film are joined by Kelvin and El Mayimbe of Latino Review and Vic from Screenrant to talk about the atrocity that was The Spirit, the unexpected surprise of The Wolfman and the awesome Watchmen footage.
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An exclusive Wolfman trailer premiered at Comic Con. The footage began with the Universal Logo. Cut to a guy walking through the woods. He comes across something, scared, he drops his lantern and runs away. Voice over states “25 years ago my father found him”.
“He was tore to pieces and half eaten. Whatever did it was big, had claws” Village people see something and run away. We see a bottom shot of the Wolfman transforming in the dark woods, just a little back light. People are chasing after him with guns. “and we couldn’t kill it.” Shots of someone casting silver bullets. “He only came out during a full moon [...]

The new issue of Empire Magazine has a few new photos from upcoming fall/winter films. First up is a photo of John C. Reilly as a vampire in Paul Weitz’s Cirque Du Freak. Based on the first three novels by Darren O’Shaughnessy, Cirque Du Freak tells the story of a 14-year-old boy named Darren Shan (Chris Kelly) who visits a travelling freak show. At the show he meets a mysterious man who turns out to be a vampire, and Darren must leave his normal life and go on the road with the show. Cirque Du Freak currently doesn’t have a U.S. release date, but it is hitting theaters in [...]

If you see Rick Baker, given him a high five! The genius of movie make-up behind American Werewolf in London has once again created one helluva Wolfman! Yes, that is Benecio Del Toro fully transformed into the full moon-friendly title beast in director Joe Johnston’s The Wolfman. EW got first dibbs on these two images from the 2009 horror flick co-starring Anthony Hopkins and Emily Blunt along with a pretty cool interview with Baker. Here’s an excerpt…
How much did you update the makeup from the [1941] original?
Rick Baker: It’s actually more frightening. But I still wanted to be true to the original and show respect for it. What’s interesting [...]

Actor Hugo Weaving (V For Vendetta, The Matrix) is set to star as Detective Aberline for director Joe Johnston in The Wolf Man. Weaving will join a cast that includes Anthony Hopkins (as the Wolf Man’s father), Benicio del Toro (as the Wolf Man) and Emily Blunt (as the love interest). This is the first bit of casting news for the big budget remake of the 1941 horror film since the original director, Mark Romanek, abruptly left at the end of January over budget issues. Romanek had spent a few years working to bring the film to the screen with del Toro, and now Variety reports that Johnston has had [...]

There have been a bunch of new release date changes announced in the last 24 hours, let’s take a look.
DreamWorks has announced that they are moving Monsters vs. Aliens 3D from May 15th 2009 to March 27th 2009. The monster film was originally scheduled to go head to head with James Cameron’s Avatar in what was being called the first head to head 3D battle. Now that the film is opening a while 2 months earlier that Cameron’s epic sci-fi tale, both films might have a chance at finding an audience, and filling up more of the available 3D digital screen space. Monsters vs. Aliens, which reinvents the classic ’50s [...]