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Friday
23rd April 2004: Van Helsing Update:
A few new features have popped up over on the official Van Helsing
site here.
Tuesday
13th April 2004: Van Helsing Update:
Loads of pics for Van Helsing over at Cinemovies.
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30th March 2004: Van Helsing
A New movie poster for Van Helsing has been released
today.
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Tuesday
30th March 2004: Van Helsing
A New movie poster for Van Helsing has been released
today.
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Monday
22nd March 2004: Van Helsing
A New movie poster for Van Helsing has been released
today.
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Wednesday
10th February 2004 Van Helsing Update:
The following promo images for Van Helsing were just received!
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Friday
6th February 2004: Van Helsing Update:
Some viewers were upset after a "Van Helsing" clip
aired during the US Superbowl, and although Universal Pictures
assured CBS that their upcoming monster feature is rated a family-friendly
PG-13, many parents called CBS to complain about the terrifying
images their children were exposed to.
Universal subsequenty issued this press release :
"UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif., Feb. 4 -- "Van Helsing"
is a motion picture adventure that features imaginative use
of fantasy characters such as Dracula, The Frankenstein Monster
and The Wolf Man -- characters that have been staples of movies
and popular culture for more than 60 years. Writer/director
Stephen Sommers has established himself as a filmmaker who creates
entertainment enjoyed by audiences of all ages. The tone and
content of "Van Helsing" have been designed to continue
that tradition and fit well within the Motion Picture Association
of America parameters established for a PG-13 rating. The 60-second
advertisement for the film that ran during the Super Bowl was
approved by the MPAA. While the spot contained images of fanged
fantasy creatures, it did not feature any blood or gore, nor
any depiction of realistic graphic violence ..."
Michael Stevens
www.sneakpeek.ca
Thursday
5th February 2004: Van Helsing Update:
A featurette has appeared online going bheind the scenes of
future smash Van Helsing. Check out the links below:
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Monday
2nd February 2004: Van Helsing Update:
The official site for Van Helsing has fully opened up and now
includes a behind-the-scenes video, photos, the trailer, AIM
icons, screensavers, and wallpapers.
http://www.vanhelsing.net/
Monday
2nd February 2004: Van Helsing Update:
The Superbowl ad for Van Helsimh is now online here.
Friday
30th January 2004: Van Helsing
Update:
The movie poster for Van Helsing is now available to buy:
Monday
26th January 2004: Van Helsing Update:
The official site for Van Helsing can be found here:
http://www.vanhelsing.net/
Wednesday
21st January 2004 Van Helsing Update:
The following promo images for Van Helsing were just received!
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Each Pic for MUCH larger versions!
Friday
16th January 2004: Van Helsing Update:
The movie trailer for Van Helsing is now online:
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Helsing Windows Media Player Movie Trailer Hi-Res
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Helsing Windows Media Player Movie Trailer Med-Res
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Helsing Windows Media Player Movie Trailer Lo-Res
Wednesday
14th January 2004: Van Helsing Update:
Expect a trailer for this Hugh Jackman actioner at the end of
the week over at Apple's trailer page. It'll will be shown in
US cinemas along with Along Came Polly and the movie itself
will hit screens on May 7th.
Tuesday
30th December 2003: Van Helsing
A New movie poster for Van Helsing has been released
today.
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Monday 22nd December 2003: Van Helsing
A New movie poster for Van Helsing has been released today.
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Monday 22nd December 2003: Van Helsing
A New movie poster for Van Helsing has been released today.
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Friday 19th December 2003: Van Helsing Update:
A new picture of Hugh Jackman from the forthcoming Van Helsing has appeared online. To see it click here.
Thursday 18th December 2003: Van Helsing Update:
A new theatrical banner for Van Helsing has been released. To see it click here.
Wednesday 17th December 2003: Van Helsing Update:
The first trailer for next year's Van Helsing will apparently go out in the U.S. with Along Came Polly on January 16.
Thursday Van Helsing Update:
Word reaches us that Universal are already thinking of when they will release Van Helsing on DVD, and it's a bit of a no brainer really...halloween 2004.
Monday 8th December 2003: Van Helsing Update:
The Uk release date for Van Helsing has been set as 14th May 2004.
Friday 28th November 2003: Van Helsing Update:
A new promo picture for Shrek 2 has been released. To see that and a shot of Hugh Jackman from the forthcoming Van Helsing, click here.
Tuesday 16th September 2003: Van Helsing Update:
Universal is to make a TV drama series inspired by writer/director Stephen Sommer's monster film Van Helsing, which is due out next May. The network has given Universal Network Television a pilot commitment for a drama that, while not a spin-off or sequel, will be set in the same universe as the feature film. Sommers will write the pilot script and executive produce the series with partner and longtime editor Bob Ducsay. And, in another connection to the movie, the potential series will likely be shot on the same 19th-century village set that Universal built in Prague and used for Van Helsing. Though the series will be set in the same 19th century vein as the film, Van Helsing will not be a character in Transylvania. Instead, the series will be a character-driven soap opera and the central figure will be a young cowboy from Texas who's pressed into duty and becomes the sheriff in a town where oddities abound.
Monday 18th August 2003: Van Helsing Update:
A snatched picture of the Frankenstein monster from next year’s Van Helsing
has appeared online. To take a look click here.
Monday 7th July 2003: Van Helsing Update:
Pics from the filming of Van Helsing have appeared online " The castle set
was located on the old Rockwell land in Downey, CA. (the same filming
location as Spiderman & T3 crane stunts). Filming in L.A. has completed and
the crew went back to Europe to finish some flying vampire shots. The set
here has been torn down and is no longer visible. " Click Here
Friday 20th June 2003: Van Helsing Update:
A new pic of Hugh Jackman in costume for Van Helsing has appeared online
today Click Here
Wednesday 4th June 2003: Van Helsing Update:
Latino Review has published a number of pictures from one of the sets being
used for the filming of Van Helsing, as well as a set report. To take a look
click here.
Monday 19th May 2003: Van Helsing Update:
casting news on Van Helsing today with word that Elena Anaya has been signed up to star as Aleera (one of Dracula's brides) the bad girl of the movie in Van Helsing.
Friday 16th May 2003: Van Helsing Update:
Images from the set of Van Helsing have appeared online Click Here
Friday 16th May 2003: Van Helsing Update:
Hugh Jackman has been talking about next year’s hotly anticipated Van
Helsing. “In the original Dracula story, Van Helsing is a 60-year-old Dutch
professor who's been into the occult and ends up being the Dracula hunter,”
he said. “But this is the 34-year-old version of him at the beginning, a
kind of mercenary of the Catholic church who is sent to kill any possessed
soul. So his mission is to go to Transylvania and find out what's going on
with Dracula and take him out. But he encounters a lot of monsters along the
way."
Monday 12th May 2003: Van Helsing Update:
Hugh Jackman has been talking about Van Helsing "I fight Frankenstein,
Wolfman, Dracula and a few other surprises are thrown in, It's a huge
movie. Don't get me wrong. 'X 2' was a big movie, but 'Van Helsing,' my
God. The sets, the action pieces--it's out of control. It's like I walked
into 'Indiana Jones.The village peasants were extras. We literally went
into the shelters to give them work, but the problem was their English was
nonexistent. So imagine this scene where I'm on wire. I have to run, run,
run and then jump and grab onto Kate Beckinsale's legs and go flying
through the air before I get flipped. Once I launch into this move, I
cannot stop."
Tuesday 22nd April 2003: Van Helsing Update:
News reaches us today of a key scene in Van Helsing that will involve a lareg fight scene in Frankenstein's lag that will involve lots of explosions and flying scientific apparatus. Word is that there may be three different endings with one for each of the creatures that will segue neatly into a sequel.
Thursday 17th April 2003: Van Helsing Update:
Hugh Jackman has been talking about Van Helsing again "I'll tell you, man, it is huge — the sets, the costumes. I just saw a little trailer of it cut together. We showed it to the whole crew [and] everyone was so jazzed. It looks amazing.I feel like I'm in 'Indiana Jones'. That was my favorite movie as a kid, and I really feel like I've walked into one of those movies. [It's got] swashbuckling, but it's got a darkness to it, but it's still funny. And the look of it — I think it has a style to it that I've never really seen before. And I think the story is very intricate."
Tuesday 15th April 2003: Van Helsing Update:
Hugh Jackman has been talking about Van Helsing today "Van Helsing is a
character in Bram Stokers Dracula which is the inspiration for this movie.
In that he's like a professor, an aficionado on the occult and Dracula and
he comes in and kind of saves the day, sort of a Dracula hunter. So this is
the younger more adventures version of him, and this film is, halfway
through it-it's looking amazing. It's extraordinary to be in it, it's like
being in an Indiana Jones movie, and it's amazing. The sets are huge, it
looks beautiful. There's a romance in it with Kate Beckinsale, and she
plays a great character, and there's him going to Transylvania to hunt down
Dracula. Along the way he encounters a few other monsters that he didn't
expect to see. It's really, I'm really happy with it, it's looking
fantastic. We're shooting in Europe and L.A., we had to move to LA. We
start shooting here tomorrow. I have to fly back to Prague to do some
riding on horses and stuff like that. I've seen the originals and I loved
them, and the originals of Frankenstein, Dracula, of course read all the
books, and Wolf Man, the original Wolf Man which is a classic. I haven't
seen a lot of the later ones. I'm a big horror movie fan, but never the
monster movie theme. But I think this one is, the story is really great and
it's intricate enough, and of course Stephen Sommers and Allen Daviau are
shooting it, it looks amazing. I think this going to offer a lot to the
fans of monster movies. I think they will like it."
Monday 14th April 2003: Van Helsing Update:
Garth has scored some cool pics from Van Helsing today Click Here
Tuesday 18th March 2003: Van Helsing Update:
Hugh Jackman has been talking about Van Helsing 'This is kind of the younger and more adventurous swashbuckling version of Van Helsing, 'who is, for want of a better word, a mercenary for the Catholic Church who is out there killing or dealing with possessed souls of all different shapes and sizes. Right at the beginning of the movie you meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, which introduces my character. So he's out there dealing with these rogue demons that have taken over bodies. And as it turns out, Dracula, whose existence has been known to the Church in Transylvania, is kind of starting to get out of control, and so
they send Van Helsing, on a big mission to find him. Anna, Kate Beckinsale's character, is the youngest and final member of the family whose job it is
to try and track Dracula for 400 years."
Thursday 6th March 2003: Van Helsing Update:
A Poster for Van Helsing has been released online Click Here
Friday 21st February 2003: Van Helsing Update:
Just received information on more cast members for Van Helsing: Kate Beckinsale, Samuel West, Shuler Hensley, Richard Roxburgh, Kevin J Oconnor, Elena Anya, Silvia Colloca and Josie Maran with a projected release date of May 21, 2004. Thanks to Willkemp.org for the info.
Friday 6th December 2002: Van Helsing Update:
It now looks like Paul Hogan has lost out on a role in Van Helsing to David Wenham.
Tuesday 3rd December 2002: Van Helsing Update:
Casting news with word that Paul 'Crocodile Dundee' Hogan is being lined up to take a role as a movie monster.
Monday 2nd December 2002: Van Helsing Update:
Casting news on Van Helsing with word that Josie Maran and Elena Anaya have been signed up to play two of the three brides that Dracula has in the movie.
Monday 25th November 2002: Van Helsing Update:
Variety reports that Kate Beckinsale has joined the cast of Stephen Sommers' Van Helsing. Shooting is scheduled to kick off in January in Prague with Hugh Jackman in the title role.
Monday 7th October 2002: Van Helsing Update:
Actor Will Kemp has joined the cast of Van Helsing alongside Hugh Jackman. Van Helsing is being produced by Universal with director Stephen Sommers, who also wrote. Filming is due for late autumn.
Tuesday 17th September 2002: Van Helsing Update:
Looks like Hugh Jackman has signed up to star in Van Helsing for Stephen Sommers
7/4/02
Stephen Sommers will write and direct Van Helsing, film that will bring to life two other classic Universal 'monsters', Frankenstein's monster and the Wolf Man. Sommers is of course responsible for The Mummy and The Mummy Returns, two massive hits for Universal.
The plot of Van Helsing isn't known at the moment but Upcoming Movies posted the following as a possibility, 'Set in the late 19th century, monster hunter Dr. Abraham Van Helsing is summoned to a mysterious land in East Europe to vanquish evil forces... evil forces with names like Count Dracula, the Wolf Man, and Frankenstein's Monster...'.
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