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New Shot from VAN HELSING' + The One Sheet Appears Online!
Here's The One-Sheet!
Hey folks, Harry here... A reader named Marcus sent in the following shot of Hugh Jackman from VAN HELSING... I don't think I've seen it online before, and I've been surfing around trying to find it, to no avail... It might just be that it's essentially the same shot/pose we've seen a zillion times before to promote stuff like CROW, UNDERWORLD and on and on and on... Looks nice, but frankly, I really want to see the trailer for this sucker. I hear they plan to hold it for a SUPER BOWL reveal, which should be packed with other jewels as well. Anyway gals... begin drooling... Saffy... both on hands on the keyboard please!
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So this is "cool" news? But all the Batman news isn`t?
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Hello, I'm a negative-midned talkbacker. Seriously though, his facial expression is strange and his whole face looks like it was dropped in. Whatever. At least he doesn't seduce Meg Ryan in this one. OR DOES HE?
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...gets me more excited than that pic. =P
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Normally, werewolf movies sucks...but now that Hugh IKICKASS Jackman is in it...maybe it will not suck..unlike those pics. "We are making a werewolf movie so we put moon in every other shot !!" (QUEBEC IS COOL)
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Dec 20, 2003 8:25:43 PM CST
I didn't realize that Van Helsing was so...ummm...rock and roll.
by fluffyunbound
I always thought of him as more of a scholarly fellow. Maybe it's the junker name. Oh well - was there a comic book of this or something? Or did he just ride around in a convertible looking for werewolves and such?
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Don't these advertising geniuses realzie this is getting to be the most cliched images of the past few years? Every movie thats not a romantic comedy has used this general image in their promotion.
Be original, and i'ts not cool...only worked for the Crow and in comic books... -
on my stake?
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and we all know how that turned out.
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Dec 20, 2003 9:38:45 PM CST
A story about you - http://www.intrepidmedia.com/column.asp?id=
by the colonel
Check this out. If ever someone was talking about AICN and its denizens...and it's funny too!
http://www.intrepidmedia.com/column.asp?id=1492
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"Darkman IV: Attack of the Jesus Christ"?
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This is a paparazzi shot of Hugh after day 8 of the Kate and Leopold filming...
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More like Van Halen.
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May needs to get here as soon as possible. Oh yeah, Underworld sucks and and so does Dull-Devil.
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this movie will kil the chances of a live action Vampire Hunter D. (Yes, I'm aware they'd screw it up anyway.)
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Jeremy Renner auditioned for this movie. I would have liked to see him in it. Bummer.
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I still won't ever forgive Hugh for Kate and Leopold. Things like that should have been covered by his Wolverine contract. And did anybody else notice Sloth from the Goonies leading the orc army in ROTK?
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Well, I'm not really sure what this is supposed to be. It looks more like some hobo on a roof in front a full moon.
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whatever
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Is that the weapon from Krull in his right hand??????? ROTK - 140min. = Yummy
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Dec 21, 2003 12:53:48 AM CST
so that's what ended up on the cutting room floor of the Daredev
by nicholaswolfwood
you see Van Helsing was to Daredevil's right...
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....Dude...isnt that,like, the "charm of making" from Boorman's Excalibur. Y'know, Merlin's incantation n' shizzzit.
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What the fuck, I'm first?!!!
Anyway, almost forgot...Gandalf never murdered Denethor, the Gondorians would never have stood for that, much less rally around Gandalf. The most pivotal part of ROTK is the fucking confrontation btw Aragorn and Sauron via the Palantir, dude the allies entire gambit is based on that incident, to leave it out leaves a very bitter taste in my mouth. There was no Imrahil and Theoden got all Eomer's cool lines from the book. Still much props, kudos and all that stuff to messrs. Jackson and company. I honestly do not beleive ANYBODY could have done a better job. Thanx for the memories. If this seems out of place it's because being first I can say whatever I want. I am a brownturdrising. -
Now my name sounds like some kind of butt-disease. PS not so sure about this Van-Helsing sheet...looks a little too heavy-metal-rocker to me. ANALNATHRAX-out
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PLEASE TO SHUT THE FUCK UP ABOUT THE BREAKDANCING WIZARDS. It was ghey ghey ghey under your other username and it's ghey under this one. SO PLEASE TO SJUHT THE FJUCK UP.
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gheyer than a 3" fart pipe on a 82' camry.
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The guy isn't bad. But sorry man, the internet's populist, big news. Deal with it. It's funny to see an internet columnist (albeit one that writes better than most alt-weekly film critics) inveighing against the way the medium lets every crank with a dial-up sound off.
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All I see is Wolverine with a shitty hair cut and a lame trench coat. I hope Hugh doesn't fall into a "Hamil-like" curse. nilbog is goblin spelled backwards.
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Be gone with this shit. For it is rotten before it is released. You know this to be true.
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Dec 21, 2003 3:32:35 AM CST
those vampires are going to be about as scary as a box of cereal
by grandpaseth
Stephen Sommers can't handle these characters. Granted, the Mummy was an action movie and this is obviously in the smae vein, but those vampires look like they've got something to prove. For my money, the scariest vampire to ever grace the screen was the "old Gary Oldman" in the Coppolla flick. That trailer scared the crap out of me when I was a kid.
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I liked the part where wolverine fought frankenberry.
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Let the disappointment begin.
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Dec 21, 2003 8:57:06 AM CST
VAN HELSING??? This looks more like VAMPIRE HUNTER D!!!
by godoffireinhell
Which is not necessarily a bad thing because I love VHD to death but the filmmakers really should pay their respect where it is due. I hope they'll at least acknowledge the influence in interviews ... And I'm still not sold on the film itself. Every single piece of artwork that has come out has looked awesomely kick-ass but I simply cannot get over the fact that this will be a friggin PG-13 flick from the same director who raped my soul with his MUMMY flicks. If it'd come from anyone else I'd already be exstatic about seeing this but with Sommers at the helm I'll wait for the trailer and make my mind up then. For now, consider me cautiously optimistic.
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Hugh Jackman and David "He was my brother" Wenham are in this. yum. Vampires and werewolves can suck to high heaven as long as Hugh takes his shirt off and David wears tight pants. ("I can sense he has a nice butt.")
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Those posters released last March for the film were better.
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According to Universal, it'll show up the week of January 12th, and with "Along Came Polly" on the 16th (Why?) as well as a site update at the beginning of the year.
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Dec 21, 2003 4:15:31 PM CST
Hugh Jackman IS Vampire Hunter D and Simon Belmont's love child
by terry_1978
This is exactly what the movie sounds like to me.
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We all love vampire, werewolf, horror flicks etc. Right? Problem is that, despite the huge variety of the aforesaid in the fiction world, all we get of these genres seems to fall into the overblown, SFX driven market
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http://images.countingdown.com/images/countdowns/movies/843456/1011/3295842_main.jpg
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you know in X2 when nightcrawler attacks the white house, and that mozart music is playing? where can i get that music? it's pretty bad ass. help?
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Dec 21, 2003 8:58:26 PM CST
What does Harry mean he's been "surfing around trying to find th
by commando cody
For crying out loud, Harry, stop kissing ROTK's ass so much and open your eyes and keep up with the news. There was a story about this and link connecting to it over at Comingsoon.net LAST WEEK. The same link took you to a supposed theater banner, too. Sheesh, how hard were you trying to look...
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Dec 21, 2003 10:07:13 PM CST
the only way i'll watch this Stephen Sommers piece of crap...
by renata
Is if Hugh Jackman plays Van Helsing as Peter Allen.
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Dec 21, 2003 11:22:51 PM CST
Looks like Van Helsing is holding the Grail from the movie "Krul
by brashhulk
...I guess he borrowed it from King Corwyn and Queen Lissa!
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I can tell because of a single shot from a promotional poster. I'm just that smart. sk
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...and better projects. I like Jackman and think that he could be a good leading actor and major movie star, but he keeps getting involved in half-baked projects that are going to kill any chance he has of getting into the big leagues with the Tom Cruises and Russell Crowes (and he DOES have that potential, in my opinion). He needs to be in solid genre pictures, mainstream action-adventure, drama, whatever. He needs to work with the ABSOLUTE BEST directors and co-stars. DEMAND THE BEST, NOT THE OLD, THE SECOND-TIER, THE HACKNEYED, THE PLAYED OUT. I know the guy likes Broadway and musicals and such, but save playing Peter Allen AFTER you've established yourself as a major star. Crap like that can kill any chance you have to be a major star. Nobody but Gay guys and Broadway fans want to see that stuff. It retards any movie career. It's a distraction at best. Kate and Leopold was a fucked project. No offense, Meg Ryan is still cute, but she is honestly on the downslope of her career. Jackman needs to be cast opposite the current crop of hot young actresses, not the big stars of yesterday. Kate and Leopold might have played 10 years ago; nobody wants to see it today; it's a stale idea. Van Helsing sounds good in theory, but it looks rather cheesy in the ways others have pointed out. What's with the weird, anachronistic high-tech weaponry? Is this supposed to be set in the modern age, or is this supposed to pseudo-historical? It looks like hack-work. I hope that Jackman doesn't fall into Mark Hamill-dom,, as another poster pointed out. Jackman has the rare potential to be a major star, in my opinion. He needs to start making better career moves, demand to work with the best directors and hottest co-stars, and not get involved in anything that seems hackneyed and unoriginal. Better scripts, better projects. Anyway, I wish him luck, and hope that he and his reps get their act together there is a lot of potential there that seems to be unused and undeveloped.
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First of all, on the topic of the LOOK of Van Helsing himself...
I actually DO NOT instantly think of Edward Van Sloan (1931) when I think of
the famous vampire hunter. Van Sloan's Van Helsing was strong, and
determined, and it was his KNOWLEDGE that guided the others in their
quest to destroy evil. He was methodical and studious and was guided
by a greater good.
As powerful and classic as his interpretation
was, it's Peter Cushing that leaps to mind for me. Swashbuckling,
dashing...his London Fog coat flowing behind him as he chases Count
Dracula. That's Van Helsing to me, and in that sense, Hugh Jackman
is perfect.
However, I do hope that they do not neglect to grant Van Helsing his greatest
weapon. His FAITH. He is the ultimate force of good and warrior of
God. I mean, let's be honest, Dracula is evil and to combat evil, you
need a power of good. There was majesty and sacred reverence to Van
Helsing as he destroyed "shells, possessed and corrupted by the evil
of Dracula"
His religious zeal almost bordered on fanaticism and that's what
makes him interesting. He is NOT Indiana Jones, and he is not a
bitter revenge filled fighter of demonic powers...he is our last
hope. A man given the power and knowledge by the grace of God to
stand-alone against overwhelming evil. THAT'S Van Helsing. There is
a trend to remove belief systems and religious orientations when
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Looks like the one that took Sheila in Army of Darkness.
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is in it.
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Dec 22, 2003 9:57:41 PM CST
Why is anyone even DOUBTING the financial prospects for this?
by commando cody
I really don't see why anyone's bitching about this one. First off, how can you "tell" if it's going to be good or bad based around the relatively FEW stills that have even been released so far? Before pronouncing judgment, at least wait till we see SOME footage (ideally, a trailer during the Super Bowl.) Secondly, on paper this looks golden anyway. You have Hugh Jackman who has already made himself a geek favorite through Wolverine and you have Kate Beckingsdale who is a total hottie and you have not one... not two... but THREE core Universal monsters tossed in, making younger kids go ape shit. Plus, Stephen Sommers has proved he can make mainstream crowd pleasers with the MUMMY movies. So all the elements are in place on the creative end. Then on the BUSINESS end you have Universal handling it, a major studio making it a tentpole summer flick, so you know it'll have wide distribution, there'll be plenty of prints flooding the theaters, it has a prime early opening date ala MUMMY RETURNS so crowds will see it simply to get out of the house and start the summer movie season. Bottom line, it'll probably open big and go on to make a solid $150 million, maybe even get up to 175 or cross $200 in the US if it turns out to be a shit cool adventure movie with enough "eye candy" onscreen to make people come back for seconds. So take that money and calculate that it'll probably do THAT over again worldwide (if not a slight bit more), thus raising it's world wide box office to at least $400 million. Toss in eventual DVDs sales (figure $15 on sale, moving at least 10 million units) and you're loooking at ANOTHER $150 million in the kitty. So all told, this thing is looking at probably a HALF BILLION DOLLAR RETURN to start (and that doesn't even begin to tabulate any side licensing deals -- like toys -- that a property like this is clearly going to have.) So I'll predict this: barring an asteriod hitting the Earth and destroying all our multiplexes, this thing is ALREADY money in the bank. So quit harping about it before you've seen it or saying Jackman was wrong to do it, or he needs better representation. Most actors should be so lucky to land a potential franchise like this one has the chance to be. So quit whining and just enjoy it for the fun it'll probably be. Will it be high cinematic art and THE GODFATHER? No. But will it probably be a fun summer popcorn flick to get out of the heat and enjoy an old style monster movie with tons of actions and cool shit plastered all over the screen? Hell yeah -- I'm counting on it! Bring it on, Hugh!!!
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Dec 22, 2003 11:06:30 PM CST
Is That The Glave from KRULL in his Hand in the One-Sheet?
by macflecknoe
Sweet.
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You are an idiot. And I didn't require hundreds of words to make my point.
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I just wanted to post LOTR on a Van Helsing thread, too. WOO HOO!
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