Wolfman Delayed?

Fangoria claims to have heard that Universal’s upcoming remake of “The Wolfman” may be moving out of it’s proposed April 3rd, 2009 release slot to a Fall 2009 release date instead.

No confirmation on any of this yet, but maybe Universal is thinking a Halloween release is more fitting?

The new update of the classic Universal monster is being helmed by director Joe Johnston from a script by Andrew Kevin Walker (Se7en) and David Self. Stars Benicio Del Toro, Anthony Hopkins, Emily Blunt and Hugo Weaving.

Joe Johnston to Direct Captain America

Joe Johnston has signed on to direct Marvel Studios‘ “First Avenger: Captain America.”

Johnston is currently directing “The Wolfman,” which hits theaters on April 3. He is developing “The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud.” Johnston previously directed “October Sky“, “Jumanji“, “Jurassic Park III“, “The Rocketeer and Honey“, “I Shrunk the Kids“. Johnston won an Academy Award in 1982 for Best Visual Effects for “Raiders of the Lost Ark”. He now joins the ranks of Jon Favreau, Louis Leterrier, and Kenneth Branagh as Marvel’s dream team of directors set to turn bring the real Marvel universe to life in a series of films that will eventually converge in The Avengers in 2011.

The superhero blockbuster, based on a character created in 1941 by Jack Kirby and Joe Simon, focuses on a weak man called Steve Rogers who is injected with an experimental serum which transforms him into a muscular superhero.

Captain America will be a World War II-set movie, and the character will appear in the modern day-set Avengers. No writers are on board but the studio expects to hire one shortly. Read the rest of this entry

‘The Wolfman’ - First Look

EW.com has a first look at Benicio Del Toro as The Wolfman in director Joe Johnston’s new film, which Universal Pictures will release on February 13, 2009.

Anthony Hopkins, Emily Blunt and Hugo Weaving co-star in the horror pic in which a man (Del Toro) gets bitten by a werewolf and begins a hairy moonlight existence.