-- Let the speculation begin. "Howling Mad" Murdock actor Dwight Schultz will be showing up for a cameo in Joe Carnahan's "The A-Team," according to a fansite. Hopefully, this means we'll be seeing other cameos from the rest of the team. Who doesn't want to see Mr. T give this young guns A-Team a vote of confidence with a tiny cameo role. Hell, he can leave his gold chains at home if it makes him happy. Schultz is great, but the fans want what they want: bring back T. (The Official Dwight Schultz Fansite, via Cinematical)

-- "Mad Men" producer Matthew Weiner is turning his attention to film now that the latest season is finished. He's now getting set to helm "You Are Here," a romantic comedy that he wrote. Independent financing is already in place and the cast will include the likes of Jennifer Aniston and "The Hangover" stars Bradley Cooper and Zach Galifianakis. No word on a synopsis, but he'd better get cracking or he's going to leave a lot of "Mad Men" fans very disappointed. (Variety) Read more...

The latest trailer for "The Wolfman" hit last week. Personally, I'm much more excited for the Benicio del Toro-starring remake of the 1941 creature feature now. Where the previous trailer fell short in delivering man-dog action, this one brings the bared teeth and then some. And since there's nothing funnier than a man turning into a flesh-eating dog (seriously... nothing funnier), the trailer was practically screaming -- or perhaps HOWLING -- for a Freeze Frame treatment.

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I'm pretty darn excited to see "The Wolfman." The numerous delays don't necessarily bode well, nor does the February release window, but reports from the few screenings have been mostly positive. Plus, is there anyone better for the role of the titular werewolf than Benicio del Toro? So yes... my hopes remain high.

And hey, just because we're waiting for February, it doesn't mean there's nothing to gawk at. Try these 20+ new images on for size. Just click on the sample below to be whisked off to the newly updated flipbook.

Maybe that headline is a bit much, but any look at the Benicio Del Toro-starring movie monster revival of "The Wolfman," directed by Joe Johnston, is enough to send me into a rabid frenzy. And the latest trailer brings the goods. It's filled with all sorts of wolf-y goodness. I'm loving the evil vibe I get from these scenes; it actually feels like a real horror movie, not some overly stylized blockbuster a la "Sleepy Hollow." Then again, I suppose that's what happens when you set "Se7en" writer Andrew Kevin Walker loose on your script.

Click the image above to dash off to our newly updated "Wolfman" image gallery and hit the jump for a look at the blood-spattered new trailer.

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"The Three Stooges" are down to Two. Sean Penn has said "soitenly not" to the Farrelly Bros.' "Stooges" revival, and walked away from the project, leaving Moe and Curly without their Larry. Quick, somebody call Shemp!

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Penn is dropping out of "Stooges," as well as the thriller "Cartel." The actor's sudden change in plans is based on the need to spend more time with his family. Sources say that he may keep away from movie-making for as long as a year, though the two-time Oscar winner gave no set timetable. Penn and his wife Robin Wright Penn have been in and out of the tabloids for their marital woes. Who can really blame them for taking a little personal time?

Maybe the Farrelly Bros., who are facing a collapse of their "Stooges" remake. While Universal plans to move forward with "Cartel" and recast the leading role, "Stooges" has really been left in the lurch. The writer/director siblings have spent years trying to get their slap-happy film off the ground. They scored a big victory in landing Penn, Jim Carrey and Benicio Del Toro for the cast. "Stooges" was scheduled to begin shooting in August and MGM had set a release date of 2010.

Now the Farrellys need to decide whether they'll recast the part or wait for Penn, a delay that could cost them the other two Stooges. There's even a possibility that the entire film could be scrapped. That's certainly what MTV's Larry Carroll is hoping for. THR notes that "half of Hollywood would poke their eyes out for the part," so maybe the casting fun, drama and violence is just beginning...

MTV readers, are you sorry to see Sean Penn take a break from the big screen? What do you think should happen to "The Three Stooges" remake? If it goes forward, who would you like to see replace Penn as Larry?

Bret Easton Ellis is the Los Angeles-born, well-educated, bestselling novelist behind such classics as “Less Than Zero” and “American Psycho.” Now, his 2005 book “Lunar Park” is being made into a feature film with an unusual A-list casting in the works; and the strangest part is that it isn’t even the weirdest role the actor has landed in the last month.

“’Lunar Park’ is in some state of pre-production. This is a very funny town,” chuckled Easton Ellis when we spoke with him recently. “Oddly enough, Benicio Del Toro I think is going to do it.” Read more...

As a lifelong, die-hard 3 Stooges fan, I’m not ashamed to admit that I bought a ticket and saw the 1986 dud “Stoogemania" in a movie theater. If the producers are reading this – yes, it was my father and I who gave you folks the $10 that the movie grossed domestically.

Until today, the idea of casting Zero Mostel’s kid as “Howard F. Howard” in a poorly-written clunker stuffed with archive footage was one of the worst Hollywood ideas I’d ever seen executed on the silver screen. Then, I read that the rumors were true and that the Farrelly brothers were casting Sean Penn, Jim Carrey and Benicio del Toro as the new Stooges. Josh Mostel, you might finally be off the hook. Read more...

Martin Scorsese is looking to someone other than Leonardo DiCaprio for his next project. According to Variety, the legendary director is in talks with Daniel Day-Lewis, Benicio del Toro, and Gael Garcia Bernal to star in "Silence."

This will be the third collaboration between Scorsese and Day-Lewis, who have had a happy director-actor relationship in both "The Age of Innocence" and "The Gangs of New York." (It must be extremely happy -- you might remember that Scorsese lured Day-Lewis away from being a cobbler in Italy and back to acting to be in "Gangs.") Read more...

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Earlier this year, Emily Blunt insisted that the Joe Johnston-helmed, “The Wolf Man,” would not be your average campy monster movie. "It's a period gothic Werewolf story,” she told MTV. “It's really good, it's really smart.”

Now we’ve heard from the monster himself, star Benicio Del Toro, and he echoes this authenticity sentiment. The actor who will play Lawrence Talbot (the man who eventually turns into a wolf) and says the production is kicking it old school, vintage style.

“[When I did my research], I definitely looked at what Lon Chaney Jr. did in the original ‘Wolf Man’ and the movie,” Del Toro told MTV News. “I also looked at the ‘Werewolf of London,’ the Henry Hull movie, which was made maybe 6 years before in 1935, and looked ‘Curse of the Werewolf’ with Oliver Reed.” Read more...

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Chronologically speaking, there’s a reason why uber-prolific filmmaker Steven Soderbergh started grappling with the idea of Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara right after the time he finished “Erin Brokovich” in 2000.

For one, writing and research on the sprawling 4-hour-plus two-part “Che” took seven years to get just right. Secondly, when he agreed to inherit the movie from legendary director Terrence Malick, Soderbergh felt he was firing on all cylinders and at the top of his game, so he felt now was the time to take on such a an epic beast.

“Part of my reasoning for saying yes [to the ‘Che’ project] was that I had just come off making ‘Erin Brokovich’ with Julia Roberts nad had the sensation that: ‘This was the right movie, the right actor, the right time.’ Everything had lined up,” he told MTV News remembering the era fondly. Read more...