Monitor

PREMIERE Van Helsing: The Musical? ''We joked about it,'' Hugh Jackman (with Kate Beckinsale) said May 3 on the red carpet. ''Shuler Hensley, who plays Frankenstein's monster, is an opera singer. We'd sing show tunes.''

ADVOCACY Environmentalists have embraced summer blockbusters! To coincide with May 24's premiere of The Day After Tomorrow, MoveOn.org will host a town meeting in NYC. Al Gore and Al Franken will discuss the flick's take on global warming. Calling it ''a great opportunity to get people talking about the real dangers,'' the activist group's Peter Schurman says Day is ''the movie George Bush doesn't want you to see.''