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The Dwayne Johnson/Jason Statham Fast and Furious Spinoff Finds a Director
The Fast and Furious series has made $5.1 billion in the worldwide box office and has been keeping the lights on at Universal Pictures since 2001. The spinoff of Fast and Furious appears to have snagged a director After many months of rumors, director David Leitch has been confirmed by Entertainment Weekly to direct the first spinoff[...]
Blockers movie poster
Halfway through, his character gets a big reset button pushed, but it does not feel earned and just ends up muddying the best storyline of the film. Credit: Universal Pictures Of the three kids, Gideon Adlon shines the brightest Without spoiling too much, her character is dealing with a situation that the other two girls aren't[...]
The Voyage of Doctor Dolittle
Somehow, we're getting a new Doctor Dolittle film. The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle film will be based on author Hugh Lofting's second Doctor Dolittle book which was published in 1922 (it's worth noting the second entry was almost twice as long as the first). Universal Pictures won the rights to the project last year, after some hot bidding action[...]
Pikachu
Now we know that the Universal Pictures and Legendary Entertainment project will be hitting theaters on May 10th, 2019 The film is based on the popular Pokémon franchise and will be the first live-action film set in that universe Besides Reynolds, the film will star Justice Smith (Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom) and Kathryn Netwon (Big Little[...]
Final Girls cover
Riley Sager's novel Final Girls is getting a film adaptation from Universal Pictures They will distribute and co-produce with Anonymous Content and Sugar23. For those of you who did not read the book when it was released over the summer, here is the synopsis: Ten years ago, college student Quincy Carpenter went on vacation with five friends[...]
Conor McGregor Documentary Notorious Hits Theaters…For One Day
Turns out, these last four years he was filming it all!   Conor McGregor Notorious Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syOgWwz2fiEVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Conor McGregor: Notorious – Official Trailer (Universal Pictures) HD (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syOgWwz2fiE) Conor McGregor is the biggest star in the history of Mixed Martial Arts and one of the biggest sports stars alive today. Filmed over the course[...]
Bride of Frankenstein
Universal Pictures's Bride of Frankenstein reboot has been moved back into pre-production Word is that director Bill Condon is continuing to work on the script and the studio has undated the film, which has been scheduled for February 14th, 2019 Production would've started in February 2018, but they want to hold off until they are happy[...]
Umbrella Academy
However, they are drawn together again at the funeral of their mentor, and to face a threat to the whole planet. Art by James Jean The Dark Horse comics, by Way and artist Gabriel Ba, had been optioned for a film initially by Universal Pictures before changing gears to a television series under Universal Cable Productions[...]
Trailer For 'American Made' Teases A Truly Insane True Story
The trailer, which was supposed to be released with Cruise's The Mummy this weekend, leaked early and Universal Pictures put up a high-quality version. Summary: A pilot lands work for the CIA and as a drug runner in the south during the 1980s. American Made, directed by Doug Liman, stars Tom Cruise, Caleb Landry Jones, Domhnall[...]
A Poster And Another Trailer Teaser For The Tom Cruise Mummy Movie
Universal Pictures this morning has released a new poster for their Tom Cruise starring version of The Mummy Set to hit theaters June 9th, they have also released  one of those dreaded "teaser for the trailer' videos that everyone seems to love. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4T29khzperw#action=shareVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: The Mummy – Official Trailer Teaser[...]
Ouija: Origin Of Evil Pranks Its Test Audience
Universal Pictures and the producers of Ouija: Origin of Evil decided to have a little fun with a test audience by having the Doris Zander character from the upcoming film pay a visit to one certain person in attendance. The follow up to the 2014 surprise hit is set in 1965 Los Angeles, as a widowed[...]
Universal Slates Jurassic World 2 For Summer 2018
In what has to be the least surprising announcement since Marvel approved Guardians of the Galaxy 2, Universal Pictures has set July 22nd, 2018 for a sequel to their mega-hit Jurassic World And like with GotG2, Chris Pratt will be returning for the second go round along with Bryce Dallas Howard Colin Trevorrow who directed[...]
Universal Pictures Options Millar And Murphy's Chrononauts
Universal Pictures has optioned the Mark Millar and Sean Gordon Murphy time-travel / adventure comic Chrononauts The story of the first two men to travel through time just hit comic shops this week The film will be produced by Chris Morgan who has written five of the Fast & The Furious films including Furious 7[...]
Furious 7 – An Extended First Look
Universal Pictures has released an extended first look at the skydiving car scene from the film I'm curious to see the film just to hear the explanation of a plan that involves dropping cars from an airplane. Furious 7 opens April 3rd. [youtube]http://youtu.be/RDxQPRnIMdA[/youtube] It's less than a month away from the release of Furious 7 starring Vin[...]
Universal's Wolfman Reboot Gets Its Screenwriter
Universal Pictures has confirmed a report from Deadline that Aaron Guzikowski (Prisoners) will script the upcoming The Wolfman movie This is the second time Universal has tried to reboot the franchise having misfired with the 2010 Anthony Hopkins and Benicio Del Toro film. Guzikowski is currently working on The Red Road, a Sundance TV series that[...]