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Image Courtesy of Universal Pictures. Halloween Kills More Aggressive, Looking At The Culture Around Fear "It's one thing to be afraid of the Bogey Man, to have someone who might be in the closet, under the bed, creeping around your house But what we wanted to explore next was confusion, misinformation, and paranoia What happens when fear[...]

Wonder Woman 1984 continues to either prove that the HBO Max hybrid release model is not going to work at all or that people are being smart and staying

Universal Pictures were the ones who saw the writing on the wall and delayed all of their movies a year right out of the gate and then released Trolls World Tour on VOD to the anger of theater owners They have now worked out a deal with AMC and Cinemark to shorten the theatrical window[...]

Image Courtesy of Universal Pictures Halloween Kills More Aggressive, Looking At The Culture Around Fear "It's one thing to be afraid of the Bogey Man, to have someone who might be in the closet, under the bed, creeping around your house But what we wanted to explore next was confusion, misinformation, and paranoia What happens when fear[...]

Wonder Woman 1984 takes in $5.5M domestically and hits $118M worldwide. Soul more than doubles its opening weekend in China, going from $5.5M to $13.8M.

Universal Pictures is the winner of the pandemic when it comes to making good business decisions They were ahead of the pack when they decided to delay F9 by a full year instead of a couple of months They also decided to move all of their then in theaters movies to VOD, but the big[...]

When Universal Pictures came out and decided to delay the release of the scheduled for May release of F9, no one was surprised However, what did surprise people was the decision to delay the movie a full year to April 2021 At the time, it seemed like Universal was overreacting as everyone thought things would[...]

Universal Pictures might be at the top of the list in terms of studios that have been playing it safe during the COVID-19 pandemic While many studios delayed their major blockbusters to the late summer or fall at the beginning of the pandemic, Universal delayed everything a year right out of the gate It ended[...]

Credit: Illumination/Universal Pictures Buster (Oscar® winner Matthew McConaughey) and his cast have turned the New Moon Theater into a local hit, but Buster has his eyes on a bigger prize: Debuting a new show at the Crystal Tower Theater in glamorous Redshore City. But with no connections, Buster and his cast—including harried mother pig Rosita (Oscar® winner Reese Witherspoon),[...]

The Russo Bros. will direct Millie Bobby Brown in graphic novel adaptation The Electric State for Universal.

Universal Pictures looks to tap David Koepp to pen the latest live-action film adaptation of the popular serial in The Green Hornet and Kato The franchise was last adapted to film in 2011 in The Green Hornet, directed by Michel Gondry with Seth Rogan in the title role and Jay Chou as his partner Kato[...]

Credit: Universal Pictures Van Helsing Is In Great Hands Watch Overlord If You Haven't They really screwed up with that first Van Helsing film, making it basically a superhero film What they always needed to do with the character is to hire a quirky, smart-aleck person to handle the monster hunter Think the Robert Downey Jr[...]

Global action hero Liam Neeson (Taken franchise, Batman Begins) stars as a notorious bank robber who turns himself in only to be double-crossed by a pair of corrupt FBI agents in the gripping thriller Honest Thief, available to own on Digital December 8, 2020, and on Blu-ray™, DVD, and On-Demand December 29, 2020, from Universal Pictures Home Entertainment[...]

Freaky will come home to VOD streaming services on December 4th, less than a month after opening in theaters.

Phil Lord & Chris Miller team-up w/ Channing Tatum for a new Universal Monsters film...but which one will it be?

When the pandemic first started, Universal Pictures opted to release Trolls World Tour on PVOD AMC Theatres was not happy about this and threatened not to show Universal movies anymore At the end of July, when it became apparent that COVID-19 was not going to be a thing that went away quickly, AMC and Universal[...]

Judd Apatow is taking his next film to Netflix and it will have to do with making a film during a pandemic.

It another unexpected announcement of a franchise revival; it looks like we'll be getting more of The Scorpion King! It was just announced today through Deadline that Universal Pictures, along with Dwayne Johnson and Dany Garcia's Seven Buck Productions, is interested in relaunching The Scorpion King title and has locked down Jonathan Herman to write the[...]

Universal Pictures cast Chris Pratt (Jurassic World) and Chinese star Wu Jing in an action-comedy English-language remake of Saigon Bodyguards Anthony and Joe Russo will produce reuniting with Pratt, previously worked on Avengers films in Infinity War (2018) and Endgame (2019) The brothers also worked with Wu on Wolf Warrior 2 Based on the 2016[...]

Image courtesy of Universal Pictures One of the film's stars in Sam Neill, documented his journey from the time he arrived on set to finish He retweeted Trevorrow, adding, "There were days we thought we might not make it But we have…we pulled off what seemed well nigh impossible Great crew Lovely cast[...]

Will Halloween Kills and Halloween Ends be the true end for Michael Myers? The producers aren't sure yet, but probably not.

Credit Blumhouse/Universal Pictures Halloween Kills Tackles Trauma Head On, Like The First One "What we were seeing around the country of the power, of the rage of voices, big groups of people coming together enraged at the set of circumstances, that's what the movie is The movie is about a mob And so it's very interesting because[...]

Credit: Universal Pictures Vin Diesel is said to have passed on 2 Fast and Tokyo Drift because he thought the scripts were stupid, so with this one, the idea was to get back to the original characters and have it feel like the first film again Which, of course, meant getting everyone back (because Tokyo Drift[...]

He will be re-teaming with Universal Pictures for the film, who also released his films Get Out and Us The original 1991 film was directed by Wes Craven and starred Brandon Adams, Everett McGill, Wendy Robie, A.J Langer, and Ving Rhames For those that never saw the film, it followed a young boy and two adult thieves who become[...]

Universal released a new trailer for body swap horror film Freaky today, ahead of Thursday's Blum Fest 2020.

What was once looking to be a minor hit for Universal Pictures back in 2001, the Fast and Furious movies have slowly become one of the biggest franchises ever and certainly the biggest one for Universal Ever since the fourth movie, these things that have blowing box office records out of the water, and the[...]

Image courtesy of Universal Pictures We Don't Need A Back To The Future 4 Ever. "We told a complete story with the trilogy If we went back and made another one, we'd have Michael J Fox, who will be sixty next year, and he has Parkinson's Disease Do we want to see Marty McFly at age sixty[...]

Credit Universal Pictures/Blumhouse Thank god As a lifelong fan of the franchise, it made me the saddest this year when this got delayed I found the 2018 Halloween to be a strong entry into the mythos, and would have been content if that was the end But, like a phoenix, Michael rises from the ashes again[...]

A remake of the 2001 Nicole Kidman horror film The Others is being set up at Universal Pictures for future release.

The teaser trailer is here for The Addams Family 2 which will release on October 8th, 2021. Check it out right here.