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Joshua Williamson and Andrei Bressan's Birthright will be coming to a theater near you sometime in the future, courtesy of Universal Pictures and Skybound Entertainment The Image Comics fantasy series, which also features colors by Adriano Lucas, will be produced by David Alpert, Bryan Furst, Sean Furst, Jeb Brody, and Robert Kirkman. Kirkman, the third famous person to ever[...]

Universal Studios Japan is getting a VR experience ride set in the world of Final Fantasy which will be available for a limited time from launch until June. The ride, titled Final Fantasy XR, has you putting on a virtual reality helmet and watching Final Fantasy type things like an epic flashy fight or a magitek Empire[...]

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom details have emerged, and it's thankfully a bit of a break from the traditional Jurassic Park story.

The first footage from Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom has been posted ahead of the trailer release due out sometime next month.

Producers Alex Kurtzman and Chris Morgan have fled Universal's Dark Universe franchise, so quickly that there are still Alex Kurtzman and Chris Morgan shaped puffs of smoke in the spot they were standing in, following the disappointing performance of the Kurtzman-directed The Mummy The news comes via a report from THR, which notes that the future[...]

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[...]

Disney's received a huge boost to Movies Anywhere today, with studios Fox, Sony, Universal and Warner Bros coming aboard the digital movie download service in time for it's U.S launch While Movies Anywhere is owned by Disney, representatives from each of the participating studios will make up an advisory committee that will work directly with the[...]

Actor Tom Cruise and director Doug Liman talk about their upcoming Universal Pictures film American Made about a contraband runner in the 80s

Universal has breathed their sigh of relief, and now they can justify going forward with the Dark Universe without raising too many eyebrows It's just a shame that they are going to have a foundation so flimsy it might as well be made of mummy bones. Hopefully the next entry, The Bride of Frankenstein — due out[...]

Universal Pictures has optioned the Melissa Del Bosque book Bloodlines: The True Story of a Drug Cartel, The FBI and the Battle for a Horse-Racing Dynasty — which may be one of the longest book titles ever Deadline is reporting that Channing Tatum is attached to star and writer Jonathan Herman (Straight Outta Compton) will write[...]

Universal has slated June 28th, 2019 for the film that will star Chris Pratt (Guardians of the Galaxy) Pratt has been attached to play the new breed of assassin that combines the toughest skills of cowboys, ninjas and vikings He signed on to the film before the release of Jurassic World. The character first appeared as[...]

The Dark Universe, for those who don't know, is the Marvel Studios-esque "shared universe" idea that Universal Pictures is trying with the classic "Universal Monsters" like Dracula, the Wolfman, the Invisible Man, and the aforementioned Mummy This was intended to start with the Luke Evans-led Dracula Untold, but that proved to be a non-starter with unimpressive box office[...]

Universal Pictures has released an official trailer for their new crime thriller, The Snowman It's based on the novel by Jo Nesbø, directed by Tomas Alfredson (Let the Right One in) and written by Matthew Michael Carnahan and Hossein Amini and stars Michael Fassbender, Rebecca Ferguson, Toby Jones, J.K Simmons, Val Kilmer, and Chloë Sevigny[...]

A new featurette for the fighting choreography on 'Atomic Blonde' makes it look painful and awesome.

Universal has now released a 360° video showcasing just how the stunt was filmed This includes a discussion with star Tom Cruise who went director Alex Kurtzman and pushed for this type of stunt after reading about the plane crash in the script The video is surprisingly long for a behind-the-scenes piece, clocking in at[...]

And while I'm not a Tom Cruise hater, I did laugh when one guy said: "You will greatly enjoy seeing Cruise violently thrown off every edge of the screen." This feels like a very different role for Cruise than his usually unstoppable hero (Mission Impossible, Jack Reacher, Knight & Day) and I'm looking forward to[...]

Wonder Woman's massive success may be causing some trouble for the first film in Universal's beleaguered Dark Universe The Mummy, directed by Alex Kurtzman and starring Tom Cruise, Sofia Boutella, Russell Crowe, Annabelle Wallis, Jake Johnson, and Courtney B Vance, has seen its opening weekend projections downgraded from $40 million to $38 million to $35 million this[...]

Last week, we learned the name of Universal's Marvel-style cinematic universe featuring its classic movie monster characters: Dark Universe, featuring the following lineup: Johnny Depp as the Invisible Man, Javier Bardem as Frankenstein's Monster, Tom Cruise as Nick Morton, Sofia Boutella as The Mummy, and Russell Crowe as Dr Henry Jekyll[...]

 Javier Bardem, perhaps best known for playing that character, and memorable parts in Skyfall and the current Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, has been rumored for the role of Frankenstein's Monster in the Universal Monsters Universe (Monsters Cinematic Universe? Do we have this phrase officially worked out yet? Somebody get on that and[...]

One needs look no further than Greece 2, Love Never Dies (the sequel to Phantom of the Opera), Annie Warbuck, and of course the non-classic that no one ever heard of, The Best Little Whorehouse Goes Public. But Universal, never one to let an opportunity to lose money pass them by (Land of the Lost or Cowboys & Aliens),[...]

Fans clamoring for a reboot of John Hughes seventeenth best movie, 1988's The Great Outdoors, have finally gotten their wish! Universal has signed Kevin Hart to star in the upcoming film which originally starred Dan Aykroyd and John Candy, according to a report from Deadline Michael De Luca is producing the remake, which is set to capture all the[...]

According to the former California governor, a change in management at Universal Pictures allowed the movie, long in development, to finally move forward A lot of Bleeding Cool readers have likened the relationship between this reporter and Bleeding Cool Editor-in-Chief Rich Johnston to the relationship between Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito in the film, with Johnston[...]

The Purge film franchise which began in 2013 with the film starring Ethan Hawke and Lena Headey, spawned two sequels including last year's The Purge: Election Year and with Purge 4 set for a July 2018 release, will also be getting a television series from original writer/director James DeMonaco, and ITV Studios in cooperation with[...]

Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, who brought Preacher to AMC, are now teaming with The Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman to adapt his other comic book Invincible as a film for Universal Pictures Reports say that Rogen / Goldberg will write, direct and producer the adaptation. Invincible is Kirkman's second longest running series, having been published continually[...]

The Universal Pictures film is written and directed by Stephen Gaghan, and does not have a release date yet. "At least its not Johnny Depp," said Doctor Dolittle fans upon learning of the news We'll keep you posted. Robert Downey Jr has just been cast as the new Doctor! Doctor Dolittle, that is Why, what doctor did[...]

The Trademark Office of the USA has refused the request, as it is seen as to close to the Universal Studios-held trademark on "The Invisible Man" based on their use of the character, itself based on the now-public-domain HG Wells character. But all is not lost, Marvel have asked for a suspension on this decision, in[...]

According to a report from THR, Universal has won a bidding war for "Little America," a new movie produced by Bay and his Platinum Dunes production company The setting of the movie is apparently "a dystopian future where a Donald Trump-like president has bankrupt America and China has called in its debts," and is compered to[...]

Universal Pictures has released three new behind-the-scenes videos for The Great Wall The story of European mercenaries searching for black powder who become embroiled in the defense of the Great Wall of China against a horde of monstrous creatures The featurettes take a look inside filming, focuses on director Zhang Yimou and talks about shooting in[...]

Universal Pictures has already rolled out a behind-the-scenes look at their upcoming film The Mummy after dropping the first trailer last night The film is big Star Tom Cruise says it's the biggest film he's ever done… and it's his first chance to work with his long time friend Russell Crowe This is Universal's chance[...]

It's been unclear if Dracula Untold was going to be part of Universal's Monster Universe for some time At one point, it most certainly seemed to be the plan, but its status has remained somewhat ambiguous since release. It seems we have an official word on it now though Collider report that at a press event[...]