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Universal/Blumhouse raked in an impressive close to $123M worldwide with their low budget horror ode to Groundhog Day.  The film, while a familiar premise, was original enough in it's hero and execution. Jessica Rothe, who played main character Tree Gelbman, is reliving the same day over and over again.  It just happens to be her birthday,[...]

Universal Pictures apparently showed the opening sequence from Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom during their CinemaCon presentation in Las Vegas, and shockingly, it featured some dinosaurs. Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard from Entertainment Weekly's Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom issue Stars Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard were on hand to introduce the footage and a new trailer, joking around with the[...]

Welcome to the studio presentation for Universal Pictures where we'll be seeing some of the upcoming movies from this studio including Jurassic World; Fallen Kingdom and more. Join us for this live blog and see what we find out next [Mark Seifert on relay for Bleeding Cool Head Film Critic Kaitlyn Booth, who is live[...]

Tommyknockers is getting a brand new adaptation from Universal Pictures for a planned 2020 release The film, based on the Stephen King novel of the same name, will be directed by James Wan of The Conjuring fame. The book was turned into a television series in 1993 starring Jimmy Smits and Marg Helgenberger The book is[...]

Halloween is coming... and there is nothing you can do to stop it. Michael Myers returns to theaters this October, and we have our first poster from the film!

If you didn't like that part of Ready Player One, you're really not going to like Armada. Back in 2012, the film rights for Armada were scooped up by Universal Pictures, before the book was even released, giving Cline two properties at two of the biggest studios looking to be made into movies. That's not to say Ernie wasn't[...]

I mean, Grinch. Illumination, the studio behind Universal's animated features as Despicable Me and Minions, is behind this new take on the classic 1957 Dr Seuss story The original animated film first premiered in 1966 and has remained a seminal touchstone of the holiday season. Just in case you aren't familiar — The Grinch, a green creature with a remarkably small[...]

A new blog post and a new video were posted to the viral site for Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom from the in-universe dinosaur protection group.

Ron Moore's reimagined series is the touchstone example of how to take an existing franchise and update it, modern story and modern casting at it's best.  For whatever reason, Universal decided in 2014 it was time (already, wth) to redo the Cylons vs humans story. Originally, Bryan Singer was developing a Battlestar Galactica TV series as early as[...]

As a result, both Universal and Legendary have teamed up to grab the rights to Red Notice. According to a report from THR, Red Notice was the subject of an intense bidding war with every studio vying for the rights Director Rawson Marshall Thurber also needed $10 million, and the budget for the movie is expected to[...]

Yippie ki yay, Mister Falcon! Soon after, Universal released the full trailer online during Jimmy Fallon's post-Super-Bowl show Here's the film's summary: Global icon Dwayne Johnson leads the cast of Legendary's Skyscraper as former FBI Hostage Rescue Team leader and U.S war veteran Will Sawyer, who now assesses security for skyscrapers On assignment in China he finds[...]

A brand-new teaser for Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom shows some new footage from the upcoming sequel. Watch it right here!

Because obviously we needed a new The Purge film just in time for 4th of July, Blumhouse and Universal released the title, poster, and release date for their upcoming fourth installment in the horror franchise. No, the fact that today is the State of the Union speech is not lost on us, but it's really the poster[...]

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[...]