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Now Captain America still leads when you look at the global take, but the film is producing far better than the studio had hoped. That caused some to worry that Dory would stand in the way of Illumination / Universal's new animated feature The Secret Life of Pets. Nope… nothing to worry about here. The film is estimated[...]

Now, Universal has officially announced a feature adaptation for the hit Broadway musical scheduled for theaters December 20th, 2019 The Wizard of Oz prequel has long since been in development with director Stephen Daldry being attached back in 2012. Wicked has been seen by more than 50 million fans worldwide and broke the $1 Billion mark[...]

In Universal Pictures' Jem and the Holograms, four aspiring musicians will take the world by storm when they see that the key to creating your own destiny lies in finding your own voice. Jem and the Holograms will be in theaters October 23rd. [youtube]https://youtu.be/AXdE3yy7Fdk[/youtube] The latest trailer for Jem And The Holograms is set up like a[...]

Universal has tapped former Fringe showrunner Jeff Pinkner to rewrite their Creature From The Black Lagoon The original concept was created in 1954 by Jack Arnold and focused around a group of scientist who embark upon a fossil-hunting expedition up the Amazon river They encounter a pre-historic half-human and half-fish creature that falls in love with one of the[...]

Universal has released a new featurette for Ted 2 with stars Seth MacFarlane, Mark Wahlberg and Amanda Seyfried talking about furthering the characters and gong new places in the sequel. Seth MacFarlane returns as writer, director and voice star of Ted 2, Universal and Media Rights Capital's follow-up to the highest-grossing original R-rated comedy of all[...]

What we'd been hearing is that though Marvel had the rights to make Hulk films and use the character, Universal retained the rights to distribute any solo Hulk film And according to Mark that is essentially true: Despite obtaining the cinematic rights to make Hulk movies, Marvel did not obtain distribution rights Universal held those rights,[...]

Universal Pictures has hired Philip Gawthorne to script a big screen adaptation of the classic TV series Kojak The 70's series about a bald homicide detective that liked Lollipops and the tag line "Who loves ya, baby." was played by Telly Savalas So to play Detective Theo Kojak in the remake, the studio has turned[...]

So Universal's Jurassic World dethroned The Avengers as the top box office film of all time… so how does Marvel's Kevin Feige react to that? With class And probably a bit of excitement as Chris Pratt now gets ready to film Guardians Of The Galaxy 2. Congrats Mr Spielberg @UniversalPics @Legendary @LeDoctor @colintrevorrow and especially @prattprattpratt[...]

Jurassic World has surpassed all expectations and hit an opening weekend tally of $209 Million. Far greater than the $115 - $135 Million that folks were

At 7 PM last night, Universal threw open the gates to Jurassic World The latest film in the dinosaur franchise pulled in $18.5 million dollars on 3,229 screens The experts are now estimating that for the weekend we can expect the film to make between $115 and $135 million. To put that in perspective, Furious 7[...]

In cinemas beginning June 12th, Disney will be adding more than six minutes of footage of the upcoming Ant-Man movie from Marvel Studios ahead of Universal Pictures' Jurassic World and will play for the duration of that film's run in IMAX theatres. A sneak peek of the sneak peek can be found below. Ant-Man opens in IMAX[...]

One of the funniest things from Despicable Me films have been the Minions, and now the little fellows are getting a prequel movie of their own... which

As part of the promotion for the new Jurassic World film, Universal and Legendary have released this new viral video done as an infomercial for InGen Led by B.D Wong as Dr Henry Wu, we see the technology behind the genetic manipulation of dinosaur DNA… and totally get the "we're playing God and it will[...]

Seems that the original distribution deal to release the Ed Norton film is still in place and Marvel Studios would have to make a deal with Universal as the company still hold the distribution rights. The actor also said he's still under contract for four more movies He speculated that could mean Avengers: Infinity War Part[...]

Universal aired a new Jurassic World TV spot during last night's The Walking Dead season finale. The film centers around a fully functional dinosaur theme park built on the island of Isla Nubar When attendance starts to drop, the corporation behind the park genetically engineers a Velociraptor hybrid that turns out to be far more intelligent than[...]

This Summer, LEGO Jurassic World is going to be hitting around about the same time as the new movie. And how could you not be excited? Tt games have a

On his and Kelly Sue McConnick's mailing list, Matt Fraction wrote about the news that they have entered into a two year deal with Universal regarding their work for television. I was reminded of Kelly Sue DeConnick's comment that she took the Prometheus gig at Dark Horse, so she could be part of a writers room-style environment/summit, something that[...]

A new trailer for Furious 7 was released by Universal and it's full of action This 3 minute trailer introduces us to Ian Shaw (Jason Statham) the films bad guy who is hunting down Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel) and his team after what they did to Ian's brother Owen in the previous film. Continuing the global exploits[...]

Universal Pictures has released a trailer for its new horror film Unfriended The film stars Shelley Hennig, Moses Jacob Storm, Renee Olstead, and Will Peltz It tells the story of a girl and her friends who are being stalked by someone seeking vengeance for an on-line shamming of a vicious bully that led her to kill[...]

Every half hour a new group would be let in and shown a collection of trailers and then lead out through a side door where movie props awaited. The first trailer show was what they called the "sizzle" real for Universal and Legendary Pictures Warcraft that opens in March 2016 The very first shot you see[...]

The Universal adaptation of the BOOM! Studios comic Day Men has landed Will Simmons to write the screenplay. Day Men is created by Matt Gagnon and co-written with Michael Alan Nelson with art by Brian Stelfreeze The series takes a twist on the normal vampire tale as it focuses on the humans that work to protect[...]

Universal has a plan to turn their classic monsters – The Mummy, Frankenstein, Dracula, Wolfman – into a Marvel-style shared universe They hired Alex Kurtzman and Chris Morgan to develop the universe starting with the Jon Spaihts written The Mummy: The First Monster being first out of the gate. If you believe Badass Digest, that last[...]

Universal's The Huntsman, the prequel to Snow White And The Huntsman, is being set for an April 22, 2016 The movie recently had director Frank Darabont (The Walking Dead) come aboard to take over the project and he has written the latest draft of the script The movie will focus on the previous meeting of[...]

In an interview with IGN.com, the head of Marvel Studios was asked about the possiblity of Universal and Legendary Pictures making a Sub-Mariner movie Kevin Feige responded with, "No." They then asked him if a Namor film was going to be made, would Marvel be the one to make it… "Yes, but it's slightly more complicated than[...]

We've been getting an idea of what Roberto Orci is up to since the split, but what is his former partner doing? Alex Kurtzman and writer Chris Morgan have been tapped to reboot Universal's classic monster movie franchises according to deadline.com. Before the Fast and the Furious, Jurassic Park and the Bourne franchises became what Universal[...]

Universal Studios Hollywood has announces it is cancelling its Bill & Ted Halloween Horror Nights show, heavily criticised for being homophobic Also racist Also terrible.. The focus of their ire was the portrayal of Superman, who was "turned gay" by being sprinkled with "fairy dust" before turning into a string of gay stereotypes played for laughs[...]

Well, deadline.com is reporting that Universal has indeed optioned the month old property for what is being described as "a pre-emptive seven-figure bid". The two studios have worked together recently on 2 Guns which opened up with 27.4 million and took #1 at the box office for the weekend That result led Universal to want to dive into the[...]

I learned this the first time I went to the San Diego Comic Con in 2010. Gerry Conway Asks Fans To Crowd Source Payments For DC Comic Creators  Gerry Conway writes; I need your help. Most-Read TV/Film Stories Monday: Pacific Rim Is Not Like Transformers, But Try Telling That To Twitter Despite Guillermo Del Toro's Pacific Rim having almost nothing in[...]

Ed Brown writes for Bleeding Cool. Universal have now closed a deal to take the sequel to Dumb and Dumber from Warner Bros This means we'll soon enough see Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels return as the dull duo, apparently embarking on another road trip. First, though Peter Farrelly and Bobby Farrelly have to finish another rewrite of[...]

September 21st 2012, opening night of the 22nd Universal Horror Nights Wow What-an-amazing-night. POTENTIAL SPOILERS AHEAD I've tried to keep this review vague for those of you that want to be surprised by the attraction, and detailed enough for those of you who can't make it Hopefully you will be able to grasp an idea of what[...]