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Universal Epic Universe: Get a first look at the planned theme park from Universal Orlando Resorts featuring movie-themed “portals”

Posted 2 years ago

Universal reveals their plans for a new grand tourist destination that will transport guests into the worlds of their universe.

Horror Movie News

The Mummy director Alex Kurtzman says film was the biggest failure of his life

Posted 4 years ago

Universal pinned a lot of hope on their 2017 reboot of The Mummy (watch it HERE). That movie was supposed to be a franchise starter, the beginning of the Dark Universe, a series of revivals of Universal Monsters properties that...

Dark Army could be Paul Feig’s next film, is meant to start a franchise

Posted 5 years ago

A year and a half ago, Universal Pictures hired Bridesmaids / Ghostbusters 2016 director Paul Feig to write, direct, and produce (with Laura Fischer) a monster movie called Dark Army that would "include characters from Universal's classic monster library and...

Dark Universe: Eric Heisserer knew Universal monster movies wouldn’t work

Posted 5 years ago

Screenwriter Eric Heisserer's credits include Arrival, Final Destination 5, Bird Box, and the remake of A Nightmare on Elm Street – and if Universal's Dark Universe plans had worked out, he would also have been credited as a writer on...

Eric Heisserer wasn’t surprised by failure of the Dark Universe franchise

Posted 5 years ago

Once upon a time, Universal Pictures laid out an ambitious plan to assemble their classic Universal Monsters into a cinematic franchise that they dubbed the Dark Universe. The studio gathered up a bunch of stars to populate their new franchise,...

Dark Army: Paul Feig is determined to make Universal monster film

Posted 5 years ago

Almost a year and a half has passed since it was announced that Bridesmaids / Ghostbusters 2016 director Paul Feig was set to write, direct, and produce (alongside Laura Fischer) a Universal monster movie called Dark Army, which would "include characters...

Artwork shows Swamp Thing and Constantine from scrapped Justice League Dark

Posted 6 years ago

There have been a couple JUSTICE LEAGUE DARK animated movies, but attempts to make an live action adaptation of the DC Comics property, which follows a team of heroes with supernatural abilities, have proven more difficult. The project spent years...

Invisible Man’s Leigh Whannell to direct Ryan Gosling’s Wolfman remake!

Posted 6 years ago

After two false starts to recreate the Universal Monster universe (the first cinematic universe, starting in the 40's with FRANKENSTEIN MEETS THE WOLFMAN) with the failures of both DRACULA UNTOLD and the Tom Cruise-led THE MUMMY, Universal seemed to have finally hit...

David Koepp gives more info on his Bride of Frankenstein remake!

Posted 6 years ago

Writer/director David Koepp (STIR OF ECHOES, SECRET WINDOW) conducted an interview with the Boo Crew Podcast recently about his upcoming film YOU SHOULD HAVE LEFT. During that discussion, his long-gestating BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN remake came up, and Koepp talked about...

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