The Mummy

The Mummy producer: Dark Universe should have been built up slowly

Posted 7 years ago

Two years ago, a new version of THE MUMMY made over $409 million at the global box office and was still considered such a failure that it caused Universal to scrap their plans for a Dark Universe of interconnected monster...

Chris Morgan on the mistakes of Universal’s scrapped Dark Universe franchise

Posted 7 years ago

I love the Universal Monsters; Dracula, Frankenstein's Monster, The Mummy, The Wolf Man, The Gill-Man, and more. The movies featuring those characters are some of my favourites, so when the studio announced their plans to bring all the classic monsters...

Universal monsters get an officially licensed board game

Posted 7 years ago

Universal's classic monsters are being assembled together for a new project, but this isn't a cinematic reboot of HOUSE OF FRANKENSTEIN (or HOUSE OF DRACULA). This time fans will be able to take on the monsters themselves by playing the...

Punisher: War Zone’s Lexi Alexander wants to reboot The Mummy for Universal

Posted 7 years ago

When producers Alex Kurtzman and Chris Morgan were in charge of Universal's "Dark Universe" project that would see the studio's classic monsters and madmen receiving modern day reboots all set in the same shared cinematic universe, there were multiple scripts for Dark...

Director finally comments of the failure of Tom Cruise’s The Mummy

Posted 7 years ago

It's no secret at this point that director Alex Kurtzman's THE MUMMY (buy it on Blu-ray HERE) starring Tom Cruise was a flop. Not only did the film die a slow death at the box-office, but it also went and killed...

Alex Kurtzman reflects on “painful” experience of The Mummy

Posted 7 years ago

Who would’ve thought that a cinematic franchise akin to the Marvel Cinematic Universe around a series of classic horror movie monsters would ever be a bomb? Certainly not Universal Pictures, who pumped hundreds of millions into kicking off their shared...

It’s the Booze Talkin: Should Blumhouse take over the Dark Universe?

Posted 8 years ago

It was the summer of 2017. What should have been the rebirth of the classic movie monster universe ended up toppling what could have been. I didn’t hate THE MUMMY starring Tom Cruise and Sofia Boutella. In fact, I found...

Jason Blum would love to resurrect Universal’s Dark Universe

Posted 8 years ago

Gather round, boys and girls, and let me tell you the tale of the Dark Universe. ‘Twas a time when Universal Pictures thought it wise to kick-start a shared universe of monster movies akin to the Marvel Universe. Sadly those...

Awesome Art We’ve Found Around The Net: Darth Vader, Rambo, Saga, Shazam

Posted 8 years ago

Theodore Some cliche somewhere said that 'a picture is worth a thousand words.' This has proven to be the case for me and especially when it comes to fan art. I have always sought out great fan art and have...

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