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Dracula Untold moves closer to Halloween in 2014

Posted 13 years ago

Gary Shore’s DRACULA UNTOLD, starring Luke Evans, Dominic Cooper, Samantha Barks and Charlie Cox, has just been given a more Halloween-friendly release date by Universal Pictures. The studio had slated the film to open on October 3, 2014m but for...

The Test of Time: The Wolf Man (1941)

Posted 13 years ago

We all have movies we love. Movies we respect without question because of either tradition, childhood love, or because they’ve always been classics. However, as time keeps ticking, do those classics still hold up? So…the point of this here column...

Universal’s SyFy Films picks up Sci-Fi short Beyond for big screen treatment

Posted 13 years ago

Universal Pictures’ Syfy Films division has optioned the rights to the sci-fi short BEYOND, with the short’s director on board to produce and helm the big-screen translation, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Written, directed and produced by Raphael Rogers, BEYOND...

Universal creating a monstrous universe of movies starting with Van Helsing

Posted 13 years ago

As you’re well aware by now, Universal is in the process of digging all of its old monsters out of the grave and reviving them. They’re currently in production on DRACULA UNTOLD, and new versions of THE MUMMY and VAN HELSING...

Hugh Jackman interested in starring in spy drama Section 6 as the man who inspired James Bond’s boss

Posted 13 years ago

Hugh Jackman may never get the chance to play James Bond, but he may get to play the real man who inspired Ian Fleming's character of M. The highly touted script for SECTION 6 was purchased over the weekend for...

Bates Motel TV movie from 1987 now available on DVD!

Posted 13 years ago

Here’s something quite cool for you PSYCHO completists: The original pilot for “Bates Motel,” which aired in 1987 and starred Bud Cort and Lori Petty, has been quietly released by Universal as part of their “Universal Vault Series”. Yes, they’ve...

Exclusive pics from Halloween Horror Nights Orlando

Posted 13 years ago

Halloween is fast approaching and what better way to get yourself into the spirit of the scaring season than to make your way out to Universal's Halloween Horror Nights? This year is set up to be the scariest yet as...

Evil Dead helmer Fede Alvarez to take on adaptation of Dante’s Inferno video game

Posted 13 years ago

When it comes to adapting a video game for the big screen there’s tons of material to choose from but the challenge is finding something that actually translates well. Universal thought that 2010’s DANTE’S INFERNO from EA would be a...

The Conspiracy coming to the small screen as an NBC pilot

Posted 13 years ago

We've been seeing and hearing a lot from Christopher MacBride's chilling and compelling THE CONSPIRACY lately, learning earlier this year that XLrator had taken the US distribution rights to the film which hit VOD platforms and limited theaters last month....

The Mummy reboot may have found a Mama of a director

Posted 13 years ago

That reboot of THE MUMMY Universal Pictures is so intent on making might have just found its director: Andres Muschietti, best known as the guy who took his 5-minute short film MAMA and, with the help of Guillermo del Toro,...

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