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Pitch Perfect flourished like wildfire from seemingly out of nowhere. I loved it for what it was and still sort of catch myself watching it from time to time. It featured a nice cast of almost nobodies (not including Anna Ken...
| Nick Valdez |
The Purge takes place in some kind of future where the government makes all sorts of crime legal for one night (12 hours) a year. This "purge" apparently makes America better by reducing crime rates and unemployment somehow....
| Nick Valdez |
With this new trailer for Universal's Despicable Me 2 we're finally given a plot. You know how Gru became kind of a good guy at the end of the first one? That's going to change here. He's been recruited by the Anti-Vill...
| Nick Valdez |
So what would happen if you combined a science fiction film from Disney/Pixar and combined it with another science fiction film from Universal? Well you would have a mash up of Wall-E and Oblivion and their respective tr...
| Logan Otremba |
Universal Pictures really loves their movies to be released on IMAX. The month of April was rather busy for them with their release of Jurassic Park 3D in IMAX 3D for one week starting April 5th. Then Oblivion starring Tom Cr...
| Logan Otremba |
Deadline is reporting that Guillermo Del Toro is set up to produce a version of The Secret Garden by Beasts of the Southern Wild writer Lucy Alibar. Universal snapped up the pitch amiss a battle of four studios...
| Matthew Razak |
F. Gary Gray's Straight Outta Compton, a biopic of NWA, could finally wind up at Universal. The project has been in the works since 2009 and is currently with New Line, though a source with The Wrap says that negotiations bet...
| Hubert Vigilla |
UPDATE: Roberto Orci has confirmed, via Twitter (using a single word no less), that Locke and Key is really getting a film trilogy! Original story below. Several people in the comic world have told me that I'm missing o...
| Nick Valdez |
Take at look at the first teaser for Despicable Me 2 which focuses all on the little yellow Minion guys (who're getting their own film too). It premiered around Halloween, so you have a nice tribute to that in this short vid...
| Nick Valdez |
Justin Lin actually made a Fast & Furious movie enjoyable so he is clearly a miracle worker and needs to be given more awesome projects. Universal agrees and has greenlit his next project Subdivision, a sci-fi ...
| Matthew Razak |
Len Wiseman, right off the successful bombing of his Total Recall remake, is set to direct Universal's second remake of The Mummy for a 2014 release (the first being the four film franchise starring Brendan Fraser) with ...
| Nick Valdez |
Universal have announced a virtual smorgasbord of release date changes for its upcoming schedule, with the most noteworthy news being that Kick Ass 2, the sequel to Matthew Vaughan's post-modern teenage superhero pic, is set ...
| Xander Markham |
Seth MacFarlane's big-screen directoral debut, Ted, is coming out next week. It's natural that Universal would want to put out a red band trailer, but they've gone one step further and made a red band featurette that's certa...
| Bob Muir |
Well, it seems like Mark Miller may have been half-right. Universal is currently in talks with screenwriter Jeff Wadlow to put Kick-Ass 2 in production this August. The caveat here is that Wadlow isn't only writing the script...
| Bob Muir |
Universal have announced that two characters from their roster of classic monster movies will be making a comeback with the assistance of Tom Cruise and Star Trek writers Alex Kurtzman and Robert Orci. Cruise will take the st...
| Xander Markham |
I must be lucky to be able to post news about two of my favorite movies two days in a row. Yesterday it was the Child's Play remake and possible sequel, now it's a... remake of Back to the f*cking Future?!?! I'm sorry, ...
| Jamie R Stone |
While promoting his new movie Intruders (which Allistair didn't terribly care for), director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo revealed that he has left the Universal adaptation of the critically-acclaimed video game Bioshock, wit...
| Alex Katz |
Man, some days you just can't win. Universal has picked back up the long in-development movie based around a goddamned magical Ouija board that it dropped last year. McG, long set to direct, is out, and it's fairly likely the...
| Alex Katz |
With all the success Bridesmaids had last year, it was no wonder that Universal was foaming at the mouth with novelty dollar signs over their eyes at the prospect of making more money. Much like the film it Rule 63'...
| Andres Bolivar |
Universal Studios president Ron Meyer admitted at the Savannah Film Festival (no, me neither) that his studio's output in recent years has not always been of the highest quality and expressed his disappointment that some of t...
| Xander Markham |
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