When Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince moved from November to July, every other studio studied their release plans for next summer and began getting out of the way. Yesterday, Universal Studios announced its feature film version of Land of the Lost will vacate its July 17 berth, avoiding opening the same day as the…
Following Universal Studio’s big screen adaptation of Land of the Lost, the company has signed to do the same with another show created by Sid and Marty Krofft: Sigmund and the Sea Monsters. The Kroffts will produce the new film, according to Variety, with Jimmy Miller. Dana Gould (The Simpsons) has been hired to write…
While promoting Bangkok Dangerous, actor Nicholas Cage told a roundtable full of reporters that he and Marvel Studios have begun talks about a sequel to 2007’s Ghost Rider. If the story goes forward, Cage indicated Hell’s bounty hunter would next be found in Europe, working with the Catholic Church. The first Ghost Rider film was…
Director Guillermo del Toro has pacted with Universal Studios to helm four new films, three remakes — Frankenstein, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Slaughterhouse-Five – plus an adaptation of Dan Simmons’ novel Drood. The director has also discussed his desires to make a film based on H.P. Lovecraft’s "At the Mountains of Madness” and…
Universal Studios Home Entertainment announced today that the DVD for The Incredible Hulk will be released on October 21 in a variety of formats.: a three-disc Special Edition DVD available for a limited time only; a two-disc Blu-ray release, offered in collectible 3D lenticular packaging for a limited time only; and a single-disc DVD edition….
Wanted, the film based on Mark Millar and J.G. Jones’ six-issue 2003 miniseries, will hit theaters at the end of this month, and the Universal Pictures marketing machine is chugging along in anticipation of the big day. Just in case you lost track of this one in all of the Iron Man and Incredible Hulk…
Last year’s excellent Vasilis Lolos story Last Call looks to be the latest comic-to-movie acquisition, as Variety reports that Universal Pictures has bought up the rights to the Oni Press project. "The Last Call," written and illustrated by Vasilis Lolos, centers on two teens on a joyride who get hit by a train — an…
Universal Pictures recently stepped up the promotional efforts for their upcoming adaptation of Wanted, the creator-owned Mark Millar/J.G. Jones miniseries published by Top Cow, with a pair of online items worth noting. In addition to a behind-the-scenes video that premiered on Empire Online this week and features some interesting thoughts from Millar about the project,…
Last week, we brought you news of the big partnership between Dark Horse Comics and Universal Studios. Over at CBR, Jeffrey Renaud chats with Dark Horse founder and president Mike Richardson about the deal, and touches on a few of the Dark Horse properties that could end up on the big screen. When offered Gerard…
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Universal Pictures and Dark Horse Entertainment today announced an exclusive production and distribution agreement which effectively makes Universal the new home for all of Dark Horse’s film, television and comics properties for the next three years. Specifically, this deal gives Universal the rights to all of the properties currently held…
Universal Pictures debuted a new trailer for Hellboy II: The Golden Army at this week’s ShoWest convention in Las Vegas. According to reports, the trailer included many of the new, strange creatures we’ve been hearing so much about, including the bizarre "Cathedral Head" and the massive cave troll, "Mr. Wink." ComingSoon.net has the following synopsis…
This news is not quite as good as actually getting to see the new The Incredible Hulk trailer today. However, at least there’s now an actual date you will see the trailer. According to an official release from Universal, that date is March 12th. Here’s the pertinant details from that very press release: The first…
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