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‘Jungle Cruise’ Early Buzz Draws Favorable Comparisons to ‘The Mummy’ and ‘Romancing the Stone’

Jungle Cruise is the latest attempt to bring one of Disney’s trademark theme park rides to the big screen, and the studio is hoping it will follow in the footsteps of Pirates of the Caribbean. The good news is that the early reactions say the adventure starring Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt has the thrills […]

Hear me out: why Deep Rising isn’t a bad movie

The latest in our series of writers defending movies hated by most is a plea to reconsider a boisterously entertaining B-movie horrorDeep Rising, Stephen Sommers’ second-best film, opened a year prior to The Mummy, his best film, and met dismissive poo-pooing from critics: “Alien meets Titanic”, read the negative notices. A couple of positive notices […]

‘Shadow and Bone’ Creator Eric Heisserer on Why Universal’s Original Dark Universe Plan Bombed

The writing was on the walls in 2017 when “The Mummy,” the patient zero of Universal’s planned Dark Universe mega-franchise, bombed at the box office. With projected losses of nearly $100 million for Universal Pictures, the film failed to launch what was supposed to be a sprawling Marvel Cinematic Universe analog for the studio. While […]

The Quarantine Stream: ‘The Mummy’ is Good Old Fashioned Dumb Fun

(Welcome to The Quarantine Stream, a series where the /Film team shares what they’ve been watching while social distancing during the Covid-19 pandemic.) The Movie: The Mummy Where You Can Stream It: HBO Max The Pitch: Before Universal attempted (and botched) the Dark Universe, there was 1999’s The Mummy, a film that was billed as […]

‘Dracula’, ‘Frankenstein’, and Other Classic Universal Monster Movies Will Briefly Be Available for Free on YouTube This Month

If you made a movie-related New Years resolution to catch up on some old horror classics, here’s some good news: Dracula, Frankenstein, The Mummy, and several more classic Universal monster movies will be available to stream on YouTube for free later this month. Find out when you can stream these titles – and when they’ll […]

Channing Tatum Reuniting With Lord And Miller For Universal Monster Movie

The Dark Universe is dead, long live the Dark Universe! Despite 2017’s “The Mummy” utterly failed to launch a cinematic universe, it seems like Universal is not ready to give up on a monster universe. After the success of “The Invisible Man,” the studio is already seeing to enter its “Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein” […]

‘The Mummy’ Animated Series Exists, But Should It? | Saturday Mourning Cartoons

https://youtu.be/–RoOlgK3f8 Listen / download here: Did you know The Mummy franchise had itself an animated series? We didn’t either. The launch of Peacock TV brought that little nugget to our attention, so we decided to give it a watch to see how it holds up nearly 20 years later. You can watch both seasons of […]

‘The Matrix’ Trilogy, ‘Jurassic Park’ Among Popular Films Leaving Peacock Soon

If you want to jack in to “The Matrix” trilogy, adventure with the denizens of “Shrek,” or set course for the first three “Jurassic Park” films, do it soon: Said films will be leaving Peacock at the end of the month.IndieWire has confirmed that those specific features, among others, will be taken off of the […]

Christopher McQuarrie Planning R-Rated Movie with Tom Cruise Playing a Character You Wouldn’t Expect

Tom Cruise has been enjoying working with Christopher McQuarrie for over a decade now. They first collaborated with Valkyrie back in 2008, have found great success with the Jack Reacher and Mission: Impossible franchises, not to mention Edge of Tomorrow (aka Live Die Repeat). Oh, and there’s The Mummy too. With production on the back-to-back […]

Exclusive: Paul Feig Gives Update on ‘Dark Army’: “I Want to Make a True Monster Movie”

Filmmaker Paul Feig is eager to get his monster movie Dark Army off the ground, but it sounds like Universal Pictures is still figuring out how it wants to approach its library of monster titles. One may recall that, a few years ago, Universal was developing an interconnected universe approach to the Universal Monsters. The […]

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