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The Mummy projected for $40 million-plus box office debut

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Early tracking numbers suggest that The Mummy, the first entry in the Universal Monsters shared universe, will open with $40 million-plus during its debut weekend at the North American box office. The Hollywood Reporter confirmed that two services close to the site’s sources placed the opening at $40 million and $42 million, not including international […]

Kingsman 2 trailer, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 spoilers, Marvel praises Batgirl and more – Daily News Roundup

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MANNERS MAKETH THE MAN After releasing some new images of Taron Egerton and Channing Tatum, 20th Century Fox released a teaser for Kingsman: The Golden Circle. It’s only 15 seconds though, so blink and you’ll miss it! There’s also an official synopsis, which you can read here along with the trailer. BATGIRL? AWESOME. It took […]

Chris Morgan on the future of the Universal Monsters universe after The Mummy

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Universal is continuing to promote its upcoming Tom Cruise-led reboot of The Mummy ahead of its release this summer (in the past few days we’ve have had a TV spot, poster and an international trailer), and now producer Chris Morgan has been talking about their plans for the Universal Monsters shared universe moving foeward. Speaking to CinemaBlend, Morgan […]

More Transformers sequels, Daniel Craig staying on for more Bond, Deadpool 2 casting update and more – Daily News Roundup

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TILL ALL ARE ONE… If you thought the series was set to be done after Transformers: The Last Knight, you’d be very wrong! Not only are we getting another sequel and a Bumblebee spin-off, it’s being reported that Paramount have another fourteen movies planned in the Transformers universe. Yes, fourteen. “There are 14 stories written and there’s […]

2017’s trailers suggest we’re in for a dull year of blockbusters

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Tom Jolliffe on 2017’s blockbuster slate… With 2016 drawing to a close and a new year chock full of mega budget films on the horizon, Hollywood’s preferred formula for success is the same as it has been for at least 10 years (probably a lot longer). It almost seems hard to think of a tentpole […]

The Mummy director Alex Kurtzman discusses Universal’s shared Monster universe

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This past week saw Universal Pictures releasing the first trailer for The Mummy, the first of what is planned to be a shared Monsters universe, which will eventually see Sofia Boutella’s Mummy and Russell Crowe’s Dr. Henry Jekyll joined by the likes of The Invisible Man (Johnny Depp), Frankenstein’s Monster (Javier Bardem) and other iconic characters […]

Are Movie Studios Ruining Shared Universes?

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Ricky Church on whether movie studios are ruining shared universes… In the years since the Marvel Cinematic Universe began and its massive success at the box office has come a tidal wave of news that studios seek to emulate Marvel’s idea of a shared universe for their franchises. For some studios, namely Warner Bros. with […]

The Mummy reboot script is “a horror to read”

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Since the announcement of Universal’s shared Monsters Universe – which is set to kick off with The Mummy in 2017 – things have been a bit quiet. We’ve heard that new two writers have been hired to re-draft the script for Creature from the Black Lagoon, which could also have Scarlet Johannson attached to it, but […]

Revisiting the Cinematic Landscape of 1999

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Tom Jolliffe travels back in time 20 years to 1999 to look over the cinematic landscape… The millennium suddenly draws in. The century is in its final year. Cinema has a pre-occupation with apocalypse and disorder, chaos, among other things. It’s 1999. 20 years ago. That’s pretty frightening, but regardless, hold my hand, lets go […]