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Jordan Peele’s next project is set to be a remake of The People Under the Stairs for Universal. Based on Wes Craven’s 1991 horror satire, Collider reports that Peele will produce the new film alongside Win Rosenfield via their Monkeypaw Productions house. It isn’t anticipated that Peele will direct himself, and it’s not known if he’ll […]
No Time to Die, the highly anticipated new James Bond film starring Daniel Craig, has been delayed once again due to coronavirus concerns. The film, which is directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga and also stars Rami Malek, will now release worldwide on April 2, 2021. Initially No Time to Die was scheduled to arrive in theaters in […]
Kanye West hopped on Twitter on Monday to air out a few of his grievances. West started by threatening to no longer release music “till I’m done with my contract with Sony and Universal.” Kanye took aim at the French media company Vivendi, which owns a majority stake in the Universal Music Group. ‘Ye is also said he’s seeking a public apology from […]
Months after they publicly engaged in a bitter feud, resulting in AMC saying they’d no longer play Universal films at their movie theaters, both AMC Theatres and Universal have signed a multi-year deal that will let the studio premiere their films on “premium video on-demand” just three weeks after they’ve come out in theaters. This could end […]
NBCUniversal CEO Jeff Shell revealed to the Wall Street Journal that Quentin Tarantino once stormed out of a meeting with the head of Universal when he pitched the idea of releasing The Hateful Eight on iPhones. As WSJ reports, “Jeff Shell, at the time the head of the Universal studio, voiced his own pitch. ‘What if we released it […]
Steven Victor has added another pillar to his Victor Victor Worldwide imprint. On Tuesday, the Universal Music Group executive announced the launch of his philanthropic venture called the Victor Victor Foundation. And he’s already pledged a hefty sum to help kick off its mission. “I’m committing $1,000,000 to the foundation — it’s a starting point and I […]
On Monday, a federal judge dismissed a lawsuit brought forth by several big name musicians (as well as several big name musicians’ estates) against Universal Music Group. That suit stemmed from a warehouse fire that took place all the way back in June 2008, and which ended up burning through archived recordings. The legal dispute […]
Universal and Blumhouse Productions’ The Invisible Man opened in theaters on Friday, and it’s already off to a strong start at the box office. Deadline reports the Elisabeth Moss-starring horror film opened to $9.9 million, and it’s currently on track to gross somewhere between $26 to $27 million over the weekend. Directed and co-written by Leigh Whannel, who helmed 2018’s […]
Don’t look now but The Invisible Man is coming to a theater near you this weekend, starring Elisabeth Offred Peggy Olsen Moss. Watch Less hosted a screening of the film, after which her co-stars Storm Reid and Aldis Hodge joined for a live episode, which you can now hear here. They discuss this new contemporary […]
Mario and friends are set to make Florida one of their new homes. Comcast executives announced on Tuesday that Universal Orlando will open a fourth park based on Nintendo characters in 2023. According to USA Today, Universal’s Super Nintendo World theme park will debut this summer at its location in Osaka, Japan. It will then transition to […]
