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Chloé Zhao ain't making your old man's <i>Dracula</i>

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Chloé Zhao ain't making your old man's Dracula

Will he wear a space helmet? A cowboy hat? A space helmet with a tiny cowboy hat perched upon it? Dracula’s back,…

Randall Colburn

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Paul Feig is still talking up his Universal monster movie Dark Army

Has Paul Feig become too powerful? He recently got Freaks And Geeks up on Hulu with its whole original soundtrack…

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Destroyer's Karyn Kusama to direct a new Dracula for Blumhouse

Just when we thought we had finally escaped Universal’s Dark Universe, those damn public domain monsters just pulls…

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A new version of The Invisible Man makes one of his victims intensely visible

The Invisible Man has always been something of an outlier among the storied Universal Monsters. Dracula,…

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Hold on, it looks like Paul Feig really is resurrecting Universal's Dark Universe

Back in September, we reported that Paul Feig was planning to write and direct a movie for Universal called Dark…

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Paul Feig is just going to make his own Dark Universe

The Dark Universe is dead, but the thing about monsters is that they always find a way to come back. A Depp-less…

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Read This: A tribute to the lost, dumb potential of Universal's abandoned Dark Universe

Hollywood is, to borrow a term from sports, a copycat industry. Sustained success is so difficult to come by that…

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Universal might try to make Elisabeth Moss invisible, instead of Johnny Depp

News from the formerly Dark Universe tonight, with Variety reporting that Universal has doubled down on its plans to…

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Universal may try to bring its Bride Of Frankenstein reboot back to life

If movies have taught us one thing about monsters, it’s that they can never truly be defeated—even by a…

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Universal’s cinematic universe of classic movie monsters might be in grave danger

The sun might already be setting on the Dark Universe. The creation of studio executives gone mad with franchise…

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Universal pulls its Bride Of Frankenstein reboot from the schedule

In some bad news for the future of Universal’s Dark Universe, Deadline is reporting that the studio has pulled one…

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Weekend Box Office: Did The Mummy just put a nail in the Dark Universe coffin?

“Welcome to a new world of gods and monsters,” says Russell Crowe as Dr. Jekyll as Nick Fury around the midway mark…

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Seeing Tom Cruise get his ass kicked again is one of The Mummy’s few pleasures

Tom Cruise tumbles around a nose-diving airplane, grunting impotently at gravity. His character, a rakish…

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Universal wants Hunchback and Phantom for its Dark Universe

Universal’s newly named Dark Universe hasn’t officially kicked off yet—the opening of The Mummy this weekend will…

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Universal has titled its new monster movie franchise the Dark Universe

We’ve known for a while now that Universal has been angling to launch its very own universe based off its stable of…

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Doug Liman is revolutionizing superhero movies, sequels, basically everything

Viva la blockbuster! Edge Of Tomorrow director Doug Liman says he’s ready to revolutionize, flip the script, and…

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Doug Liman drops Channing Tatum’s Gambit on his way to DC’s Dark Universe

In a move that seems especially appropriate for an adaptation about characters who frequently interact with the…

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Guillermo del Toro has sent his Justice League Dark script to Warner Bros.

Guillermo del Toro has finally sent the completed script for his long-gestating Justice League Dark movie to Warner…

Matt Wayt

11/26/14 3:36PM

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