Director Tina Gordon is warming up her vocal cords to helm Universal Pictures’ musical comedy Praise This, a music-competition feature set in the world of youth choirs. The film is slated for release on September 25, 2020.
Gordon will rewrite the script for Praise This, which is based on an original idea by Tim…
EXCLUSIVE: Three decades later, the block is still standing. Universal Pictures is marking the 30th anniversary of Spike Lee’s incendiary and still-topical Do the Right Thing with a remastered 4K restoration that will hit theaters June 28.
In partnership with Universal Pictures Home Entertainment and the Criterion…
Universal Pictures has emerged as the victors for rights to Amari and the Night Brothers, an unpublished book by B.B. Alston, which is a starring vehicle for Black-ish star Marsai Martin, who is also a producer. Martin is coming off of the release of her Universal comedy, Little, which she served as the executive…
Lore in my wife’s family says that her mother, a beautiful Jewish immigrant fleeing grief in the Ukraine about a century ago, ran into someone named Carl Laemmle on a ship crossing the Atlantic. As the story goes, Laemmle asked her to check in with his still-young Universal film company, as she might have a future in…
DreamWorks, Universal Pictures and VStar Entertainment Group will bring the animated franchise Trolls to life with a 60-city-plus tour of large theaters and venues later this year, the companies announced today.
Trolls Live! will mark the first original touring production featuring such characters as Poppy, Branch and…
EXCLUSIVE: Universal Pictures has picked up The Creeps, a horror film based on a pitch from Horrible Bosses and Spider-Man: Homecoming screenwriters Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley (Bones alum). Goldstein and Daley are on board to write, direct and produce the pic through their GoldDay banner.
Details on the…
Preteenage madness and in-between sadness collide in Good Boys, a youthful comedy that has its world premiere tonight at SXSW. Two weeks into sixth-grade, three best buds experience some highs and lows in the redband trailer. Check it out above (keyword: redband).
Here’s the synopsis: After getting invited to their…
“What if I just showed you four episodes of This Is Us without explanation?” said Jordan Peele at the Paramount Theater in Austin before his film Us made its world premiere at SXSW.
After the screening, the film received an uproarious ovation, and Peele took the stage again with the cast, including Lupita Nyong’o, Wins…
Some Ohio teenagers ask a random woman to buy them booze. Harmless kid stuff, right? Not when the askee is Sue Ann, a loner who sees an opportunity to make some new friends.
Here’s the first trailer for Ma, a Blumhouse starring Oscar winner Octavia Spencer as the woman who agrees to purchase alcohol for the group and…
The first look at Jordan Peele’s forthcoming horror Us freaked us out with doppelgangers, a pair of scissors and Lupita Nyong’o‘s creepy laugh. The newest trailer, which debuted during the Super Bowl, slathers on the creepiness and gives us a bigger peek — but not much — into what Us is really about.
The trailer…
