David Burke, who has been Universal Pictures’ GM for the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland since 2006, has been named chief marketing officer at Lakia. It’s a new position for the animation studio behind the Oscar-nominated pics Coraline, ParaNorman, The Boxtrolls and Kubo and the Two Strings.
The Oregon-based…
Anthony Michael Hall has join the cast of HalloweenKills, the first of two announced sequels in David Gordon Green and Danny McBride's reincarnation of the Universal franchise. Deadline has confirmed that the veteran actor will star alongside Halloween queen Jamie Lee Curtis.
The continuation of the rebooted…
EXCLUSIVE: Universal Pictures has appointed former Fox executive Patricia Kamitsuji Managing Director of the studio's operating company in the key Brazil market. The position will report to Mauricio Duran, Universal Pictures International's SVP of Latin America.
Kamitsuji has had a career spanning more than two…
Universal is putting the brakes on the marketing for their Blumhouse release The Hunt in the wake of recent mass shootings which have taken the lives of 34 people in El Paso, Texas; Dayton, Ohio; and Gilroy, California.
"Out of sensitivity to the attention on the country's recent shooting tragedies, Universal Pictures…
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Universal Pictures has emerged as the victors for rights to Amari and the Night Brothers, an unpublished book by B.B. Alston, which is a starring vehicle for Black-ish star Marsai Martin, who is also a producer.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…
