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Ryan Gosling is sinking his teeth into Universal’s growing monster universe titles. The two-time Oscar nominee is attached to star in a Wolfman remake which was written by Orange Is The New Black scribes Lauren Schuker Blum and Rebecca Angelo. The last werewolf pic at Universal, 2010’s The Wolfman, had Benicio del…

Universal has won the film rights for Naomi Novik’s YA novel Scholomance Random House series, putting the first novel A Deadly Education into development with Mandeville Films’ Todd Lieberman and David Hoberman. The first book takes us into a dangerous school for the magically gifted where failure means certain death…

EXCLUSIVE: The near future for 2020 college graduates is very much akin to a horror movie filled with an immense amount of uncertainty. They leave the great halls of knowledge into the biggest pandemic of the last 100 years, with 43 states currently seeing record unemployment. Knowing a lot about horror, and surviving…

Universal-Blumhouse’s The Forever Purge, which was dated for July 10 prior to Warner Bros.’ The Tenet, is now unset. Solstice Studios’ Russell Crowe road rage movie Unhinged on July 1 remains the first wide release back for those cinemas reopening. We hear there is no determination yet as to whether Forever Purge goes…

EXCLUSIVE: Judy Greer has joined the cast of Universal Pictures' Flint Strong, in what we hear is a key role. Rachel Morrison, who made history as the first female DP to be nominated for an Oscar on Mudbound and was also the cinematographer on the $1.3 billion grossing three-time Oscar winner Black Panther, is making…

Call Me By Your Name Oscar nominee Luca Guadagnino is now set to direct Universal Pictures' reimagination of Scarface.  The studio has been in development on the project for quite some time, going back to 2011, with David Ayer and Antoine Fuqua previously attached at directors as Deadline has broken the news on this…

M. Night Shyamalan has set the cast for his upcoming untitled Universal movie with Eliza Scanlen, Thomasin McKenzie, Aaron Pierre, Alex Wolff and Vicky Krieps in talks. The pic currently isn’t dated and it’s unclear when production will be a go, according to Variety which had the news first Friday. Shyamalan is…

Judd Apatow’s comedy starring Saturday Night Live‘s Pete Davidson is due to hit VOD on June 12, and Universal has today unveiled the first official red band trailer. Check it out above as Davidson’s character struggles with growing up and letting go, even though he’s in his mid-20s. The film was expected to make its…

EXCLUSIVE: When the Danny Boyle-directed fable Yesterday was released last June, it was viewed as a bright spot for counter-programming at a moment when Toy Story 4 owned the box office leading into Spider-Man: Far From Home. The Universal/Working Title film, which grossed over $153.7M worldwide, did well enough to…

Universal has set aside a number of release dates for event pics the studio plans to program in 2022. Disney and Warner Bros. do this all the time, and its a way of letting the competition know that there’s a title coming down the road. First date is MLK weekend, Jan 14 against 20th Century Studios’ Nimona and Warner…

Not to deflate the rousing round robin of mudslinging between AMC, Cineworld and Universal, but this whole OMG melee between exhibition and studios over PVOD, theatrical-window crunching and hurt feelings is poised to calm down soon. Some industry insiders believe the situation has already eased, and the statements…

Days after Jeff Shell’s statements in the Wall Street Journal spurred AMC boss Adam Aron to embargo the studio’s films, the NBCUniversal CEO acknowledged the company’s commitment to theatrical, but that Premium VOD will still be part of the equation. "The question is when we come out of this (pandemic), what is going…