Tag: Universal Pictures
Peacock Acquires Lionsgate Streaming Rights
Peacock is looking to secure the lion’s share of streaming entertainment. According to The Hollywood Reporter, NBC’s streaming service has struck a deal with Lionsgate for all of the studio’s 2022 theatrical releases. A week ago, Lionsgate made a similar deal with The Roku Channel, where it cr...
Read MoreNolan’s Next May Nab Robert Downey Jr. and Matt Damon
A spy and a superhero may help develop the atomic bomb. Deadline reports that Matt Damon and Robert Downey Jr. are in talks to join Christopher Nolan’s next movie, Oppenheimer. Based on the book American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the film is about Oppenheimer an...
Read MoreChristopher Nolan Jumps Ship From Warner Bros.
Christopher Nolan may have found a new Hollywood home. Deadline first reported that the Dark Knight and Inception director was shopping around his next movie – about J. Robert Oppenheimer and the creation of the atomic bomb – to different studios, abandoning his longtime partnership with Warner ...
Read MoreBeverly Hills Cop 4, Remakes Among Movies to Film in California
Some long-rumored movies are headed our way courtesy of a political payoff. The Hollywood Reporter reveals that, thanks to California’s Film and TV tax credits – a thank-you to limousine liberals from the politicians they helped elect, no matter how much they try to couch it in generating “bel...
Read MoreUniversal Developing a Van Helsing Movie
Fiction’s premier vampire hunter (not counting Buffy) is making a comeback. Deadline reports that Universal is preparing an Abraham Van Helsing movie as part of their new Universal Monsters franchise. Well, not exactly; Deadline’s sources specifically say that the film will be “set in the worl...
Read MoreThe Batman and Other Films Pushed Back
That didn’t take long. Reacting to Dune moving to its October 1, 2021 release date, The Batman has shifted its premiere to March 4, 2022. (Sidebar: I once read a Batman comic where one of the Riddler’s riddles was, “What is a soldier’s least favorite day?” The answer was “March 4th.”) ...
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