- 2/14/13 /
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Starving for Mummy Reboot, Universal Hires Hunger Games Screenwriter to Pen Competing Script
Vulture has learned that the studio has taken the unusual step of hiring two different screenwriters to work on dueling Mummy scripts.
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- 8/7/12 /
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Exclusive: Universal in Talks With Fast Five Director Justin Lin for Rodney King Film, L.A. Riots
The project had first been set up at the studio half a dozen years ago with director Spike Lee.
- 8/2/12 /
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Exclusive: Kristen Stewart Lands Lead in Lie Down in Darkness, No Word Yet on Snow White Sequel [UPDATE]
No word yet on the Snow White and the Huntsman sequel.
- 7/9/12 /
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Your Box Office Explained: The Amazing Spider-Man Reels in Cash Over July Fourth Week
Savages gets squeezed out, but could it increase its haul this upcoming weekend?
- 6/1/12 /
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Will Snow White and Battleship Be the Last Straws at Universal?
The pricey Snow White looks likely to be yet another in a list of painful bombs for the beleaguered studio.
- 5/21/12 /
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Five Consequences of the Sinking of Battleship
When a movie this expensive fails, there are bound to be ramifications well beyond the home port.
- 4/6/12 /
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Universal Chief Prefers Watching 2-D Movies to 3-D
"I don't like wearing the glasses over my glasses."
- 3/26/12 /
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Who Won the Movie Rights to 50 Shades of Grey?
The erotic book trilogy has found a studio home.
- 3/2/12 /
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Watch the Development of the Universal Logo Over 100 Years
The Lorax rings in the newest iteration after a century of the ol' spinning globe.
- 2/6/12 /
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What Hollywood Can Learn From the End of Universal’s Ill-Fated Hasbro Deal
The pact was meant to signal the end of the movie star. Nothing got made, and now Candy Land is at Sony with Adam Sandler.
- 10/12/11 /
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Tower Heist No Longer Coming to a Couch Near You
The movie was going to come out on VOD early. Not anymore.
- 12/10/10 /
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Is Universal Going to Sell Off Focus Features?
The studio is supposedly in talks to unload its specialty film division.
- 11/30/10 /
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Universal Working Overtime to Make Cowboys & Aliens Seem Less Fun
How can they better convince us of the film's "deadly seriousness"?
- 11/3/10 /
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Ron Meyer May Be Sunk at Universal: Was a Roster of Board-Game Movies His Final Mistake?
Sources tell Vulture that several candidates, including former Disney studios chief Dick Cook, have been approached about replacing Universal Studios president and COO Ron Meyer.
- 10/29/10 /
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Universal Dates Bourne Legacy, Fills Out 2012 Slate
Meanwhile, the Tom Hanks–Julia Roberts comedy 'Larry Crowne' is set for July 1, 2011.
- 10/6/10 /
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The New Halo Game Is a Hit — So What’s the Status of the Halo Movie?
The Halo movie: a history.
- 9/8/10 /
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Stephen King’s The Dark Tower Will Be Adapted Into Three Movies and Two TV Seasons
That will be released in this brand-new order: movie, TV season, movie, TV season, movie.
- 8/12/10 /
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Topher Grace’s Kids in America to Be Freed From Captivity
Topher Grace, Anna Faris, and Michelle Trachtenberg have all been in movie limbo for the last three years, but they're about to be liberated!
- 8/8/10 /
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Universal Pulls Video Content From MTV Websites
Contract talks between Vevo and MTV break down.
- 8/4/10 /
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Will Dustin Hoffman Rescue Little Fockers?
Talks are well under way to see if Hoffman would be willing to return to shoot new scenes.