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I'm certain I posted something about this previously, but I think it's buried in a thread about another subject.

Anyway, Universal is going to create a shared universe based on their "classic" monsters.

The Mummy, Wolfman, Bride of Frankenstein, Dracula, and Van Helsing will all get films and interact with one another...

They really need to update these character to make them interesting and make this work.
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Didn't they already do that with a film called Van Helsing?
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And Frankenhole, which was better than VH.
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More movies planned.

This should get interesting starting this weekend. The Mummy opens to not so great reviews and does so against week 2 of Wonder Woman.

I've also heard, and swear I reported here somewhere, that WB is going to sue them over "Dark Universe" as they already use that phrase.
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Made $30 million...ouch.

They're saying the international box office saved it ($142M), which would appear to be true, but c'mon, this isn't what they were hoping for.
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There goes Tom Cruise under the bus!

Holy shit, if this is true, fuck him, but also fuck the studio for letting him do it.
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Do we even have a thread for Tom Cruise's The Mummy?

Anyway, as Gordon says, "Oh snap!"
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I liked the original. I meant, it wasn't fabulous cinema, but it was popcorn.
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Ditto.

Did you read the article I linked about Tom Cruise bringing in his own writers to change the script so the movie was about his character?
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Only? No way.
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Universal made some post on facebook with that chick on it and it said something like, "The ultimate evil is coming!" I happened to be one of the first commenters and I said, "It's weird how often 'ultimate evil' has a nice rack."

It got deleted.
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You should have screenshot it.
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GORDON wrote: Universal made some post on facebook with that chick on it and it said something like, "The ultimate evil is coming!" I happened to be one of the first commenters and I said, "It's weird how often 'ultimate evil' has a nice rack."

It got deleted.
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Kind of, yeah.
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Universal's Dark Universe is probably dead.

Basically, everyone has walked away and all production has stopped.
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Thanks Tom Cruise.
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