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The long-awaited takeover of Universal Pictures by MCA, Inc. happened in mid-1962 as part of the MCA-Decca Records merger. The company reverted in name to Universal Pictures from Universal-International.
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- How Did The Dark Universe Come About?
- 'The Mummy' Was Meant to Kick Off The Dark Universe
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- Is The Dark Universe Still Happening?
Now, back in the 1930s and 1940s, the likes of Dracula and The Wolfman had long beaten Iron Man and Captain America to the movie crossover punch. However, since those days, any attempt to relaunch these characters had been done in disparate solo outings. There was never any thought that Benicio del Toro’s The Wolfman and Brendan Fraser’sThe Mummy e...
That wasn’t the only way The Mummy was establishing norms for subsequent franchise installments to build on. The film’s protagonist, Nick Morton (Cruise), spends the second act of The Mummy wandering around a facility owned by the corporation Prodigium, which tracks monsters from all over the globe. Here, teases of characters like the Creature from...
Just days before The Mummy premiered, further clarity on what the Dark Universe could entail was delivered through the news that Universal wanted none other than Dwayne Johnson to play a new take on The Wolfman. With an avalanche of projects waiting in the wings, and Bride of Frankenstein even given a February 2019 release date, expectations were h...
While the Dark Universe withered away and died, Universal has never fully given up on the idea of uniting various disparate monster films in one expansive continuity. The 2023 feature Renfield featured no pieces of connective tissue to The Invisible Man or the 2017 Mummy film, but it did explicitly tie its plot into the original Bela Lugosi Dracula...
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Feb 1, 2024 · While The Dark Universe might be dead as a franchise, it appears still to have some value to Universal Pictures as a brand. On January 30, 2024, they officially unveiled their latest theme park...
Feb 22, 2024 · Universal's Dark Universe plans never got off the ground like they intended; why did the Cinematic Universe plans fail?
Jul 6, 2021 · Comcast Corp's Universal Pictures will send new movies exclusively to the company's Peacock streaming service no later than four months after they debut in theaters, the company said on Tuesday.
Dec 9, 2021 · Universal Pictures will release their slate of films to Peacock 45 days after their theatrical release. Before the pandemic, the theatrical window for movies tended to be about 90 days before they would become available on VOD, however, in the wake of theaters shutting down, studios started shortening the amount of time a film is in theaters.
Jul 8, 2021 · Amazon has struck a multi-year deal for exclusive Prime Video streaming rights for Universal's live-action theatrical releases.
