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Brendan Fraser is ready to face off with The Mummy again

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Universal Pictures’ late 90s action romp The Mummy was a bonafide hit. From fan reception to the box office, the film helped shape Brendan Fraser into the global icon he was then. Could revisiting the cult classic franchise be in the cards? It’s been 14 years since the trilogy closed out with The Mummy: Tomb […]

Hammer classics The Mummy and Frankenstein and The Monster From Hell receiving new limited edition Blu-ray releases

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Second Sight Films has announced the Peter Cushing-starring Hammer Horror classics The Mummy and Frankenstein and The Monster From Hell are set for special limited edition Blu-ray releases in the UK this August; check out the details here…   In 1890s Egypt, a team of British archaeologists, John Banning (Peter Cushing), his father Stephen Banning […]

Alex Kurtzman calls his Dark Universe non-starter The Mummy “the biggest failure of my life”

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“Welcome to a new world of Gods and Monsters” was the optimistically bombastic tagline for the launch of Universal’s ill-fated Dark Universe. An ambitious piece of world-building to rival the DCEU or the MCU using the studio’s legendary monsters, that would bring together Johnny Depp’s Invisible Man, Javier Bardem’s Frankenstein, Angelina Jolie’s Bride, and Tom […]

Universal to showcase Universal Classic Monsters movies for free on YouTube

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For fans of the classic Universal Horror Monsters, you’ll be getting a treat in the new few weeks. In a partnership with Universal, the YouTube account Fear: The Home of Horror will be hosting some of the brand’s most iconic films of all time in a special week-long event this month. For older fans, this […]

The Mummy (1999) with Em from the Verbal Diorama Podcast | The Pick of the Flicks Podcast #85

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On The Pick of the Flicks Podcast, a different guest drops in every week to chat about their favourite film. This week, Verbal Diorama podcast host Em joins me to discuss the 90s adventure classic The Mummy… On this week’s episode of The Pick of the Flicks Podcast, podcaster Em from Verbal Diorama stops by […]

The Dark Universe That Never Was: A Short History of Universal’s Failed Monster Franchise

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EJ Moreno on the short history of Universal’s Dark Universe… Join our host EJ Moreno as he ventures back to 2017 to figure out what happened to the Dark Universe. Universal Pictures had a short-lived plan to create a cinematic universe, a la the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and it didn’t last more than a year. […]

Revisiting the Cinematic Landscape of 1999

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Tom Jolliffe travels back in time 20 years to 1999 to look over the cinematic landscape… The millennium suddenly draws in. The century is in its final year. Cinema has a pre-occupation with apocalypse and disorder, chaos, among other things. It’s 1999. 20 years ago. That’s pretty frightening, but regardless, hold my hand, lets go […]

Brendan Fraser is “all in” for returning to The Mummy if the opportunity arises

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Brendan Fraser has expressed interest in returning to The Mummy franchise and reprising his role as Rick O’Connell if the opportunity arises in the future. Before Tom Cruise was cast in the lead of 2017’s The Mummy in Universal’s failed Dark Universe, Brendan Fraser was the leader of this franchise, starring as O’Connell in The Mummy trilogy including The Mummy, The Mummy […]

Dark Universe producer talks about the franchise’s failings

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Chris Morgan, a producer for The Mummy, has discussed the failings of the Dark Universe. Universal has access to a tremendous catalog of iconic movie monsters so it came as no surprise when they tried to start a shared universe featuring new incarnations of the likes of Dracula and the Mummy. Unfortunately, the Dark Universe’s […]