Planned Universal theme park in Bedfordshire to ‘bring £50bn to UK economy’
Hollywood group says 200-hectare site will be based around popular film and games franchises and open 365 days a year
December 2022
Movie fans can sue over misleading trailer, US judge rules
Ana de Armas enthusiasts say they were tricked into watching the film Yesterday as the Cuban actor was in the trailer but failed to make the final cut
October 2022
A monster calls: why the ‘horror universe’ is an idea whose time has come
Two innovative production houses are reinvigorating horror films. Is this the beginning of a Marvel-style expansion of the genre?
August 2022
Summer box office 2022: what lessons can Hollywood learn?
It was a reassuring return for the industry with mega-hits like Top Gun: Maverick and Jurassic World: Dominion yet other films still struggled to lure audiences
January 2022
Ana de Armas fans sue Hollywood studio over ‘deceptive’ Yesterday trailer
Class action lawsuit says ‘misleading and deceptive’ trailer showing brief glimpse of actor, who had been cut from the film, led fans to rent it
September 2021
Christopher Nolan to make drama about the ‘father of the atomic bomb’
The director will follow sci-fi adventure Tenet with a second world war film about J Robert Oppenheimer for Universal Pictures
July 2021
The Exorcist: Ellen Burstyn to reprise role in new $400m trilogy
Universal has picked up the rights to an ambitious new continuation of the Oscar-winning horror
November 2020
Black actor sues Hollywood studio over removal from Couples Retreat poster
Faizon Love files race discrimination suit against Universal alleging he was cut from poster for 2009 comedy because he was black
October 2020
No money to burn: how Bond crowdfunder could be the way forward
A new campaign to buy No Time to Die from MGM has been started on GoFundMe. Next step: nationalise 007
July 2020
Blockbuster movies delayed again by new coronavirus spikes
Sequels to Top Gun, A Quiet Place, Star Wars and Avatar again pushed back in release schedules, while Mulan joins Tenet in being ‘delayed indefinitely’
May 2020
UK cinemas lobbying government for June reopening
Studios bypass cinemas with lucrative lockdown premieres
April 2020
Odeon bans all Universal Pictures films as studio skips cinema releases
AMC, largest cinema chain in US, announces boycott of Universal
December 2019
Box office cats-tastrophe: Cats projected to lose $70m
The Universal Pictures film is bound for the litter box as one of 2019’s biggest flops
August 2019
Why Universal shouldn't have cancelled The Hunt
Caspar Salmon
Ads for ultra-violent satire The Hunt pulled in wake of US mass shootings
July 2019
Claws out for the Cats trailer – but Universal will be purring
Critics have savaged the first look at Tom Hooper’s Andrew Lloyd Webber film, yet an extreme response is catnip for a studio chasing audiences in the age of Netflix
January 2019
Week in geek
It's alive! Can Universal's star-less monster movies rise from the crypt?
The Hollywood studio’s stable of horror classics should be ripe for reinvention. The key to its Dark Universe surely lies in the hands of emerging talent
December 2018
The Prince musical shows anything goes in Hollywood – bar original ideas
Caspar Salmon
Good luck to the execs tasked with making a jukebox singalong from songs laden with kink and taboo. But will cinema’s tedious mining of old material ever stop?
