New The Mummy Clips Show Tom Cruise in all Sorts of Trouble
This Friday, June 9, marks the premiere of Alex Kurtzman's The Mummy, a major release for Universal Pictures and the official first entry in their Dark Universe slate of films. Tom Cruise, Russell Crowe and Sofia Boutella stars in the remake of the classic monster movie, and with the release just a few days away, you ...
The Mummy Takes Tom Cruise Across the Globe
Marvel’s got their MCU (Marvel Cinematic Universe), and this Friday, DC’s Extended Universe will see their next big installment, Wonder Woman, hit theaters across the country (and the reviews are already excellent). Not to be outdone, Universal’s Dark Universe, which makes use of their rich canon of gods and monsters, will release their first official film, ...
Meet Universal’s Monsters
When you think of a shared cinematic universe these days, you think of Marvel. Their vaunted Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), is an interconnected, multi-phase slate of films that began with 2008's Iron Man and has carried on through 13 films, most of them massively successful, with Spider-Man: Homecoming continuing their world-beating run this July 7. Yet is Marvel really the ...
Universal Unveils Dark Universe, Their Interconnected World of Gods & Monsters
Universal’s answer to Marvel’s Cinematic Universe (MCU) now has an official name—Dark Universe. Tapping their huge cache of iconic movie monsters, Universal is unleashing a series of interconnected films, beginning with The Mummy, that will bring some of Hollywood’s biggest stars together. As this brand new photo shows, the studio’s The Invisible Man and Frankenstein’s ...
Russell Crowe’s Dr. Jekyll is the Key Figure in The Mummy
Dr. Henry Jekyll (Russell Crowe) is the prime mover in The Mummy, and may just be one of the crossover characters that show up in Universal's shared monster universe. While the film’s main star is, of course, Tom Cruise, Crowe’s Jekyll knows more about what's going on than any other character, and some of what ...
Watch a Bunch of Tom Cruise’s Crazy Stunts in The Mummy
We’ve written plenty about Tom Cruise’s stunt work. We’ve interviewed stunt coordinators he’s worked with, looked at specific stunts he’s done, from the time he held on to the outside of a cargo plane as it took off in Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, to the zero gravity scene in the upcoming The Mummy. At this point in Cruise's career, his stunt ...
The Mummy Drops Action Packed International Trailer
A brand new international trailer for The Mummy has been released, giving us the most detailed glimpse yet at director Alex Kurtzman’s film. The Mummy is the first in a series of shared universe monster movies coming from Universal Pictures, with Dracula, The Wolf Man, Frankenstein, Creature from the Black Lagoon and the Invisible Man ...
Tom Cruise Meets his Match in new The Mummy Trailer
You know if Tom Cruise is headlining your action pic, you’re going to have a lot of super insane stunts. Universal has already shared with us the zero gravity scene in Cruise’s upcoming The Mummy, in which he and co-star Annabelle Wallis (Peaky Blinders) are tossed around the inside of a cargo plane as it ...
See how They Filmed in Zero Gravity for The Mummy
We’ve long admired Tom Cruise’s insane commitment to performing his own stunts. When we interviewed stunt coordinator Wade Eastwood about Cruise's work on Mission: Impossible—Rogue Nation, he talked about all the ways in which Cruise is the most prepared actor he’s ever worked with. This is a necessary attribute when the stunts you’re performing are as extreme as Cruise’s ...
Tom Cruise’s Most Insane Stunt Yet: the Zero Gravity Scene in The Mummy
We've written about the insane dedication Tom Cruise has put in to accomplishing the most ambitious practical stunts, rivaling some of the work of the very best stunt performers. When we interviewed stunt coordinator Wade Eastwood about Cruise's work on Mission: Impossible—Rogue Nation, he talked about all the ways Cruise is consistently prepared and extremely ...
See the First Trailer for Tom Cruise’s The Mummy & Go Behind-the-Scenes
As we told you last Thursday, Universal Pictures is well under way announced in a multi-film effort of rebooting some of their classic monsters in a brand new shared cinematic universe. The studio boasts some of the most iconic monsters in film history, and they've already got an incredible list of actors portraying them. For Frankestein's Monster, ...
See the First Look at Tom Cruise’s The Mummy
When Universal Pictures announced they were going to be rebooting some of their classic monsters in a brand new shared cinematic universe, we were optimistic. The studio has some the most legendary monsters in film history, including Count Dracula, the Wofl Man, Frankenstein's monster (Javier Bardem), the Invisible Man (Johnny Depp), Van Helsing, the Creature ...
Universal’s Monster Shared Universe Includes Tom Cruise, Johnny Depp
While a lot of the blockbuster movie oxygen is sucked up by the Marvel Universe and DC's growing slate of films, Universal has a huge library of classic monsters that they're tapping into to create a potential shared universe of their own. They've put into place an ambitious plan that will see major stars tackling ...
Nosferatu, Night Monster, Hocus Pocus: An Ode to Halloween, the Movie-Lover’s Holiday
It’s that time of year when things that go bump in the night are on our minds and our movie screens. Halloween, perhaps even more so than Christmas, is a movie holiday; what else are you supposed to do to celebrate, once society deems you too old to knock on doors and demand candy? Boutique ...
