Q-Tip: The Renaissance

By Corey duBrowa at 9:00 AM on December 11, 2008

Back when he was rockin’ the mic for A Tribe Called Quest...  read more

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Gore Verbinski to produce remake of The Host

By Jeffrey Bloomer at 3:43 PM on November 21, 2008

Cue collective grumble from cult sectors: Universal has officially nabbed Gore Verbinski to produce a remake of The Host, the much-touted 2006 creature epic from South Korea. ...  read more

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Transformers: The Ride coming to Universal

By Ashley Melzer at 7:33 AM on November 5, 2008

For all the talk of that Laurentian Abyss and all those Sector 7 classified secrets, there's some real noise making the rounds about our favorite Autonomous Robotic Organisms from the planet Cybertron. Transformers are set to make theme park gold as Universal plans to install Transformers: The Ride at both its Hollywood and Singapore parks....  read more

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Universal wins rights to adapt film from unreleased game

By Jeffrey Bloomer at 9:21 AM on November 4, 2008

The video game hasn’t even been announced yet, but several Hollywood studios have already burned through a bidding war for rights to make a movie from a new EA project with the working title Dante’s Inferno. Universal Pictures snapped up rights, beating out major bids from Paramount, MGM and others. ...  read more

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Hollywood studios to help theaters pay for 3D technology

By Jeffrey Bloomer at 12:15 PM on October 6, 2008

In a rare collaborative effort for the major Hollywood studios, word from Reuters is that Disney, Paramount, 20th Century Fox, Universal and Warner Bros. are close to an agreement worth upward of $1 billion to finance the installation of thousands of digital screens at theaters across North America. ...  read more

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B.B. King: One Kind Favor

By Bud Scoppa at 4:29 PM on September 22, 2008

“Times have changed so much, music has changed so much, but those old records still sound pretty good,” said B.B. King recently...  read more

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Wes Anderson to write (and direct?) My Best Friend

By Mary Kate Varnau at 12:16 PM on September 12, 2008

Wes Anderson has just signed on for his first project with Imagine, a re-make of the 2006 French comedy Mon Meilleur Ami. Anderson has agreed to write My Best Friend, which will be released through Universal. ...  read more

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