Elizabeth Banks Producing A Capella Comedy

Universal Pictures has acquired the distribution rights to a new project from Gold Circle Films called Pitch Perfect, Variety reports....  read more

Couples Retreat Brings in the Cash for Struggling Universal

Universal Pictures' big-budget, well-cast, mundanely written and executed Couples Retreat dominated the weekend's box office with opening revenues of $35.3 million. (Zombieland, which opened the week before, came in well in second place with a weekend gross of $15 million.)...  read more

Universal Snags Movie Rights to Atari's Asteroids

The video game movie didn't exactly have a glorious beginning, but they're permanent fixtures in Hollywood these days as studios race to to snap up the film rights to video game properties, enticed by the allure of big box-office returns. It was inevitable that this exuberance would eventually go overboard, and we may have arrived at the genre's shark-jumping moment: Universal Pictures has emerged from a bidding war as the buyer of the rights to the Asteroids movie....  read more

Where's Waldo? Heads from Page to Screen

Universal Pictures, the studio slated to bring us live-action renditions of Monopoly, Candy Land and Battleship, just settled a deal to bring back yet another childhood favorite. This time, Universal has given up on the board-game theme in favor of kid-lit. In all fairness, the phrase "kid-lit" might be a bit misleading, as the book series the film will be based on, Where's Waldo?, isn't big on words....  read more