dark universe

Leigh Whannell To Direct Ryan Gosling In THE WOLFMAN

After scoring a critical and commercial hit with The Invisible Man, Leigh Whannell has now been tapped by Universal Pictures and Blumhouse Productions to direct the reboot of the 1941 horror classic The Wolfman, which is set to star Ryan Gosling. [...]

July 10, 2020

Remembering Universal Pictures’ Ill-Fated DARK UNIVERSE

2017 was a much simpler time. It was a time when Universal Pictures decided to follow the Marvel route and attempted to create a shared universe for the classic Universal Monsters. The studio scored an A-list cast: Johnny Depp as the Invisible [...]

June 7, 2020

THE WOLFMAN: Ryan Gosling Set To The Iconic Universal Monster

Werewolf. There Wolf. Word on the street is that Ryan Gosling is the new Wolfman for Universal Pictures. There has been a serious under-appreciation of the werewolf on screen over the years. While the horror sub-genre has delivered some undeniable [...]

May 31, 2020

Well That’s One Way To Do It! First Trailer For THE INVISIBLE MAN

Who would have imagined that Universal Pictures and Blumhouse Productions would have figured out an intriguing (and pretty impressive) way to bring back the long dormant Invisible Man franchise for the 21st Century? The character, created by H.G. [...]

November 7, 2019

Welcome To The DARK UNIVERSE

I have to admit that this is giving Movies In Focus a little tingle. I’ve been craving a reboot of the classic Universal Monsters since Stephen Sommers’ The Mummy hit screens back in 1999 and now I’m getting it – with a [...]

May 22, 2017